The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth

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The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth
Studio album by McCarthy
Released March 1989
Genre Indie pop
Length 1:18:30
Label Midnight Music
Producer Ian Caple
Professional reviews
McCarthy chronology
I Am a Wallet
(1987)		 The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth
(1989)		 Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today
(1990)

The Enraged Will Inherit The Earth was the second album by the band McCarthy. It was released in March 1989.

Coming off the back of the controversial single Should The Bible Be Banned, a song against censorship rather than religion, McCarthy continued their sugar-sweet anarcho-pop campaign.

This album is slicker produced than its predecessor, I Am A Wallet, but is in much the same vein with jangly guitars, great pop drumming, and Malcolm Eden's less-than-powerful vocals. Tim Gane's search for the perfect pop tune leads to greater invention in both music and tempo, particularly in the tirade against endless love songs "Boy Meets Girl So What". Most controversial is "I'm Not a Patriot But...", which contrasts British left-wing support for the Sandinistas with the condemnation for the Provisional Irish Republican Army. "Enraged Will Inherit the Earth's" sales ensured that McCarthy remained at the heart of 1980s Indie pop.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Boy Meets Girl So What" - 6:13
  2. "Governing Takes Brains" - 4:18
  3. "An Address to the Better Off" - 4:34
  4. "Hands Off or Die" - 2:01
  5. "What Are Boys Fighting For" - 5:05
  6. "Keep An Open Mind Or Else" - 3:42
  7. "We Are All Born Creeps" - 4:52
  8. "The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order" - 3:39
  9. "I'm Not a Patriot But..." - 4:20
  10. "Throw Him Out He's Breaking My Heart" - 5:16
  11. "All Your Questions Answered" - 3:45
  12. "New Left Review #2" - 4:36
  13. "The Lion Will Lie Down with the Lamb" - 4:53
  14. "St. Francis Amongst the Mortals" - 3:30
  15. "Nobody Could Care Less About Your Private Lives" - 4:03
  16. "Can the Haves Use Their Brains" - 3:39
  17. "With Our Eye On Getting Their Pay" - 3:38
  18. "Boy Meets Girl So What (from the McCarthy at War EP)" - 6:17

[edit] Singles

"Keep An Open Mind Or Else"

[edit] Personnel