Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy

'The Saturday Boy' from Billy Bragg's 1987 compilation album 'Back To Basics', re-released by Cooking Vinyl in 1993.
The album collates the releases 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy' and 'Brewing Up With Billy Bragg', as well as the 'Between The Wars' EP.
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[@johnbarry1965]

"I never made the first team, I just made the first team laugh" probably the greatest ever song about first love!

[@pmgpgh]

The honesty of this song aches as much listening to it now as 30 years ago when I heard it for the first time. Universally true and beautiful.

[@bsteen1612]

Heard this when I was 14/15, I'm now 40. Loved it then, love it a bit more now.

[@BaronKimball]

The greatest song about heartbreak ever recorded

[@peterjackson1043]

I'm 16 again when I hear this - brilliant take on young life. My love still unrequited !!

[@LAG3]

Billy absolutely NAILED it. I'm getting "Unrequited" tattooed on my forearm. Beautiful, Beautiful song.

[@deasename5839]

Anyone remember learn to play in a day the Billy Bragg way? With pull out record!

[@jimbagley321]

I absolutely agree that "I never made the first team - I only made the first team laugh" is a brilliant poetic couplet and it made me laugh out loud when I first heard it, but "between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary, there was Mary" from Billy's "The Short Answer" off Workers Paradise is IMO the best single line ever in any song - it makes you think ..and then the joke hits .. a true bard from Barking.

[@tamiecrowestaff2317]

I love this song but this is disgusting - 'while she was giving her self for free!'

[@matthewstetson711]

A flugelhorn. Who would have guessed. And what a story-teller! This song is superb.

[@StonefieldJim4]

My best friend, who's been in out of mental institutions for decades, always has this song in mind when we meet up. Whenever we get together we sing it loud and proud, word for word, note for note - including Dave Woodhead's trumpet solo.

[@MrAwol37]

Been back here, many times.

[@Ceafer247]

This Song Is Just Amazing, Its A Song You Can Just Play And Play And Play, Which I Have Been Doing For The Last 20 Years!

[@reneehamlett1802]

This was the first BB song I ever heard. Got it off a mixed tape that a friend of a friend at college made in 1987. Love at first listen. <3

[@LAG3]

This remains one of my favorite songs after all these years. I can still feel that melancholy every time I hear this. I love "unrequited". My other favorite word is "Hiraeth". Such a beautiful song.

[@delrandles7006]

Bash 'em out Bragg's beautiful pean to long lost love.

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Billy tells OUR story

[@abushams3336]

But I never made the first team,

[@smellincoffee]

That trumpet at

[@CallumLeech]

best song ever