| Blind | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Icicle Works |
| Cover: | Blind (The Icicle Works album).jpg |
| Released: | May 1988[1] |
| Length: | 48:06 |
| Label: | Beggars Banquet (U.K.) RCA Records (U.S.) |
| Producer: | Ian McNabb |
| Prev Title: | If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Permanent Damage |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
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 Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart.[6]
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."[7] The Kingston Whig-Standard noted that "the title track is a classic gospel ballad with social consciousness-raising lyrics to match."[8] Trouser Press deemed the album "a mixed-up mainstream mush of loud rock, quiet soul and gutless funk."[9]
All songs written by Ian McNabb.
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.