Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe. supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.
Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music.Their best known singles on the Australian charts were "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).
Icehouse's iconic status was acknowledged when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..." Icehouse has produced eight Top Ten albums and twenty Top Forty singles in Australia, multiple top ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28 times Platinum in Australasia alone.[10] As of 2006, Man of Colours was still the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian band.
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TRACK LISTING
1. Icehouse
2. Walls
3. Sister
4. We Can Get Together
5. Can't Help Myself
6. Great Southern Land
7. Street Cafe
8. Hey Little Girl
9. Dusty Pages
10. Don't Believe Anymore
11. Taking the Town
12. Mr. Big
13. Baby, You're So Strange
14. No Promises
15. Cross the Border
16. Love in Motion [Previously Unreleased Version]
AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS
General
Complete name : Icehouse - MasterfileMasterfile1 Icehouse.mp3
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 9.96 MiB
Duration : 4mn 21s
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Album : Masterfile
Track name : Icehouse
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : Icehouse
Accompaniment : Icehouse
Composer : Iva Davies
Publisher : Import
Genre : Alternative
Recorded date : 1992
MCDI : Yes
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Duration : 4mn 21s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 9.96 MiB (100%)
THE REST OF THE AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS ARE IN THE TEXT IN THE TORRENT
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