Billy Bragg - It Says Here

[@chrismorrison3696]

I was 18 when this came out. There was only The Jam for me. And then I heard Billy Bragg.

[@julesrandolph5687]

Billy Bragg and Paul Weller are very similar-sounding singer/songwriters - lots of passion, deep introspection and sharp observation. Both faves of mine as well!

[@david-fx8ri]

That's how I got into billy because of listening to Paul weller don't he look rough now.

[@pixelfrenzy]

And then Paul Weller gave up being a class warrior and started punting on the Cam in a blazer.... I liked some of the Style Council's tunes but as a Jam fan couldn't help feeling betrayed. BB came much later of course.

[@jayclouston7734]

My favourite song on this album. Fucking awesome. Still relevant too

[@redbug3485]

Jay Clouston I agree, great song. It helped change my life.

[@Lemma01]

Nah. "A Lover Sings". But that's BB -lover and a fighter. X

[@vanillaorchid]

This sing could have been written this morning.

[@chrisbarry773]

Or this morning, unfortunately.

[@Indomitable76]

Or THIS morning !

[@lifebeforemurdoch4860]

Such an accurate summation of our "free" press..free to the very ,very wealthy..it's just a privatised version of Pravda..

[@lawrencedewan9838]

Billy... Loved You then... Love Ya now... Though truths seem to change...

[@yelobeli]

This year's prince is born...

[@DaL33T5]

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." -- Les Moonves, head of CBS and poon hound, to private dinner guests on Trump's candidacy, 2016.

[@JustME-ft4di]

Reminded of this today in light of XR blocking Murdochs machine. Well done them!

[@rockyboy220]

Legend

[@mikelucraft]

Even more apt now.

[@sheephillkennel2004]

"anger is a gift:" - rage against the machine

[@redbug3485]

It says Here, Obey all Laws and Enjoy your State!

[@jacquespereualt8033]

Even more relevant today, Nadine dorries just 40yr old Ofcom's restrictions on Murdoch.

[@DanCohoon]

I wish Billy Bragg would only play solo electric guitar. Nothing matches this album.

[@RoryLynott]

I couldn't agree more.

[@StevieRevbo]

before it's time about the News International strike that followed the miners' strike

[@Zippy1949]

Just remember, there's two sides to every story,

[@ubute2]

Rick Huber fake news 😉

[@pjmcneill]

BB only sees the approved one nowadays, though.

[@thomasandersen6719]

Wrong...there is yours , mine and the truth

[@swthirteen]

beware the squander bug

[@paulacarleton6986]

Our free press reflects our democracy. Used to love Billy. All gone now. And do you wish you were better informed? Could it be an infringement of the freedom of the press to D notice comment on new and unblinded trials? Get with it Billy. Good grief what a sell out.

[@pjmcneill]

He even had a go at Neil Oliver, for being informed and standing up for our freedoms.

[@michaelvance1118]

I like black metal better!! It scares the rich to death

[@pjmcneill]

And now BB is having a go at somebody who really is standing up for freedom. Did he get old and corrupted?

[@georgebath8209]

Who?

[@abushams3336]

Only thing that needs to change : " When you wake up to the fact That your paper is Tory" into "When you wake up to the fact That your paper is either Blairite or Tory " after 40+ years still painfully factual !! ...

[@nookiebroon4424]

" When you wake up to the fact that all the media is tory ' ...

[@davidmelville5675]

Oh yeah... like the painfully Tory "Guardian". Puh-lease. I love Billy Bragg but he and many of his fans have a massive blind spot. But that's not unusual; everyone politically inspired does.

[@peterfrandsen1948]

I can't stomach champagne socialist Billy Bragg. I recall when he did a fund raising event for a Blairite pro Iraq war Labour MP at a local Labour club. When a colleague and I picketed the event they tried to get us arrested and a police riot vehicle came out with 10 officers. Fortunately at the time I was a Councillor and chair of the local community safety partnership and knew the officer in charge from our regular meetings. So we had a pleasant chat and then they left and we carried on leafleting.

[@MrKaliban66]

Peter Franzen, It really is all about you isn't it!

[@folkiebassplayer7366]

The same Peter Franzen who gave a Nazi salute when asked to leave a council meeting in 2005. No wonder he "can't stomach" Billy Bragg.

[@LaurelCanyon1969]

I can't stomach loud-mouthed, opinated prats like you. Where were you when Billy was playing a benefit for striking workers in Wigan? www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lorry-injures-striking-jjb-workers-423748.html

[@dawnbaker1970]

@Mr. Man Musicians and actors are the backbone of the entertainment world.

[@dawnbaker1970]

@Oggy Every occupation has good and bad people, even the occupations we should trust the most like law enforcement, doctors, politicians (in an ideal world), teachers, and the clergy.

[@patrickhamilton7486]

I'm a European/White Nationalist/ Morrissey fanatic. But Billy Bragg, as insane & wrong as I find his politics for our people is a brilliant tunesmith...lol

[@smokemeakipper1315]

Keep Yourself Safe

[@thiscorrosion900]

Well you're as wrong as it's possible to get then. Morrissey can fuck right off and so can you, Nazi.

[@mikegoldberg5261]

Not too keen on Europe taking responsibility for its imperialist, racist past, are you?

[@oscillatewildly6553]

@@thiscorrosion900 you don't know what you're talking about. Educate yourself, you've fallen for click bait "journalism" it's not hard to find out the facts and Morrissey successfully sued the NME years ago for editing an interview to make him look racist. NME were forced to print an apology. You are ignorant and spreading lies and hated.

[@thiscorrosion900]

@@oscillatewildly6553 You bloody idiot, you've challenged an actual educated, published fucking writer! And expert researcher, but you don't need to be to find the ready evidence online about Morrissey. Also, you cannot sue the fucking NME for actual statements YOU made under no coercion, and that weren't made up by them, or altered to suit something they published to alter or twist your words around, then maybe you'd have a libel or slander legal case, but he didn't. Morrissey has made these comments within the past two years or so, not just years ago, though he's apparently done both. The following is from The Independent--read on. I know my communications law, you fool, and I know full fucking well what Morrissey has said, having been following the entire story carefully the past four years or so: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/morrissey-interview-far-right-britain-racist-brexit-nigel-farage-a8973276.html