Track Listing

1. I Feel
2. Goodbye
3. Life And Soul
4. More
5. On Earth
6. God Made Me
7. Love
8. What Do You Think
9. Twenty Four Hours
10. Blood On My Hands
11. Medicine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7467 in Music
• Released on: 1992-10-19
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
For bands like the Sundays that put out albums very infrequently (only three in eight years), passing fads cannot exert undue influence; consistency is the key to staying power. Thank God the Sundays never went grunge. On this, their second album, the forthright and spare power of their debut has ceded somewhat to lusher production values and more complex arrangements, but the good news is that the rest of the band's presence has caught up with Harriet Wheeler's crystalline voice. Together they produce such marvels as "Goodbye," "Love," and an off-kilter version of the Stones' "Wild Horses." The Sundays here sound like a more integrated musical unit, and for that reason Blind is the rare sophomore release that not only holds its own against the first album, but actually outperforms it. --Alan E. Rapp

Customer Reviews

Tepid
Okay, I'm one of those people who was horribly disappointed with this record when it came out, and still find it dull, overproduced and unmemorable. Words fail me that people actually think this album is superior to Reading, Writing, Arithmatic.

Nothing on this record comes even vagueley close to the brilliance of Here's Where the Story Ends, Can't Be Sure or My Finest Hour.

Where the first album was full of uniqueley English charm, humour and great tunes, Blind serves up a diet of tepid, unmemorable dirges that border on MOR.

Goodbye flirts briefly with something resembling a tune, but that's your lot. Harriet still sings like an angel, but where are the songs?

Someone else accused RWA of being a Smiths ripoff. Better The Smiths than Fleetwood Mac. There's one Sundays album everyone should own, and it isn't this one.

Really, really good
Weirdly, I remember this album coming out to lukewarm reviews originally. I loved 'Goodbye' as a single, and so bought the album, having no previous experience of rrr (the first album). To me this was a remarkable record and also began my long-standing beef with the pop music press. So what if it's not much different to the first one? I didn't care then, and I don't care now (I still haven't heard rrr). Maybe it is a good idea not to listen to rrr first - I don't know. In actual fact, considering the amount of sheer joy this album has bought me, and the fact that listening to the first one seems to prejudice people against Blind, I would say junk rrr and buy this instead. Anyhow, enough postmodern biog, and onto the music.

It's really, really good. Just great songs. Nothing formulaic - I can't really bring to mind any middle-eights or guitar solos, just beautiful words and harmonies. And speaking of guitars, if you were ever under the impression that the only thing you can do with a guitar is 'folk strum', 'rock distortion' or 'funk riff', listen to this. I'm not saying it's as groundbreaking sonically as someone like Hendrix, but the depth of range of tone and texure is fantastic, bouyed up by sparkling production.

I respectfully disagree with people who refer to this record as 'folksy twanging', or indeed 'folksy anything'. I respectfully disagree with the opinion that this is a let-down after rrr. I respectfully suggest that you buy this record - it's like a fresh summer morning.

Impressive effort from the mercurial Sundays
I feel the debut is marginally a better album, but that Blind has a better, more textured sound to it. The songs are not the equal though; "Love", "Goodbye" and "24 Hours" are wonderful, as the shimmering, opulent "On Earth", but too many of the songs are quite unmemorable. Harriet Wheeler's singing is even better than on the debut, while the music seems more rounded, if often seemingly to prop up songs which aren't that involving.