Great Southern Land (album) explained

Great Southern Land
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Icehouse
Cover:	Icehousegsl.jpg
Genre:	Rock new wave synthpop
Label:	Regular Chrysalis
Prev Title:	Man of Colours
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Code Blue
Next Year:	1990

Great Southern Land is the first compilation album by Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, released by Chrysalis Records / Regular Records in October 1989. It peaked at No. 2 on the Australian albums charts, and contained two new singles "Touch the Fire", which peaked at No. 13 on the singles chart, and "Jimmy Dean", which peaked at No. 47.^[1] Several different versions of this album exist; the Regular Records release for Australian / New Zealand markets was as a 16 track double vinyl LP, twin music cassette or CD; Chrysalis Records US versions were as 10 track LP / music cassette or 11 track CD release with a different track order; Chrysalis Records UK versions had 12 tracks (some not included on original Australian release); and a video version of 15 tracks was released in VHS PAL format.^{[2] [3]}

Track listing

• "No Promises" (12" Dance Mix) only released on CD version, not Cassette.

Track listing

• "No Promises" (12" Dance Mix) only released on CD version, not Cassette.

Video release

1. "Can't Help Myself"
2. "We Can Get Together"
3. "Walls"
4. "Sister"
5. "Love in Motion"
6. "Great Southern Land '82"
7. "Hey Little Girl"
8. "Street Cafe"
9. "Don't Believe Anymore"
10. "No Promises"
11. "Baby, You're So Strange"
12. "Mr. Big"
13. "Cross the Border"
14. "Touch the Fire"
15. "Great Southern Land '89"

• Released in VHS/PAL format.

Personnel

Icehouse members

• Iva Davies — vocals, guitars, keyboards
• Robert Kretschmer — guitar
• Simon Lloyd — saxophone, keyboards
• Stephen Morgan — bass guitar
• Paul Wheeler — drums

Art work

• Cover photography — Hugh McLeod-Aitionn
• Cover artwork — Hugh McLeod-Aitionn
• Band photos —Jan Moxley & Tony Mott

Notes and References

1. Web site: australian-charts.com - Icehouse . australian-charts.com . 2008-07-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202120317/http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Icehouse . 2008-12-02 .
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130929120725/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/i/icehouse.html . The Flowers / Icehouse . Holmgren . Magnus . Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) . 29 September 2013 . 21 March 2014 .
3. Book: McFarlane, Ian . . http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=937 . Encyclopedia entry for 'Icehouse' . Ian McFarlane . . 1999 . 1-86448-768-2 . 2008-06-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030517224039/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=937 . 17 May 2003 .