Billy BraggBest Billy Bragg Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
11
Opinions
10
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Billy Bragg’s catalog across 10 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Billy Bragg album is Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000) with a 8.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1987 to 2021.
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
2000
Mermaid Avenue
1998
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
2012
Workers Playtime
1987
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The Roaring Forty (1983-2023) [Deluxe Edition]
2012
Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
2016
The Million Things That Never Happened
2021
Mr. Love & Justice (Deluxe Edition)
2008
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The Roaring Forty (1983-2023) [Deluxe Edition]
“In his 2010 history of protest music, 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Guardian writer Dorian Lynskey makes a bold claim about Billy Bragg: “If you ask someone to name a British protest singer,” he writes, “there is invariably only one response.” It says something about Bragg’s longevity. He has been a fixture of alternative music and leftist politics for so long that it’s worth noting how unlikely it s”
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
“On 1998’s Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco saved Woody Guthrie’s legacy from Dust Bowl sainthood. With the encouragement of Nora Guthrie, the folk legend’s daughter, Bragg and Wilco set some of the singer’s unheard lyrics to new music, and the results were revelatory: Woody, it turns out, was every bit as lusty, fallible and […]”
Mermaid Avenue
“Named for a Coney Island street where Woody Guthrie lived in the late Forties and early Fifties, Mermaid Avenue is a collection of recently discovered Guthrie lyrics now set to music for the first time. It’s also nothing that the previous work of those involved could have led anyone to expect. Born in 1912, shaped […]”