Blind Love (album)

Blind Love
Studio album by Ratcat
Released	20 May 1991 (1991-05-20)
Genre	Indie pop Indie rock noise pop pop punk
Length	40:19
Label	rooArt
Producer	Nick Mainsbridge
Ratcat chronology
Tingles (EP) (1990) Blind Love (1991) Alive (1991)

Blind Love is the second studio album by Australian indie pop band Ratcat.[1][2] It was released on 20 May 1991. It was their most successful album and went to peak at No.1 in Australia.

It was nominated for Breakthrough Artist - Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1992.[3]

Reception

Blind Love was given 3 out of 5 in a review by All Music.[4]

In The Sell-In, Craig Mathieson said the album, "lived up to Simon Day's belief in the disposability ethic. It spat out one buzzsaw, troublegum tune after another, delivered with punkish verve and given the sheen rooArt hoped for by producer Nick Mainsbridge. It sounded impossibly simple, but that's what distinguished it from the pack."[5]

Track listing

rooArt 848523-2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Yes I Wanna Go"	Simon Day	2:40
2.	"Run & Hide"	Day	3:04
3.	"Baby Baby"	Day	3:43
4.	"Hopeless Mind"	Day	4:17
5.	"Pieces"	Day, Amr Zaid	3:18
6.	"Racing"	Day, Zaid	3:32
7.	"That Ain't Bad"	Day	4:05
8.	"The Wonder of You"	Day	3:04
9.	"Don't Go Now"	Robyn St.Clare	3:11
10.	"Strange"	Day	4:07
11.	"The End"	Day	5:13

• Note: On the LP/Cassette version, tracks 1-6 are "side A" and tracks 7-11 are "side B"

Credits

• Artwork by [Illustrations] – Simon Day
• Photography – Linda Marlin
• Producer, Recorded By – Nick Mainsbridge
• Producer [Assistant] – Rob Lowlands, Scott Christie
• Backing Vocals – Margaret Urlich, Robyn St. Clare

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[6]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1991)	Position
Australia (ARIA)[7]	35

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[8]	Platinum	70,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalogue	Ref.
Australia	June 1991	CD LP Cassette	rooArt	848523-2

See also

List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1990s

References

1. Arundel, Jim (12 October 1991). "Blind Love by Ratcat". Melody Maker. 67 (41): 37.
2. Malkin, Nina (February 1992). "Blind Love by Ratcat". Interview. 22 (2): 30.
3. "ARIA Award search "RatCat"". ARIA Awards. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
4. "Ratcat - Blind Love". allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
5. Mathieson, Craig (2000). The Sell-in: How the Music Business Seduced Alternative Rock. Allen & Unwin. p. 75. ISBN 1-86508-412-3.
6. "RatCat – {{{song}}}". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
7. "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Albums 1991". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
8. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1991 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 8 August 2022.