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Mr. Love & Justice

~ Billy Bragg
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  • Audio CD (3 Mar 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • ASIN: B000ZWWRWW
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,998 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. I Keep Faith 4:34£0.69
Listen  2. I Almost Killed You 2:38£0.69
Listen  3. M For Me 2:43£0.69
Listen  4. The Beach Is Free 2:43£0.69
Listen  5. Sing Their Souls Back Home 3:28£0.69
Listen  6. You Make Me Brave 3:06£0.69
Listen  7. Something Happened 2:38£0.69
Listen  8. Mr. Love & Justice 3:13£0.69
Listen  9. If You Ever Leave 3:00£0.69
Listen10. O Freedom 4:04£0.69
Listen11. The Johnny Carcinogenic Show 4:15£0.69
Listen12. Farm Boy 3:37£0.69


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Listen  2. I Almost Killed You (Solo Version) 2:05£0.69
Listen  3. M For Me (Solo Version) 2:29£0.69
Listen  4. The Beach Is Free (Solo Version) 3:26£0.69
Listen  5. Sing Their Souls Back Home (Solo Version) 3:18£0.69
Listen  6. You Make Me Brave (Solo Version) 2:29£0.69
Listen  7. Something Happened (Solo Version) 1:56£0.69
Listen  8. Mr. Love & Justice (Solo Version) 3:19£0.69
Listen  9. If You Ever Leave (Solo Version) 3:21£0.69
Listen10. O Freedom (Solo Version) 3:28£0.69
Listen11. The Johnny Carcinogenic Show (Solo Version) 3:17£0.69
Listen12. Farm Boy (Solo Version) 3:09£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

You'll be hard pressed to find good reason to call Billy Bragg a singer. He was never one back in the day and you can't go teaching old socialists new tricks. His spirited holler was carried through in his heyday by sheer bravado and the fact that his poetic punk monologues had to find their way to your ears somehow. But why, over recent years--and especially on Mr Love and Justice--has he increasingly indulged himself with shameless attempts on melody, you might ask. There's no easy answer, other than the inevitable mellowing of age and indeed battered vocal chords. But as he also drifts away from the fiery Clash and Costello inspirations of his younger self and expands more singularly on his love for the likes of Woody Guthrie and Wilco (with whom he collaborated on interpretations of Guthrie's unfinished songs), his work has developed a real warmth and comfort that it's hard not to be strangely touched by. His backing band, The Blokes, gel spiritedly through a host of country stompers (see "The Beach Is Free") and folk meanderings (see: "If You Ever Leave"). And don't mistake comfort for complacency either. He may be more Mr Love than Mr Justice these days, but he still knows how to rally and on "O Freedom", "The Johnny Carcinogenic Show" and the Hammond-delicious title track he makes his point as poetically as ever. He still really can't sing, mind. --James Berry


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Twelfth album from one of Britain's greatest ever singer-songwriters, Billy Bragg. Reminiscent of his work on the classic album 'Workers Playtime', this album once again finds Billy balancing the personal and political with aplomb, making this an essential addition to his already impressive canon. Includes the tracks 'I Keep Faith', 'M For Me' and 'If You Ever Leave'. This limited edition also includes a bonus disc of the whole album recorded acoustically.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars From Barking to Dorset, 9 April 2008
Mr Bragg has previously been accused of trying to set Clause Four to music. And maybe he has at times with varying success. There should, however, be little contention about his towering songwriting abilities. Beauties such as "St Swithin's Day", the eternal "New England", the magnificent "Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards" and even some of the album tracks off the last 2 albums ("Sugar Daddy", "He'll Go Down") have showed some bite where mellowness may have set in.

"Mr Love & Justice" starts off rather well. "I Keep Faith" is not particularly arresting for anything on initial appearance but it does eventually charm you with a soulful lightness of touch and the sweet sound of Robert Wyatt's backing vocals. This stands up there with some of his finest.
Elsewhere highlights are "Sing Their Souls Back Home" which by rights could make you cringe but it somehow doesn't. "The Johnny Carcinogenic Show" works rather well tackling the calorific golden arches. "O Freedom" is Bragg at his most incisive.
However elsewhere things are either a little bland or have a wall of ugly guitar over them. The Blokes as a backing band seem to have lost their deftness and seem to clunk about like a drunk Crazy Horse.
"I Almost Killed You" passes by forgettably. The title track sounds like we've been here before. "Farm Boy" doesn't do much one way or the other.

The solo take on the songs does bring out more interest and some of the bear up well under this treatment.


Perhaps it's all a bit unfair. Life does change and you couldn't maybe expect a "Levi Stubbs Tears".
But there is a bit of blandness knocking around in the over. So whither Billy Bragg? This is not an overly arresting album but it is not without its charm. Bragg remains one of the most human and moving songwriters of the last 25 or so years. And this shows up in a handful of places on this album.

Maybe next time, when he gets round to it, he can get some fire back.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bragg back, 13 Mar 2008
By M. Isham (Historic Warwick, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a bit like meeting an old friend and catching up with their life and times. Interesting, funny, moving and going on a bit by turns, Bragg is a real person. There is more than enough here to engage with and enjoy. The Blokes are restrained and on form and the solo versions offer different perspectives on some great new songs. A couple of duds can't spoil the pleasure of spending some time with Bill again.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Braggy Brilliant!, 9 Mar 2008
By T. Sandle (UK) - See all my reviews
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Mixing pop and politics...this is a great album; plus some cracking songs exploring the human heart. For example, on the song `M for Me' the topic remains the importance of relationships and compassion, as he sings the delightful couplet: ''I've got friends who are telling me they're living in clover, but lose the c for commitment and the l for love and it's over baby''.

The stand-out track on the album is `I Keep Faith', superbly backed by Robert Wyatt. The band gel far better here than on English, Half English.

This is Bragg's best since 1991's Don't Try This At Home.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Something to Bragg about...
At last, Bragg is back! with his first album in 6 years "Mr Love & Justice". Far from going stale with age, this English songwriter just keeps getting better! Read more
Published 7 months ago by N. Surry

3.0 out of 5 stars Mr Love and Justice by Billy Bragg
A good recent addition to a Billy Bragg collection. Not all the melodies are as strong as some of his best stuff but still a number of pleasing tracks from the Braggmeister.
Published 9 months ago by Mr. M. G. Watson

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Bragg for ages
I haven't got a lot to say other than this CD with the solo version is worth a lot more than the asking price. Grows on you as well.
Published 18 months ago by Marlman

5.0 out of 5 stars Billy's best for a long time
Although it's been six years since his last album England Half English, Billy Bragg is one artist who you can`t accuse of being lazy. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Greg Farefield-Rose

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep the Faith
`Mr Love and Justice' feels like the culmination of Billy Bragg's twenty five years as a solo performer with his song writing at it's most subtle since his 1996 album `William... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 ...

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
Wonderful
Billy's age old themes with all the craft, complexity and wisdom of his years

The inclusion of an 'unplugged' solo version and a bad version makes... Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. S. Garbett

4.0 out of 5 stars Do you know what, I like it.
i like it, but I prefer the band side on the whole. Fav song is Sing their souls back home, magic Sprigsteenish English gospel-soul-folk. Read more
Published 20 months ago by T. Stimson

3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry to be 'downbeat', but this is distinctly average.
Extremely disappointing and clichéd set of songs, and not at all politically insightful (the 'best' we get is "Sing Their Souls Back Home", which is a dirge about getting 'our... Read more
Published 20 months ago by JOHN GREEN

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr Cool.
5 stars here - he just gets better and better. Nice to have the alternative formats of recordings with and without the band. Will stand up to many, many listenings.
Published 20 months ago by A. Thurlow

4.0 out of 5 stars Sounds of a contented activist
A full, rounded and satisfying album. Breezes past on 1st listening and grows in stature on each subsequent listening. Mixing pop and politics, love and living by the sea. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Howard Change

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