title: Volume 1 (Billy Bragg album)
text: # Volume 1 (Billy Bragg album)
  
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  Volume 1 is a box set by alternative folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, released in 2006. The box set includes 7 CDs and 2 DVDs with a booklet containing song lyrics and an introduction by Wiggy, producer of several of Bragg's albums.
  
  Though Workers Playtime was released in 1988, it has been made part of Volume 2 while The Internationale, which was published in 1990, is the 4th album reprised here, thus, the two sets are not fully chronological.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All songs written by Billy Bragg, except where noted
  
  ### Disc 1 (Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy – Original Album)
  
  * "The Milkman of Human Kindness" – 2:49
  * "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:33
  * "Richard" – 2:51
  * "A New England" – 2:14
  * "The Man in the Iron Mask" – 2:13
  * "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" – 1:58
  * "Lovers Town Revisited" – 1:19
  
  ### Disc 2 (Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy – Bonus CD)
  
  * "Strange Things Happen" (alternative version) – 3:19
  * "The Cloth I" – 2:50
  * "Love Lives Here" – 1:42
  * "Speedway Hero" – 2:39
  * "Loving You Too Long" – 2:51
  * "The Guitar Says Sorry" (alternative version) – 2:14
  * "Love Gets Dangerous" (alternative version) – 2:32
  * "The Cloth II" – 2:47
  * "The Man in the Iron Mask" (alternative version) – 2:17
  * "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" (music by Bobby Troup, words by Bragg) – 2:27
  * "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (John Cale) – 2:32
  
  ### Disc 3 (Brewing Up with Billy Bragg – Original Album)
  
  * "It Says Here" – 4:18
  * "Love Gets Dangerous" – 2:23
  * "The Myth of Trust" – 2:54
  * "From a Vauxhall Velox" – 2:31
  * "The Saturday Boy" – 3:30
  * "Island of No Return" – 3:37
  * "St Swithin's Day" – 3:54
  * "Like Soldiers Do" – 2:39
  * "This Guitar Says Sorry" – 2:31
  * "Strange Things Happen" – 2:38
  * "A Lover Sings" – 3:54
  
  ### Disc 4 (Brewing Up with Billy Bragg – Bonus CD)
  
  * "It Must Be a River" – 2:19
  * "I Won't Talk About It" – 5:06
  * "Talking Wag Club Blues" – 2:59
  * "You Got the Power" (James Brown, George Terry) – 3:10
  * "The Last Time" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:55
  * "Back to the Old House" (Morrissey, Johnny Marr) – 2:53
  * "A Lover Sings" (alternative version) – 3:58
  * "Which Side Are You On?" (Florence Reece, Bragg) – 2:34
  * "It Says Here" (alternate version) – 2:36
  * "Between the Wars" – 2:30
  * "The World Turned Upside Down" (Leon Rosselson) – 2:35
  
  ### Disc 5 (Talking with the Taxman About Poetry – Original Album)
  
  * "Greetings to the New Brunette" – 3:29
  * "Train Train" (Zenon De Fleur) – 2:11
  * "The Marriage" – 2:30
  * "Ideology" (Bragg, Bob Dylan) – 3:27
  * "Levi Stubbs' Tears" – 3:28
  * "Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now" – 4:05
  * "There Is Power in a Union" (Bragg, George Frederick Root) – 2:47
  * "Help Save the Youth of America" – 2:45
  * "Wishing the Days Away" – 2:28
  * "The Passion" – 2:52
  * "The Warmest Room" – 3:55
  * "The Home Front" – 4:09
  
  ### Disc 6 (Talking with the Taxman About Poetry – Bonus CD)
  
  * "Sin City" (Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman) – 3:34
  * "Deportees" (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman) – 4:03
  * "There is Power in a Union" (instrumental) (George Root) – 3:16
  * "The Tracks of My Tears" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin) – 2:56
  * "Wishing the Days Away" (alternate version) – 2:32
  * "The Clashing of Ideologies" (alternate version) – 2:52
  * "Greetings to the New Brunette" (demo version) – 3:57
  * "A Nurse's Life is Full of Woe" – 2:48
  * "Only Bad Signs" – 3:10
  * "Hold the Fort" (traditional) – 1:47
  
  ### Disc 7 (The Internationale – Original Album / Help Save the Youth of America: Live & Dubious EP / Bonus Tracks)
  
  * "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
  * "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
  * "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
  
  ### Disc 8 (Bonus DVD – Here And There)
  
  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
  
  ### Disc: 9 (Boxed Set Bonus DVD – From The West Down To The East)
  
  The South Bank Show, March 1985 (TV Special)
  
  * "(intro)" – 0:37
  * "To Have And To Have Not" – 2:54
  * "A13, Trunk Road To The Sea" – 5:30
  * "Island Of No Return" – 4:12
  * "A Lover Sings" – 3:56
  * "A New England" – 2:59
  * "Which Side Are You On?" – 3:12
  * "Between The Wars" – 2:19
  
  East Berlin DDR, August 1986 (Live Concert)
  
  * "(intro)" – 0:13
  * "Lovers Town Revisited" – 1:16
  * "Levi Stubbs' Tears" – 3:27
  * "The World Turned Upside Down" – 3:07
  * "It Says Here" – 2:16
  * "Island Of No Return" – 6:48
  * "Which Side Are You On?" – 2:24
  * "Love Gets Dangerous" – 2:53
  * "Richard" – 2:22
  * "Train Train" – 2:22
  * "A New England" – 2:33
  