ICEHOUSE

MASTERFILE

  1/  Icehouse                                                                 4.21
  2/  Can't Help Myself                                                        4.22
  3/  Hey, Little Girl                                                         3.25
  4/  Great Southern Land                                                      3.46
  5/  Don't Beleive Anymore                                                    3.12
  6/  We Can Get Together                                                      5.21
  7/  Taking The Town                                                          4.14
  8/  Mr.Big                                                                   4.24
  9/  No Promises                                                              4.49
  10/ Street Cafe                                                              5.16
  11/ Dusty Pages                                                              3.32
  12/ Cross The Border                                                         3.32
  13/ Walls                                                                    3.57
  14/ Sister                                                                   4.40
  15/ Baby, You're So Strange                                                  4.00
  16/ Love In Motion (Previously Unreleased Version)                           4.45
  17/ Byrralku Dhangudha                                                       5.25

          Tracks 1,2,6,13 and 14 produced by Cameron Allen
          Tracks 3,4 and 10 produced by Keith Forsey
          Tracks 5,7 and 11 produced by Iva Davies
          Tracks 8,9,12 and 15 produced by Rhett Davies
          Tracks 16 and 17 produced and mixed by Bill Laswell at Studio 301, Sydney
            in September 1992

Iva Davies: vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, Linn drum programming; Keith Welsh (1,2,6,13,14) : bass; Anthony Smith (1,2,6,13,14) : keyboards; John Lloyd (1,2,5,6,7,11,13,14) : drums, additional keyboards, additional percussion; Michael Hoste (1,2,3,4,5) : additional keyboards; Keith Forsey (4,3,10) : additional percussion; Guy Pratt (5,7,8,9,11,12,15) : bass; Joe Camelleri (5) : saxophone solo; Simo (12,13,14,15) : brass, reeds; Robert Kretschmer (8,9,12,15) : additional drums; Steve Jansen Tanasawa (12,13,14,15) : additional drums; David Lord (8,9,12,15) : additional keyboards; Brian Eno (8,9,12,15) : additional keyboards, backing vocals; Andy Qunta (8,9,12,15) : additional keyboards, backing vocals; Christina Amphlet (16) : vocals; Buckethead (17) : guitars; Jon Ingoldsby : guitars; Banula Marika (David) (17) : lead voice, clapsticks; Djakapurra Munyarryun (17) : didgeridoo, additional vocals; Yatuma Gurruwiwi (17) : didgeridoo, additional vocals; Don Murray (17) : didgeridoo; Peter Datjing (17) : lead voice, clapsticks.

          1992 - Massive (Australia),  7808070 (CD)
          1997 - Massive/Diva/Paradise Island (????), FLCP-1003 (CD)

Note: Track 17 is only on the 1997 edition.

REVIEWS :

U.S. fans of Icehouse should note that the version of "Love in Motion" on this album is a different version than they're familiar with. The inside notes call it the "previously unreleased 1992 version", and it includes vocals from Christina Amphlett (with Iva still singing the chorus). I like it. Also, the bonus song listed as "Byrralku Dhanguda" is an alternate version of "Great Southern Land", which is different enough from the original that it does not seem redundant to include both versions on this album.

The CD booklet includes some information written in Japanese (which I can't read...), and some in English. It also includes lyrics for all the songs, written in English.

Fans of Icehouse (like me) will like this CD for those two songs. This is also a good collection of songs for people who haven't heard Icehouse, except that it's probably a bit expensive for that. This has no songs from Icehouse's excellent "Man of Colours", so that would be a good companion to this.

5 of 5 stars

Garance A. Drosehn (courtesy of the Amazon.com website)