| Walls | |
| Cover: | WallsAus01.jpg |
| Caption: | 1981 Australian release (Regular Records) |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Flowers |
| Album: | Icehouse |
| B-Side: | All the Way |
| Genre: | Rock, synthpop, new wave |
| Length: | 4:22 |
| Label: | Regular Chrysalis |
| Producer: | Cameron Allan, Iva Davies |
| Prev Title: | We Can Get Together |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Icehouse |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
"Walls" is the third single released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse.[1] [2] It was released in January 1981, on independent label Regular Records from their debut album, Icehouse, it peaked at #20 on the Australian Kent Music Reoport Singles Charts.[3] It was also released in New Zealand, with a different cover, which was the last release before the band was renamed as Icehouse.
Iva Davies has said that Walls was autobiographical for a period of his life.[4]
The music video was directed by Trevor Hawkins.[5]
In a single review Cash Box magazine said "Icehouse's Iva Davies entreats the listener to once again enter the Australian band's world of densely textured synth-rock... The title is appropriate enough, as the quartet bursts from a heartbeat rhythm in to wall-like keyboard and guitar hook."[6]
All tracks written by Iva Davies.[7]
. Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.