The Internationale (album)


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

  1. "The Internationale" – 3:45
  2. "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" – 1:27
  3. "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" – 3:59
  4. "Blake's Jerusalem" – 2:30
  5. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" – 1:06
  6. "The Red Flag" – 3:12
  7. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" – 3:04

    Live & Dubious EP
  8. "Introduction" – 0:57
  9. "Help Save the Youth of America" – 2:36
  10. "Think Again" – 4:21
  11. "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" – 3:09
  12. "Days Like These" – 2:40
  13. "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:47
  14. "There Is Power in a Union" – 3:27

    Bonus tracks
  15. "Joe Hill" – 8:23
  16. "This Land Is Your Land" – 4:35
  17. "Never Cross a Picket Line" – 3:38
  18. "A Change Is Gonna Come" – 3:58
  19. "A Miner's Life" – 3:01

    Bonus DVD

  20. "There Is Power in a Union" – 2:35
  21. "Between the Wars" – 2:31

    Nicaragua – July 1987
  22. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" – 1:07

    Lithuania USSR – May 1988
  23. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – 2:07
  24. "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:21
  25. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" – 2:29
  26. "Island of No Return" – 3:24
  27. "Introduction to Between the Wars" – 3:15
  28. "Between the Wars" – 2:21
  29. "The World Turned Upside Down" – 3:02
  30. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" – 3:15
  31. "Help Save the Youth of America" – 2:36
  32. "A New England" – 2:04
  33. "Wishing the Days Away" – 4:15
  34. "People Get Ready" / "Tupelo Honey" – 3:02
  35. "Star" – 1:56
  36. "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" – 2:17

    Personnel

Musicians