Electric Blue

Album: Man Of Colors (1987)
Charted: 53 7
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the Australian group Icehouse's biggest hit in the United States. In it, a man thinks he has a chance at the love of a woman who seems to be above his station. When she looks at him, he gets a strange, frozen feeling that he describes as "electric blue."
  • Icehouse is immensely popular in Australia, where they formed under the name Flowers. Their 1980 debut album was called Icehouse, which they used as the band name when they found out other bands in other countries were called Flowers ("Icehouse" is Australian slang for an insane asylum). Their song "We Can Get Together" from that debut album cracked the American chart at #62, and "No Promises" from their fourth album, Measure For Measure, reached #79, but they had little impact in the States until their next album, Man Of Colors. The first single was "Crazy," which charted at #14, with "Electric Blue" following at #7. In their native Australia, "Electric Blue" was a #1 hit and continues to get airplay.
  • John Oates of the duo Hall & Oates wrote this with Icehouse lead singer Iva Davies. In 1986, Hall & Oates split up to pursue other interests; Daryl Hall released his second solo album that year, while Oates worked as a producer and songwriter. They reunited in 1988, releasing the album Ooh Yeah!.

    The pair got together when Icehouse was touring America in 1986. Davies was having a drink at a hotel bar in New York City when Oates called him, eager to collaborate. Oates ended up flying to Australia, where they wrote the song together. When they were done, Oates told Davies that if he didn't use it, he would record it with Hall & Oates because he knew it was a hit.

Comments: 10

  • Hummingbird from Port Of SpainFound it! Thank you.
    The 80s rock!!!
  • AnonymousI think its in Real Genius as well
  • AnonymousRon the movie is called Together in Electric Dreams
  • Ron from VirginiaIt was in an 80s movie about a computer that becomes alive and helps a shy boy find love, then the computer goes crazy, and I can’t remember the dam movie name
  • Jacky from NjWhat movie played this song? Its been in my head and I think I heard it in a movie but can’t remember, it’s driving me nuts! Help!
  • CheekemonkeyWas this song featured in an 80s movie?
  • Albert from AlbertaThe model in the video is Cassandra Delaney who was married to John Denver from '88-'93.
  • Krista from Chicago, IlI just love this song! The lyrics are excellent!
  • Camille from Toronto, OhI agree, Travis, the 80s were filled with little gems like this one. I always liked the song.
  • Travis from Grandisland, FlGreat song! God the 80's were filled with little gems like this one. I still of the lines "Oh I had a dream, For a moment I believed it was true
    Oh I'd have given anything just to be there with you
    Are you hiding somewhere behind those eyes?"


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