"We Can Get Together" is the second

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released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released in September 1980, on the independent label

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from their first

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, '' 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

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created their own

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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. "We Can Get Together" 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. A remix version by sonicanimation was released on the Icehouse album ''

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'' in 2002.

Reception

In a single review ''

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'' said the group "can sound an awful lot like Television's

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at times here or an upbeat Gary Numan."

Track listing

All tracks written by

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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

Year-end charts

References

{{Icehouse 1980 singles Icehouse (band) songs Music videos directed by Russell Mulcahy 1980 songs Songs written by Iva Davies Chrysalis Records singles Regular Records singles