The Internationale is a 1990 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...

. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

s and rewrites of left-wing protest song

Protest song

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s. 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.

Versions

The album was originally released as a seven track EP

Extended play

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 in 1990.

In 2006, as part of a planned series of reissues of albums in his back catalogue, The Internationale was remaster

Remaster

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ed and reissued along with the seven tracks from 1988's Live & Dubious EP and five bonus tracks. Also included is a bonus DVD

DVD

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 titled Here and There containing live concerts from East Berlin

East Berlin

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, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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 and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

.

Disc one

Original album

1. "The Internationale
   The Internationale
   The Internationale is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem.The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism, and gained particular fame under the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1944, when it was that communist state's de facto central anthem...
   
   " (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg
   Billy Bragg
   Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
   
   ) – 3:45
2. "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs
   Phil Ochs
   Philip David Ochs was an American protest singer and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice...
   
    Last Night" (Earl Robinson
   Earl Robinson
   Earl Hawley Robinson was a singer-songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-leaning political views as he is for his music, including the songs "Joe Hill", "Black and White", and the cantata "Ballad for Americans"...
   
   , Bragg) – 1:27
3. "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" (Bragg) – 3:59
4. "Blake's
   William Blake
   William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
   
    Jerusalem
   And did those feet in ancient time
   "And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808...
   
   " (William Blake
   William Blake
   William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
   
   , Hubert Parry
   Hubert Parry
   Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
   
   ) – 2:30
5. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (Carlos Mejía Godoy
   Carlos Mejía Godoy
   Carlos Mejía Godoy is a Nicaraguan musician, composer and singer. He was born in Somoto, Madriz. Son of Carlos Mejía Fajardo and María Elsa Godoy, his brother Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, three years younger than he is, is also an acclaimed and much-loved musician. Carlos and Luis Enrique were...
   
   ) – 1:06
6. "The Red Flag
   The Red Flag
   The Red Flag is a protest song associated with left-wing politics, in particular with socialism. It is the semi-official anthem of the British Labour Party, sung at the end of conference. It is the official anthem of the Irish Labour Party and sung at the close of national conference.-History:The...
   
   " (Jim Connell
   Jim Connell
   Jim Connell was an Irish political activist of the late 19th century and early 20th century, best known as the writer of the anthem "The Red Flag" in December 1889.-Life:...
   
   , traditional) – 3:12
7. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" (Eric Bogle
   Eric Bogle
   Eric Bogle is a folk singer-songwriter. He emigrated to Australia in 1969 and currently resides near Adelaide, South Australia.-Career:...
   
   ) – 3:04
   
   Live & Dubious EP
8. "Introduction" (live) – 0:57
9. "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
10. "Think Again" (live) (Dick Gaughan
    Dick Gaughan
    Richard Peter Gaughan usually known as Dick Gaughan is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.-Early years:...
    
    ) – 4:21
11. "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (Bernice Johnson Reagon
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    Bernice Johnson Reagon is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.-Early life and education:...
    
    ) – 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
    The Pattersons
    The Pattersons were an Irish folk band from County Donegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Originally consisting of Billy, Ronnie, Christine and Dorothy, they became a trio in 1969 when Dorothy left...
    
    ) (Bragg, George F. Root
    George Frederick Root
    George Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
    , traditional) – 3:27
    
    Bonus tracks
15. "Joe Hill
    Joe Hill
    Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in Gävle , and also known as Joseph Hillström was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World...
    
    " (Phil Ochs
    Phil Ochs
    Philip David Ochs was an American protest singer and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice...
    
    ) – 8:23
16. "This Land Is Your Land
    This Land Is Your Land
    "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody, in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on...
    
    " (Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie
    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
    
    ) – 4:35
17. "Never Cross a Picket Line" (Bragg) – 3:38
18. "A Change Is Gonna Come
    A Change Is Gonna Come (song)
    "A Change Is Gonna Come" is a 1964 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label shortly after his death in late 1964. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song came to exemplify the...
    
    " (Sam Cooke
    Sam Cooke
    Samuel Cook, , better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. He is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocal abilities and...
    
    ) – 3:58
19. "A Miner's Life" (traditional) – 3:01

Bonus DVD

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
   I Heard It through the Grapevine
   "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles...
   
   " (live) (Norman Whitfield
   Norman Whitfield
   Norman Jesse Whitfield was an American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s...
   
   , Barrett Strong
   Barrett Strong
   Barrett Strong is an American singer and songwriter. Strong was the first artist to record a hit for Motown, although he is best remembered for his work as a songwriter, particularly in association with producer Norman Whitfield.-His career:Strong was among the first artists signed to Berry...
   
   ) – 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
    Diggers' Song
    The "Diggers' Song" is a 17th century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed by Gerrard Winstanley. The lyrics were published in 1894 by the Camden Society...
    
    " (live) (Leon Rosselson
    Leon Rosselson
    Leon Rosselson is an English songwriter and writer of children's books. After his early involvement in the folk music revival in Britain, he came to prominence, singing his own satirical songs, in the BBC's topical TV programme of the early 1960s, That Was The Week That Was...
    
    ) – 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
    A New England
    Kirsty MacColl recorded the song the year after its release by Bragg, produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite.. It was her biggest solo hit - reaching #7 in the UK Singles Chart and #8 in the Irish Singles Chart....
    
    " (Bragg) – 2:04
14. "Wishing the Days Away" (Bragg) – 4:15
15. "People Get Ready
    People Get Ready (song)
    "People Get Ready" was a 1965 single by The Impressions, and the title track from the album of the same name. The single is today the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B Chart and number 14 on the Billboard Pop Chart...
    
    " (Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
    
    ) / "Tupelo Honey
    Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison song)
    "Tupelo Honey" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and the title song from his 1971 album, Tupelo Honey. The title derives from an expensive, mild-tasting tupelo honey produced in the southeastern United States. Released as a single in 1972, it reached number...
    
    " (Van Morrison
    Van Morrison
    Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
    
    ) – 3:02
16. "Star
    Star (David Bowie song)
    "Star" is a song written by David Bowie in 1972 for the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.-Live versions:...
    
    " (David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
    
    ) – 1:56
17. "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea
    Route 66 (song)
    " Route 66", often rendered simply as "Route 66", is a popular song and rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. It was first recorded in the same year by Nat King Cole, and was subsequently covered by many artists including Chuck Berry in 1961, The Rolling...
    
    " (Bobby Troup
    Bobby Troup
    Robert William "Bobby" Troup Jr. was an American actor, jazz pianist and songwriter. He is best known for writing the popular standard " Route 66", and for his role as Dr...
    
    ) – 2:17

Musicians

• Billy Bragg
  Billy Bragg
  Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
  
   – acoustic guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , vocals
• Cara Tivey – piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , vocals, shakuhachi
  Shakuhachi
  The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...
  
  
• Lorraine Bowen
  Lorraine Bowen
  Lorraine Bowen is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Born in Cheltenham, Bowen was brought up in Chelmsford, Essex....
  
   – clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  , soprano recorder
  Recorder
  The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
  
  , piano, accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• The Christie Tyler Cory Band – brass
  Brass instrument
  A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
  
  
• Côr Cochion Caerdydd – vocals
• Mark Duff – whistle
  Whistle
  A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...
  
  s
• Jim Sutherland – bodhran
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Dick Gaughan
  Dick Gaughan
  Richard Peter Gaughan usually known as Dick Gaughan is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs.-Early years:...
  
   – vocals
• Wiggy – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Charlie Llewellin – drum
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , cymbal
  Cymbal
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• Grant Showbiz
  Grant Showbiz
  Grant Showbiz is a British record producer principally known for his work with The Fall, The Smiths, and Billy Bragg plus as an artist in his own right with Moodswings. He continues his work with both Billy Bragg & The Fall to this day, having worked on more albums by both The Fall & Billy Bragg...
  
   – vocals
• David Bedford
  David Bedford
  David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....
  
   – arrangement
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
   and conducting
  Conducting
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Production

• Grant Showbiz
  Grant Showbiz
  Grant Showbiz is a British record producer principally known for his work with The Fall, The Smiths, and Billy Bragg plus as an artist in his own right with Moodswings. He continues his work with both Billy Bragg & The Fall to this day, having worked on more albums by both The Fall & Billy Bragg...
  
   – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , reissue
  Reissue
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   producer
• Wiggy – producer, compiled by
• Kenny Jones – producer
• Charlie Llewellin – engineer
  Audio engineering
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• Derek Bolland – engineer
• Peter Haigh – engineer
• Step Parikian – engineer
• Tim Young – remaster
  Remaster
  Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began...
  
  ed by
• Duncan Cowell – remastered by