If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song

If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
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
Producer Ian Broudie
The Icicle Works chronology
The Small Price of a Bicycle
(1985)The Small Price of a Bicycle1985		 If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy Sing His Song
(1987)		 Blind
(1988)Blind1988
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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[2]

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.

  1. "Hope Springs Eternal" - 4:06
  2. "Travelling Chest" - 4:40
  3. "Sweet Thursday" - 4:17
  4. "Up Here in the North of England" - 5:12
  5. "Who Do You Want for Your Love?" - 3:54
  6. "When You Were Mine" - 4:37
  7. "Evangeline" - 4:05
  8. "Truck Driver's Lament" - 5:18
  9. "Understanding Jane" - 3:21
  10. "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.

  1. "Hope Springs Eternal" - 4:06
  2. "Travelling Chest" - 4:40
  3. "Sweet Thursday" - 4:17
  4. "Up Here in the North of England" - 5:12
  5. "Who Do You Want for Your Love?" - 3:54
  6. "Everybody Loves to Play the Fool" - 4:08
  7. "When You Were Mine" - 4:37
  8. "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade" - 4:35
  9. "Evangeline" - 4:05
  10. "Truck Driver's Lament" - 5:18
  11. "Understanding Jane" - 3:21
  12. "I Never Saw My Hometown 'Til I Went Around the World" - 2:48
  13. "Walking With a Mountain" - 4:44
  14. "Into the Mystic" - 3:40

2011 expanded edition

Disc 1 follows the same track listing as the 10-track LP version of this album.

Personnel

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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Icicle-Works-If-You-Want-To-Defeat-Your-Enemy-Sing-His-Song/release/6337326
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