release date: May 4, 1992
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,84]
producer: Sex Machine (aka Carter USM), Simon Painter
label: Chrysalis Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Is Wrestling Fixed?" (4 / 5) - 3. "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" - 4. "Suppose You Gave a Funeral and Nobody Came" (4,5 / 5) - 5. "England" - 6. "Do Re Me, So Far So Good" - 10. "The Impossible Dream"
3rd studio album release by London based duo Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, or just: Carter USM, consisting of vocalist Jim Bob [aka Jim Morrison] and Fruitbat [aka Leslie Carter] on guitar and tapes. The style is an original alt. dance alt. rock combination with indie rock almost entirely seen in Britain. All tracks are written by Morrison and Carter except the end-track, which is a rearranged version of a 1965 song composed by Mitch Leigh, and with lyrics by Joe Darion (incorporated in the "Man of La Mancha" Broadway musical and later featured in the 1972 film of the same name starring Peter O'Toole).
The album was generally met by positive reviews and it ended up on top of the UK albums chart list, as it also did on NME's top 50 "Albums of the Year" in 1992.
This is, as far as I'm concerned, the duo's clearly best studio album, which was a pretty much overlooked international release. Not only is the music original, the lyrics have a social awareness angle with loads of humour, and they're political working class punk rock-minded anti-governmental.
It's one of the best albums in Britain in 1992.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
