We Can Get Together

1980 single by Flowers

"We Can Get Together"

1980 Australian release (Regular Records)

Single by Flowers

from the album Icehouse

B-side

"Paradise Lost"

Released

September 1980 (1980-09)

Genre

New wave

Length

3:37

Label

Regular
Chrysalis

Songwriter(s)

Iva Davies

Producer(s)

Cameron Allan
Iva Davies

Flowers singles chronology

"Can't Help Myself"
(1980)

"We Can Get Together"
(1980)

"Walls"
(1981)

"We Can Get Together"
alternative cover

Chrysalis Records (1981 UK release)

"We Can Get Together"
alternative cover

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]

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)

"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)	Peak Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[8]	16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)^[9]	36
US Billboard Hot 100^[10]	62

Year-end charts

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Icehouse'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-072-1. Archived from the original on 17 May 2003. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
^ Holmgren, Magnus. "The Flowers / Icehouse". Australian Rock Database. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
^ Kristion Lines, Cheryl Krueger (ed.). "The Icehouse story - bits and pieces". Spellbound: a fanzine for Icehouse. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
^ "Meltdown credits". allmusic guide. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
^ "Single Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 18 July 1981. p. 9. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
^ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 13 December 2007. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. WE CAN GET TOGETHER
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 147. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
^ "Flowers – We Can Get Together". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^ "Icehouse Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1980". Kent Music Report. 5 January 1981. Retrieved 17 January 2022 – via Imgur.