If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song | ||||
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Studio album by The Icicle Works | ||||
Released | March 1987 | |||
Genre | Post-punk, new wave, neo-psychedelia | |||
Length | 39:02 (LP) 59:25 (CD) | |||
Label | Beggars Banquet (U.K.) RCA Records (U.S.) | |||
Producer | Ian Broudie | |||
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If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song is the third album by The Icicle Works. The album was released in 1987.
In 2011, Cherry Red Records issued a 3-CD expanded edition of If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song. 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.
Track listing
Original release
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 follows the same track listing as the 10-track LP version of this album.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around the World" | Ian McNabb | |
2. | "Into the Mystic" | Van Morrison | |
3. | "Sweet Thursday (extended single mix)" | McNabb | |
4. | "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade (full version)" | McNabb | |
5. | "When You Were Mine (single version)" | McNabb | |
6. | "Evangeline (demo version)" | McNabb | |
7. | "Everybody Loves to Play the Fool" | McNabb | |
8. | "Waiting in the Wings" | Chris Layhe | |
9. | "It Makes No Difference" | Robbie Robertson | |
10. | "Sea Song" | Robert Wyatt | |
11. | "Nature's Way" | Randy California | |
12. | "Waylaid" | Layhe | |
13. | "The Needle and the Damage Done" | Neil Young | |
14. | "Sweet Thursday (acoustic)" | McNabb | |
15. | "Don't Let It Rain on my Parade (single version)" | McNabb | |
16. | "Impossibly Three Lovers" | McNabb | |
17. | "John Geoffrey Muir, Shopkeeper" | McNabb, Layhe, Chris Sharrock |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hollow Horse" | Ian McNabb, Chris Layhe | |
2. | "Perambulator" | McNabb, Layhe | |
3. | "Who Do You Want for Your Love?" | McNabb | |
4. | "Understanding Jane" | McNabb | |
5. | "Love Is a Wonderful Colour" | McNabb | |
6. | "Travelling Chest" | McNabb | |
7. | "Sweet Thursday" | McNabb | |
8. | "Into the Mystic" | Van Morrison | |
9. | "Hope Springs Eternal" | McNabb | |
10. | "When It All Comes Down" | McNabb | |
11. | "All the Daughters (Of Her Father's House)" | McNabb | |
12. | "Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)" | McNabb | |
13. | "A Factory in the Desert" | McNabb | |
14. | "In the Cauldron of Love" | McNabb | |
15. | "Should I Stay or Should I Go" | Joe Strummer, Mick Jones | |
16. | "Roadhouse Blues" | The Doors |
Personnel
- Robert Ian "Boots" McNabb – guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica
- Chris Layhe – bass, vocals, keyboards
- Chris Sharrock – drums, percussion
with:
- Dave Green – keyboards
- Mike Timmoney – keyboards
- Ritchie Close – keyboards
- Ian Broudie – keyboards; guitar solo on "When You Were Mine"
- Alison Limerick – backing vocal on "Evangeline"
References
- ^ Raggett, Ned. "If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song – The Icicle Works | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
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- Ian McNabb
- Roy Corkhill
- Richard Naiff
- Mathew Priest
- Chris Layhe
- Chris Sharrock
- Zak Starkey
- Dave Green
- Dave Baldwin
- Ged Lynch
- Mark Revell
- Paul Burgess
- The Icicle Works
- The Small Price of a Bicycle
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- Permanent Damage
- "Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)"
- "Love Is a Wonderful Colour"