{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox album | name = Worry Bomb | type = Album | artist = Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | cover = Worry_bomb_cover_art.jpg | alt = | released = 6 February 1995 | recorded = | venue = | studio = The Manor (Oxfordshire, England) | genre = * Punk rock * alternative dance * alternative rock | length = 58:16 | label = Chrysalis Records | producer = * Carter USM * Simon Painter | prev_title = Starry Eyed and Bollock Naked | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Straw Donkey... The Singles | next_year = 1995 | misc = {{Singles | name = Worry Bomb | type = studio | single1 = Let's Get Tattoos | single1date = 7 November 1994<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|magazine=Music Week|page=23|date=5 November 1994}}</ref> | single2 = Young Offender's Mum | single2date = 23 January 1995<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=31|date=21 January 1995}}</ref> }} }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Dean Carlson |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/worry-bomb-mw0000887095 |title=Worry Bomb - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=3 June 2020}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Smash Hits'' | rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Mark|last=Sutherland|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/smashhits90s/36189342372/in/album-72157684562592653|title=New Albums|work=Smash Hits|date=1 February 1995|page=57|access-date=29 January 2025}}</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''Worry Bomb''''' is the fifth studio album by English indie rock band Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, released in 1995.<ref name="google1995">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Worry+Bomb+carter+the+unstoppable+sex+machine+1995&pg=PA242 |title=Alternative Rock - Dave Thompson - Google Books |date=2 August 1997 |isbn=9780879306076 |accessdate=3 June 2020|last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation }}</ref> It reached number nine on the UK Albums Chart. It included a limited-edition CD of the live show '''''Doma Sportova...Live at Zagreb''''', recorded on 20 May 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/carter-the-unstoppable-sex-machine/ |title=Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine |publisher=Trouser Press |date= |accessdate=3 June 2020}}</ref>
It was the first Carter USM album to feature new drummer Wez.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&q=Worry+Bomb+carter+the+unstoppable+sex+machine+1995&pg=PA1992-IA4 |title=The Rough Guide to Rock - Rough Guides (Firm) - Google Books |isbn=9781858284576 |accessdate=3 June 2020|last1=(Firm) |first1=Rough Guides |year=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides }}</ref> Formerly of the band International Resque, he replaced the trusty drum machine which was the mainstay of their previous recordings.
As a result of this, the album marked a shift away from the characteristic sound of their previous records, and instead saw the group veer from full-on punk rock ("Airplane Food/Airplane Fast Food"), to more experimental sounds (the title track), and more downtempo ballads ("Ceasefire").
==Critical reception== ''Alternative Rock'' wrote that "''Worry Bomb'' explodes in all directions at once, a breathless bonanza of true punk."<ref name="google1995"/>
==Track listing== # "Cheap 'n' Cheesy" # "Airplane Food/Airplane Fast Food" # "Young Offender's Mum" # "Gas (Man)" # "Life And Soul Of Party Dies" # "My Defeatist Attitude" # "Worry Bomb" # "Senile Delinquent" # "Me And Mr Jones" # "Let's Get Tattoos" # "Going Straight" # "God Saint Peter And The Guardian Angel" # "Only Looney Left In Town" # "Ceasefire"
===Doma Sportova...Live At Zagreb track listing=== # "Alternative Alf Garnett" # "Do Re Me So Far So Good" # "Bachelor For Baden Powell" # "Re Educating Rita" # "Only Living Boy In New Cross" # "Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over" # "Granny Farming In The UK" # "Travis" # "Sing Fat Lady Sing" # "Lenny And Terence" # "Commercial Fucking Suicide"
==Personnel== * Jim "Jim Bob" Morrison – vocals, guitar * Les "Fruitbat" Carter – guitar, bass, vocals, keys, programming * Wez – drums * Sex Machine – producer * Simon Painter – producer * Steve 'Barney' Chase – engineer * Mark Hayley – assistant engineer * Paul Walton – assistant engineer * Dave Garnish – assistant engineer * Kevin Metcalf – mastering (at the Townhouse)
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==External links== * [http://www.carterusm.co.uk/disco/discs/album/albums.html Carter USM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527105256/http://www.carterusm.co.uk/disco/discs/album/albums.html |date=27 May 2011 }}
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