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McCarthy were a British … Read Full Bio ↴There are 2 bands with this name.
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McCarthy were a British 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. Two further singles appeared in early 1988, then an EP in February 1989 was followed by a second album, 'The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth', which was considerably less well received. A year later, in 1990, they released a third album 'Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today', on which they were joined by Gane's girlfriend Lætitia Sadier on vocals. The album suggested a new willingness to experiment musically, and was seen by critics as something of a return to form, but it in fact proved to be their swansong and they split soon afterwards.
Gane and Sadier went on to form Stereolab, while Eden formed Herzfeld while studying Literature.
McCarthy were a major early influence on the Manic Street Preachers who covered 'We Are All Bourgeois Now', which appeared as a hidden track on the CD of their 'Know Your Enemy' album, as well as 'Charles Windsor', which appeared as a b-side on their Life Becoming A Landslide EP. Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield has also covered 'Red Sleeping Beauty'.
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A Southern Metal band from Barrie Ontario. They have released one EP: "Wanna Get Rough?"
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McCarthy were a British … Read Full Bio ↴There are 2 bands with this name.
1.
McCarthy were a British 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. Two further singles appeared in early 1988, then an EP in February 1989 was followed by a second album, 'The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth', which was considerably less well received. A year later, in 1990, they released a third album 'Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today', on which they were joined by Gane's girlfriend Lætitia Sadier on vocals. The album suggested a new willingness to experiment musically, and was seen by critics as something of a return to form, but it in fact proved to be their swansong and they split soon afterwards.
Gane and Sadier went on to form Stereolab, while Eden formed Herzfeld while studying Literature.
McCarthy were a major early influence on the Manic Street Preachers who covered 'We Are All Bourgeois Now', which appeared as a hidden track on the CD of their 'Know Your Enemy' album, as well as 'Charles Windsor', which appeared as a b-side on their Life Becoming A Landslide EP. Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield has also covered 'Red Sleeping Beauty'.
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A Southern Metal band from Barrie Ontario. They have released one EP: "Wanna Get Rough?"
The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne
McCarthy Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by McCarthy:
All Your Questions Answered Who made the wealth In this pleasant land? The entrepreneu…
An Address to the Better Off I've been about you since I met you Got me wondering…
An M.P. Speaks Sweet little schoolgirl smile Your golden arms beckon me on…
An Mp Speaks Sweet little schoolgirl smile Your golden arms beckon me on …
Antinature Antinature From the future We sing Go to the Highlands …
Charles Windsor Charles Windsor, who's at the door At such an hour, who's…
Comrade Era Come right now Come right now and forever Citizen You're not…
Frans Hals They calculate how much it takes to starve a rat And…
From the Damned Going down down again Every day the same again Every day dra…
Goodbye I used to see you every week But now I'm lucky…
I Never Knew You I NEVER BELIEVED IN SANTA CLAUS (Until You Came To…
I Worked Myself Up From Nothing Take a little time to improve your life You have it…
I'm Not a Patriot But... Far away in Central America Young men and women fight to…
In the Dark Times In barbarous times you were hung If you stole sheep to…
Keep an Open Mind or Else Oh come along now It's not quite like you say With my…
Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill them Injure them Rip out their hearts Tear out their to…
Monetaries On a cold mids mourner sun sharp right Upon a few…
Red Sleeping Beauty I've been sound asleep for twenty years If I'm sound asleep…
Should the Bible Be Banned My name is Dave I killed my brother I whacked an axe…
Something Wrong Somewhere Saw into my sorry state There was something wrong somewhere …
The Enemy Is at Home In the fighting My life ended The queen isn't here to stat…
The Fall My mother, the Red Arrow fly Nosedives towards me London is…
The Funeral Mother they were lowering slowly into her grave And the goo…
The International Narcotics Traffic Music that could take you and your mind to a…
The Procession of Popular Capitalism Up and down the Strand I strolled around penniless But the…
The Way of the World I would give all of my heart to you If only…
The Well of Loneliness You sit still inside a well where you wish all…
This Nelson Rockefeller You have been so good to me always But it's a…
We Are All Bourgeois Now There's something wrong somewhere here, So through unclean …
What Our Boys Are Fighting For Today is the day that I die For my motherland In a…
With One Eye on Getting Their Pay With one eye on getting their pay The lackeys of the…
Write to Your Mp Today If you are under attack, I've got news for you They've…
You're Alive We brought you poppy fields But we brought you money too So…
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Mark J
This is from a lovely album.
lejoe48
In Fleet Street I lay down to sleep
In the seediest journalist bar
And in my sleep a vision I dreamed
From afar
In celestial mist made of light
An angel that blinds mortal eyes
This vision I knew knew no wrong
Only right
He took my hand and showed me things I'd never dreamed
The veil blinding me was lifted
And truth shone, a beacon beaming
The vision said softly to me
"The people are becoming to free
And if you want to sever the tea (?)
Oh baby
Peregrine is looking grim
The economy is falling to pieces
It seems quite hopeless
Stand steadfastly by the friendly in exchange with free
Broadcast calls for order and law
Yet all shall be well, all shall be well"
The Holy Ghost bid me be bold
For wisdom that's weight out of old (?)
Could will if it was spread among men
Once again
The vision departed me then
And I awoke cold and distant
I knew my mission
Ian Joynes
Malcolm Eden was a lyrical genius. Such a pity he isn't still releasing music.
ian walker
Their most Smithseque song.