Carter USM, the final final comedown

[diglett]

Until I was fourteen years old, my definition of a good band was a hot bloke singing songs about lurve. Nik Kershaw, Simon Le Bon, Boy George, Morten Harket, Matt Goss. (Matt Goss?! What can I say, we all have our pasts). Then in the summer of 1991, I went on holiday to Crete and Clare Horwood kindly copied me some cassettes for my Walkman. One

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[doglets]

I'm not a Carter Fan but that was a great read !!

[smogo]

The first time I heard about Carter, I was walking through Purley, aged about 14 or 15, wearing a Prince t-shirt. A big lunk of a bloke, in a group of other lunks, probably in their early 30s, pointed aggressively at my t-shirt and said, "They're shit", and then pointed at his own t-shirt and said, "They're good".

"Who are they?", I asked.

"Fucking Carter innit you cunt", he replied.

And that's why I never listened to Carter until many, many years later.

[augeas]

I found myself *quite liking* the Happy Mondays a while back, I was starting to worry if it was some horrible middle-aged revisionist nostalgia for things I used to hate. Happily, it can't be that, because I just listened to "Sheriff Fat Man" and I. Still. Don't. Get. It. They must be twistin' my melon or something. So, that's all right, then. I favour Janelle Monae, who is apparently very popular amongst the Young People these days.

[picosgemeos]

Somebody please stop time.

[hexadb]

In about 1992/3 I was an angry teen metal fan and hated indie. Then I made some friends who lived nearby but went to different schools - they were into more indie & alternative stuff and skateboarding. All of I sudden I was borrowing tapes of Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Carter. I think I liked the punny lyrics, and I'm always a sucker for something that sounds kind of heart-felt & vulnerable like Falling On A Bruise. It didn't really make sense for me to like them though - I lived in a small village in wales rather than London and I was 15-16 not 30-Something.

[diglett]

I think it was only Carter themselves who were 30-something. Few of their fans were over twenty. I think now their average age is starting to tip into 40-something it might be a good time to stop.

Can't quite imagine how Carter songs relate to small villages in Wales though! :)