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Must I Paint You a Picture is a generous, two-disc, 40-track survey of Bragg's career to date. The tracklisting was apparently assembled with the help of Bragg's fans, who were asked to vote for their favourites on Bragg's website, but this democratic initiative has only been taken so far: while "Little Time Bomb", for example, was a more popular choice than, say, "The Boy Done Good", the latter is included and the former isn't. It would, of course, be uncharitable to suggest that this is reflective of the authoritarian instincts that lurk inside most socialists.

At any rate, though Bragg has always been chiefly characterised as a political songwriter, his best work has always been that which deals with the politics of the personal: there are few more acute summations of the eternal failure of the male and female to make sense to each other than his "How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?" Bragg's superb love songs and love-gone-wrong songs are well represented here, from the angry, naive scratchings of "The Milkman of Human Kindness" to such older, if no wiser, musings as "Moving the Goalposts" and "Sulk". Curiously, his older, politically motivated songs now feel like they've reacquired an urgency they lacked during a 1990s largely devoid of stark ideological boundaries, when they sounded rather like quaint period pieces. The so-called war on terror and the increasing discomfort about global trade both have ready made soundtracks in "Between the Wars" and "There is Power in a Union". --Andrew Mueller

Track Listings

The list below shows the track listings for Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg per disc.

Disc 1

1. New England
2. The Man In The Iron Mask
3. Milkman Of Human Kindness
4. To Have And Have Not
5. A Lover Sings
6. St. Swithins Day
7. The Saturday Boy
8. Between The Wars
9. The World Turned Upside Down
10. Levi Stubbs Tears
11. Walk Away Renee
12. Greetings To The New Brunette
13. There Is Power In A Union
14. Help Save The Youth Of America
15. The Warmest Room
16. Must I Paint You A Picture
17. She's Got A New Spell
18. The Price I Pay
19. Valentines Day Is Over
20. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Disc 2

1. Sexuality
2. Cindy Of 1000 Lives
3. Moving The Goalposts
4. Tank Park Salute
5. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
6. Accident Waiting To Happen
7. Sulk
8. Upfield
9. The Fourteenth Of February
10. Brickbat
11. The Space Race Is Over
12. The Boy Done Good
13. Ingrid Bergman
14. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
15. My Flying Saucer
16. All You Fascists Bound To Lose
17. NPWA
18. St. Monday
19. Somedays I See The Point
20. Take Down The Union Jack