Released 1987 Artist The Icicle Works Producer Ian Broudie Genre Neo-psychedelia | If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy, Sing His Song
(1987) Blind
(1988) Release date 1987 Label RCA Records | |
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Similar The Small Price of a Bicycle, Seven Singles Deep, The Icicle Works, Dizzy Heights | ||
If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy, Sing His Song is the third album by The Icicle Works. The album was released in 1987
Contents
In 2011, Cherry Red Records issued a 3-CD expanded edition of The Small Price of a Bicycle. Disc 1 featured the original album in its entirety, disc 2 featured a wealth of related demos, b-sides, and remixes, and disc 3 featured a complete live concert entitled Live At The Town And Country Club, 1986.
LP version
All songs written by Ian McNabb.
- Hope Springs Eternal - 4:06
- Travelling Chest - 4:40
- Sweet Thursday - 4:17
- Up Here in the North of England - 5:12
- Who Do You Want For Your Love? - 3:54
- When You Were Mine - 4:37
- Evangeline - 4:05
- Truck Driver's Lament - 5:18
- Understanding Jane - 3:21
- Walking With a Mountain - 4:44
CD version
The original CD version contained four bonus tracks: "Everybody Loves To Play The Fool", "I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around The World", "Into The Mystic" and "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade".
All songs written by Ian McNabb, except "Into The Mystic" written by Van Morrison.
- Hope Springs Eternal - 4:06
- Travelling Chest - 4:40
- Sweet Thursday - 4:17
- Up Here in the North of England - 5:12
- Who Do You Want For Your Love? - 3:54
- Everybody Loves To Play The Fool - 4:08
- When You Were Mine - 4:37
- Don't Let It Rain on My Parade - 4:35
- Evangeline - 4:05
- Truck Driver's Lament - 5:18
- Understanding Jane - 3:21
- I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around The World - 2:48
- Walking With a Mountain - 4:44
- Into The Mystic - 3:40
2011 Expanded Edition
Disc 1 of the 2011 Expanded Edition is the same as the 10-track LP version of this album.
Personnel
with:
Songs
1Evangeline4:05
2Hope Springs Eternal4:06
3Understanding Jane3:22