Word: braggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Bragg admits to being ideologically impure. With glee. Furthermore, he dismisses those people who pursue him, particularly in Great Britain urging him to stop "messing around with all this love shit...
...those songs, tunes like "Greetings to the New Brunette" and "Levi Stubbs' Tears," are what Bragg knows he does best. Like the catchy Smokey Robinson classics, they show off a real eye for the details of true-love-gone-sour...
...other hand," Bragg adds, "there are people who come to gigs who say, "Bill, for fuck's sake, give the politics a rest, and sing us some more love songs.'" Of course, Bragg sees no reason why either set--"the politicos" or "the soppy ones"--should stop coming to his shows and buying his records...
...more than "Buy My Records," the best Bragg slogan is his cheerful smirk, "You'd be surprised." He applies it to the marketability of political pop music as well as to a mischievous fantasy about how easily the Lone Star State could turn into the Red Star State...
...saying fits him pretty well, too. Politically, personally and musically, Billy Bragg is surprisingly entertaining...