We Can Get Together Explained

We Can Get Together should not be confused with Can We Get Together.

"We Can Get Together" is the second single released by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse.^{[1] [2]} 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.^[1] It peaked at #16 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Charts.^[3]

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.^{[1] [4]} "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.^[1] A remix version by sonicanimation was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.^[5]

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."^[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Iva Davies unless otherwise shown.^[7]

7" single (Australian release)

1. "We Can Get Together" - 3:37
2. "Paradise Lost" - 5:54

7" single (UK release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)

10" single (UK release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)
3. "Paradise Lost"

7" single (US release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Not My Kind"

7" single (Europe release)

1. "We Can Get Together" (Edit)
2. "Icehouse"

Charts

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "We Can Get Together"! Chart (1980)! Position

Australia (Kent Music Report)[9]	89

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: McFarlane . Ian . Ian McFarlane . . Encyclopedia entry for 'Icehouse' . 6 November 2009 . 1999 . . . 1-86508-072-1 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030517224039/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=937 . May 17, 2003 .
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: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

   . 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.

4. Web site: The Icehouse story - bits and pieces. Spellbound: a fanzine for Icehouse. Kristion Lines, Cheryl Krueger . 11 June 2008.
5. Web site: [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r615650|pure_url=yes}} ''Meltdown'' credits ]. . 2008-07-16 .
6. Single Reviews . Cash Box. World Radio History. 9. 18 July 1981. 1 December 2021.
7. Web site: Australasian Performing Right Association . . 2007-12-13 . Note: requires user to input song title e.g. WE CAN GET TOGETHER
8. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 147.
9. Web site: National Top 100 Singles for 1980. . 341 . . 5 January 1981 . 17 January 2022 .