Workers Playtime
by Billy Bragg
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Billy Bragg bestography
Workers Playtime is ranked 3rd best out of 22 albums by Billy Bragg on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Billy Bragg is Talking With The Taxman About Poetry which is ranked number 3064 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 500.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Workers Playtime track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Workers Playtime rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 82/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Q magazine Recordings Of The Year 1988 | 5/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 83 Music Albums of 1988 | 21/83 | 4 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 85 Music Albums of 1988 | 40/85 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 67 Music Albums of 1988 | 63/67 | 0 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 50 Music Albums of 1988 | 35/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Dankel | Top 28 Music Albums of 1988 | 3/28 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 17/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 66 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 342 | |||
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Workers Playtime ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 17:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,685 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/09/2026 01:17 | Jouster | 7 | 43/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2026 03:48 | Proto | 4,306 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.2.
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Workers Playtime forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5374): By Dankel
neilgee 10/25/2025 20:05 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Workers Playtime comments
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Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/17/2015 18:08 | #145970 | TOP COMMENT
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Not sure that I can hear too much political on this. Apart from a song about innocent people spending too long on remand in prison the rest is mostly just intelligent songs about love. Lovely stuff. I need to check out more of his.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/22/2015 04:04 | #132196 | TOP COMMENT
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Once again, so blatantly political. A little stuck in the times.
It was always Billy Braggs laconic singing voice that attracted me to his music. Hard to describe this album he is a folk rock punk protest singer with heart, intelligence and humour. One of Britains great performers an original album also
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