I grew up in Buttcrack Ohio and when i wanted this album I went to the local record store . They did not have it but ordered it for me . I could pick it up in a month.... kids have it too easy now lol

@julieerdman8253

Ай бұрын

Lol they sure do. I remember going to the local record store, a life time ago😢

Totally 80's cool. What a great decade we Gen X's lived in ! I've never really left it.

The older I get the more I relate to this awesome song.... Icehouse are a quintessentially perfect Australian band. The echo effect of their tracks is so reminiscent of the sound of Australia. Vast & deep. Just so f@&king good.

@peterthomas6486

Жыл бұрын

Mate, when I was 15-16 when this came out, it was like I discovered a new religion, it completely blew me away, bought both their first 2 singles and the album, I feel, Aussie music sort of turned a new leaf with this band.

@Scotty-P

Жыл бұрын

Last night on a bus home, three different Indians yammering away on their phones. I whistle to try and drown out the one closest to me. Up at the back of the bus a fellow begins; in an even better move, playing this on his phone to do the same. It's bittersweet; to say the very least, what the sound of 'Australia' is like now.

@MegaDRjohn

9 ай бұрын

its... flowers... icehouse was later

@rickydumas9994

5 ай бұрын

Same band, they had to change the name during their first UK tour due to a legal challenge from Scottish band The Flowers.

@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv

Ай бұрын

​@@peterthomas6486I can relate to that

One of the greatest bands that most people don't know about.....

@martyheppenstall2543

Жыл бұрын

Well known in Oz and hugely popular. Iva Davies on tour next month

@LOUIS-np6be

11 ай бұрын

LOL😂 ( MOST PEOPLE ) DONT KNOW ABOUT THE GREATEST!!!! 😂LOL

@travislivengood2744

3 ай бұрын

I live in the middle of the US. I can assure you that I make up probably 80% of the Icehouse fans within several hours of me. Also I'm not great at math.

@bradleydavies4781

3 ай бұрын

We know about them and that’s all that matters .

@brainstormingredligh

3 ай бұрын

We all know this band they are now just called Icehouse

Man so many great songs on this album!!!!!

I feel my stomach twisting as i remember this song, and how much less complicated life was back in the 80's wish I could go back in time and live in the 80's forever...

@lachlanktm149

5 жыл бұрын

Graham Samten me to

@jagdpanther1944

5 жыл бұрын

I feel the same, I was at school in Sydney when this came out, I was in a black place, everything was dark....but let's not go back to the 80's, live for now! this song just reminds me of my stomach twisting at school....

@jasongl85

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, time machine please. Fuck 2019.

@hellovanite

5 жыл бұрын

Oh gawd yes!!!

@IdonthaveatwittersoFoff.

4 жыл бұрын

Lachlan Nolan Nailed it.

This song's harmony is so cyclical it could probably be run non-stop for ten years straight and still be just as catchy.

@martw3240

3 жыл бұрын

and here we are , still talking about it 40 years later, I am going to get real old,,, soon

This tune ‘gets in your system’ decades on.

this song personified the early 80's in Sydney for me. I was 11 at the time. pure, new wave Australian music.....perfect really

@billymack333

3 жыл бұрын

Me too son...I miss Sydney ⚡️

@Deejaay83urj38

2 жыл бұрын

True. They used to play at sefton hotel. I went there one night and there was a huge crowd all round. Spent afternoon once in sefton pool they were there

@Deejaay83urj38

2 жыл бұрын

@@billymack333 yep, tok longbsince I've been in Sydney too What a town. And the men 🔥

I think I was 13 and the first Flowers song I heard and was instantly in love with Iva Davies. He really is a stunning frontman. Now I'm older, I am awed by the talent of the band, the musicianship, songwriting. Icehouse were one of the very best of the new wave/punk era in Oz. So glad to have grown with them. 🩷🩷

Watched this awesome rock band play at Mornington Racecourse (Feb, 2024, Red Hot Summer Tour) sounded just perfect ! - So glad I have heard this live now !

@merbyrdable

5 ай бұрын

You are so lucky. I'm jealous

@Sara-bv3nc

Ай бұрын

I went to that one, glad I got to see them as well 😊

This band had a presence in the 80's that was in a class of its own! Sadly today they are hardly remembered on the radio of which they once virtually ruled!

The 80s the best musical decade‼️

@MaitreMark

7 ай бұрын

how I miss those days.... simple times.

@globalfunseeker6733

4 ай бұрын

For rock, the 70's were better.

Absolutely quality tune. I grew up in early 80s when my old mum and dad played records every nite before we all went to bed. This tune brings back memories. Icehouse were so underrated

Addiction.. is the affliction I can interpret this tune 6 ways of Sunday. Truth is I dig it.

Great 80's sound! Thank you, Ice House, for this masterpiece ❤

At first I hated the song when I heard it on countdown but the next week I loved it something in the beat of the music 😮

I remember when I was 6 my dad put this on and I loved it so much that I still love it to this day

very good album award winning in 1980

I remember listening to my brother singing along to this. I thought he was so cool ;)

First live band i ever saw.1981,Festival Theatre Adelaide supported by Paul Kelly and the Dots and a new wave synth duo called Nuvo Bloc

Aussie rock in the 80s, you can't beat it, top song, I can relate 😊

Silverchair, icehouse, INXS, Midnight oil, Australian crawl, the angles and hoodoo gurus binge today, happy Australia Day!

@TylerDurden-oy2hm

8 жыл бұрын

yeah the hoodoo gurus are legends....soooo underrated...great vibe to their music

@amandajohnson354

6 жыл бұрын

Mondo Rock

@b1akjak

5 жыл бұрын

You forgot Cold Chisel and ACDC.

@ricardomorbelli3416

4 жыл бұрын

SHERBET..!!!

@andylai-fz6uc

4 жыл бұрын

Models !

This is my favourite song of all time....I love it so much and my husband proposed to me when I was playing it which makes it even more memorable for me.

Year 8 disco, this was the biggest song of the night.

Ridiculously good music

I've always loved this song back in the 80s and still doi now 2020

@victormalkos2967

3 жыл бұрын

Me too man

@Kittenkortnee666

3 жыл бұрын

Who doesn't?

@lilyofthevalley6247

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, great band. Still listening in 2021.

So bloody happy that my 22yo daughter put this on for me🙏

Classic 80's sound---tight, efficient, slick guitar, along with synthesizer. I actually have this on cassette tape I bought in the early 80's. (Yep, I'm an old bag now.)

@Deejaay83urj38

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! 60s are Not old. Delete that line! ❤️

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 40 and I used cassette tapes for the first 20 years of my life. I think this song was actually recorded at the end of 1979 and released at the beginning of 1980.

Still catchy in 2019! Love Icehouse, even after all these years.

@rovinnomire8335

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Definitely an 80s fave.

@kathleenbyrne9021

4 жыл бұрын

Always a legend

@JJ-oc7hd

Жыл бұрын

2023 love it

@paulh4691

10 ай бұрын

Still have the original vinyl record from 1980 and still love it in 2023. Incredibly solid first record for Iva.

@MegaDRjohn

9 ай бұрын

its flowers

This band is still rocking the arenas cant beat good eighties bands

The sound of Sydney's Northern Beaches right here in the early 80's ... Icehouse were a Northern Beaches band ... Iva lived up Whale Beach. This was our music back in the day and still one of my fave Icehouse songs of all time.

@user-bj3jn1sq7y

4 жыл бұрын

He still does. INXS were from the northern beaches too, my second favourite band. I live on the northern beaches

@thevelointhevale1132

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-bj3jn1sq7y INXS were Frenches Forest boys ... most of Australia's famous bands hail from the North Shore.

One of my favourites from my childhood. This song is so clever. The music goes round and round in changing keys. It effectively reflects the lyrics....he really can't himself!!!

2024 I never get tired of this song!!!❤

Iconic band.

I will neverrrrrrrrr everrrrrrr forget this song the best everrrrrrrrrr back and still now 👍😃😃😃

Australia is so much different in music today I’m 14 but I like the good old days Edit* 15

Their best song by miles and i love it. " I think im making it up, i should be putting it down and it's beginning to show, i get a fix in my head and i can't let go.... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh " !!!!! How could you not live this song!!

Need this on permanent repeat - I can't help myself

When I get this way, I wanna be someone else...if I had seen this in 1980 I would have been on a plane to Australia and I would have stalked Iva until they threw me in jail. Or until he married me. Whatever. We're all old now, but I can't help myself from listening to this song over and over and over...

The Golden Age of Aussie Rock.

80's aussie pop is a genre in itself. still amazing decades later

I was only 13 when I heard Flowers AKA Ice House - totally bleeeeew meeeee aaawaaaaay . . . . . . ( Ps: I was stoned . . . . 😎) Hats off to these Guys! They were Revolutionary!! Mi-Sex springs to mind! Love these Guys!

Flowers era …ooooohhhh I can’t help myself..Bombay Rock

One of my fave Icehouse songs along with Hey Little Girl and Love In Motion.

This is a Flowers song thankyou. Dont shy away from reality. It was gold and it was flowers!

@dee-annewilliams7837

6 жыл бұрын

yes it is flowers and their first album was called icehouse.

@Keep_Crying_Son

3 жыл бұрын

@@dee-annewilliams7837 had to change their name because there was another band called flowers.

Love this song even more these days. Just perfect for these social distancing times. Thank you, Icehouse!

@user-bj3jn1sq7y

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t social distance with Iva!

RIP keyboardist Tony Smith (actually awhile ago). An important member of the early Flowers/Icehouse story.

Before they were Icehouse..They were known as The Flowers...

I miss the 80s/90s it was the best years

I got this cassette tape in late 1980, and it was one of those that I just played and played, until it sounded muffled...LOL

@David39151

8 жыл бұрын

nice

Icehouse - Flowers Album. Awesome Band!!

Figure how many great Australian bands were Sydney North Shore/Northern Beaches based ... Midnight Oil, Icehouse/Flowers, INXS, Boom Crash Opera, Mental As Anything, Noise Works, Celibate Rifles, Divinyls ... it's endless

I love like crazy this song 😍

Awesome group during the 80s

first saw them in a little place called Frenchs in Darlinghurst, heard some sounds on my way back from East Sydney Tech Food school, went in and was blown away, brilliant

Great Aussie music 👍

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

Heavily influenced by The Cure I think.

OMG!!! Iva looked so hot back then!!!! 1980!!! and John Lloyd too!!!

Fantastic live band. Saw them at Festival Hall in Melbourne around 1980 (as Flowers) supporting Simple Minds (I think). So good.

Cant help myself and love them..and im from Melbourne

@samanthalewin4397

3 жыл бұрын

You Aussies have given us some great music.Hi from the UK.

My first gig in 1980 was, The flowers backing up INXS and Angels when i think about it it blows my mind, what do the kids get now in Sydney absolutely nothing, its a different world. I'm so glad i was part of it

@TecomaCowboy

3 жыл бұрын

Good gig to start out on... well done, must have been memorable

@michaelgenias8491

3 жыл бұрын

@@TecomaCowboy it was mind blowing especially watching INXS so early ☺️

@TecomaCowboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgenias8491 Yeah I was at the gig in Melbourne ( London Tavern , Caulfield ) where ,would you believe, Mental as anything supported Flowers at their first gigs in Melb. A nice double bill, small suburban hotel btw. Also caught INXS at martini's in Carlton, full house in a small venue, ended up as a house record crowd I believe. Was right near the front, was very early on in their career also, great memories, great era for aussie rock.

@michaelgenias8491

3 жыл бұрын

@@TecomaCowboy wow so cool

Them performing this song on Countdown was the start of my Flowers/Icehouse adventure that lives on to this very day

Ele é um cantor australiano de muito quando bem jovem e o timbre de voz muito parecida com o David Bowie e o grupo australiano Phenomena Tho.Ele sabe muito bem como interpreta muito bem.todas as músicas do grupo Ice House. .

I love this song and the way it starts, woo hoo! What a great song!!

@kevinfairburn

6 жыл бұрын

First eight bars may have inspired an intro for The Go-Go's 'Our Lips Are Sealed', as the Flowers recording was in early 1980

remember it being played at the Bay City Disco, Frankston...1981.

love that little solo. slick as

Ok, I'm going to admit this here - I am from the UK and I am sure safe to say that from a decade I didn't exist in, something obviously went wrong when record companies in the UK didn't want this band. They are just so tasteful in texture to the ear to me, and when I am in Australia I always play their gems.

@peterthomas6486

2 ай бұрын

Brilliant band, better late than never

Ooooooowwww I still can't help myself 2020 and I'm still lovin Iva!

I have finally found this song. I had it stuck in my head for ages.

@craiga5888

8 жыл бұрын

It's a catchy track..

@jasscat7645

8 жыл бұрын

Craig A It was kicking around in my head and the lyrics weren't distinct enough to be google. It was a lucky that it came up in my recommended section.

@xero6396

4 жыл бұрын

It just suddenly popped in my head so I couldn't help myself. I had to play it.

Love love love this song!

Damn I used to play this to death as a kid. This is actually 'Flowers' not Icehouse. This was BEFORE they changed their name to Icehouse.

@LJW55

8 жыл бұрын

And do you know why?

@TheGodParticle

8 жыл бұрын

+LJW55 flowers sounds a bit gay, aussie men usually tough guys when their not on the beach wearing budgie smugglers.

@cdbdbsabzb

7 жыл бұрын

Flowers was actually owned by another group on an international basis. So they had to get another name. they picked the name of their biggest hit "Icehouse." Remember this from back int he 70's when I was a big fan in the US. I have both versions of their 1st album

@debbyjones3348

7 жыл бұрын

The first part is correct Tony about the name already in use by another group. The debut album was actually titled "Icehouse" and this is why they decided to go with it. The song "Icehouse" was only a minor hit and this one & "We Can Get Together" were more widely recognised.

@tonypegel3021

7 жыл бұрын

Cool, so they were named for the LP not the song. Good to learn something new. Been a fan since the start. Maybe I'll get the time and money to fly down under and see them live again one day

This song goes round and round and round....love it!

Love love this music ! A beautiful feeling of music so pure xo

Love every version of this song

@ajs41

8 ай бұрын

Is there another version?

Australian Music is the ULTIMATE feel good music LOVE iVA XX

remembered this song from being played on the radio in the early 90's now 2023 thinking of the song but i couldnt remember the song but i remembered the lyrics "i cant help myself" took me a while to find the song again didnt know it was ice house though. my parents had a few of their vinals from the 80's that they used to listen to when i was a kid.

Stitched up Tight ! obsessed with this song

Love it!!!!!

My handsome and talented man!

saw them at festival hall brisbane. they were support act to angels.

Love this song 👏👏👏

Icehouse/The Flowers music never gets old but damn man this track is too legendary to even fathom?! In the event of everything that is wrong within the music industry (are their even Aussie bands now in 2019?!!), one can find comfort and always solace in the 1980's Australian music scene as that's where it was most evident?! Can't stop listening to this!!!

I remember seeing ice house perform with men at work at capital theartre 1981. What a concert that was.

Can't help your self icehouse one of my favourites as many others songs thank you sharing it as wonderful it is

Iva is the best incredible singer

WOW!!

from the flowers to the ICEHOUSE......

@user-bj3jn1sq7y

4 жыл бұрын

So much better

God i love this song.

Yep, Sydney's Northern Beaches in the 1980's - the Venue at Dee Why Hotel, the Manly Vale, the Antler, the Royal Antler, Moby Dicks.........spawned many, many amazing bands.......Flowers, INXS, Midnight Oil, Spy vs Spy....you name it. I am now 51 - Cromer boy...........wow, what amazing times were to be had then........the cold winter nights walking half an hour to the Venue to see........yet another band!!!!!!!

My mum just past away last night... This was one of her 2 fav songs. R.I.P Mamma

@HerAeolianHarp

2 жыл бұрын

I am sorry for your loss.

The sexy Iva Davis. This guy is a genius. I totally loved all his music and band. How sweet the 80's were! You are still a legend!

still love this just as much as ever in 2020

Still have the Flowers long play ""Limited Release" 45 of it in mint condition, released 1980 on Regular Records Australia.

@kitsynthpunk

4 жыл бұрын

That's the hard-to-find 10-inch, right? With the extended version on the B-side?

@TecomaCowboy

3 жыл бұрын

I have that as well. What would they be worth these days ?

@kitwalker2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@TecomaCowboy Discogs list Near Mint $15-30....not much sadly for a great song.

@kitwalker2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@kitsynthpunk yeah that's it.

I love this place I go with this.

Iva Davis as the mullet was forming... Glorious mullet he had

Wow! That’s the way - kick some arse.

Still have the 10 inch vinyl of this that I had Iva autograph many years ago. They were a really great live band, loved watching them in small pubs getting drenched in sweat. They were the days!!!!

@Foxswoop

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I should point out that I meant Flowers as they were known then (and who released this single before they changed their name)

@shanedalton3326

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

2019 baby!!!! Efffing awsome.

Best song ever...

great song great band...