We Can Get Together

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"We Can Get Together"
File:WeCanGetTogether01.jpg
1980 Australian release (Regular Records)
Single by Flowers
from the album Icehouse
B-side"Paradise Lost"
ReleasedSeptember 1980 (1980-09)
GenreNew wave
Length3:37
Label
SongwriterIva Davies
Producers
Flowers singles chronology
"Can't Help Myself"
(1980)
"We Can Get Together"
(1980)
"Walls"
(1981)
"We Can Get Together"
alternative cover
File:Wcgt-icehouse (uk).jpg
Chrysalis Records (1981 UK release)
"We Can Get Together"
alternative cover
File:Wcgt-icehouse (US).jpg
Chrysalis Records (1981 US 7" release)

"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]

This Song was Covered In 2006 By Australian EDM Group Celebrity Drug Disasters.

Reception

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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

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

7" single (Australian release)

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

7" single (UK release)

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

10" single (UK release)

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

7" single (US release)

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

7" single (Europe release)

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

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Weekly chart performance for "We Can Get Together"
Chart (1980) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] 16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] 36
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 62

Year-end charts

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Year-end chart performance for "We Can Get Together"
Chart (1980) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] 89

References

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  9. ^ "Flowers – We Can Get Together". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Icehouse Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
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