Icehouse: “We Can Get Together” (1980)
The band’s first big hit, it’s good enough to give The Cars a run for their money.
The band’s first big hit, it’s good enough to give The Cars a run for their money.
A freaking brilliant, sarcastic sendup of society and popular music in which all pretense to normalcy and decency are dropped.
A #1 record with two #1 singles. Not a bad showing for their worst album.
Rolling thunder along the highway and the first encounter on Hejira.
Even with a couple of cameos from The Thin White Duke himself, Belew couldn’t get arrested. Great album, though.
An amazing debut from the most underappreciated psychedelic rock band of the 60s.
The royal flush of rock and roll albums, revealed card by card with unconfined joy.
The first in a musical odyssey of electronic soundscapes and sculptures that has combined equal parts art and artifice.
The song that proves behind every successful band is their old “Lady.”
An almost full return to their earlier grand estate, despite being down to only three original members.
Basically half a Fela album and half an album of rock + drum workshop.
The song that introduced the world to Big Country and the e-bow.
Yes, listening to this album is exactly like being run over by a giant, cannon-toting armadillo tank.
The Japanese got a groundbreaking mix of techno pop and social satire, while the US and Europe got their greatest hits.