{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = DAAS Icon | type = studio | artist = Doug Anthony All Stars | cover = DAAS_Icon.jpg | alt = | released = 14 May 1990 | recorded = 1989, Studio RBX, Melbourne | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock | length = 43:00 | label = CBS/DAAS Kapital | producer = Ross Cockle | prev_title = Let It Swing | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = Dead & Alive | next_year = 1993 }} '''''DAAS Icon''''' (also known as '''''Icon''''') is the first and only studio album recorded and released by Australian comedy trio, the Doug Anthony All Stars. Released in 1990,<ref>{{cite web |author= Casellas, Leanne |url= http://www.geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart8.html | title=Gleesome Threesome |work=Daily News |date=1990-06-01 | accessdate=2008-09-14|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027110421/http://geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart8.html|url-status= dead |archivedate=2009-10-27}}</ref> it features the singles "I Want to Spill the Blood of a Hippy" and "Bottle". ''Icon'' went on to become the highest-selling independent album in Australia,<ref>{{cite web |author= Lum, Alexander |url= http://www.geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart3.html | title=DAAS Mania |work=Togatus |date=1994-04-14 | accessdate=2008-09-16|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026025927/http://geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart3.html|archivedate=2009-10-26}}</ref> but was banned in the UK due to a reference to the IRA in the song "KRSNA".<ref>{{cite web |author=Murphy, Nicola |url= http://www.geocities.com/still_gorgeous/interrogations/daas/banned.html | title=Banned! (So What's New?) |work=TV Week |date=1990-06-02 | accessdate=2008-12-08|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022175356/http://geocities.com/still_gorgeous/interrogations/daas/banned.html|archivedate=2009-10-22}}</ref> This was later overturned by a British court.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ferguson, Tim |url= http://www.geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart5.html | title=Humour In Uniform |work=The Harvey |date=1990 | accessdate=2008-09-15|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026144933/http://geocities.com/tangawarra/daasart5.html|url-status=dead |archivedate=2009-10-26}}</ref>
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1991, the album was nominated for Best New Talent and Best Comedy Release.<ref name="ARIA1991">{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090608063024/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1991 | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1991 | title = Winners by Year 1991 | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | archive-date = 8 June 2009 | access-date = 4 December 2013 }}</ref>
Early versions of "Little Gospel Song" and "Change the Blades" previously appeared on their demo tape ''Let It Swing'' in 1986. "Shang-a-lang" samples part of the drum intro from the Beastie Boys' "She's Crafty".
==Track listing== All tracks capitalised as on the back cover (for CD) and inner sleeve (for LP). {{track listing |all_lyrics=Paul McDermott |all_music=Doug Anthony All Stars |headline=Side A |title1=Commies for Christ |length1=3:02 |title2=My Babys gone to Jail |length2=2:29 |title3=JACK |length3=1:57 |title4=Change the Blades |length4=3:14 |title5=KRS̈NA |length5=2:50 |title6=Shang-a-lang |length6=2:54 |title7=Little Gospel Song |length7=1:40 |title8=DEAD ELVIS |length8=2:45 |total_time=20:50 }} {{track listing |headline=Side B |title9=i want to spill the blood of a Hippy |length9=4:54 |title10=Go to Church |length10=3:06 |title11=RAT |length11=3:12 |title12=Broad lic Nic |length12=3:10 |title13=2x |length13=2:13 |title14=Motorcycle St. Sebastian |length14=3:05 |title15=BOTTLE |length15=2:33 |total_time=22:13 }}
== Personnel== * Produced by DAAS and The Cockle Factor * Engineered by Ross Cockle and Melita Jagic * All songs by Control * Richard Fidler – guitars, sitar, Irish harp, axe and dinner plates, backing and harmony vocals * Paul McDermott – lead vocals (tracks 1–5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15), kettle drum, erhu, viola, sheet metals and cymbals, harmony vocals * Tim Ferguson – lead vocals (tracks 6 and 9), keyboards, Fairlight, euphonium, kora, bachelors rags, backing and harmony vocals * Andrew – brass * Steve Hadley – double bass * Rosie Westbrook – electric bass, double bass * Angus Burchell, J.J. Hackett – drums * Sam See – drum programmer * Kerri Simpson – vocals * Richard Lewis – artwork
==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1990) !Peak<br />position |- |Australian (ARIA Charts)<ref name="Aus2">{{cite web|url=https://www.bubblingdownunder.com/2021/12/week-commencing-17-december-1990.html|title=Bubbling Down Under Week commencing 17 December 1990|website=www.bubblingdownunder.com|date=17 December 2021|access-date=17 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="Aus1">{{cite book | author= David Kent |title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|year=1993 |publisher=Australian Chart Book |location=St Ives, New South Wales |isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=86}}</ref> |align="center"|42 |}
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.discogs.com/master/view/460261 ''Icon''] at Discogs (list of versions) * [https://music.apple.com/au/album/daas-icon/352563805 Purchase ''Icon''] on the iTunes Music Store {{Authority control}}
Category:Doug Anthony All Stars albums Category:1990 albums