Reaching To The Converted (Minding The Gaps) - Billy Bragg

Reaching To The Converted (Minding The Gaps) - Billy Bragg

Alternative - StudioRecording - 1 CD(s) - Label: Cooking Vinyl - Distributor: Essential Music/Cinram Logistics - Released: 30/08/1999 - 711297158625 more

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Reaching To The Converted (Minding The Gaps) - Billy Bragg

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Title: Reaching To The Converted (Minding The Gaps)

Performer: Billy Bragg

Genre: Rock & Pop

Sub Genre: Alternative

Release Date: 30/08/1999

Original Release Year: 1999

Label / Distributor: Cooking Vinyl / Essential Music/Cinram Logistics

Pieces in Set: 1

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Performer

EAN: 711297158625

Additional notes

Album Notes: This is a B-sides compilation of singles from 1985 to 1997.
Personnel: Billy Bragg (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Cara Tivey (vocals, recorder, piano, harmonium, keyboards); Robert Handley (vocals); Johnny Marr (various instruments, acoustic guitar); Wiggy, Kenny Jones (guitar); John Porter (mandolin); Amanda Vincent (piano); Nigel Frydman, Andy Hobson (bass); Rob Allum, J.F.T. Hood (drums); Jody Linscott (percussion); Lorraine Bowen, Kirsty MacColl (background vocals).
Producers include: Johnny Marr, Grant Showbiz, Gary Smith, John Porter, Edward de Bono.
Compilation producers: Gary Stewart, Grant Showbiz.
Includes liner notes by Billy Bragg.
Digitally remastered by Tim Young.
Combine the confusion of modern man with the infectious enthusiasm of a small boy, and you've got Billy Bragg. REACHING TO THE CONVERTED, a mixture of one-offs and studio doodles that never quite made the final cut, has both qualities in abundance.
"Shirley," the album's uptempo opener, demonstrates Bragg's mastery of the contemporary British urban couplet ("How can you lie back and think of England / When you don't even know who's in the team?"), while Johnny Marr's fine production proves the perfect foil for Bragg's direct vocal approach. Bragg still wears his left-wing heart on a red shirtsleeve ("Days Like These"), and he's never afraid to have his say on a serious matter; but he manages to do so without smugness. Unlike other troubadours, Bragg prefers writing about being in love to writing about being out of it, and a sense of real warmth and humanity always comes through ("We'll dance in the town till the sun goes down / And push our beds together"). Whether standing on his soapbox or musing on his calf-love ordeals, Bragg matches the voice of a football fan with the heart of a poet.

Album Reviews: Q (10/99, p.142) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...With tracks revived from as far back as 1985...there's plenty to please Bragg completists."
Mojo (10/99, p.113) - "...Bragg's great strength, undeniably, is words. Even with the '80s shading into history, it is still sweet to revisit unmatched poitico rhymes....there's more durable appeal in his doomed romancing..."
Alternative Press (11/99, p.89) - 4 out of 5 - "...Bragg sets reality to the sweetest of melodies, then lets his untutored tonsils do the rest....He still sounds like he means every word."
Dirty Linen (4-5/00, p. 81) - "...an odd-and-ends collection of old B-sides and unreleased songs...full of English folk-rockster Bragg's unique mix of enthusiastic vitriol and tender mercies, all rendered with his trademark clanging guitar and marble-gargling vocals..."

Titles on disc 1

1.: Shirley

2.: Sulk

3.: Accident Waiting To Happen

4.: Boy Done Good

5.: Heart Like A Wheel

6.: Bad Penny

7.: Ontario Quebec And Me

8.: Walk Away Renee

9.: Rule Nor Reason

10.: Days Like These (UK version)

11.: Think Again

12.: Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance

13.: Wishing The Days Away (ballad version)

14.: Tatler

15.: Jeane

16.: She's Leaving Home

17.: I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

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