Icehouse

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Icehouse
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1977 as Flowers
1980 as Icehouse
Website -
Founding members
Iva Davies
Keith Welsh
John Loyd
Anthony Smith
Michael Hoste
former members
  • David Chapman
  • Paul Gildea
  • Guy Pratt
  • Christina Amphlett
  • Steve Jansen
  • Masaki Tanazawa
  • Joe Carmelleri
  • Keith Forsey

Icehouse is an Australian rock band.

Band history

Icehouse was founded in 1980 by Iva Davies and Keith Welsh. From 1977 to 1980 the band toured Australian clubs under the name "Flowers". When she released her first album Icehouse in 1980 and then toured the USA in 1981, she changed the name to "Icehouse".

Iva Davies is the driving force behind Icehouse and the only member of the original line-up that remains in the band today. Although many of their albums sold well, the group never made an effort to develop a commercial style. Often changing band line-up and the associated influences helped the band to keep developing.

In the early to mid-1980s, Davies' soft and calm voice and the carried sound hit the nerve of the time. Both vocally and tonally, it could easily be confused with Roxy Music . With singles like Hey Little Girl and Street Café they stormed the charts worldwide in 1983. Although there were seldom such single successes after that, Davies continues to work with changing line-ups and releases albums.

At the turn of the millennium , almost 2.5 billion people watched the New Year's Eve fireworks broadcast live in Sydney . The performance was accompanied by a 25-minute version of Great Southern Land , which Davies called The Ghost of Time . The recording was made by the Sydney Symphonic Orchestra.

In 2006 the band was honored with the induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1980 Icehouse - - - - US82 (15 weeks)
US
First published: October 10, 1980
(as Flowers)
1982 Primitive Man / Love in Motion DE5 (28 weeks)
DE 		- - UK64 (6 weeks)
UK 		US129 (6 weeks)
US
First published: September 6, 1982
1984 Sidewalk DE39 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: May 26, 1984
1986 Measure for Measure DE37 (14 weeks)
DE 		- - - US55 (24 weeks)
US
First published: April 21, 1986
1987 Man of Colors - - - UK93 (1 week)
UK 		US43 (44 weeks)
US
First published: September 21, 1987

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1989 Great Southern Land DE53 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: October 23, 1989

More publishments:

  • 1981: In Concert
  • 1983: Fresco
  • 1985: Boxes
  • 1990: Code Blue
  • 1992: Masterfile
  • 1993: Spin One
  • 1993: Big Wheel
  • 1994: Full Circle
  • 1995: The Singles
  • 1995: The Berlin Tapes
  • 1996: Love in Motion
  • 1997: No Promises
  • 2002: Meltdown
  • 2004: Heroes
  • 2011: White Heat: 30 hits
  • 2013: The Extended Mixes, Vol. 1
  • 2013: The Extended Mixes, Vol. 2
  • 2014: DubHOUSE
  • 2015: Endless Ocean
  • 2015: Icehouse In Concert

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1980 We Can Get Together
Icehouse 		- - - - US62 (7 weeks)
US
First published: October 1980
1982 Hey Little Girl
Primitive Man 		DE5 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK17 (11 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 1982
1983 Street Cafe
Primitive Man 		DE28 (12 weeks)
DE 		- - UK62 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: March 1983
Great Southern Land / Uniform
Primitive Man 		- - - UK83 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 1983
1985 No Promises
Measure for Measure 		- - - UK72 (3 weeks)
UK 		US79 (9 weeks)
US
First published: November 1985
1987 Crazy
Man of Colors 		- - - UK38 (14 weeks)
UK 		US14 (21 weeks)
US
First published: June 1987
Electric Blue
Man of Colors 		- - - UK53 (6 weeks)
UK 		US7 (21 weeks)
US
First published: August 1987
My Obsession
Man of Colors 		- - - - US88 (4 weeks)
US
First published: November 1987
1989 Touch the Fire
Great Southern Land 		- - - - US84 (4 weeks)
US
First published: September 1989

More singles:

  • 1980: Can't Help Myself
  • 1981: Walls
  • 1981: Icehouse
  • 1981: Love in Motion
  • 1984: Taking the Town
  • 1984: Don't Believe Anymore
  • 1984: Dusty Pages
  • 1986: Baby, You're So Strange
  • 1986: Mr. Big
  • 1986: Cross the Border
  • 1986: Paradise
  • 1988: Man of Colors
  • 1988: Nothing Too Serious
  • 1989: Jimmy Dean
  • 1990: Big Fun
  • 1990: Miss Divine
  • 1990: Anything is Possible
  • 1991: Where the River Meets the Sea
  • 1993: Shakin 'the Cage
  • 1993: Satellite
  • 1993: Big Wheel
  • 1994: Invisible People
  • 1995: Heaven
  • 1996: Complicated Game
  • 2002: Lay Your Hands on Me
  • 2004: Heroes

Awards

  • 1984: Ampex Gold Tape Award for Primitive Man
  • 1987: ARIA (Australian Record Industry Award) for best-selling Australian album
  • 28 platinum awards in Australia alone

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ARIA Hall of Fame. Australian Recording Industry Association , accessed August 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US