Can't You Fix My Car-Leo Kottke, 9. Soro(Afriki)-3-Salif Keita, 10. The Truth-Youssou N'Dour, 11. The Lion/Gaiende-Youssou N'Dour, 12. Turkana-Bill Tyrley/Wally Baudin, 13. Change(Ultimate Club Mix)-Lisa Stansfield, 14. Zaar-1-Peter Gabriel, 15. Hippy Chick-Soho, 16. Mary Had A Little Boy-Snap, 17. Fool's Gold-The Stone Roses, 18. I'm The One-Steve Harvey, 19. I Believe-Joe Satriani, 20. Soul Kitchen-The Doors, 21. Packet Man-Digital Underground, 22. Soon And Very Soon/Big Town-Ashley Cleveland, 23. Nutbush City Limits-Tina Turner, 24. Walking On Ice-Devonsquare, 25. When It All Comes Down-John Capek & Family Of Man, 26. Imnandi-John Capek & Family Of Man, 27. Rocking Chair-House Of Freaks, 28. Flying Hearts-David...  (less)

political rants, and a full band playing behind him. Bragg is nothing if he isn't revolutionary. He mixes adoration ("She's Got a New Spell") and angst ("Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards") on Workers Playtime (1988); covers Fred Neil ("Dolphins") on Don't Try This at Home (1991); puts music to a Rudyard Kipling poem à la Mermaid Avenue ("A Pict Song") on William Bloke (1996); and takes his home country to the woodshed ("Take Down the Union Jack") on England, Half English (2002). The nine-CD package is jammed with demos, alternate versions, and covers (such as a splendid version of the Faces' "Glad and Sorry"), and a bonus DVD provides a look at Bragg in his most comfortable element: on stage at concerts recorded in 1991 and 2006. --Scott Holter  (less)

first gained fame as a composer--actually develop an orchestral vocabulary to depict topics ranging from Nietzsche's Superman to a fierce storm on the Alps and a day in the life of a nuclear family. This set gathers Lorin Maazel's interpretations from the last few years (with perhaps the greatest tone poem of the whole canon, Don Quixote , still to come in a planned future recording). Maazel--currently music director of the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, an ensemble of high-powered soloists modeled on Toscanini's famous NBC orchestra--is returning to some of these works for his third take, and his vision seems to have clarified in particular for the vistas of Ein Heldenleben and the Alpine Symphony as for the idealistic poetry of Death and Transfiguration and Don Ju...  (less)

socially conscious music. In doing so, he's forged a career that has seen the London Times declare him a "national treasure," while in the States, Woody Guthrie's daughter, Nora, handpicked Bragg to resurrect the spirit of America's own radical dissenter, assigning him the task of bringing Woody's unfinished songs and lyrics to life. The latter's result, Mermaid Avenue , brought him and collaborators Wilco a Grammy nomination. 1983's Life's a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy first introduced the world to Billy's style--roughly strummed electric guitar and stark vocals belying a keen sense of melody and committed, deeply humane lyrics on topics ranging from life and love to social upheaval and the plight of the working class. Yep Roc Records has re-issued Bragg...  (less)