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Don’t Try This at Home by Billy Bragg
Don’t Try This at Home is an album by Billy Bragg, released in 1991. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 32 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sexuality”, on 32 lists with a best position of #17.
Don't Try This at Home, Billy Bragg's sixth album, came out on Go! Discs on 16 September 1991, and it finds the folk-punk agitator from Barking bringing in some famous friends. Grant Showbiz produced, Johnny Marr helped produce three tracks and co-wrote "Sexuality", a bouncy, big-hearted pop song that went to number two on the US Modern Rock chart, and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Peter Buck turn up on "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood", titled after a Woody Guthrie drawing.
Between the politics and the romance, the songs roam: "Cindy of a Thousand Lives" circles photographer Cindy Sherman, "God's Footballer" tells of Wolverhampton Wanderers' Peter Knowles walking away from the game to become a Jehovah's Witness, and "Tank Park Salute" grieves for his father, Dennis Bragg, lost to lung cancer when Billy was 18. There's a cover of Fred Neil's "Dolphins", too. It went to number 8 in Britain.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Don’t Try This at Home on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sexuality | 32 | #17 | – | 1991–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.