"We Can Get Together" is the second single released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in September 1980, on the independent label Regular Records from their first album, Icehouse, two weeks before the album itself was released. It peaked at #16 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
Following their signing with Chrysalis Records in early 1981 for the European, Japanese, UK and US releases Flowers had to change their name due to legal restrictions preventing confusion with a Scottish group The Flowers. They also remixed the Icehouse album. from this album was released in the UK on Chrysalis in 1981 under the band name Icehouse as both a 7" and 10" vinyl single and later in the US as a 7" single.
The 1989 Icehouse compilation album Great Southern Land includes a remixed version of "We Can Get Together" by Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero. Another remix version by sonicanimation was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.
This Song was Covered In 2006 By Australian EDM Group Celebrity Drug Disasters.
Reception In a single review Cash Box magazine said the group "can sound an awful lot like Television's Tom Verlaine at times here or an upbeat Gary Numan."
Track listing All tracks written by Iva Davies unless otherwise shown. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. WE CAN GET TOGETHER
7" single (Australian release) "We Can Get Together" - 3:37 "Paradise Lost" - 5:54
7" single (UK release) "We Can Get Together" "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)
10" single (UK release) "We Can Get Together" "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste) "Paradise Lost"
7" single (US release) "We Can Get Together" "Not My Kind"
7" single (Europe release) "We Can Get Together" (Edit) "Icehouse"
Charts Weekly charts +Weekly chart performance for "We Can Get Together"Chart (1980)PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report)16
Year-end charts +Year-end chart performance for "We Can Get Together" Chart (1980) Position Australia (Kent Music Report) 89
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