Kirsty MacColl With Billy Bragg - A New England

[CarlBewley]

12 people with no souls now......I think Voldemort is back......

[cjp10]

now 11 people have no soul

[JimmyPeachSticks]

:( family friend both of them, rip kirsty x

[MISSAMYRQ]

R.I.P ,, Love You :*

[MrSqueezeCheese]

simply brilliant. bragg's such a great songwriter and kirsty's voice was so unique. i cant stop smiling at this version :)

[58busby58]

2 brilliant musicians, r.i.p kirsty

[Kevderoo]

beautiful rendition of a beautiful song

[Marcus1050]

Just brilliant...R.I.P.

[SuperDiddzz]

miss you and your blinding voice Kirsty.

[natforeverxx]

i so miss kirsty god bless her x

[barcraial]

Two absolute British stars.

RIP Kirsty

[patsyod]

How could we possibly look for another girl? Miss you baby

[lovetostitch]

So nice to discover this version. It was so sad to lose Kirsty so soon--her music carries on. My daughter likes her as well. RIP, Kirsty.

[TheMimifur]

Yes, so miss you Kirsty, and it is really annoying when other people die and are hailed as gods.

[Geekman333]

Miss ya Kirsty xxx

[1978pil]

Top singer RIP

[nevzter]

Brilliant.

[TheRazorbladesmile]

Keep shining your light

In our hearts forever

Rarely did one care so much

Sadly taken too early greatly missed

Talent like yours a rare gift

You will never be forgotten

[AestheticalFiction]

RIP Kirsty.

[seanshred666]

Love the subtle change in lyrics

[LordSnapper]

Still great all these years on. RIP Kirsty.

[emilysingsalot]

just uploaded a little cover of this song, please please have a quick listen :)

[DoctorSexAmbulance]

This Brilliant Lady was killed by a Mexican Milloniaire

[awesomebexster]

i love this song :)

[kattskrall]

@awesomebexster what does that even mean? what a message....

[awesomebexster]

@kattskrall means that i love his music

[DanPat121]

This just made my evening...thank you.

[ringafiar]

7 people are already pushing prams

[medic7698]

@ringafiar What?????

[shitunot]

a bastardisation of a good song

[oky2101]

von boys in trouble ist das viel geiler, aber das gibt es hier nicht

[Gyiszzlakk85]

now there are 7 hihi

[ValareePerlak36]

Get the audio from this song at soundnabber doht cohm.

[2955Kevin]

Lovely duet.. Very good.

[TheAsssar]

A match made in heaven and on earth!! I wish i wish there would be more

[nushla11]

i know its a different version

but it just seems so awkward with him singing so slowly

[tasteofcoda]

@nushla11 I think it works, although I prefer him singing faster it still works :)

[IncognitoKillers]

Her voice isnt bad but it seriously makes me want to hurt something.

She seems to shout everything.

[bluenosegezza]

god bless you kirsty

[plasticdesk64]

Saw the two of them do this at a Cuba benefit gig, around 1995 - good that there were no digital cameras blocking the view but not sure if there is any video of it.

[teentuber90s]

R.I.P Kirsty

[jolleygoodshow]

everything that makes me love music.. Great song-writing, simple music, superb singer and 2 people who actually enjoyed what they were doing. doesnt get much better than this.

[SHawking666]

This duet version is the best of all.

[BlondeRocknRoll]

this song always sounds good ... always loved Kirsty's version, this sounds wonderful, both of them together.

[jakelvis100]

I never heard of her before, found by accident wow chip shop ,new enland man she's amazing you learn somethong new every day

[PvtManc]

6 people have no soul.

[pele28]

@PvtManc one person has no origionality. drop threse shit commen

[MrShnizzle69]

@PvtManc Soullessness has gone up 100% since last year then...:/ haha

[MACHAWK123]

Best version of this gem of a song ever? Billy and Kirsty do fantastic versions on their own but this pure heaven, Billy plays it just right in supporting Kirsty rather than forcing his own stamp on it. Brilliant

[FungusMossGnosis]

I can't stop listening to this masterpiece, heaven help me....

[samlamamma]

So, not perfect, and so good...

[knasigachau]

Two words: so beautiful

[pikeywhu]

top stuff i didnt realise they dueted on this song either

[TheGroovyRecordStore]

Absolutely magical.....

[stickyjam1]

i love billy bragg doing his best singing for kirsty.

[ykmsp]

R.I.P Kristy, thank you for the music and your courageous display of parental love.

- love from Singapore

[LadySyara]

I loved you then as I love you still

Though I put you on a pedestal, you put me on the pill

I don't feel bad about letting you go

I just feel sad about letting you know

[banjgoboy24]

this song is heavan, like honey on a flower. The sound covers you with a fresh breeze on a hot day loving all around you. Many thanks. A.

[Gerrylambe]

Probably the best song ever written

Gerry Lambe

[garaapje]

@Gerrylambe

From the skunks?

or the hockey player? :P

[ctidcarl]

The most profound lyric EVER.....

"I don't feel bad about letting you go I just feel sad about letting you know"

That's the cut of most relationship break ups

[Tommyfazz]

@ctidcarl  wow more profound than 'god save the queen'?

[ctidcarl]

@Tommyfazz

I don't get your point (if there is one)

I was merely complimenting a fantastic lyric in a cracking song - surely that's inoffensive to anybody??

[ultralight9]

@ctidcarl

right on.

[kattskrall]

this is awesome

[Tommyfazz]

bad news for music lovers: you sold out you little shouty shit. Lib-Dem arsehole.

[isriffrandeldead]

@Tommyfazz

[1975Abi]

@Tommyfazz

Labour sold Billy and us all out long before Billy left the New Labour nightmare so shut your gob!

[mhlamb1]

What I love most about this is the fact that are parts of the Billy version and parts of the Kirsty version that I prefer, yet this version seems to bring the best of both. I love Kirsty extra verse and it sends shivers down my spine when billy sings ' they're only satelites...' . This is the best of two beautiful versions!

[ctidcarl]

@mhlamb1

Good call that!!

I was ALWAYS unsure about Kirsty's extra verse, but the fact they sang it together show's that Billy obviously approves.....

...and it just works!!

[phillpot21]

@ctidcarl billy bragg wrote the last verse while on the phone to kirsty so of course he approved

[Tommyfazz]

@phillpot21 are you sure he was not on the toilet?

[CrooksieCrooksie6]

@Tommyfazz it was during a phone conversation

[philemonia]

i love this song and i love her voice. schade daß sie nicht mehr ist... aber vielleicht ja wirklich nur nicht mehr hier

[arosegrowingold]

Glorious - thanks for this.

[Shoethiefking]

16 years when I heard your song, 17 now, and the days are as long. Nothing but everything still is wrong, I guess that's why I'm in love with the song.

[emmooldmod]

awesome kirtsy and mr bragg, what a tune !

[RosalieGonsaless]

I heard mp3iiffy is the best site to download songs like this. Google mp3iiffy.

[lprees1968]

Two of the most innovative singer songwriters of the 20th Century. Billy Bragg is the perfect partner for the much missed Kirsty. Rock on up there Kirsty

[kerdubennak]

low-keyed Billy but ever such a beautiful voice on top of Kirsty's !

[bifeet]

Brilliant song, I prefer her solo version. Also, Kirsty does the backing falsetto vocals on Tracy Ulman's only pop single venture 'They Don't Know About Us.'

[Liamski06]

Still love ya babes.

all my Xmasessss

[1SPARRY]

Septic Tanks (Yanks) are Fat.

Fact.

[zgrad1]

@1SPARRY arguing with pikeys is like wrestling a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. fact.

[Jigaboo123456]

Or something like ""Hic homo est stultissimus omnium" I much preferred letching to Latin ( My teacher was surprisingly sexy and had big tits.)

[Jigaboo123456]

It is rather instructive that out of all the comments I've left on umpteen sites, the only one to remove my comments has been this crappy little Cyber-Soviet. I used JIgaboo as an avatar because it was the name of our very black cat -a bad choice because shortly afterwards Nu Labour changed the mellenia -old local demographic and infested us with Asylum-seekers, aka "illegal Immigrants" . Every time I called the cat in some sooty social security swindler would come up to get fed. Cont..

[AlchemicalDavid]

I dunno, I think it works. A bit like salad cream and marmite sarnies- you know it's wrong but you still eat it :D Unless that's just me?

@Jigaboo123456 I don't usually like to admit my ignorance but I'm really happy to admit that I had to google 'jigaboo'. Shame you're British and shame on you!

Still, you have a right to your opinion and I have a right to dismiss it as the ill formed ranting of a talentless, whiny scrote with all the personality of a dog turd. No offence intended.

[Jigaboo123456]

A good choice for you tube though, as it upsets whiney white ethno-masochists.

Shame on you, back at you,AlchemicalDavid not knowing your basic ethnic pejoratives--whatever can they be teaching in school these days? Apart from Disabled Black Lesbian Eco-Warrior history? @kaynbeck1122, I'm so hurt by your erudite condemnation I'm off to a Bungalore ashram to do some work on my spiritual impoverishment.

[AlchemicalDavid]

@Jigaboo123456

Not a bad reply :D I've no idea what they're teaching in schools these days. It's been 23 years since my arse graced a school chair.

As far as I can remember we never had classes on racial epithets. We did Latin though - is that ok?

[Jigaboo123456]

@AlchemicalDavid

Tut!tut! Sir, you break the basic rule of Internet protocol and actually concede a touché.Whatever next? polite discourse?!

If the passage of 23 years and smoking the stuff on your channel vid hasn't fried all the brain-cells used for memory, I say goodbye to you with this about B.Bragg.

"Hic homo est stultissimus omnium"

[AlchemicalDavid]

Hahahaha - well, I suppose it's better than hic puer est... :D

I don't think he's stupid - a bit deluded mayhap.

And I'll have you know that my whatsit has not been affected by my use of mind altering ...big word, starts with an S..bugger, I've forgotten.

Velico ergo sum.

[Jigaboo123456]

@AlchemicalDavid Well, you know waht they say....if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. A stimulating discourse old bean, but I must now attend to imporrtant matters of state, ie filling out my bus pass application , so it's goodbye, or "Die dulci freure"

[maclachj1]

Bragg had to politely sing in key of original....not great. Kate Nash combo or Kirsty solo works best

[stopbadsingers]

Kirsty BRILLIANT! Bragg absolutely awful.

[Jigaboo123456]

For venemous, hate-filed bigotry that expresses itself in a vicious intolerance of others opinions, your brain-washed Politically Correct bigot easily rivals the KKK. As fo' de name, how does you know I is not a Jigaboo maself?

Ah knows jigaboos who think priggish liberals (of whatever skin colour) are pompous clowns.

[Jigaboo123456]

Much better on her own without this talentless whiney Commie

[martiniffc]

I completely disagree with almost all of Bragg's ideologies.

But I don't listen to music because of the artist or band's ideologies, I listen to them if they make music that I enjoy. And Bragg does exactly that.

Fantastic song. Fantastic duet.

[Jigaboo123456]

@martiniffc

Fair enough, Mate. I can think of lots of artists who's ideologies I dislike, but I enjoy theri music, writing or acting, but I'm just not into Bragg's music either, but each to their own.

[kaynbeck1122]

Get some milk of human kindness, you are very clearly still waiting for any measure of a leap forward!! Only those with some semblance will understand, ie not you creep.

[kickar]

I've been looking all over for the orignal Billy Bragg version from Back to Basics (Life's a riot). Can someone please post it?

[VanHowle]

When you are down, you can count on songs likes this to make you feel atleast better.

[fubarcat50]

kirsty did a concert here in toronto at the phoenix club, midrange, and after, came over to our little club, joined in the jam, partied, ended up staying for another day and another jam, we loved her---- I think that was just the type of girl she was----- I always think about her sometimes

[TheBrokeneckclub]

thats a cool story she was amazing peace x

[tyttis1972]

I know a person I could sing this within. Every word is true.

After our relationship I even taped Billy's original version with his stereos.

[dizzybees]

One of the few songs where the cover is equally as good as the original. Lovely to hear them singing together.

[Liamski06]

Just lookin' for another girl.

For now and forever

[rockchick80s]

Thanks for sharing Dekemc - I prefer the version of her on her own, but still pretty good though.

[bogen1050]

May she rest in peace in heaven with our lord, Jesus Christ.

[IAINoodle]

excellent version!

[bynot1]

love you kirsty

[Liamski06]

RIP Kirsty, our Beloved, our Never-forgotten.

Keep singing.

L.

[snakehissken]

Aww... they cut out the best part at the end.. after the whistle Kirsty says "halftime please" lol

[taxidriver2000]

I don´t want to change the world. Kirsty MacColl. RIP

[bradvf]

Awesome! sounds like they were having so much fun :-) Thanks for posting

[ssv8owner]

What a great version.... RIP Kirsty..

[JoeyDMedford]

beautiful

[thebeatles94]

I love the opening lyric. It's from a Simon and Garfunkel song, "Leaves That Are Green".

Rest in peace, Kirsty.

[TheVillageRake]

One of the great singers, and one of the great songwriters. Beautiful.

[shec08]

great cover by the one and only kirsty macoll R.I.P

[TheMusic36]

Great lyrics and fantastic singing with a brilliant guitar rhythm.

[AcousticSolo]

wow!

[Liamski06]

Our love.

L and E

[samdey1]

steengoede versie komt van het album

What do pretty girls do

collection of all four BBC Radio 1 sessions broadcast between 1989 and 1995.

[BubbleGummEm]

Tune.. x

[conspiracyofsilence]

blink 182 might have been listening to this...wotz my age again...tragic....i like this version almost as much as the one billie did...

[neuvechappelle]

The best

[Kevy63]

Voice and looks of an angel, now singing in heaven!!!!!!

[jgrpompey1]

brilliant

[kottilla]

great version 0:30

[banjgoboy24]

Treacle dripping with wonder.

[littlebird1969]

I dont want to change the world

i'm not looking for another girl

i'm just looking for a "NEW ENGLAND"

I was 17 when i heard this song, i'm 39 now but wont be for long...

[banjgoboy24]

@littlebird1969 enjoy whats waiting for you, make each second count. Count you blessings and make it real. A.

[JustVinandSkeep]

@littlebird1969 dont change the lyrics man...

[littlebird1969]

@JustVinandSkeep I'm 41 know and i'm still looking for a "NEW ENGLAND"

[littlebird1969]

@JustVinandSkeep It's my remix! and i'll sing what i want...

[mrsmudd2009]

@littlebird1969 Me too.

[stravaigar]

i grew up with both these guys and cried when kirsty died,until tonite i did not know this duet existed, i listened and cried again. thank you for posting.

[Liamski06]

So sad. So resonant. So forever. L.

[indietiedtoyou]

this is very different to what I would normally listen to. Naturally I enjoyed it!

[FatherTiresias]

Thanks PassionateFriend for posting this. A real gem. Both artists have a special place in my personal history of musical loves. Billy has always been a hero. "Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?" - what a line! I was moved to tears when I heard of Kirsty's sad and pointless demise. Voice of an angel. Long may her legacy live on.

[meatypaw101]

i loved you then as i luv you now!

[meatypaw101]

i loved you then as i luv ya still!

; ]

[Stongarune]

R.I.P  Kirsty

[Hatsie]

THIS is why hearing kate nash singing this song with billy makes me want to cry.

[PeteGeeza86]

This girl had a great voice.

[dommywaddle]

This is going straight on to my favourites. Cheers for putting it up!

[crazylikeafool]

geez sorry everyone hated my comments just sayi nshes a better singer ... whats the big deal? anyway... he sounds good singing with her ... they sound good as a duo but by himself he sounds like hes been drinkin too many beers or somethng .. just sayin sorry

[tonyp72]

Billy Bragg is a fantastic lyricist and songwriter, but i feel he does'nt get enough credit for being an amazing guitarist.

[rem023]

just simply go to one of his concerts :)

He is not very up to get all this credits you like him to receive... he just doesn't care

[dylancash7]

Great folk voice from billy

[crazylikeafool]

she should teach billy bragg some singing techniques .... muaha

[ianthegroover]

Thanks for uploading this, it's legendary.

[historicbloke]

awesome

[rubylulu]

This is gorgeous

[Avenmarc]

loved it

thanks for posting this

[studioworksplc]

on of the greatest singers of all time what a loss rip kirsty x

[emmooldmod]

brilliant two genuine artists, no glam or record company or judge telling them what to do, kirsty had a great voice.

[shuttlem]

That was just beautiful, thankyou for puttin this up, loads an loads....

[pumplechunker]

hearing her sing makes me ache -I wish she was still alive - what a loss

[BonzoBanzai]

Great choon and great reminder of two great talents - but would it be sacriligous (sic) to change "England" to "Ireland" as being a Paddy and would love to learn this on guitar?

PassionFriend - Kudos on the post!

[deighton2002]

Billy Bragg wouldn't mind that IMHO.

[Shack968]

That is so emotional, Im crying like a baby

[COCCmath]

I'm with you, Shack.

[r55306]

This version is my favorite.Beautiful music.

[deeziloves]

Amazing, made the hairs stand up at the back of my neck. Thanks for posting.

[2nstra]

Wow Wow this is like ultra rare....incredible song and this duet

is just sooooooooooo great

thanks for posting !!!

you have an mp3 from this one ???

amazing song !

[PassionateFriend]

Glad you enjoyed it, shoot me a personal message for the mp3.

A note to everyone, I've got a lot of Kirsty tracks available, shoot me any requests...