What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ICEHOUSE "white heat:30 hits" 2011

career stats:
studio albums..............8
singles.......................39

this album stats: #5 AU

Aussie synth-pop,alt-pop/rock band who were pretty big here throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s....
started life called Flowers who released one album called "icehouse"....
they changed their name to the title of their debut album after there was already a band in Europe called Flowers and were already well known
in that part of the world....
vocalist Iva Davies has a distinct Bowie quality to his vocals,from his phrasing of words/lines through to the tones of those vocals...
band started off in the late 1970s as a pub-rock band covering the likes of T-Rex,Bowie/Lou Reed etc, so the influences were there...
lots of catchy pop songs on here...
i was actually slightly worried how this one would turn out,wasnt sure if i would still like these guys after all these years, and listening to a two disc
30 track set to boot, but i neednt have worried, this is a pretty good set of high quality singles from one of Australia's finest bands, its just a shame
they never really took off outside of Australia/New Zealand as they probably should have...
best thing about this set is that all the singles are in chronological order...i like that in compilation sets because it gives a great insight into how a band/
artist progresses over albums/years and often decades...
pretty hard to choose a best track here but i'll go for the slow haunting "man of colours" track this time

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: glam
best track: man of colours

[video=youtube;H9GyV2m8PIc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GyV2m8PIc[/video]

tracks:

1. cant help myself ***
2. cross the border **
3. crazy ***
4. we can get together ***
5. electric blue ***
6. walls ***
7. icehouse ***
8. my obsession ***
9. love in motion ***
10. man of colours ***
11.great southern land ***
12.nothing too serious **
13.hey,little girl ***
14.touch the fire **
15.jimmy dean **
16.street cafe ***
17.big fun **
18.glam *
19.miss devine **
20.taking the town **
21.anything is possible **
22.dont believe anymore **
23.dusty pages **
24.satellite **
25.big wheel **
26.no promises ***
27.baby,youre so strange **
28.invisible people **
29.love in motion(with Chrissie Amphlett) **
30.mr.big **

3s=13
2s=16
1s=1

rating: 2.4