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Do Re Me So Far So Good
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Carter's all-time greatest song was deservedly released as a single, the duo's combination of rock power, humor, and empathy combined into a smart, perfectly poppy trashing of the rock & roll myth...
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Straw Donkey: The Singles
Released: October 1995
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Released: October 1995
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Although it's a solid recapitulation, in order, of all of the singles Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine released through 1995's Worry Bomb, there's something kind of unsatisfying about Straw...
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Worry Bomb
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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The press slated them; the public started to ignore them. So Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine named their next album after a selection in a Martin Amis short story and sang, "You and whose...
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Starry Eyed and Bollock Naked: B-Sides
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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Some might say that the true talent of a band is proven by the quality of their b-sides. Because while one may get the noisome wastes of time in Blur's flip-side back-catalogue, other bands like...
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1992: The Love Album
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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What turned out to be Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine's shortest album, at a mere 36 minutes, was also its most commercially successful, debuting in the U.K. at number one and confirming the...
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101 Damnations
Released: 1990
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Released: 1990
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Puns. Puns, puns, puns, puns, puns. There's the title (and the cover art), there's the songtitles -- "The Road to Domestos," "The Taking of Peckham 123" -- there's the endless stream of lyrical...
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30 Something
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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Arguably nothing really changed from 101 Damnations to 30 Something -- the Carter formula was already well-established, so the duo just kept right at it. The difference lies in -- whisper it -- a...
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Handbuilt by Perverts - BONUS TRACK
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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This Japanese import essentially combines two extremely early Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine singles and their B-sides. Which is a somewhat handy, alternate way to track down such vintage...
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Rubbish
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A stand-alone single released between 101 Damnations and 30 Something, "Rubbish" itself isn't that, though it's not totally one of the duo's strongest. Highlights do include a nagging high...
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I Blame the Government
Released: 1998
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Released: 1998
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"You win some, and you lose some," Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine once wrote, "and I've lost the will to lose." Maybe they were wrong. After exactly ten years of striving for impossible dreams,...
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