Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Only Living Boy In New Cross b/w Panic (1992)
UK chart peak - Number 7
No idea if this pile of records all belonged to one person, but what a WILDLY ECLECTIC collection if so. I'm as AGOG as anyone at what keeps showing up next. Also, the plain sleeve slips off to reveal a whole bunch of

adverts for various condom brands. Whether this was intended to promote safer sex or just as bit of a LAUGH I am not sure. Given the

band name possibly a bit of both.
Carter USM were the most well-known group of a brief early 90s indie movement known as GREBO, although the only other example from the genre that SPRINGS TO MIND is Ned's Atomic Dustbin. I imagine only alternative music CORRESPONDENT
@octophone might like or have any time for them on Moopy - personally I've not explored them too far, but I've probably EXHAUSTED my exploration of the Britpop era bands by now & I'm looking further back to the 80s & early 90s alternative scene. Carter USM were a band I remembered as mainly releasing indie DIRGES, but what I've listened to so far has been more interesting & eclectic than that, with a Morrissey-esque taste in cynical & bitterly humourous lyrics. I will say that they are a very British band though, & I don't think would TRANSLATE WELL overseas.
Speaking of RACIST OLD MOZZA & pals, that is a cover of "Panic" by The Smiths on the B side & it's given a punkier kick up the arse & some real BILE on the delivery of the lyrics, making it an excellent & less PROBLEMATIQUE THESE DAYS alternative to the original. Meanwhile the A side has a much DANCIER influence than I remember, with the throbbing synths bringing to mind late 70s Donna Summer, of all people. The sarky lyrics of life in a grim small town along with the title are a clear parody of "The Only Living Boy In New York" by Simon & Garfunkel, & again showcases a band with a sense of humour despite my memory of them as being miserable old CURMUDGEONS.
This single was their only top 10 hit, & the accompanying album reaching Number 1 shortly after saw them reach a brief peak of fame. Unlike contemporaries Blur & Pulp though, they didn't evolve & prosper as Britpop hit the mainstream - they seemed to be similar to EMF with the perception as being of an EARLIER TIME. 1994 single "Glam Rock Cops" felt like a hit to me, but the timing was wrong - it was released in February 1994, before Blur, Elastica & the likes really took off. It just missed the top 20 & the hits got smaller until they released their last album in 1998. Solo projects have ABOUNDED since along with the occasional LIVE REUNION, but as the Spotify followers attest to, they seem to be forgotten these days. A shame because they had a genuinely decent eye for a tune, a biting lyric & a sense of humour.
I'll end by throwing out a recommendation to album track "A Prince In A Pauper's Grave" which starts off sounding a bit like FAGIN OFF OLIVER TWIST singing a funeral lament, then builds into something genuinely epic & affecting. Carter USM at their best: