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1992: Love Album
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Track Listing
- 1993
- Is Wrestling Fixed
- Only Living Boy In New Cross
- Suppose You Gave A Funeral And Nobody Came
- England
- Do Re Me So Far So Good
- Look Mum No Hands
- While You Were Out
- Skywest And Crooked
- To Dream The Impossible Dream
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22314 in Music
- Released on: 2005-01-03
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .19 pounds
Customer Reviews
Brixton martyrs?
Back in the days when "indie" wasn't synonymous with no sales and no TOTP appearances, Carter USM briefly ruled the world with a collection of great singles, albums and incendiary live apperances (not to mention knocking over Philip Schofield in front of 11 million live viewers on BBC1).
1992 - The Love Album entered the UK album charts at No. 1 on its release in May 1992. Highlights include the band's highest single placing for radio-friendly chant of The Only Living Boy In New Cross, the punk explosion of While You Were Out and the Marc Almond-style waltz of England - British melancholy at its best.
Both parts of Carter USM are alive and well - Jim now solo having recorded for a while with Jim's Super Stereoworld, and Les with his punk outfit Abdoujaparov, as well as his excellent new career presenting an indie/punk/glam show on local radio station Phoenix FM.
Unstoppable
I have 3 or 4 Carter albums but this is probably my favourite overall for it's mixture of well crafted, clever and downright rocking tracks. If you have more than a passing interest in this duo, you must have this.
Living in New Cross at the time of its release, it would have been rude not too buy this and the melancholy ballad the Impossible Dream (made famous again recently in the epic Honda advert) sealed the deal. These boys really know how to write songs, with wordplay (Do Re Me So Far So Good) second only to Paul Heaton and perhaps Morrissey IMO.
From the James Bond-esque opening rifts of 1993 to the powerful The Impossible Dream, this CD has no weak tracks (apart from perhaps the accordion in England, which just doesn't do it for me) only well produced and sometimes edgy ones. Listen out for the occasional Bowie/Ziggy Stardust influence too.
Carter have their own grown-up rocking indie style with their own lyrical take on the world. Superb stuff.
