Blind (The Icicle Works album)

Blind is the fourth album by the English band the Icicle Works, released in 1988.^[2][3] It was the band's final album with their original lineup.^[4] The album peaked at No. 40 on the UK Albums Chart.^[5] "High Time" peaked at No. 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.^[6]

Blind
Studio album by The Icicle Works
Released	May 1988[1]
Length	48:06
Label	Beggars Banquet (U.K.) RCA Records (U.S.)
Producer	Ian McNabb
The Icicle Works chronology
If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song (1987) Blind (1988) Permanent Damage (1990)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]

The Ottawa Citizen wrote that "the album finds the band groping its way through a mish-mash of styles making no particular commitment to any it stumbles on."^[9] The Kingston Whig-Standard noted that "the title track is a classic gospel ballad with social consciousness-raising lyrics to match."^[10] Trouser Press deemed the album "a mixed-up mainstream mush of loud rock, quiet soul and gutless funk."^[11]

Track listing

All songs written by Ian McNabb.

UK version

Side A

1. "Intro" - 0:29
2. "Shit Creek" - 4:01
3. "High Time" - 3:34
4. "Little Girl Lost" - 4:44
5. "Starry Blue Eyed Wonder" - 4:12
6. "One True Love" - 1:51
7. "Blind" - 5:30

Side B

1. "Two Two Three" - 2:23
2. "What Do You Want Me to Do?" - 3:12
3. "Stood Before Saint Peter" - 5:25
4. "The Kiss Off" - 4:23
5. "Here Comes Trouble" - 4:03
6. "Walk a While With Me" - 4:19

US version

In comparison to the version issued in the UK and Canada, the US version loses four tracks ("Intro", "One True Love", "What Do You Want Me To Do", and "Two Two Three") edits one track ("Shit Creek" is edited to end much earlier), and adds two tracks ("Sure Thing" and "Hot Profit Gospel"). As well, the UK version of "High Time" has a slightly elongated ending in order to mix seamlessly and directly into "Little Girl Lost". The two tracks are NOT consecutive on the US album, and this elongated ending is therefore dropped.

Side A

1. "The Kiss Off" - 4:22
2. "Shit Creek" - 2:56
3. "Little Girl Lost" - 4:45
4. "Starry Blue Eyed Wonder" - 4:13
5. "Blind" - 5:36

Side B

1. "Sure Thing" - 4:55
2. "Hot Profit Gospel" - 3:44
3. "High Time" - 3:26
4. "Stood Before St. Peter" - 5:26
5. "Here Comes Trouble" - 4:05
6. "Walk a While With Me" - 4:24

References

1. "discography".
2. "The Icicle Works Biography by Andy Kellman". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
3. Keats, Carmen (14 May 1988). "Albums". Melody Maker. 64 (20): 39.
4. "5 Albums The Icicle Works". Record Collector. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
5. "Icicle Works". Official Charts. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
6. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Joel Whitburn Presents Rock Tracks 1981-2008. Record Research. p. 122.
7. Kennedy, Rudyard. "Blind - The Icicle Works | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
8. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press.
9. Erskine, Evelyn (2 September 1988). "The Icicle Works Blind". Ottawa Citizen. p. C6.
10. Burliuk, Greg (1 October 1988). "Blind The Icicle Works". Magazine. The Kingston Whig-Standard. p. 1.
11. "Icicle Works". Trouser Press. Retrieved 6 April 2023.