The Good Stuff

@reubent 

Thanks for posting.

It brought back pleasant memories of me having a brand new copy of that LP way back in the mid 1980s.

Some of the politics might not have dated well, but it's still my favourite Billy Bragg LP after all these years.

Short and sweet.

@cd318 - I just got the LP recently. It was in a batch of ex-college radio station LPs I picked up at Plaid Room Records, Loveland (Cincinnati), Ohio. Really happy to have it on original radio station demo vinyl. I tend to overlook the politics in music and just enjoy the songs. 

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

BIRD AND DIZ

Not Now Music  1949-1950 / 2015    Disc 1

Bloomdido : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxajV75VvM

My Melancholy Baby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6coB5EAHY

Oscar for Treadwell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Fz_Uh_Z00

Mohawk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzEzq9wxqw

Cheers

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

DIZ 'N' BIRD IN CONCERT

Not Now Music  1947 / 2015    Disc 3

Recorded at Carnegie Hall

A night in tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQcE1xOrJ4

Dizzy Atmosphere : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IGnn4wNeyU

Groovin' High : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJC0oEJv3DI

Confirmation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiKroVlXLk

Cheers

@reubent 

I just got the LP recently. It was in a batch of ex-college radio station LPs I picked up at Plaid Room Records, Loveland (Cincinnati), Ohio. Really happy to have it on original radio station demo vinyl. I tend to overlook the politics in music and just enjoy the songs. 

Me too nowadays.

Back then I had just graduated and still had some of that student idealism left. By then I had almost given up on reading the NME which seemed to be becoming increasingly left wing (not to say increasingly hypocritical as well) even for my stomach.

Of course the world of work and adult responsibilities would further broaden my outlook in the years to come.

It might have saved me a lot time if someone had explained the truth about human nature back then.

Those naughty adults and all the grown up stuff they won't tell you!

Generally musicians tend to portray themselves to being the left of the political spectrum, mainly I supsect for commercial reasons given the average age of their fans.

The one exception was Mick Jagger who once quipped that his heart was Labour (left of center) but his money was Tory (right of center).

Anyway, here is that would be eternal teenager in one of his better moments.