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Workers Playtime by Billy Bragg
Workers Playtime is an album by Billy Bragg, released in 1988. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “She's Got A New Spell”, on 2 lists with a best position of #1271.
Workers Playtime, Billy Bragg's third full-length album and fourth release overall, came out on Go! Discs in 1988 with Joe Boyd producing. Bragg's blend of folk, punk and protest song has always swung between the barricades and the broken heart, the political and the romantic, and "She's Got A New Spell" is the track that has hung around on the countdowns.
The packaging did its share of the sloganeering. The sleeve carried the subtitle "Capitalism Is Killing Music", a jab at the British Phonographic Industry's "Home Taping Is Killing Music" campaign, and Bragg printed a maximum price on the artwork, telling British buyers to pay no more than £4.99 for the LP or cassette. The record reached number 18 in the UK, and later reissues quietly dropped the price tags.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Workers Playtime on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She's Got A New Spell | 2 | #1271 | – | 2002–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.