39 Minutes

39 Minutes is the fourth and final studio album by the Irish pop group Microdisney, released in 1988.

[3] The first single was "Singer's Hampstead Home", allegedly a criticism of Boy George's celebrity persona.

[6] The album attracted divisive reviews at the time, with singer Cathal Coughlan saying in 2022, "The press on 39 Minutes, as I recall, was pretty bad.

[10] However, the album was acclaimed by Hot Press as "some of the best and most provocative pop music ever to have emanated from this country".

[11] Trouser Press later opined that 39 Minutes "restores the group's sense of purpose, balancing the slick production of recent efforts with a slightly more aggressive attack and Coughlan's sharpest lyrics in ages.