Garbage Days Revisited #60: The Icicle Works - "Blind" (1988)
"When times are good/When times are bad/Let madness be my epitaph..." - The Icicle Works - Shit Creek It's the old favourite among under-rated bands that they're remembered for a song that really wasn't one of their best but just happened to give them by some distance their biggest hit. Such is the case with the Icicle Works, best known over here in the UK for their Top 20 hit Love Is A Wonderful Colour . I have to admit when I heard that song on a few '80s indie compilations, it wasn't one that stuck around in my head for any length of time and just sounded a bit new wave by numbers to me. Unlike a lot of other bands who I did get into via these compilations, I never really bothered to check them out beyond that initially and that, for the time at least, was that. It was, obviously, the Wildhearts ' fault that this changed when they opted to cover the Icicle Works' Understanding Jane as part of their Stop Us If You've Heard This One Befo...