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Flowers (Expanded and Remastered) [Australian Import]

Flowers (Expanded and Remastered) [Australian Import]
Icehouse

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Track Listing

  1. Icehouse
  2. We Can Get Together
  3. Fatman
  4. Sister
  5. Walls
  6. Can't Help Myself
  7. Skin
  8. Sons
  9. Boulevarde
  10. Nothing to Do
  11. Not My Kind
  12. Send Somebody
  13. All the Way
  14. Paradise Lost [Instrumental]
  15. Love in Motion [Original Single Mix][*]
  16. Goonight, Mr. Matthews [B-Side][*]
  17. Can't Help Myself [Original 10" Single Mix][*]

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #19159 in Music
  • Released on: 2002-10-11
  • Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Cool!!!4
Icehouse will always be Australia's best musical export for me. When I was at secondary school in the mid to late 80s I was classed as a bit of an odd bod, because while everybody else was fannying about with Duran Duran et al, I was getting down to this stuff.
This is the first Icehouse album, and as far as debuts go it's an outstanding record.
Musically it's reminiscent of The Cars, but without the humour, and vocally, singer/songwriter/guitarist/overall bandleader, Iva Davies is a cross between Bryan Ferry and David Bowie. It's a cool blend of styles, most effective on the deeper, more involved songs like 'Walls', 'Sons' and the spooky 'Icehouse'.
There's also some good, accessible stuff on the album too such as 'I Can't Help Myself', 'Sister' and the quite excellent 'We Can Get Together'.
Production wise, my old cassette version of this record really exposed a lot of the flaws, but this remastered version (by Iva Davies) is a smoother experience, and the recordings are the original Australian release tracks, and not the initial UK released re recordings. This means that the track running order is considerably different to the set I remember, and 'I Can't Help Myself' is a verse shorter. The vocal delivery is also different on several numbers.
Listening to these songs takes me back to halcyon days of my youth and musical discovery. It's been a pleasure to revisit this band again and the wonderful songs Iva Davies wrote. I'm still of the opinion that they knock spots off the Australian outfits that made it big in this country, such as Crowded House and INXS.
Their lack of real UK success is unforgiveable and still remains a mystery to me.
Great stuff.