“Should The Bible Be Banned” by McCarthy

McCarthy's sixth single, "Should the Bible Be Banned", arrived in April 1988 and, like plenty of the band's singles, was left off their studio albums. It's indie pop with a scalpel up its sleeve: the song tells of someone who reads the tale of Cain and Abel and is moved to kill his own brother, which is McCarthy's way of pushing the demands to ban books and films in the wake of well-publicised violence all the way to absurdity.

It came between "This Nelson Rockefeller" and "The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth". Turn it over for "St. Francis Amongst the Mortals" and "We Are All Bourgeois Now", the second of which Manic Street Preachers later covered on Know Your Enemy.

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