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''I Am a Wallet'' is the debut studio album by English indie pop band McCarthy. It was first released in November 1987. After recording three singles, "In Purgatory", "Red Sleeping Beauty" and "Frans Hals", ''I Am a Wallet'' demonstrates jangly guitar pop reminiscent of The Byrds. While this form of indie pop was widespread in '80s underground Britain, McCarthy brought left-wing politics to the genre. Religion is attacked in "God Made the Virus", while the return of Victorian values espoused by Margaret Thatcher are compared to medieval oppression in "In the Dark Times". Johnny Dee of ''Underground'' magazine gave the album a 3/3 review, naming it as his favourite record of the year.〔 ''I Am a Wallet'' has since been described by Nicky Wire as "the most perfect record, a Communist manifesto with tunes".〔()〕 On the album cover of the 2007 re-release he writes that McCarthy "are partly to blame for the realisation of the Manic Street Preachers". James Dean Bradfield rated ''I Am a Wallet'' as his top British album of all time.〔()〕 The cover art features Georg Grosz's painting ''Widmung an Oskar Panizza'' (''The Funeral''). == Track listing == #"An MP Speaks" - 2:10 #"Monetaries" - 1:57 #"The International Narcotics Traffic" - 2:25 #"The Way of the World" - 2:28 #"Antinature" - 1:42 #"Charles Windsor" - 1:38 #"The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne" - 2:50 #"The Well of Loneliness" - 2:29 #"The Wicked Palace Revolution" - 2:32 #"God Made the Virus" - 1:40 #"The Funeral" - 1:51 #"A Child Soon in Chains" - 1:46 #"In the Dark Times" - 1:44 #"The Procession of Popular Capitalism" - 3:07 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Am a Wallet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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