Fine 1st effort + cool b sides

"It's always cold inside the Icehouse"....what a goose pimple experience if you hear the track "Icehouse". Also includes "I' Can't Help Myself" , "Walls", "Sister" + great b sides, the instrumental "Paradise Lost" + the pulse pounding "not My Kind". This would be Icehouse's 1st release, under the name 'Flowers', the name was changed due to another band having the same name at the time (gee what happended to that band??). While there are a couple of singles here, the album is meant to be heard as a whole, which is a dark, moody & ambiet release.

First release from Icehouse a bit rough

The original album was released under the original band name Flowers. This is their first album as recorded in Australia. The mixing is completely different and a bit more repressed than the Chrysalis release of the same material. Due to the mixing and style differences, I had to take away a star. Any fan of Icehouse must get this CD. It has been years since the original vinyl was available even as an import. No matter how it is recorded, no song will ever again match the title track.

Flowers (Icehouse)

This first ever Icehouse venue is more "dark coffee house" & far less "pop" than later efforts. I can remeber lying in the dark listening to this over & over again, it is creepy yet full of real "DownUder" story telling. Not a real Icehouse type deal. Rather a classic before it's time.