I just said the same thing! What a fuckin legend!!!

They shared many a stage in the 80's. Johnny Marr plays on and co-wrote a handful of songs will Bragg as well.

Thought that line made the song Billy's. Tough thing to do on a Smiths cover, huh?

@bigbadbillb Morrissey was a vegetarian at the time, not a vegan.

Because the Smiths version is better than this redo. that having been said Bragg does a great rendition of the Smith's - Jeane

Because Morrissey wrote the original lol

He also advocates medical apartheid Not that nice really

@@fuzzy1237 how interesting it was to see those who are allegedly anti-establishment, be so in line with the establishment…

@@Harry_84 almost as though he were just playing a part, or a character. I do wonder if he just lost the faith. or if he ever really had the faith to begin with... you have to remember that he joined the Queen's army (AFTER he had already began his early music career). And, according to online sources, he then 'bought himself out'. So we have a good socialist. a poet. but he isn't having any fame. So this proven bootlicker signs up for the army. Willing to kill or be killed for his paymasters (at that time, his masters would have been Queen Elizabeth II and MARGARET THATCHER). He accused me of 'not caring about other people' because i wouldn't get a government-enforced experimental vaccine. Because he's a dirty little charlatan...even the (famously stupid) Nicky Wire has called ol' bignose out for being a hypocrite.

i especially liked it when Bill met with the old Queen. When he was mocked for his hypocrisy he claimed he done it to 'make his old mum happy' we see you bill.... we all see you. I remember being mildly involved in the SWP back in the mid 90s. a few folks back then had already seen through his facade. At that time i couldn't really see it. But (especially once you take away his genuinely beautiful love songs) it's so clear to me that he was always a dog in a sheep's jacket

​@@fuzzy1237Disgusting of you to compare your antivax delusion to the atrocity of apartheid. Nobody is oppressing you. You're free to refuse the shot. And the rest of us are free to avoid you and whatever diseases you're carrying. Pretty simple. Unlike actual Apartheid, under which people face real oppression simply for being born the wrong color. Turn off the Facebook and try reading a history book. I think you've had enough internet for the day, Granddad.

at least they're not calling him Paul! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZqUdd2CtMfWdYU.html (go to 19 seconds)

That's fking hilarious. Worst thing? I've seen that more than once and never even noticed!

Yeah but Morrissey can't spell 'cemetery'

Moz noted this atrocity

"because Ukraine won't back down from their NATO ambitions". No.

@@TechWeb68 If Zelenskyy agreed to not pursue NATO membership this war would end tomorrow. Russia, German and America were all ready to sign a peace agreement before this all started but Zelenskyy declined because war is the only way for him to retain power. Sorry but the truth hurts sometimes.

treid100182 Oh yeye Morrissey's version is 100x better Just think it's funny hearing braggo play it!

i think the thing is, i love his voice, but bragg doeesn't have a convientially "good" voice, unlike Morrissey. I do agree, I enjoyed his political spin on it as well as his tongue in cheek "no bacon in my sandwich if you please".

Ask me? I think it's a great cover...

that’s not Kirsty MacColl right?

Don't diss Bill!

@@tendercomrade2330 I loved him up until the Don't try this at home album (1991) - I really struggled after that which is a shame as that album is in my top ten.

I'd argue that it has the Billy Bragg charm

Well, the music wasn’t bad, it’s just that the vocals sound utterly horrific - like some drunkard in the pub on a Friday night! Now, I’m not saying Billy can’t sing a decent song, you only have to listen to “A New England” to see that, I’m just saying that this was unlistenable

I think that's what I mean by the Billy charm He's never been renowned for a great, conventional singing voice But I just love that he has the balls to sing a song by a singer who is so different to him

Ghastly. He sounds like a drunk Paul Weller (even worse, actually) and butchers the chorus with his merciless grunts.

Funking brilliant x