# The Internationale (album)

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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| New Musical Express | 6/10 |
| Orlando Sentinel | |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
The Internationale is a 1990 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. 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.
The album peaked at number 34 on the UK Albums Chart in May 1990.

## Versions

The album was originally released as a seven-track EP in 1990.
In 2006, as part of a planned series of reissues of albums in his back catalogue, The Internationale was remastered and reissued along with the seven tracks from 1988's Live & Dubious EP and five bonus tracks. Also included is a bonus DVD titled Here and There containing live concerts from East Berlin, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union.

## Track listing

Original album
* "The Internationale" (Pierre De Geyter, Billy Bragg) – 3:45
* "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" (Earl Robinson, Bragg) – 1:27
* "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" (Bragg) – 3:59
* "Blake's Jerusalem" (William Blake, Hubert Parry) – 2:30
* "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (Carlos Mejía Godoy) – 1:06
* "The Red Flag" (Jim Connell, traditional) – 3:12
* "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" (Eric Bogle) – 3:04

### 2006 reissue bonus tracks

Live and Dubious EP
* "Introduction" (live) – 0:57
* "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
* "Think Again" (live) (Dick Gaughan) – 4:21
* "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" (live) (Bernice Johnson Reagon) – 3:09
* "Days Like These" (DC remix) (Bragg) – 2:40
* "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:47
* "There Is Power in a Union" (with The Pattersons) (Bragg, George F. Root, traditional) – 3:27
Bonus tracks
* "Joe Hill" (Phil Ochs) (from Don't Mourn – Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, 1990) – 8:23
* "This Land Is Your Land" (with Heathens All) (Woody Guthrie) (from The Disagreement of the People, 1995) – 4:35
* "Never Cross a Picket Line" (Bragg) (from Rock the Dock, 1998) – 3:38
* "A Change Is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) (previously unreleased) – 3:58
* "A Miner's Life" (traditional) (previously unreleased) – 3:01

#### Notes

* Tracks 8–14 recorded and compiled at Pavilion Studios, London.
* Tracks 15, 18 and 19 recorded during The Internationale sessions.
* Track 17 produced at Cathouse Studios.

### Bonus DVD – Here and There

East Berlin DDR – February 1986
* "There Is Power in a Union" (live) (Bragg, Root, traditional) – 2:35
* "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:31
Nicaragua – July 1987
* "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" (live) (Godoy) – 1:07
Lithuania USSR – May 1988
* "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (live) (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 2:07
* "To Have and to Have Not" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
* "The Milkman of Human Kindness" (live) (Bragg) – 2:29
* "Island of No Return" (live) (Bragg) – 3:24
* "Introduction to Between the Wars" (live) – 3:15
* "Between the Wars" (live) (Bragg) – 2:21
* "The World Turned Upside Down" (live) (Leon Rosselson) – 3:02
* "Levi Stubbs' Tears" (live) (Bragg) – 3:15
* "Help Save the Youth of America" (live) (Bragg) – 2:36
* "A New England" (Bragg) – 2:04
* "Wishing the Days Away" (Bragg) – 4:15
* "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) / "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) – 3:02
* "Star" (David Bowie) – 1:56
* "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" (Bobby Troup) – 2:17

## Personnel
### Musicians

* Billy Bragg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
* Cara Tivey – piano, vocals, shakuhachi
* Lorraine Bowen – clarinet, soprano recorder, piano, accordion, organ
* The Christie Tyler Cory Band – brass
* Côr Cochion Caerdydd – vocals
* Marc Duff – whistles
* Jim Sutherland – bodhran, percussion
* Dick Gaughan – vocals
* Wiggy – bass guitar, vocals
* Charlie Llewellin – drum, cymbal
* Grant Showbiz – vocals
* David Bedford – arrangement and conducting

### Production

* Grant Showbiz – producer (1–7, 17), reissue producer, reissue compilation
* Wiggy – producer (1–7), DVD compilation
* Charlie Llewellin – engineer
* Derek Bolland – engineer (1–7)
* Peter Haigh – engineer (1–7)
* Step Parikian – engineer (1–7)
* Committee – design
* Kenny Jones – producer, engineer, compilation (8–14)
* Tim Young – remastering (tracks 1–14)
* Duncan Cowell – remastering (tracks 15–19)