I am a Wallet/ Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Before forming Stereolab in 1992, Tim Gane & Laetitia Sadler were the crux of indie pop group McCarthy. This 22 track 'best of', compiled by all of the band's mem- bers, also features rarities, BBC session tracks & liner notes by St. Etienne's Bob Stanley:

I am a Wallet/ Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today, Music, McCarthy, C-86, Experimental Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Popular Music, Rock, Rock/Pop

Average customer rating:

Delightful!

No. This is nothing like Stereolab! Shut up and listen.

This is NOTHING like stereolab! Shut up and listen.

A Stereolab footnote

I am a Wallet/ Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today
McCarthy
Manufacturer: Cherry Red UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000080FB
Release Date: 1999-09-07

Take the Shortest Way With the Men of Violence
You'll Have to Put an End to Them

Album Description

Before forming Stereolab in 1992, Tim Gane & Laetitia Sadler were the crux of indie pop group McCarthy. This 22 track 'best of', compiled by all of the band's mem- bers, also features rarities, BBC session tracks & liner notes by St. Etienne's Bob Stanley:

Customer Reviews:

Delightful!.......2003-10-22

Do you love bands such as The Smiths, the Wedding Present, Lucksmiths, or (early) Primal Scream? Miss the C86 explosion? Well McCarthy is the band for you! The best way I can think to describe them would to be to take the smiths, speed them up, and add a Marxist flare! Wa la McCarthy!

No. This is nothing like Stereolab! Shut up and listen........2001-02-12

Oh dear! Saying "this is the band that became Stereolab" is kind of like saying "Joy Division became New Order, and there was this bloke called Ian Curtis or something". Let's get one thing straight, Tim Gane was mccarthy's guitarist and it was only he and the part-time female backing vocalist Laetitia Sadier who joined the shambles that would become Stereolab. Neither of them were the brains behind the band. So, let us not soil the name of McCarthy again. Malcolm eden's lyrics are inspiring, uncompromising, and most of all convincing. On this record he declares a non-violent revolution against Margaret Thatcher, the corporate fat cats, and Prince Charles (whom he intends to decapitate), whilst taking the odd swipe at the church. Whilst Malcolm Eden's manifesto is of a fundementally existentialist nature and his overall attitude is admirabley negative, the music is defiantly up-beat and, i hate to say it, but "pleasant". As the flamboyant little guitars riffs (of the johnny marr variety) worm their way into your head, Malcolm Eden's all-too-quotable lyrics won't be far behind. oh, just buy it! This is one of those little gems that you nag your friends to listen to, but they're always too thick to understand.

This is NOTHING like stereolab! Shut up and listen........2001-02-12

Oh dear! Saying "this is the band that became Stereolab" is kind of like saying "Joy Division became New Order, and there was this bloke called Ian Curtis or something". Let's get one thing straight, Tim Gane was mccarthy's guitarist and it was only he and the part-time female backing vocalist Laetitia Sadier who joined the shambles that would become Stereolab. Neither of them were the brains behind the band. So, let us not soil the name of McCarthy again. Malcolm eden's lyrics are inspiring, uncompromising, and most of all convincing. On this record he declares a non-violent revolution against Margaret Thatcher, the corporate fat cats, and Prince Charles (whom he intends to decapitate), whilst taking the odd swipe at the church. Whilst Malcolm Eden's manifesto is of a fundementally existentialist nature and his overall attitude is admirabley negative, the music is defiantly up-beat and, i hate to say it, but "pleasant". As the flamboyant little guitars riffs (of the johnny marr variety) worm their way into your head, Malcolm Eden's all-too-quotable lyrics won't be far behind. oh, just buy it! This is one of those little gems that you nag your friends to listen to, but they're always too thick to understand.

A Stereolab footnote.......2000-06-21

By now, McCarthy is probably remembered primarily as the band that Tim Gane was in before he founded Stereolab with Laetitia Sadier. In fact, Sadier is a McCarthy bandmember on the album that comprises the latter half of this disc. The first half recalls late-80's British folk-pop in the manner of the Smiths - catchy, jangly but ultimately inconsequential. The second half shows the band stretching out sonically somewhat, but even so, the latter effort gives hardly any suggestion of what Gane/Sadier would accomplish with their next band.

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