We Can Get Together
| "We Can Get Together" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1980 Australian release (Regular Records) | ||||
| Single by Flowers | ||||
| from the album Icehouse | ||||
| B-side | "Paradise Lost" | |||
| Released | September 1980 | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Iva Davies | |||
| Producer(s) |
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| "We Can Get Together" alternative cover | ||||
.jpg) Chrysalis Records (1981 UK release) | ||||
| "We Can Get Together" alternative cover | ||||
.jpg) Chrysalis Records (1981 US 7" release) | ||||
"We Can Get Together" is the second single released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse.[1][2] It was released in September 1980, on the independent label Regular Records from their first album, Icehouse, two weeks before the album itself was released.[1] It peaked at #16 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Charts.[3]
Following their signing with Chrysalis Records in early 1981 for the European, Japanese, UK and US releases Flowers had to change their name due to legal restrictions preventing confusion with a Scottish group The Flowers.[1][4] "We Can Get Together" was released in the UK on Chrysalis in 1981 under the band name Icehouse as both a 7" and 10" vinyl single and later in the US as a 7" single.[1] A remix version by sonicanimation was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.[5]
Reception
[edit]In a single review Cash Box magazine said the group "can sound an awful lot like Television's Tom Verlaine at times here or an upbeat Gary Numan."[6]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks written by Iva Davies unless otherwise shown.[7]
7" single (Australian release)
[edit]- "We Can Get Together" - 3:37
- "Paradise Lost" - 5:54
7" single (UK release)
[edit]- "We Can Get Together"
- "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)
10" single (UK release)
[edit]- "We Can Get Together"
- "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)
- "Paradise Lost"
7" single (US release)
[edit]- "We Can Get Together"
- "Not My Kind"
7" single (Europe release)
[edit]- "We Can Get Together" (Edit)
- "Icehouse"
Charts
[edit]Weekly charts
[edit]| Chart (1980) | Peak Position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] | 16 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] | 36 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[10] | 62 |
Year-end charts
[edit]| Chart (1980) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] | 89 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Icehouse'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 17 May 2003. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- ^ Holmgren, Magnus. "The Flowers / Icehouse". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
- ^ Kristion Lines, Cheryl Krueger (ed.). "The Icehouse story - bits and pieces". Spellbound: a fanzine for Icehouse. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
- ^ "Meltdown credits". allmusic guide. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
- ^ "Single Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 18 July 1981. p. 9. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
- ^ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 13 December 2007. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. WE CAN GET TOGETHER
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 147. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "Flowers – We Can Get Together". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Icehouse Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. 5 January 1981. Retrieved 17 January 2022 – via Imgur.