William Bloke

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William Bloke
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Studio album by Billy Bragg
Released September 10, 1996
Genre Rock, folk
Length 41:15
Label Cooking Vinyl
Producer Grant Showbiz
Billy Bragg chronology
Don't Try This at Home
(1991)Don't Try This at Home1991
William Bloke
(1996)
Bloke on Bloke
(1997)Bloke on Bloke1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Alternative Press 5/5 stars[2]
Entertainment Weekly B[3]
NME (7/10)[2]
Q 4/5 stars[2]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[4]
Spin (7/10)[2]

William Bloke is the seventh album by alternative folk artist Billy Bragg, released in 1996, five years after his last studio album. The lyrics to "A Pict Song" are by English poet Rudyard Kipling.

Track listing

  1. "From Red to Blue"
  2. "Upfield"
  3. "Everybody Loves You Babe"
  4. "Sugar Daddy"
  5. "A Pict Song"
  6. "Brickbat"
  7. "The Space Race Is Over"
  8. "Northern Industrial Town"
  9. "The Fourteenth of February"
  10. "King James Version"
  11. "Goalhanger"

The LP version also includes a final track, "Qualifications". The 2006 Reissue includes a second CD, with the following track listing:

  1. As Long As You Hold Me [demo]
  2. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet [demo]
  3. Sugardaddy [demo]
  4. Space Race Is Over [demo]
  5. Goalhanger [demo]
  6. Upfield [demo]
  7. Fourteenth of February [demo]
  8. Qualifications
  9. Never Had No One Ever
  10. Thatcherites
  11. All Fall Down

Notes

  1. William Bloke at AllMusic
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