I Am a Wallet

by McCarthy

I Am a Wallet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: September
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 50:27
  • Community rating: 3.31/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Tim Gane, Gary Baker, John Hymas, Trigger, Andrew Golding, John Williamson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This debut presents a striking juxtaposition of shimmering, upbeat jangle pop arrangements and fiercely Marxist lyricism. The London outfit utilizes pristine, melodic sensibilities to deliver pointed socio-political satire, critiquing Thatcherite economics and capitalist structures with sharp, articulate wit.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conscious, melodic, satirical, socialism

Tracklist

  1. An MP Speaks (2:10)
  2. Monetaries (1:59)
  3. The International Narcotics Traffic (2:26)
  4. The Way Of The World (2:29)
  5. Antinature (1:42)
  6. Charles Windsor (1:39)
  7. The Vision Of Peregrine Worsthorne (2:51)
  8. The Well Of Loneliness (2:30)
  9. The Wicked Palace Revolution (2:33)
  10. God Made The Virus (1:41)
  11. The Funeral (1:53)
  12. A Child Soon In Chains (1:46)
  13. In The Dark Times (1:45)
  14. The Procession Of Popular Capitalism (3:07)
  15. Up In The Morning Me (1:56)
  16. Bad Dreams - Bonus Track (1:51)
  17. Someone Worse Off - Bonus Track (2:16)
  18. Antiamericancretin - Bonus Track (1:31)
  19. The Fall - Bonus Track (2:48)
  20. The Funeral - Bonus Track (2:21)
  21. The Enemy Is At Home (For The Fat Lady) - Bonus Track (2:32)
  22. The Way Of The World - Bonus Track (2:27)
  23. In Purgatory (2:03)

Credits

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