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  Type EP
  Artist Billy Bragg
  Cover Life's_a_riotjpg
  Background salmon
  Released 1 July , 1983
  Recorded
  Genre Indie , Singer-songwriter
  Length 15:57
  Label Charisma Records reissued in November 1983 by Go! Discs
  Producer
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  This Album '''''Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy'''''<br/>( 1983 )
  Next Album '' Brewing Up With Billy Bragg ''<br/>( 1984 )


Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy is Billy Bragg 's first Studio Album , released in 1983 . The album was more of an EP than an album as it contained only seven songs. The album contains both politically charged songs, such as the attack on the school system and unemployment "To Have and To Have Not," and love songs such as "The Milkman of Human Kindness" and "A New England" (which was later a hit for singer Kirsty MacColl .)

In 2006 , as part of a series of re-issues of albums from his back catalog, Bragg re-released ''Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy'' on its own (it had previously only existed on CD alongside EP ''Between the Wars''), along with several bonus tracks.


TRACKLISTING


(all songs written by Billy Bragg, except where noted)

#The Milkman Of Human Kindness (2:49)
#To Have And Have Not (2:33)
#Richard (2:51)
#A New England (2:14)
#The Man In The Iron Mask (2:13)
#The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (1:58)
#Lover's Town Revisited (1:19)


Bonus Tracks (2006 Reissue)

#Strange Things Happen (3:19)
#The Cloth 1 (2:50)
#Love Lives Here (1:42)
#Speedway Hero (2:39)
#Loving You Too Long (2:51)
#The Guitar Says Sorry (2:14)
#Love Gets Dangerous (2:32)
#The Cloth 2 (2:47)
#The Man in the Iron Mask take (2:17)
#A13, Trunk Road to the Sea ( Cover of " Route 66 ") ( Troup ) (2:27)
#Fear is a Man's Best Friend ( Cale ) (2:32)