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.
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.)
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.🇦🇺😘
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 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 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.
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
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.
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.
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".
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
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 .
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love me some Icehouse. Street Cafe is my favourite.
Yes, STREET CAFE' is a very intellligent and classy song.
ELECTRIC BLUE isn't.
Not gunna lie Australian music during the 80s was blessed with talent
Why would anyone lie about this fact.
Love it when you react to classic Aussie rock!
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
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.
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.)
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🇦🇺😘
So many bangers from Icehouse!!
Checkout No Promises for another awesome song from Icehouse. Ira's voice is phenomenal.
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.
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! 😆
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!
The absolute epitome of "business up front, party in the back."
classic music thats always on the radio in Australia
Business at the front, party at the back 🤣😂🤣😂
A BIG party
Crazy and I don't believe anymore are also bangers..
Saw them in Townsville with noise works , Kate Cerbrano etc was a great concert
You saw them, you didn't seen them.
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.
icehouse hey little girl
Iva Davies was just gorgeous and yes so to was his mullet
He's still gorgeous
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.
class of 87!
Classic song from my youth...love it!!
Icehouse still going. He did work on the music for master and commander
These guys are awesome. This album was great. And that hair! Thanks for reacting guys
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.
This is soo wedding singer 🤣
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.
you can not beat the 80s! some were close but the 80s ruled!!!!!!!!!
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
I watched so many times this video for one ok maybe 2 reasons.
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".
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
King-mullet... 😄
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
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 .
Blue here, loved it when this song came out 😁
That song was pretty popular in New Zealand back in the day too
Uber-mullet, easy. ✌😄🔥🔥🔥
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
CROSS THE BORDER!!!
Check out 'Hey Little Girl'. No mullets there.
That is Sydney 1987.
Sports mullet. 😂
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.
Play Crazy for me!
Maybe they can play the Kinko the clown for Kamala Giggles Harris?
Should definitely react to The midnights new single, "Chariot"
Swan Lee - Stay Tonight
If you told me that was Ken tamplin circa 1989 I buy it
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 !
Top 10 USA 1988
Strange Advance- We Run pls
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
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.
I ❤ 🧊 🏠
Gimme "Crazy" over "Electric Blue".
Haha. Give me "Electric Blue" over "Crazy"!
So the female in this clip was a last minute replacement for Nicole Kidman
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Yeah,that’s not a mullet.
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..
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.
The background shots were on a rooftop at Pyrmont Sydney Australia 40 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.