McCarthy

About the artist

McCarthy were an English indie pop band, formed in Barking, East London in 1985 by schoolmates Malcolm Eden, Tim Gane, John Williamson and Gary Baker. They mixed a sweetly melodic style, dominated by Gane's 12-string guitar playing, with Eden's overtly political lyrics, often satirical in tone, which reflected the band's far left leanings. After a string of singles, including 'Red Sleeping Beauty' and 'Frans Hals', and a track on the NME C86 album, their debut album 'I Am A Wallet' was released in 1987 to much critical acclaim.

Top songs

1. Red Sleeping Beauty
2. An Mp Speaks
3. The Well of Loneliness
4. Celestial City
5. We Are All Bourgeois Now
6. Antinature
7. Frans Hals
8. The Funeral
9. Monetaries
10. Keep an Open Mind or Else

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