Their best known singles on the Australian charts were " Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", " Crazy", " Electric Blue" and "My Obsession" with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987). ĭavies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (" Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine (" Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI ( Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies ( singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success locally and in both both Europe and the U.S. Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in Sydney in 1977.
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