Masterfile (Icehouse album)
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Masterfile is a Audiophile compilation album by Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n rock band, Icehouse
Icehouse (band)
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 style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S...

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Track listing

  1. "Icehouse
    Icehouse (song)
    "Icehouse" is a song by Australian rock band Flowers. It was released as a single in Europe in 1982 by Chrysalis Records from their debut album Icehouse, after the band changed their name to Icehouse...

    " - 4:21
  2. "Walls
    Walls (Icehouse song)
    "Walls" is the third single released by Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. 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...

    " - 4:22
  3. "Sister" - 3:25
  4. "We Can Get Together
    We Can Get Together
    "We Can Get Together" is the second single released by Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in October 1980, on independent label Regular Records from their debut album Icehouse, two weeks before the album itself was released...

    " - 3:46
  5. "Can't Help Myself
    Can't Help Myself
    "Can't Help Myself" is the debut single released by Australian synthpop / rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in May 1980 as a 7" vinyl single on independent label, Regular Records, five months ahead of debut album Icehouse...

    " - 3:12
  6. "Great Southern Land
    Great Southern Land
    "Great Southern Land" is a single released by Australian rock band Icehouse. It was released in August 1982, before the album Primitive Man. Peaking at number five on the Australian Singles Chart, it was later featured in the 1988 Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein, and remains their most popular...

    " - 5:21
  7. "Street Cafe" - 4:14
  8. "Hey Little Girl
    Hey Little Girl
    "Hey Little Girl" is a single released by Australian band Icehouse, the second single from the band's 1982 album, Primitive Man. It was released in October, 1982, on Regular Records in 7" Vinyl Single and 12" Vinyl Single formats. UK and Europe releases by Chrysalis Records were also on 7" and 12"...

    " - 4:24
  9. "Dusty Pages" - 4:49
  10. "Don't Believe Anymore" - 5:16
  11. "Taking The Town" - 3:32
  12. "Mr. Big" - 3:32
  13. "Baby, You're So Strange" - 3:57
  14. "No Promises
    No Promises (Icehouse song)
    "No Promises" is the first single released by Australian band, Icehouse from the band's 1986 album, Measure for Measure and was released in November 1985 on Regular Records as 7" Vinyl Single and 12" Vinyl Single formats. It was also released in the UK and Europe by Chrysalis Records again on 7"...

    " - 4:40
  15. "Cross The Border" - 4:00
  16. "Love in Motion
    Love in Motion (Icehouse song)
    "Love in Motion" is the first new material released by Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" Vinyl Single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market...

    " (feat. Christina Amphlett
    Christina Amphlett
    Christine Joy Amphlett was the lead singer of Australian rock band Divinyls. She is also known as Chrissy Amphlett.She grew up in Geelong as a singer and dancer...

    ) - 4:45

Bonus tracks on Australian release

  1. "Crazy" - 4:49
  2. "Electric Blue" - 4:33
  3. "Man of Colours" - 5:11

Chart positions

Year Chart Peak
1992 Australian Chart 25

Personnel

  • Buckethead
    Buckethead
    Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...

     - guitar ("Byrralku Dhangudha")
  • Christina Amphlett
    Christina Amphlett
    Christine Joy Amphlett was the lead singer of Australian rock band Divinyls. She is also known as Chrissy Amphlett.She grew up in Geelong as a singer and dancer...

     - vocal ("Love in Motion")
  • Iva Davies
    Iva Davies
    Iva Davies , is the frontman for Australian electro/new wave/rock band Icehouse.-Biography:...

     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , programming, vocals, fairlight
    Fairlight CMI
    The Fairlight CMI is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia...

    , linn drum
    LinnDrum
    The LinnDrum is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics. It was released in 1982 as a successor to the Linn LM-1. The LinnDrum has 15 drum sounds sampled from real drums, a sequencer for programming rhythm patterns and five trigger inputs....

  • Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

     - keyboards, vocals
  • Keith Forsey
    Keith Forsey
    Keith Forsey is an English soundtrack composer, drummer, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:Forsey's first recordings were as the younger member of the group The Spectrum, better known for the end title theme for Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet, but hit makers across Europe in their own...

     - percussion
  • Michael Hoste - keyboards
  • Steve Jansen
    Steve Jansen
    Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Bob Kretschmer - guitar
  • John Lloyd - drums
  • Simon Lloyd - brass
    Brass
    Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin...

    , reeds
    Reed (instrument)
    A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. The reeds of most Woodwind instruments are made from Arundo donax or synthetic material; tuned reeds are made of metal or synthetics.-Single reeds:Single reeds are used on the mouthpieces of clarinets...

    , overdubs
  • David Lord - keyboards
  • Guy Pratt
    Guy Pratt
    Guy Pratt is a session bassist and also a songwriter, actor and comedian. He is the son of actor Mike Pratt. In Kensington and Chelsea, London, in 1996, Pratt married Gala Wright, the daughter of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright...

    - bass
  • Andy Qunta - keyboards, vocals
  • Anthony Smith - keyboards
  • Masaki Tanasawa - drums
  • Keith Welsh - bass
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