Icehouse - Measure for Measure
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Artist: IcehouseEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Published: 2002
CD Release Date: 2002-10-21
Music Label: Wea Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Paradise
- No Promises
- Mr. Big
- Angel Street
- The Flame
- Regular Boys
- Cross the Border
- Spanish Gold
- Lucky Me
- Baby, You're So Strange
- Too Late Now
- Into the Wild
- Just a Word [*]
- The Perfect Crime [*]
- The Flame [Live][*]
- No Promises [Live][*]
- Sister [Live][*]
Free Music Notes for Measure for Measure
Free Music Review: Iconic Album for the 80s
Hit: 5 Stars
Despite this album being grounded musically in the 80s aural soundscapes it still holds up very well over time. The original album was produced in the mid 80s when digital audio was just new and mastering had gone up a notch and CDs were still a new technology, so to buy a DDD compact disc was a rare thing. I recall buying this the same summer as Peter Gabriel's "So," playing both on my CD player, and just being blown away by the fidelity. A wonderful summer those albums became a soundtrack of sorts to it, and both albums will always hold a fondness in my heart.
In terms of the music on this CD it's, as I think other reviewers have said here, incredibly underrated material. Their label at the time did a horrid job and marketing/getting the word out but I remember most friends who'd come over to my loft hearing this album, winding up buying it, it's that good, but because it got so little play, both on the radio (which, in the 80s, was still a decent place to find new music) or even in stores, it floundered in sales, a complete shame for the quality of songwriting, songcraft, and musicianship on this stellar album. Iva Davies vocals have never been finer here, his use of his range to convey and emote across the songs bests any of the other Icehouse work, including in my opinion the lesser effort that is "Man of Colours," which is to say, if there's only one Icehouse album to own, this is the one.
Also impressive is the little known Sydney Dance Company production "Boxes" which, not only used the music from Measure for Measure, was also available on video around the same time. Though it's been 20 years since I've seen it, I recall the video made for Australian TV had Iva Davies and Icehouse starring in the staging for the video, a passionate and moving performance with dancers and the band. Now THAT is a rare find.
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