Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (National Album Day 2026 Pressing)

Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, originally released in September 1986.

For Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, Bragg embraced a more fully realised band sound with the help of special guests Kirsty MacColl and Johnny Marr and production courtesy of John Porter (Roxy Music, The Smiths) and Kenny Jones. ‘Taxman…’ was his first top ten album and gave the world some of his most enduring songs in ‘Greetings To The New Brunette’ (his first top 40 hit), live favourite “Levi Stubbs’ Tears” about a victim of domestic abuse taking comfort in the music of the Four Tops, and classic workers’ anthem “There Is Power in a Union”.

• • 01   Greetings To The New Brunette
  • 02   Train Train
  • 03   The Marriage
  • 04   Ideology
  • 05   Levi Stubbs' Tears
  • 06   Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now
  • 01   There Is Power In A Union
  • 02   Help Save The Youth Of America
  • 03   Wishing The Days Away
  • 04   The Passion
  • 05   The Warmest Room
  • 06   The Home Front
  • 13   7” one sided - A. Walk Away Renee (Version) B Etching of the album cover
• 13   7” one sided - A. Walk Away Renee (Version) B Etching of the album cover