Ah the wonderful Iva Davies and Icehouse, the mullet’s gone but he still has a full head of white hair now, he’s also still playing around the traps. Yes Ice House was very popular but I don’t think they got the recognition they deserved. Oh and by the way his hair is naturally curly.🇦🇺😘
This, in my opinion, one of the greatest pop-rock songs of all time. It still sounds absolutely fantastic now, all these years later. Iva Davies with the great vocal, the great sax solo, the great hooks and such an upbeat tune. Icehouse were such a great band.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
@@alanstrom2221 Quite frankly, I don't give a sh*t whether you like them or not. I do, end of. (And, given their huge popularity with Icehouse fans, you're clearly wrong anyway.)
The curls are perfectly curling and the mullet is perfectly mulleting - I am so stealing that! I knew you would love that key-tar Travis. The solo sax was such an integral part of lots of 80s music. Thanks for this reaction!
I think you have to pay for a reaction though - not sure they take ordinary suggestions or requests. No doubt it would at least get some views for them.
The model in the film clip - (Paris Jefferson) - was 17 years old when they made this - went on to play Athena in Xena Warrior Princess, and is still an actress today...
One of my all-time favourite songs growing up as a teenager in Australia as i see it was for so many others. Was lucky enough to see Icehouse play at an event the company i worked for put on about 10 years ago.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
I also saw them when they were still Flowers - and on the same bill as La Femme, Boys Next Door (feat. Nick Cave), the Angels and Cold Chisel at Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1980. Cost only 8 bucks for a 7 hour show. Them were the days!
@@aussierhino471 I just did the math and thats the equivalent to $41au today. No chance of seeing four or five quality bands on the same bill for $41 today. Due to no record sales the bands and managers found other ways to generate income, sure you can download music free but it hasn't got the same smell as a freshly bought 45 or the enjoyment of seeing bands live for a pittance. They would want $250 to see five bands live now. I think us Gen Xers were the winners here.
Iva Davies was a wind player in a symphony orchestra. He quit to form Icehouse. He said 1 of his influences is the late David Bowie. You can hear that in his voice. The Beatles is another influence. Written by Iva Davies and John Oates. The original track 👣 had Linn drums and a few fills. "The 2 finished writing ✍ the song in 2 hours. John Oates said that if Icehouse would not record it, Hall and Oates will because that will be a hit. John Oates was right ✅ " -- Iva Davies. "While Iva Davies went wind surfing 🏄♂️, I was at a beach ⛱. In Australia 🇦🇺, beaches are topless. This 1 woman 👩 walked near me. I focused on her eyes 👀 to not be distracted. They were electric blue. That was a great 👍 idea 💡. So, we wrote about the eyes of that woman." -- John Oates. In the recording, Oates sings backing vocal with Iva Davies. 3 years earlier, Daryl Hall came to Australia 🇦🇺 and sang backing vocals to Original Sin for the band INXS. 40 years 🎂 in 2024.
you do know the The Flowers and Icehouse are the same band right they had to change their name when they sign to an European label as there was already a band called The Flowers
I remember seeing FLOWERS at The Time and Tide Hotel, Dee Why in 1979. They played a mix of Covers and Originals. Even as an 18 yr old I could see and hear potential in the band and the charismatic Iva Davies. Their debut album "Icehouse" in 1980 is one of the best in music history.
My favourite Aussie band during the 80's, followed very closely by Cold Chisel. Seriosly underrated even in Australia. A shed load of first rate music including Street Cafe, Love in Motion, No Promises, Paradise, Don't Believe Anymore, Dusty Pages, Taking the Town, Hey Little Girl, We Can Get Together, Sister, Walls, Can't Help Myself, My Obsession, Crazy, Angel Street. So many great songs that are sadly overlooked. In my opinion, before Paul Kelly got his rep as Australia's finest songwriter, Iva Davies was well on his way to owning that monicker.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
One of the best mullets of the era. Great band and great song! I think Ira Davies and Joe Elliot win for the best mullets. It wasn't the 80's without a sax solo. Check out the song - "Great Southern Land".
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
Their greatest hit would have to be Great southern Land , which you have already reacted to . Hay little girl , was also a big hit in the UK . Iva really has a great voice and he's still performing today . A great band in their day that should get more recognition .
We all tried to rock the Iva Davies mullet back in the day, we had a VFL footballer Dermott Brereton who had one nearly as good. My girlfriend made me get blonde tips and a perm so I could be more like him, and I was stupid enough to go and do it. I cut it off when I broke up with her in 1987, I still have a bit of a mullet but its natural brown and a lot of grey now. Good days, great song and great band to see live.
Hi Guys What amazes me is you finally, ages ago, decided to watch the greatest vocalist the world has ever known. You listened to Dimash singing SOS, and after he blew you out of the water. That is the only song you have ever listened to of his. You silly people missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime.
Icehouse has sooooo many better songs that this one . Street Cafe is incredible. Love in Motion (especially the version with Chrissy Amphlett). But lot of people love this song.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
@@alanstrom2221 Totally agree with you both songs, but I'll also defend the right for other people to like songs that I consider mediocre. Street Cafe and Love in Motion were more cutting edge. They gained a bigger audience with these two songs though.
Back im 1979 this kid for his 21 birthday got them and a heap of other Ozzie band's to play on a pontoon on the river near me 2 days of bands playing his dad was rich and payed for hundreds of kids to have a great weekend then the next year they did it again the. The cops came amd shut it down top weekend
Oh yeah, love my eighties. Have you guys reacted to enough eighties music to actually develop a taste for it? Can you get past some of the videos that seem cringe in hindsight?
They were good live but when I saw them they were called 'Flowers'' - apparently that was too gay sounding for the American market when they tried to make it over there so the band had to change their name.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs. ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them. Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song. Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs. It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music. ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia. I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment. Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts. If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET.
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Doesn't get more 80's than that! Dig it 👍.
Saw Icehouse 2 nights ago playing this to a sold out venue in Sydney. Iva still sounding great.
Such an iconic song from an iconic band. Remember you guys love that song and video from Icehouse, Great Southern land.
Not gunna lie Australian music during the 80s was blessed with talent
Why would anyone lie about this fact.
This single came out in the mid 80s when Australia's own music scene was enjoying some of the magical 80s decade of rock music.
ELECTRIC BLUE was released in 1987.
my favorite!.. hi guys! that hit was co-written by iva davis of icehouse and john oates., duo of daryl hall... thanks for the upload. God bless
Was that John walking around them on the roof?
@@leandabee no, ma'am. the man walking is a member of the band. he's the front man , iva davis, ma'am.
@@ronalddelavega7014 yeah, I had another watch and realised that 👍😊.
Icehousr were originally called The Flowers
Love me some Icehouse. Street Cafe is my favourite.
Yes, STREET CAFE' is a very intellligent and classy song.
ELECTRIC BLUE isn't.
For me, the further back you go the better. Street Cafe is up there.
Love it when you react to classic Aussie rock!
Ah the wonderful Iva Davies and Icehouse, the mullet’s gone but he still has a full head of white hair now, he’s also still playing around the traps. Yes Ice House was very popular but I don’t think they got the recognition they deserved. Oh and by the way his hair is naturally curly.🇦🇺😘
Iva. 😊😉
@@terrykemp1876 I know I spelled it wrong will correct it now. What can I say my brain has been overloaded today🇦🇺😘
The 80s drum effect is soo good that splash sound is called THE PINK EFFECT.
I Love Icehouse! I was entering my teens when this song came out here in Australia... I was in love with Iva Davies... Must have been the mullet! 😆
So many bangers from Icehouse!!
This, in my opinion, one of the greatest pop-rock songs of all time. It still sounds absolutely fantastic now, all these years later. Iva Davies with the great vocal, the great sax solo, the great hooks and such an upbeat tune. Icehouse were such a great band.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
@@alanstrom2221 Quite frankly, I don't give a sh*t whether you like them or not. I do, end of. (And, given their huge popularity with Icehouse fans, you're clearly wrong anyway.)
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Nobody did mullets like icehouse in the 80s. Quality mullets 👍
The curls are perfectly curling and the mullet is perfectly mulleting - I am so stealing that! I knew you would love that key-tar Travis. The solo sax was such an integral part of lots of 80s music. Thanks for this reaction!
Street Cafe from Icehouse please.
I think you have to pay for a reaction though - not sure they take ordinary suggestions or requests. No doubt it would at least get some views for them.
I prefer crazy to electric blue, but love street cafe also.
Saw them in Townsville with noise works , Kate Cerbrano etc was a great concert
You saw them, you didn't seen them.
classic music thats always on the radio in Australia
Iva Davies was just gorgeous and yes so to was his mullet
He's still gorgeous
The model in the film clip - (Paris Jefferson) - was 17 years old when they made this - went on to play Athena in Xena Warrior Princess, and is still an actress today...
One of my all-time favourite songs growing up as a teenager in Australia as i see it was for so many others. Was lucky enough to see Icehouse play at an event the company i worked for put on about 10 years ago.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
@alanstrom2221 thanks for your opinion. I don't share it.
The Angels and the Flowers (before they were Icehouse) playing at cloudland in Brisbane in the late seventies .
I also saw them when they were still Flowers - and on the same bill as La Femme, Boys Next Door (feat. Nick Cave), the Angels and Cold Chisel at Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1980. Cost only 8 bucks for a 7 hour show. Them were the days!
@@aussierhino471 I just did the math and thats the equivalent to $41au today. No chance of seeing four or five quality bands on the same bill for $41 today. Due to no record sales the bands and managers found other ways to generate income, sure you can download music free but it hasn't got the same smell as a freshly bought 45 or the enjoyment of seeing bands live for a pittance.
They would want $250 to see five bands live now. I think us Gen Xers were the winners here.
Halcyon days.
One of my favorite vocalists from the 80s.
Iva Davies was a wind player in a symphony orchestra. He quit to form Icehouse. He said 1 of his influences is the late David Bowie. You can hear that in his voice. The Beatles is another influence.
Written by Iva Davies and John Oates. The original track 👣 had Linn drums and a few fills. "The 2 finished writing ✍ the song in 2 hours. John Oates said that if Icehouse would not record it, Hall and Oates will because that will be a hit. John Oates was right ✅ " -- Iva Davies.
"While Iva Davies went wind surfing 🏄♂️, I was at a beach ⛱. In Australia 🇦🇺, beaches are topless. This 1 woman 👩 walked near me. I focused on her eyes 👀 to not be distracted. They were electric blue. That was a great 👍 idea 💡. So, we wrote about the eyes of that woman." -- John Oates.
In the recording, Oates sings backing vocal with Iva Davies.
3 years earlier, Daryl Hall came to Australia 🇦🇺 and sang backing vocals to Original Sin for the band INXS. 40 years 🎂 in 2024.
Business at the front, party at the back 🤣😂🤣😂
A BIG party
Love you guys from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 Do iva davies when he was with the flowers, We can get together ❤️ Fantastic song! Cheers!
you do know the The Flowers and Icehouse are the same band right they had to change their name when they sign to an European label as there was already a band called The Flowers
@@sammy_dog yes
@@MarkWaters-v2f good just checking
Crazy and I don't believe anymore are also bangers..
Great song and video!!! I believe John Oates co-wrote with intentions for a Hall n Oates song... luckily for us it became an Icehouse classic
Checkout No Promises for another awesome song from Icehouse. Ira's voice is phenomenal.
Classic song from my youth...love it!!
I remember seeing FLOWERS at The Time and Tide Hotel, Dee Why in 1979.
They played a mix of Covers and Originals.
Even as an 18 yr old I could see and hear potential in the band and the charismatic Iva Davies.
Their debut album "Icehouse" in 1980 is one of the best in music history.
These guys are awesome. This album was great. And that hair! Thanks for reacting guys
I watched so many times this video for one ok maybe 2 reasons.
My favourite Aussie band during the 80's, followed very closely by Cold Chisel. Seriosly underrated even in Australia. A shed load of first rate music including Street Cafe, Love in Motion, No Promises, Paradise, Don't Believe Anymore, Dusty Pages, Taking the Town, Hey Little Girl, We Can Get Together, Sister, Walls, Can't Help Myself, My Obsession, Crazy, Angel Street. So many great songs that are sadly overlooked. In my opinion, before Paul Kelly got his rep as Australia's finest songwriter, Iva Davies was well on his way to owning that monicker.
They weren't under rated at all.
They are one of our Premier Bands.
Highly loved and respected.
Brilliant bands Flowers/Icehouse 👌. Suzi should sing that song when she had electric blue hair 🥰.
Its not Bands , but Band, same band same musicans but had too change the band name from flowers too Icehouse as per international copyright
you can not beat the 80s! some were close but the 80s ruled!!!!!!!!!
This is soo wedding singer 🤣
King-mullet... 😄
Uber-mullet, easy. ✌😄🔥🔥🔥
icehouse hey little girl
The absolute epitome of "business up front, party in the back."
Awesome tune.....
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
One of the best mullets of the era. Great band and great song! I think Ira Davies and Joe Elliot win for the best mullets. It wasn't the 80's without a sax solo. Check out the song - "Great Southern Land".
Blue here, loved it when this song came out 😁
Great song. Please respect it.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
class of 87!
Their greatest hit would have to be Great southern Land , which you have already reacted to . Hay little girl , was also a big hit in the UK . Iva really has a great voice and he's still performing today . A great band in their day that should get more recognition .
Icehouse still going. He did work on the music for master and commander
That song was pretty popular in New Zealand back in the day too
Sports mullet. 😂
We all tried to rock the Iva Davies mullet back in the day, we had a VFL footballer Dermott Brereton who had one nearly as good.
My girlfriend made me get blonde tips and a perm so I could be more like him, and I was stupid enough to go and do it.
I cut it off when I broke up with her in 1987, I still have a bit of a mullet but its natural brown and a lot of grey now.
Good days, great song and great band to see live.
CROSS THE BORDER!!!
Hi Guys
What amazes me is you finally, ages ago, decided to watch the greatest vocalist the world has ever known. You listened to Dimash singing SOS, and after he blew you out of the water.
That is the only song you have ever listened to of his. You silly people missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime.
Check out 'Hey Little Girl'. No mullets there.
Gotta check out Richard Marx’s mullet. Epic! 😂
If you told me that was Ken tamplin circa 1989 I buy it
Should definitely react to The midnights new single, "Chariot"
Top 10 USA 1988
Swan Lee - Stay Tonight
Play Crazy for me!
Maybe they can play the Kinko the clown for Kamala Giggles Harris?
Swan Lee - Tomorrow Never Dies, they went in to main theme song (James Bond), but Sheryl Crow won.
Try great Southern land by Iva featuring great views of Australia. Then you will want to emigrate !
Gimme "Crazy" over "Electric Blue".
Haha. Give me "Electric Blue" over "Crazy"!
I ❤ 🧊 🏠
Icehouse has sooooo many better songs that this one . Street Cafe is incredible. Love in Motion (especially the version with Chrissy Amphlett). But lot of people love this song.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET
@@alanstrom2221 Totally agree with you both songs, but I'll also defend the right for other people to like songs that I consider mediocre. Street Cafe and Love in Motion were more cutting edge. They gained a bigger audience with these two songs though.
Back im 1979 this kid for his 21 birthday got them and a heap of other Ozzie band's to play on a pontoon on the river near me 2 days of bands playing his dad was rich and payed for hundreds of kids to have a great weekend then the next year they did it again the. The cops came amd shut it down top weekend
Strange Advance- We Run pls
So the female in this clip was a last minute replacement for Nicole Kidman
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Lol, "sportz mullut" , dont be fearful .
I saw a guy at work today with a mullet and straight bangs. And a porn 'stache to go with the whole ensemble.
Was John Oates..
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Yeah,that’s not a mullet.
Oh yeah, love my eighties. Have you guys reacted to enough eighties music to actually develop a taste for it? Can you get past some of the videos that seem cringe in hindsight?
They were good live but when I saw them they were called 'Flowers'' - apparently that was too gay sounding for the American market when they tried to make it over there so the band had to change their name.
Not quite. There was already a band called Flowers... They disappeared without a trace.
@@terrykemp1876
Terry is correct.
ICEHOUSE did a lot of great songs.
ELECTRIC BLUE is not one of them.
Along with CRAZY, which is also a horrible song.
Just because songs are massively popular doesn't mean that they are good songs.
It means that they appeal to people with bad taste in music.
ELECTRIC BLUE made #1 in Australia and CRAZY made #4 in Australia.
I love and respect IVA DAVIES and ICEHOUSE, yet these 2 songs are an embarrassment.
Some of the best songs never get radio airplay and never make the Charts.
If you want to hear a Male artist that plays dignified music, have a listen to the albums made by MATTHEW SWEET.
The background shots were on a rooftop at Pyrmont Sydney Australia 40 years ago
That is Sydney 1987.