Australian Pop At Its Best

Filled with great pop hooks and unusual instrumentation, Man of Colours is among the best of the Australian Pop albums.

Icehouse: 1987, the year they made contact

Remember 1987? that year all the big bands released there finest stuff (U2, Midnight Oil, Inxs, George Michael, etc..) well Icehouse was 1 of those bands too! Man Of Colors Starts off w/ the smash hit single "Crazy" , Followed by there biggest Hit "Electric Blue" , co written by John Oates. Other note worthy singles also fill out this album "My Obession & Nothing Too Serious" respectively. The "Title Track" is a beautiful ballad & "The Kingdom" is a surprise of pop intensity. The only problem I have w/ Man Of Colors is that it sounds too much like sell out. this album is the place to start for ALL new Icehouse fans.

Transports me to 1988... "Crazy" is a haunting track!

When I was almost done with High School there was this one song that I had heard in a video on MTV, and it was "Crazy," from this album, which had me haunted. The video began with a DJ (Iva Davies, the band's leader) in Sidney, Australia (where the band is from) giving good morning to his listeners, as a gal calls in, with the first rays of sunshine sipping in through the blinds of the transmission booth... as the first cords of the guitar start to sound in the background. I thought it was an incredible intro to an incredible song. Transports me to 1988, but still sounds great in the 21st century. Enjoy!