Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg

'Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg', is a three CD collection of Billy Bragg's greatest hits and B-sides, released on October 28, 2003. It consists of a double album and a disc of ten extras. Subscribers to Billy's website voted on their favourite tracks and these votes were used to compile the CD collection.

Disc one

 * 1) "A New England"
 * 2) "Man in the Iron Mask"
 * 3) "Milkman of Human Kindness"
 * 4) "To Have and to Have Not"
 * 5) "A Lover Sings"
 * 6) "St. Swithin's Day"
 * 7) "Saturday Boy"
 * 8) "Between the Wars"
 * 9) "World Turned Upside Down"
 * 10) "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
 * 11) "Walk Away Renee"
 * 12) "Greetings to the New Brunette"
 * 13) "There is Power in a Union"
 * 14) "Help Save the Youth of America"
 * 15) "Warmest Room"
 * 16) "Must I Paint You a Picture?"
 * 17) "She's Got a New Spell"
 * 18) "Price I Pay"
 * 19) "Valentine's Day is Over"
 * 20) "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"

Disc two

 * 1) "Sexuality"
 * 2) "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
 * 3) "Moving the Goalposts"
 * 4) "Tank Park Salute"
 * 5) "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
 * 6) "Accident Waiting to Happen" (Red Stars Version)
 * 7) "Sulk"
 * 8) "Upfield"
 * 9) "The Fourteenth of February"
 * 10) "Brickbat"
 * 11) "The Space Race is Over"
 * 12) "Boy Done Good"
 * 13) "Ingrid Bergman"
 * 14) "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
 * 15) "My Flying Saucer"
 * 16) "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (Blokes version)
 * 17) "NPWA (No Power Without Accountability)"
 * 18) "St. Monday"
 * 19) "Some Days I See the Point"
 * 20) "Take Down the Union Jack" (Band version)

Disc three

 * 1) "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" (Peel Sessions)
 * 2) "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (Peel Sessions)
 * 3) "Cold and Bitter Tears" (Live)
 * 4) "Seven and Seven Is" (Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary, 1990)
 * 5) "When Will I See You Again?"
 * 6) "Rule nor Reason" (Live)
 * 7) "Debris" (Live)
 * 8) "Dry Bed" (Demo version)
 * 9) "She Smiled Sweetly"
 * 10) "Take Down the Union Jack" (King Normal & The Rug remix)