I Am A Wallet/Banking Violence And The Inner Life Today by McCarthy (CD, Dec-1999, Cherry Red)

Album Features
UPC:	501392911382
Artist:	McCarthy
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	Cherry Red
Genre:	General, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. MP Speaks, An
2. Monetaries
3. International Narcotics Traffic, The
4. Way of the World, The
5. Antinature
6. Charles Windsor
7. Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne, The
8. Well of Loneliness, The
9. Wicked Palace Revolution, The
10. God Made the Virus
11. Funeral, The
12. Child Soon in Chains, A
13. In the Dark Times
14. Procession of Popular Capitalism, The
15. I'm on the Side of Mankind as Much as the Next Man
16. And Tomorrow the Stock Exchange Will Be the Human Race
17. Now Is the Time For an Iron Hand
18. Drinking Song of the Merchant Bankers, The
19. Write to Your MP Today
20. Use a Bank I'd Rather Die
21. I Worked Myself up From Nothing
22. Well, The
23. Fed Point of View
24. Get a Knife Between Your Teeth
25. Take the Shortest Way With the Men of Violence
26. You'll Have to Put an End to Them

Details
Distributor:	Infinity Entertainment Gr
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Many politically aware bands emerged in England during Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minster, but few were as vocal about their negative views of Thatcher's policies as McCarthy, who fused razor-edged political sarcasm to a glittering jangle-pop skeleton. This CD complies the band's first and third albums, released in 1987 and 1990 respectively--collectors may wish to note that the standalone CD of I AM A WALLET contains four bonus tracks not on this release.Standouts from WALLET include the bristling "Antinature," which ends with the sardonic comment "Nuclear power?/Yes please," and "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorme," where calm, pretty guitars disguise a seething evisceration of journalistic soap-boxing. WALLET also includes "God Made the Virus," which adds sweet violins to chiming guitars over which Malcolm Eden sings a completely straight-faced and utterly sarcastic endorsement of a particularly repellent theory about AIDS. Standouts from BANKING include "Now is the Time for an Iron Hand," where Tim Gane's signature jangling guitar is augmented by a touch of distortion, and "I Worked Myself Up from Nothing," which features vocals by Laetitia Sadier, who went on to form the similarly-minded--though musically different--Stereolab with Gane.

Many politically aware bands emerged in England during Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minster, but few were as vocal about their negative views of Thatcher's policies as McCarthy, who fused razor-edged political sarcasm to a glittering jangle-pop skeleton. This CD complies the band's first and third albums, released in 1987 and 1990 respectively--collectors may wish to note that the standalone CD of I AM A WALLET contains four bonus tracks not on this release.Standouts from WALLET include the bristling "Antinature," which ends with the sardonic comment "Nuclear power?/Yes please," and "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorme," where calm, pretty guitars disguise a seething evisceration of journalistic soap-boxing. WALLET also includes "God Made the Virus," which adds sweet violins to chiming guitars over which Malcolm Eden sings a completely straight-faced and utterly sarcastic endorsement of a particularly repellent theory about AIDS. Standouts from BANKING include "Now is the Time for an Iron Hand," where Tim Gane's signature jangling guitar is augmented by a touch of distortion, and "I Worked Myself Up from Nothing," which features vocals by Laetitia Sadier, who went on to form the similarly-minded--though musically different--Stereolab with Gane.

Editorial Reviews
There are hints of The Smiths, but beyond that it's like a freak of nature, they sound like nothing else.
Mojo