Great Southern Land Music Cd

Icehouse - Great Southern Land

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Great Southern Land      Artist : Icehouse      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1993-07-15      Studio : Chrysalis      Label : Chrysalis      Avg. Customer Rating : (7 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Great Southern Land      Down Underated      Rating:      When Icehouse began showing signs of American commercial breakout, "Great Southern Land" appeared. Originally released in 1989, it collected 10 songs from Icehouse's hefty catalog and added one new cut ("Touch The Fire"). It's interesting to hear how the band went from being a rather basic 80's synthpop band ("We Can Get Together") to Iva Davies' solo collective ala Roxy Music or Steely Dan ("Hey Little Girl"). Davies' greeting card to his home continent, "Great Southern Land," is also much more interesting than the corny "Down Under." The import version of "Great Southern Land" sports more cuts than the out of print US CD, and also replaces the overdrawn remix of "No Promises" with the album version, to the song's benefit. Fans of 80's music like Roxy, Fixx and Ultravoxx would do well to seek this CD out.     Customer Reviews for Great Southern Land Cd      Original recordings      Rating:      A wonderful introduction to Iva's world. Each song is wonderfully written and recordrd and, unlike another review points out...these are the original versions and NOT re-recorded. There are NO Man Of Colours tracks as Iva felt they were too new at the time and deserved to be heard as a set and not broken up for inclusion on a greatest hits package. Any Icehouse purchase is worth it. Editorial Reviews for Great Southern Land Audio Cd      Album Description      1993 reissue of 1989 compilation for the best by Iva Davie'snew wave act from start to 1985, with six tracks not on the deleted U.S. version: the album version of 'No Promises' (instead of the extended mix on the American release), plus 'Paradise', 'Love In Motion', 'Walls', 'Baby, You're So Strange' & 'Mr. Big'. 16 tracks total. A Diva Records/ release.