I grew up in Buttcrack Ohio and when i wanted this album I went to the local record store . They did not have it but ordered it for me . I could pick it up in a month.... kids have it too easy now lol
The older I get the more I relate to this awesome song.... Icehouse are a quintessentially perfect Australian band. The echo effect of their tracks is so reminiscent of the sound of Australia. Vast & deep. Just so f@&king good.
Mate, when I was 15-16 when this came out, it was like I discovered a new religion, it completely blew me away, bought both their first 2 singles and the album, I feel, Aussie music sort of turned a new leaf with this band.
Last night on a bus home, three different Indians yammering away on their phones. I whistle to try and drown out the one closest to me. Up at the back of the bus a fellow begins; in an even better move, playing this on his phone to do the same. It's bittersweet; to say the very least, what the sound of 'Australia' is like now.
I live in the middle of the US. I can assure you that I make up probably 80% of the Icehouse fans within several hours of me. Also I'm not great at math.
I feel my stomach twisting as i remember this song, and how much less complicated life was back in the 80's wish I could go back in time and live in the 80's forever...
I feel the same, I was at school in Sydney when this came out, I was in a black place, everything was dark....but let's not go back to the 80's, live for now! this song just reminds me of my stomach twisting at school....
Watched this awesome rock band play at Mornington Racecourse (Feb, 2024, Red Hot Summer Tour) sounded just perfect ! - So glad I have heard this live now !
I think I was 13 and the first Flowers song I heard and was instantly in love with Iva Davies. He really is a stunning frontman. Now I'm older, I am awed by the talent of the band, the musicianship, songwriting. Icehouse were one of the very best of the new wave/punk era in Oz. So glad to have grown with them. 🩷🩷
True. They used to play at sefton hotel. I went there one night and there was a huge crowd all round. Spent afternoon once in sefton pool they were there
This band had a presence in the 80's that was in a class of its own! Sadly today they are hardly remembered on the radio of which they once virtually ruled!
Absolutely quality tune. I grew up in early 80s when my old mum and dad played records every nite before we all went to bed. This tune brings back memories. Icehouse were so underrated
Classic 80's sound---tight, efficient, slick guitar, along with synthesizer. I actually have this on cassette tape I bought in the early 80's. (Yep, I'm an old bag now.)
I'm 40 and I used cassette tapes for the first 20 years of my life. I think this song was actually recorded at the end of 1979 and released at the beginning of 1980.
This is my favourite song of all time....I love it so much and my husband proposed to me when I was playing it which makes it even more memorable for me.
The sound of Sydney's Northern Beaches right here in the early 80's ... Icehouse were a Northern Beaches band ... Iva lived up Whale Beach. This was our music back in the day and still one of my fave Icehouse songs of all time.
Figure how many great Australian bands were Sydney North Shore/Northern Beaches based ... Midnight Oil, Icehouse/Flowers, INXS, Boom Crash Opera, Mental As Anything, Noise Works, Celibate Rifles, Divinyls ... it's endless
One of my favourites from my childhood. This song is so clever. The music goes round and round in changing keys. It effectively reflects the lyrics....he really can't himself!!!
Their best song by miles and i love it. " I think im making it up, i should be putting it down and it's beginning to show, i get a fix in my head and i can't let go.... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh " !!!!! How could you not live this song!!
When I get this way, I wanna be someone else...if I had seen this in 1980 I would have been on a plane to Australia and I would have stalked Iva until they threw me in jail. Or until he married me. Whatever. We're all old now, but I can't help myself from listening to this song over and over and over...
Icehouse/The Flowers music never gets old but damn man this track is too legendary to even fathom?! In the event of everything that is wrong within the music industry (are their even Aussie bands now in 2019?!!), one can find comfort and always solace in the 1980's Australian music scene as that's where it was most evident?! Can't stop listening to this!!!
I was only 13 when I heard Flowers AKA Ice House - totally bleeeeew meeeee aaawaaaaay . . . . . . ( Ps: I was stoned . . . . 😎) Hats off to these Guys! They were Revolutionary!! Mi-Sex springs to mind! Love these Guys!
My first gig in 1980 was, The flowers backing up INXS and Angels when i think about it it blows my mind, what do the kids get now in Sydney absolutely nothing, its a different world. I'm so glad i was part of it
@@michaelgenias8491 Yeah I was at the gig in Melbourne ( London Tavern , Caulfield ) where ,would you believe, Mental as anything supported Flowers at their first gigs in Melb. A nice double bill, small suburban hotel btw. Also caught INXS at martini's in Carlton, full house in a small venue, ended up as a house record crowd I believe. Was right near the front, was very early on in their career also, great memories, great era for aussie rock.
first saw them in a little place called Frenchs in Darlinghurst, heard some sounds on my way back from East Sydney Tech Food school, went in and was blown away, brilliant
Ok, I'm going to admit this here - I am from the UK and I am sure safe to say that from a decade I didn't exist in, something obviously went wrong when record companies in the UK didn't want this band. They are just so tasteful in texture to the ear to me, and when I am in Australia I always play their gems.
Ele é um cantor australiano de muito quando bem jovem e o timbre de voz muito parecida com o David Bowie e o grupo australiano Phenomena Tho.Ele sabe muito bem como interpreta muito bem.todas as músicas do grupo Ice House. .
"Can't Help Myself" She comes walking down the street That's the kind, hey, That's the kind I want to meet I think I'm making it up I should be putting it down and it's beginning to show I get it fixed in my head and it won't let go Oh, I can't help myself when I feel this way I want to be someone else When I get this feeling it gets in my system I can't put the brakes on Now she's walking next to me that's the place, yeah, that's the place I want to be I think I'm making it up I should be putting it down and it's beginning to show I get it fixed in my head and it won't let go
Yep, Sydney's Northern Beaches in the 1980's - the Venue at Dee Why Hotel, the Manly Vale, the Antler, the Royal Antler, Moby Dicks.........spawned many, many amazing bands.......Flowers, INXS, Midnight Oil, Spy vs Spy....you name it. I am now 51 - Cromer boy...........wow, what amazing times were to be had then........the cold winter nights walking half an hour to the Venue to see........yet another band!!!!!!!
Craig A It was kicking around in my head and the lyrics weren't distinct enough to be google. It was a lucky that it came up in my recommended section.
Still have the 10 inch vinyl of this that I had Iva autograph many years ago. They were a really great live band, loved watching them in small pubs getting drenched in sweat. They were the days!!!!
such a good song from an awesome album. if masterfile had crazy, electric blue and man of colour it would have got to have been the best album released by an aussie artist of all time.
remembered this song from being played on the radio in the early 90's now 2023 thinking of the song but i couldnt remember the song but i remembered the lyrics "i cant help myself" took me a while to find the song again didnt know it was ice house though. my parents had a few of their vinals from the 80's that they used to listen to when i was a kid.
I grew up in Buttcrack Ohio and when i wanted this album I went to the local record store . They did not have it but ordered it for me . I could pick it up in a month.... kids have it too easy now lol
Lol they sure do. I remember going to the local record store, a life time ago😢
Totally 80's cool. What a great decade we Gen X's lived in ! I've never really left it.
The older I get the more I relate to this awesome song.... Icehouse are a quintessentially perfect Australian band. The echo effect of their tracks is so reminiscent of the sound of Australia. Vast & deep. Just so f@&king good.
Mate, when I was 15-16 when this came out, it was like I discovered a new religion, it completely blew me away, bought both their first 2 singles and the album, I feel, Aussie music sort of turned a new leaf with this band.
Last night on a bus home, three different Indians yammering away on their phones. I whistle to try and drown out the one closest to me. Up at the back of the bus a fellow begins; in an even better move, playing this on his phone to do the same. It's bittersweet; to say the very least, what the sound of 'Australia' is like now.
its... flowers... icehouse was later
Same band, they had to change the name during their first UK tour due to a legal challenge from Scottish band The Flowers.
@@peterthomas6486I can relate to that
One of the greatest bands that most people don't know about.....
Well known in Oz and hugely popular. Iva Davies on tour next month
LOL😂 ( MOST PEOPLE ) DONT KNOW ABOUT THE GREATEST!!!! 😂LOL
I live in the middle of the US. I can assure you that I make up probably 80% of the Icehouse fans within several hours of me. Also I'm not great at math.
We know about them and that’s all that matters .
We all know this band they are now just called Icehouse
2024 I never get tired of this song!!!❤
Im here still blasting it 🇦🇺💪🍻
I feel my stomach twisting as i remember this song, and how much less complicated life was back in the 80's wish I could go back in time and live in the 80's forever...
Graham Samten me to
I feel the same, I was at school in Sydney when this came out, I was in a black place, everything was dark....but let's not go back to the 80's, live for now!
this song just reminds me of my stomach twisting at school....
Yep, time machine please. Fuck 2019.
Oh gawd yes!!!
Lachlan Nolan Nailed it.
Watched this awesome rock band play at Mornington Racecourse (Feb, 2024, Red Hot Summer Tour) sounded just perfect ! - So glad I have heard this live now !
You are so lucky. I'm jealous
I went to that one, glad I got to see them as well 😊
RIP keyboardist Tony Smith (actually awhile ago). An important member of the early Flowers/Icehouse story.
Sorry to hear that.
I think I was 13 and the first Flowers song I heard and was instantly in love with Iva Davies. He really is a stunning frontman. Now I'm older, I am awed by the talent of the band, the musicianship, songwriting. Icehouse were one of the very best of the new wave/punk era in Oz. So glad to have grown with them. 🩷🩷
this song personified the early 80's in Sydney for me. I was 11 at the time.
pure, new wave Australian music.....perfect really
Me too son...I miss Sydney ⚡️
True. They used to play at sefton hotel. I went there one night and there was a huge crowd all round.
Spent afternoon once in sefton pool they were there
@@billymack333 yep, tok longbsince I've been in Sydney too
What a town.
And the men 🔥
Man so many great songs on this album!!!!!
This song's harmony is so cyclical it could probably be run non-stop for ten years straight and still be just as catchy.
and here we are , still talking about it 40 years later, I am going to get real old,,, soon
This tune ‘gets in your system’ decades on.
This band had a presence in the 80's that was in a class of its own! Sadly today they are hardly remembered on the radio of which they once virtually ruled!
Absolutely quality tune. I grew up in early 80s when my old mum and dad played records every nite before we all went to bed. This tune brings back memories. Icehouse were so underrated
very good album award winning in 1980
Iconic band.
First live band i ever saw.1981,Festival Theatre Adelaide supported by Paul Kelly and the Dots and a new wave synth duo called Nuvo Bloc
Great 80's sound! Thank you, Ice House, for this masterpiece ❤
The 80s the best musical decade‼️
how I miss those days.... simple times.
For rock, the 70's were better.
Silverchair, icehouse, INXS, Midnight oil, Australian crawl, the angles and hoodoo gurus binge today, happy Australia Day!
yeah the hoodoo gurus are legends....soooo underrated...great vibe to their music
Mondo Rock
You forgot Cold Chisel and ACDC.
SHERBET..!!!
Models !
Year 8 disco, this was the biggest song of the night.
Top band..... Aussie finest............this song makes me feel 17 again.......
Still catchy in 2019! Love Icehouse, even after all these years.
Same. Definitely an 80s fave.
Always a legend
2023 love it
Still have the original vinyl record from 1980 and still love it in 2023. Incredibly solid first record for Iva.
its flowers
Addiction.. is the affliction
I can interpret this tune 6 ways of Sunday. Truth is I dig it.
At first I hated the song when I heard it on countdown but the next week I loved it something in the beat of the music 😮
Classic 80's sound---tight, efficient, slick guitar, along with synthesizer.
I actually have this on cassette tape I bought in the early 80's.
(Yep, I'm an old bag now.)
Hey! 60s are Not old. Delete that line! ❤️
I'm 40 and I used cassette tapes for the first 20 years of my life. I think this song was actually recorded at the end of 1979 and released at the beginning of 1980.
This is my favourite song of all time....I love it so much and my husband proposed to me when I was playing it which makes it even more memorable for me.
So bloody happy that my 22yo daughter put this on for me🙏
Their first single.
I remember hearing it on a compilation album "1980 , the music...or 'the sound' "
Aussie rock in the 80s, you can't beat it, top song, I can relate 😊
The sound of Sydney's Northern Beaches right here in the early 80's ... Icehouse were a Northern Beaches band ... Iva lived up Whale Beach. This was our music back in the day and still one of my fave Icehouse songs of all time.
He still does. INXS were from the northern beaches too, my second favourite band. I live on the northern beaches
@@user-bj3jn1sq7y INXS were Frenches Forest boys ... most of Australia's famous bands hail from the North Shore.
I've always loved this song back in the 80s and still doi now 2020
Me too man
Who doesn't?
Yeah, great band. Still listening in 2021.
Figure how many great Australian bands were Sydney North Shore/Northern Beaches based ... Midnight Oil, Icehouse/Flowers, INXS, Boom Crash Opera, Mental As Anything, Noise Works, Celibate Rifles, Divinyls ... it's endless
I remember when I was 6 my dad put this on and I loved it so much that I still love it to this day
I remember listening to my brother singing along to this. I thought he was so cool ;)
This band is still rocking the arenas cant beat good eighties bands
Ridiculously good music
Flowers era …ooooohhhh I can’t help myself..Bombay Rock
One of my favourites from my childhood. This song is so clever. The music goes round and round in changing keys. It effectively reflects the lyrics....he really can't himself!!!
Their best song by miles and i love it. " I think im making it up, i should be putting it down and it's beginning to show, i get a fix in my head and i can't let go.... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh " !!!!! How could you not live this song!!
When I get this way, I wanna be someone else...if I had seen this in 1980 I would have been on a plane to Australia and I would have stalked Iva until they threw me in jail. Or until he married me. Whatever. We're all old now, but I can't help myself from listening to this song over and over and over...
The Golden Age of Aussie Rock.
I will neverrrrrrrrr everrrrrrr forget this song the best everrrrrrrrrr back and still now 👍😃😃😃
Icehouse/The Flowers music never gets old but damn man this track is too legendary to even fathom?! In the event of everything that is wrong within the music industry (are their even Aussie bands now in 2019?!!), one can find comfort and always solace in the 1980's Australian music scene as that's where it was most evident?! Can't stop listening to this!!!
Before they were Icehouse..They were known as The Flowers...
I was only 13 when I heard Flowers AKA Ice House - totally bleeeeew meeeee aaawaaaaay . . . . . . ( Ps: I was stoned . . . . 😎) Hats off to these Guys! They were Revolutionary!! Mi-Sex springs to mind! Love these Guys!
This is a Flowers song thankyou. Dont shy away from reality. It was gold and it was flowers!
yes it is flowers and their first album was called icehouse.
@@dee-annewilliams7837 had to change their name because there was another band called flowers.
One of my fave Icehouse songs along with Hey Little Girl and Love In Motion.
Fantastic live band. Saw them at Festival Hall in Melbourne around 1980 (as Flowers) supporting Simple Minds (I think). So good.
80's aussie pop is a genre in itself. still amazing decades later
My first gig in 1980 was, The flowers backing up INXS and Angels when i think about it it blows my mind, what do the kids get now in Sydney absolutely nothing, its a different world. I'm so glad i was part of it
Good gig to start out on... well done, must have been memorable
@@TecomaCowboy it was mind blowing especially watching INXS so early ☺️
@@michaelgenias8491 Yeah I was at the gig in Melbourne ( London Tavern , Caulfield ) where ,would you believe, Mental as anything supported Flowers at their first gigs in Melb. A nice double bill, small suburban hotel btw. Also caught INXS at martini's in Carlton, full house in a small venue, ended up as a house record crowd I believe. Was right near the front, was very early on in their career also, great memories, great era for aussie rock.
@@TecomaCowboy wow so cool
Australia is so much different in music today I’m 14 but I like the good old days
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Need this on permanent repeat - I can't help myself
Love this song even more these days.
Just perfect for these social distancing times. Thank you, Icehouse!
I wouldn’t social distance with Iva!
first saw them in a little place called Frenchs in Darlinghurst, heard some sounds on my way back from East Sydney Tech Food school, went in and was blown away, brilliant
I got this cassette tape in late 1980, and it was one of those that I just played and played, until it sounded muffled...LOL
nice
Ok, I'm going to admit this here - I am from the UK and I am sure safe to say that from a decade I didn't exist in, something obviously went wrong when record companies in the UK didn't want this band. They are just so tasteful in texture to the ear to me, and when I am in Australia I always play their gems.
Brilliant band, better late than never
Icehouse - Flowers Album. Awesome Band!!
I love like crazy this song 😍
Cant help myself and love them..and im from Melbourne
You Aussies have given us some great music.Hi from the UK.
I miss the 80s/90s it was the best years
Great Aussie music 👍
Heavily influenced by The Cure I think.
OMG!!! Iva looked so hot back then!!!! 1980!!! and John Lloyd too!!!
remember it being played at the Bay City Disco, Frankston...1981.
Still have the Flowers long play ""Limited Release" 45 of it in mint condition, released 1980 on Regular Records Australia.
That's the hard-to-find 10-inch, right? With the extended version on the B-side?
I have that as well. What would they be worth these days ?
@@TecomaCowboy Discogs list Near Mint $15-30....not much sadly for a great song.
@@kitsynthpunk yeah that's it.
Awesome group during the 80s
Them performing this song on Countdown was the start of my Flowers/Icehouse adventure that lives on to this very day
Ele é um cantor australiano de muito quando bem jovem e o timbre de voz muito parecida com o David Bowie e o grupo australiano Phenomena Tho.Ele sabe muito bem como interpreta muito bem.todas as músicas do grupo Ice House. .
I love this song and the way it starts, woo hoo! What a great song!!
First eight bars may have inspired an intro for The Go-Go's 'Our Lips Are Sealed', as the Flowers recording was in early 1980
The sexy Iva Davis. This guy is a genius. I totally loved all his music and band. How sweet the 80's were! You are still a legend!
"Can't Help Myself"
She comes walking down the street
That's the kind, hey,
That's the kind I want to meet
I think I'm making it up
I should be putting it down
and it's beginning to show
I get it fixed in my head
and it won't let go
Oh, I can't help myself
when I feel this way
I want to be someone else
When I get this feeling
it gets in my system
I can't put the brakes on
Now she's walking next to me
that's the place, yeah,
that's the place I want to be
I think I'm making it up
I should be putting it down
and it's beginning to show
I get it fixed in my head
and it won't let go
Saw Flowers at Festival HLl …who was there?
Yep, Sydney's Northern Beaches in the 1980's - the Venue at Dee Why Hotel, the Manly Vale, the Antler, the Royal Antler, Moby Dicks.........spawned many, many amazing bands.......Flowers, INXS, Midnight Oil, Spy vs Spy....you name it. I am now 51 - Cromer boy...........wow, what amazing times were to be had then........the cold winter nights walking half an hour to the Venue to see........yet another band!!!!!!!
Love love love this song!
I have finally found this song. I had it stuck in my head for ages.
It's a catchy track..
Craig A
It was kicking around in my head and the lyrics weren't distinct enough to be google. It was a lucky that it came up in my recommended section.
It just suddenly popped in my head so I couldn't help myself. I had to play it.
Very David Bowie influence going on here.
Iva is the best incredible singer
💋💋💋 to Iva Davies.
Love every version of this song
Is there another version?
WOW!!
from the flowers to the ICEHOUSE......
So much better
I remember seeing ice house perform with men at work at capital theartre 1981. What a concert that was.
Still have the 10 inch vinyl of this that I had Iva autograph many years ago. They were a really great live band, loved watching them in small pubs getting drenched in sweat. They were the days!!!!
Sorry, I should point out that I meant Flowers as they were known then (and who released this single before they changed their name)
Me too.
Iva is Australia's Bowie....😁👍
Ooooooowwww I still can't help myself 2020 and I'm still lovin Iva!
Yes Dan you are right, it´s an excellent song and better band. Here in BA, Argentina we knew about them in 1987 when they edited Man of Colours.
great band (Flowers) had to change their name , already a band in the US called Flowers ,so they picked Icehouuse.Good OZ band.
My mum just past away last night...
This was one of her 2 fav songs.
R.I.P Mamma
I am sorry for your loss.
love that little solo. slick as
My handsome and talented man!
Iva Davis as the mullet was forming... Glorious mullet he had
such a good song from an awesome album. if masterfile had crazy, electric blue and man of colour it would have got to have been the best album released by an aussie artist of all time.
Wow! That’s the way - kick some arse.
Australian Music is the ULTIMATE feel good music LOVE iVA XX
saw them at festival hall brisbane. they were support act to angels.
remembered this song from being played on the radio in the early 90's now 2023 thinking of the song but i couldnt remember the song but i remembered the lyrics "i cant help myself" took me a while to find the song again didnt know it was ice house though. my parents had a few of their vinals from the 80's that they used to listen to when i was a kid.
Love this song 👏👏👏
Maybe I'm getting too old but where are the great Ozzie bands these days...?
God i love this song.