Music / Icehouse

Icehouse (1977-present), formerly known as Flowers (1977-1981), is an Australian Rock/New Wave band from Sydney, Australia.

Discography

• Icehouse (1980, as Flowers)^note Retroactively a Self-Titled Album after the band changed their name from Flowers to Icehouse due to a Scottish band having the same name as them.
  • Icehouse (30th Anniversary Edition) (2011, remastered version and includes a second disc comprising of live recordings)
• Primitive Man (1982)
• Sidewalk (1984)
• Boxes (1985)
• Measure for Measure (1986)
• Man of Colours (1987)
• Code Blue (1990)
• Big Wheel (1993)
• The Berlin Tapes (1995, as Iva Davies and Icehouse)
  • Heroes (2004)
• Bi-polar Poems (TBA)

Icehouse provide examples of:

• The Anti-Nihilist: Seems to part of the meaning of "No Promises": while life may give you things like gold and gems one moment, nothing is certain and there's, well no promises and you have to figure life out for yourself.
• Break-Up Song: "Don't Believe Anymore"
• Careful with That Axe: "Sunrise"
• I Am the Band: Iva Davies, due to him being the only constant member of the band.
• Ice Palace: The location described in "Icehouse" might not be a palace (its size is never discussed, though it does have rivers), but it is definitely made of ice. Its older residents blame the devil:

  The devil lives inside the icehouse

  At least that's what the old ones say

  They say:

  (murmur) He came a long time ago

  He came here in the winter snows

  Now it's colder every day

  • According to Iva Davies, the titular icehouse refers to a halfway house for drug rehab patients opposite where he lived during the band's early days.
• Insecure Love Interest: "Crazy" from Man of Colours.

  Well, you've gotta be crazy, baby (whoa-oh)

  To want a guy like me (whoa-oh)

• Land Down Under: "Great Southern Land".
• Lyrics/Video Mismatch: "Crazy" is a song about an Insecure Love Interest. The video approaches the term "crazy" from a different angle, with Iva Davies, who plays a radio DJ, being pursued by a Stalker with a Crush.
• New Wave Music
• Obsession Song: Well, "My Obsession".
• Protest Song: "The Flame" is about a deadly rebellion in a factory with abysmal living conditions, set to a slow, tear jerking ballad.

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