Microdisney ‎– Big Sleeping House - A Collection Of Microdisney's Finest Moments (1995)

Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Indie Rock
Format: CD
Label: Virgin

Tracklist:
01.   Horse Overboard
02.   Loftholdingswood
03.   Singer's Hampstead Home
04.   She Only Gave In To Her Anger
05.   Gale Force Wind
06.   I Can't Say No (Betty Lou Version)
07.   Angels
08.   Mrs Simpson
09.   Armadillo Man
10.   And He Descended Into Hell
11.   Rack
12.   Big Sleeping House
13.   Back To The Old Town
14.   Send Herman Home
15.   Town To Town
16.   Begging Bowl

Credits:
Bass – Jon Fell
Drums – Tom Fenner
Guitar, Vocals – Sean O'Hagan
Keyboards – James Compton
Vocals, Keyboards – Cathal Coughlan
Written-By – Coughlan, O'Hagan

Microdisney ‎– 39 Minutes (1988)

Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Indie Rock
Format: CD, Vinyl
Label: Virgin

Tracklist:
01.   Singer's Hampstead Home
02.   High & Dry
03.   Send Herman Home
04.   Ambulance For One
05.   Soul Boy
06.   Back To The Old Town
07.   United Colours
08.   Gale Force Wind
09.   Herr Direktor
10.   Bluerings

Credits:
Bass Guitar – Crazy Johnny Nancy
Drums – Tom Fenner
Guitars, Banjo, Harmonica – Sean O'Hagan
Keyboards – James Compton
Backing Vocals – Fabulous Golden Showers
Vocals – Cathal Coughlan
Composed By – Coughlan, O'Hagan
Producer – Jamie Lane

Microdisney ‎– Crooked Mile (1987)

Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Indie Rock
Format: CD, Vinyl
Label: Virgin

Tracklist
01.   Town To Town
02.   Angels
03.   Our Children
04.   Mrs. Simpson
05.   Hey Hey Sam
06.   Give Me All Of Your Clothes
07.   Armadillo Man
08.   Bullwhip Road
09.   And He Descended Into Hell
10.   Rack
11.   Big Sleeping House
12.   People Just Want To Dream

Credits:
Strings Arranged By – C. P. Roth
Bass Guitar – Steve Pregnant
Drums, Percussion – Tom Fenner
Guitar, Harmonica – Sean O'Hagan
Horns – Sabah El-Atrache, Seamus Wadi-el-Safi
Keyboards, Accordion– James Compton
Tambourine– Bill Gill
Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Effects– Cathal Coughlan
Backing Vocals – James Compton, Lenny Kaye, Sean O'Hagan, Tom Fenner
Producer – Lenny Kaye

Microdisney ‎– 82-84: We Hate You South African Bastards! (1984)

Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Indie Rock
Format: CD, Vinyl
Label: Rough Trade, Rev-Ola, Cherry Red

Tracklist:
1.   Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost
2.   Michael Murphy
3.   Love Your Enemies
4.   Fiction Land
5.   Pink Skinned Man
6.   Patrick Moore Says You Can't Sleep Here
7.   Hello Rascals
8.   Pretoria Quickstep

Credits:
Instruments – Sean
Liner Notes, Instruments – Cathal
Written-By – Coughlan, O'Hagan
Producer – Dave Freely, Terry Cromer

Microdisney ‎– Everybody Is Fantastic (1984)

Style: Pop Rock, New Wave
Format CD, Vinyl
Label: Cherry Red

Tracklist:
01.   Idea
02.   A Few Kisses
03.   Escalator In The Rain
04.   Dolly
05.   Dreaming Drains
06.   I'll Be A Gentleman
07.   Moon
08.   Sun
09.   Sleepless
10.   Come On Over And Cry
11.   This Liberal Love
12.   Before Famine
13.   Everybody Is Dead

Yes, I agree that this is a five star album. The vocals are stunning, the lyrics deeper than nearly any in rock history. That's not hyperbole. Cathal Coughlan doesn't deliver a single tossed off line. Every line has depth and meaning, and show an almost frightening insight into what it means to be human. And the music provides just the epic grandeur the lyrics deserve. This disc is Sean O'Hagan's crowning achievement as a musician. But what frustrates me is that I'm not a music critic, nor do I want to be. But I do know this is a life-changing work of art and to hear some informed insights as to why that might be would be very welcome. I've been forced to the conclusion that Microdisney and Cathal's later work with the Fatima Mansions, as well as solo, were wilfuly ignored because, at some level, we're frightened by what he had to say. It's always perfectly expressed and his conclusions are not optimistic. In both miniature encounters and sweeping overviews, he has painted a picture of our civilization in the process of a collapse both irreversible and deserved. No one likes confronting this brutal truth. So maybe if we ignored Coughlan he'd go away. And so, it appears, he has. But that doesn't make what we see in the mirror he held to our face any less true. It boggles my mind that there are those out there who'd endow a selfish, abusive blowhard like Jim Morrison with the title 'poet', when the real thing was blazing before our eyes for nearly two decades. Rather than look straight at what Coughlan's visionary power and gift of expression showed us -the ugly truth - we swooned over him and those like him. The only lyricist who comes close to Cathal Coughlan was Ian Curtis of Joy Division. He saw the same reality and made the informed decision to end his life.

Ted Lesser / AllMusic