The Internationale (album)

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates {{safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst-infobox||$params=italic_title,name,type,longtype,artist,cover,border,alt,caption,released,recorded,venue,studio,genre,length,language,label,director,producer,compiler,chronology,prev_title,prev_year,year,next_title,next_year,misc|$extra=italic_title,longtype,border,caption,language,director,compiler,chronology,year,misc|$aliases=italic title>italic_title,Italic title>italic_title,Name>name,Type>type,image>cover,Cover>cover,Border>border,Alt>alt,Caption>caption,Longtype>longtype,Artist>artist,Released>released,Recorded>recorded,Venue>venue,Studio>studio,Genre>genre,Length>length,Language>language,Label>label,Director>director,Producer>producer,Compiler>compiler,Chronology>chronology,Misc>misc|$flags=override|$B={{#ifeq:{{#invoke:Is infobox in lead|main|[Ii]nfobox [Aa]lbum}}|true|{{#if:Template:Has short description | |{{#if: 30 April 1990<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | Template:Short description}}}}}}{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox album with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y|italic_title |type |name |image |cover |border |alt |caption |longtype |artist |released |recorded |venue |studio |genre |length |language |label |director |producer |compiler |prev_title|prev_year|next_title|next_year|chronology|year|misc}}{{#if:{{#invoke:String|match|error_category=Music infoboxes with Module:String errors|A|1=Workers Playtime1988The Peel Sessions Album1991albumThe InternationaleThe Internationale.jpgBilly Bragg30 April 1990<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>January–March 1990Gateway Studios, London; Cathouse Studios, Streatham; Pier House Studios, EdinburghFolk19:23Liberation Records, Utility RecordsGrant Showbiz, Wiggyx|2=</?t[drh][ >]|nomatch=}}|Template:Main other}}Template:Main other}} Template:Album reviews 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.

The album peaked at number 34 on the UK Albums Chart in May 1990.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

Original album

1. "The Internationale" (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg) – 3:45
2. "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" (Earl Robinson, Bragg) – 1:27
3. "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" (Bragg) – 3:59
4. "Blake's Jerusalem" (William Blake, Hubert Parry) – 2:30
5. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (Carlos Mejía Godoy) – 1:06
6. "The Red Flag" (Jim Connell, traditional) – 3:12
7. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" (Eric Bogle) – 3:04

2006 reissue bonus tracks

Live and Dubious EP

8. "Introduction" (live) – 0:57
9. "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
10. "Think Again" (live) (Dick Gaughan) – 4:21
11. "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (live) (Bernice Johnson Reagon) – 3:09
12. "Days Like These" (DC remix) (Bragg) – 2:40
13. "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:47
14. "There Is Power in a Union" (with The Pattersons) (Bragg, George F. Root, traditional) – 3:27

Bonus tracks

15. "Joe Hill" (Phil Ochs) (from Don't Mourn – Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, 1990) – 8:23
16. "This Land Is Your Land" (with Heathens All) (Woody Guthrie) (from The Disagreement of the People, 1995) – 4:35
17. "Never Cross a Picket Line" (Bragg) (from Rock the Dock, 1998) – 3:38
18. "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) (previously unreleased) – 3:58
19. "A Miner's Life" (traditional) (previously unreleased) – 3:01

Notes

• Tracks 8–14 recorded and compiled at Pavilion Studios, London.
• Tracks 15, 18 and 19 recorded during The Internationale sessions.
• Track 17 produced at Cathouse Studios.

Bonus DVD – Here and There

East Berlin DDR – February 1986

1. "There Is Power in a Union" (live) (Bragg, Root, traditional) – 2:35
2. "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:31

Nicaragua – July 1987

3. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (live) (Godoy) – 1:07

Lithuania USSR – May 1988

4. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (live) (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 2:07
5. "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
6. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" (live) (Bragg) – 2:29
7. "Island of No Return" (live) (Bragg) – 3:24
8. "Introduction to Between the Wars" (live) – 3:15
9. "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
10. "The World Turned Upside Down" (live) (Leon Rosselson) – 3:02
11. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" (live) (Bragg) – 3:15
12. "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
13. "A New England" (Bragg) – 2:04
14. "Wishing the Days Away" (Bragg) – 4:15
15. "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) / "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) – 3:02
16. "Star" (David Bowie) – 1:56
17. "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" (Bobby Troup) – 2:17

Personnel

Musicians

• Billy Bragg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
• Cara Tivey – piano, vocals, shakuhachi
• Lorraine Bowen – clarinet, soprano recorder, piano, accordion, organ
• The Christie Tyler Cory Band – brass
• Côr Cochion Caerdydd – vocals
• Marc Duff – whistles
• Jim Sutherland – bodhran, percussion
• Dick Gaughan – vocals
• Wiggy – bass guitar, vocals
• Charlie Llewellin – drum, cymbal
• Grant Showbiz – vocals
• David Bedford – arrangement and conducting

Production

• Grant Showbiz – producer (1–7, 17), reissue producer, reissue compilation
• Wiggy – producer (1–7), DVD compilation
• Charlie Llewellin – engineer
• Derek Bolland – engineer (1–7)
• Peter Haigh – engineer (1–7)
• Step Parikian – engineer (1–7)
• Committee – design
• Kenny Jones – producer, engineer, compilation (8–14)
• Tim Young – remastering (tracks 1–14)
• Duncan Cowell – remastering (tracks 15–19)