The Internationale (album)

The Internationale

Studio album by Billy Bragg

Released

May 1990

Recorded

January–March 1990
Gateway Studios, Cathouse Studio and Pier House Studio

Genre

Folk

Length

19:23

Label

Liberation Records, Utility Records

Producer

Grant Showbiz, Wiggy

Billy Bragg chronology

Workers Playtime
(1988)

The Internationale
(1990)

The Peel Sessions Album
(1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	A−^[2]
Robert Christgau	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]

The Internationale is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. Although Bragg is known for his association with left-wing causes, this release is unusual; most of Bragg's recordings balance overtly political songs with social observation and love songs.

Versions

The album was originally released as a seven track EP in 1990.

In 2006, as part of a planned series of reissues of albums in his back catalogue, The Internationale was remastered and reissued along with the seven tracks from 1988's Live & Dubious EP and five bonus tracks. Also included is a bonus DVD titled Here and There containing live concerts from East Berlin, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union.

Track listing

Disc one

Original album

"The Internationale" (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg) – 3:45
"I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" (Earl Robinson, Bragg) – 1:27
"The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" (Bragg) – 3:59
"Blake's Jerusalem" (William Blake, Hubert Parry) – 2:30
"Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (Carlos Mejía Godoy) – 1:06
"The Red Flag" (Jim Connell, traditional) – 3:12
"My Youngest Son Came Home Today" (Eric Bogle) – 3:04

Live & Dubious EP
"Introduction" (live) – 0:57
"Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
"Think Again" (live) (Dick Gaughan) – 4:21
"Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (Bernice Johnson Reagon) – 3:09
"Days Like These" (DC remix) (Bragg) – 2:40
"To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:47
"There Is Power in a Union" (with The Pattersons) (Bragg, George F. Root, traditional) – 3:27

Bonus tracks
"Joe Hill" (Phil Ochs) – 8:23
"This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:35
"Never Cross a Picket Line" (Bragg) – 3:38
"A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) – 3:58
"A Miner's Life" (traditional) – 3:01

Bonus DVD

East Berlin DDR – February 1986

"There Is Power in a Union" (live) (Bragg, Root, traditional) – 2:35
"Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:31

Nicaragua – July 1987
"Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (live) (Godoy) – 1:07

Lithuania USSR – May 1988
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (live) (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 2:07
"To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
"The Milkman of Human Kindness" (live) (Bragg) – 2:29
"Island of No Return" (live) (Bragg) – 3:24
"Introduction to Between the Wars" (live) – 3:15
"Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
"The World Turned Upside Down" (live) (Leon Rosselson) – 3:02
"Levi Stubbs' Tears" (live) (Bragg) – 3:15
"Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
"A New England" (Bragg) – 2:04
"Wishing the Days Away" (Bragg) – 4:15
"People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) / "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) – 3:02
"Star" (David Bowie) – 1:56
"A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" (Bobby Troup) – 2:17

Personnel

Musicians

Billy Bragg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Cara Tivey – piano, vocals, shakuhachi
Lorraine Bowen – clarinet, soprano recorder, piano, accordion, organ
The Christie Tyler Cory Band – brass
Côr Cochion Caerdydd – vocals
Mark Duff – whistles
Jim Sutherland – bodhran, percussion
Dick Gaughan – vocals
Wiggy – bass guitar, vocals
Charlie Llewellin – drum, cymbal
Grant Showbiz – vocals
David Bedford – arrangement and conducting

Production

Grant Showbiz – producer, reissue producer
Wiggy – producer, compiled by
Kenny Jones – producer
Charlie Llewellin – engineer
Derek Bolland – engineer
Peter Haigh – engineer
Step Parikian – engineer
Tim Young – remastered by
Duncan Cowell – remastered by

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Entertainment Weekly review
↑ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Billy Bragg". Robert Christgau.
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon and Schuster. p. 101. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

Billy Bragg

Studio albums	Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy Brewing Up with Billy Bragg Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Workers Playtime The Internationale Don't Try This at Home William Bloke Mermaid Avenue (with Wilco) Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (with Wilco) England, Half-English Mr Love & Justice Mermaid Avenue Vol. III (with Wilco) Tooth & Nail

Compilations, and boxsets	Back to Basics The Peel Sessions Album Victim of Geography Life's a Riot Between the Wars Bloke on Bloke Reaching to the Converted Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg Volume 1 Volume 2 Fight Songs Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (with Wilco)

Singles and EPs	"Between the Wars EP" "Days Like These" "Levi Stubbs' Tears" "Greetings to the New Brunette" "She's Leaving Home" "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" "She's Got a New Spell" "Won't Talk About It" "Sexuality" "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" "Accident Waiting to Happen EP" "Upfield" "The Boy Done Good" / "Sugardaddy" "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (with Wilco) "She Came Along to Me EP" (with Wilco) "England Half English" / "St Monday" (with The Blokes) "Take Down the Union Jack" (with The Blokes) "We Laughed" (Rosetta Life feat. Billy Bragg) "I Keep Faith" "The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You" "Never Buy The Sun"

Live albums	"Help Save the Youth of America" "No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots" "Mermaid Avenue Tour" "Going to a Party Way Down South" "Live at the Barbican"

Related articles	Wilco Man in the Sand Discography Red Wedge "A New England"

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