Classic Album: Billy Bragg - Life's A Spy
Steve speaks to Billy Bragg about his 1983 album Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy
In the second part of Steve's Classic Album series, he speaks to Billy Bragg about his 1983 album 'Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy'.
This was Bragg's first album. The original album played at 45 rpm rather than the more usual 33.3 rpm, contained only seven songs and lasted for only 15 minutes and 57 seconds.
However, rather than being classified as an EP, it qualified for the UK albums chart and reached number 30 in January 1984.
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The Jam
All Around The World
- Polydor.
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Johnny Marr
Spiral Cities
- ADA UK / Warner.
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Bad Religion
Endtropy
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Loyle Carner
Ottolenghi (feat. Jordan Rakei)
- AMF Records/Virgin EMI.
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Tori Amos
Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)
- East West Records.
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Adrianne Lenker
Symbol
- Saddle Creek.
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Pip Blom
Pussycat
- NICE SWAN RECORDS.
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The House of Love
Loneliness Is A Gun (Radio 1 Session, 2 Apr 1989)
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The Hives
Hate To Say I Told You So
- BURNING HEART.
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Sharon Van Etten
Comeback Kid
- Jagjaguar.
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Major Lazer
Can't Stop Now (feat. Mr. Vegas & Jovi Rockwell)
- Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do.
- COOPERATIVE MUSIC.
- 3.
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Derek Martin
Breakaway
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Self Esteem
Rollout
- Fiction Records.
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The Mysterines
Hormone
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Ramones
Babysitter
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The Sundays
Here's Where The Story Ends
- Rough Trade.
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R贸is铆n Murphy
Jacuzzi Rollercoaster
- The Vinyl Factory.
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Kap Bambino
New Breath
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Teleman
Family Of Aliens
- Moshi Moshi Recordings.
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Ye
All Falls Down (feat. Syleena Johnson)
- The College Dropout.
- Roc-A-Fella Records.
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Steve Mason
Stars Around My Heart
- Domino Recording Co. Ltd..
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Mainland
- Sub Pop.
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Marianne Faithfull
They Come At Night
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Joy Division
Isolation
- London.
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Desperate Journalist
Cedars
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Matthew Dear & Tegan and Sara
Horses
- Ghostly International.
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Dennis Brown
Wolf And Leopards
- DEB Music.
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Chapterhouse
Pearl
- WHIRLPOOL.
- DEDICATED.
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Billy Bragg
Lovers Town Revisited
- Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy.
- Charisma.
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Billy Bragg
To Have and to Have Not
- Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy.
- Charisma Records.
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Billy Bragg
A New England (6 Music Live Recording, Camden Crawl, 2009)
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The Concretes
You Can't Hurry Love
- Licking Fingers.
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Anna Calvi
As A Man
- DOMINO RECORDING CO. LTD..
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Bill Ryder-Jones
And Then There's You
- Domino.
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Television Personalities
Part Time Punks
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Noname
Blaxploitation
- Noname.
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B.E.D
White Coats
- Heavenly Recordings.
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Nico
I'll Keep It With Mine
- CHELSEA GIRL.
- Polydor.
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The Touts
Can't Blame Me
- 成人快手town Records.
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