Interprète: Icehouse
Titre: Crazy
Année: 1988
Palmarès: #43
Icehouse est un groupe new wave australien créé en 1981,
composé de Iva Davies, Robert Kretschmer, Simon Lloyd, Stephen Morgan
et Paul Wheeler. L'année précédente, ils avaient, sous le nom de Flowers, sorti un album qui s'intitulait Icehouse, nom qu'ils choisirent finalement comme titre de leur formation. Le groupe se fit ensuite connaître pendant les années 1980, notamment avec leur titre phare Hey Little Girl.
Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies (singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe)
supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which
was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and
the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.
Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 ("Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine ("Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI (Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were "Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", "Crazy", "Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).
Icehouse's iconic status was acknowledged when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one
of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties...
With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs
that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..."
Icehouse has produced eight Top Ten albums and twenty Top Forty singles
in Australia, multiple top ten hits in Europe and North America and
album sales of over 28 times Platinum in Australasia alone. As of 2006, Man of Colours was still the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian band.
