Icehouse - Primitive Man
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Artist: IcehouseEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-10-21
Music Label: Wea Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Great Southern Land
- Uniform
- Hey Little Girl
- Street Cafe
- Glam [Instrumental]
- Trojan Blue
- One by One
- Break These Chains
- Mysterious Thing
- Goodnight, Mr. Matthews
- Over the Line [*]
- Glam [12" Version][*]
- Uniform [German Version][*]
- Street Cafe [Single Mix][*]
- Love in Motion [*]
- Can't Help Myself [Live][*]
- We Can Get Together [Live][*]
Free Music Notes for Primitive Man
Free Music Review: More Than a Synth-Pop Record
Hit: 5 Stars
At first listen, the typical genre labels are usually thrown at this work: "Synth-Pop", "New-Wave" and inappropriately "New Romantic". While it does scale these genres, Primitive Man possesses a good amount of aural atmospherics, musical backbone and a sufficient amount of guitar to it to give it rock credibility. A lost classic and an excellent album in its time, it only peaked at #129 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart in 1982
Most of the bonuses and add-ons to this remastered and repackaged version are welcome additions but I still prefer the original ten tracks in their original order. In fact, when I finally replaced my old 1982 cassette copy with the CD remaster this year; I burned a CD-R with the original running order, sans the bonus tracks. I guess I am indeed a stick in the mud. The track order when Primitive Man was originally released in 1982 ran this way:
1 Uniform
2 Street Cafe
3 Hey Little Girl
4 Glam
5 Great Southern Land
6 Trojan Blue
7 Love in Motion
8 Mysterious Thing
9 One by One
10 Goodnight, Mr. Matthews
Quality cuts are abundant on Primitive Man . "Uniform" has a martial-sounding bridge and excellent and chilling synth riffs. "Street Café" is an airy and atmosphere track that shifts between ballad verses and a mid-tempo chorus, and the bonus version in the remaster does the original version justice. " Hey Little Girl" a pensive track, strangely was the only song from the album to score rock radio airplay, peaking at #31 on Billboard's Album Rock Track Chart in 1982. "Great Southern Land" a band and fan classic, shows Icehouse leader Iva Davies providing a deeper and more substantial portrayal of his native Australia, much better than fellow Aussies Men At Work's picture postcard portrayal "Down Under" which ironically was released the same year to much more commercial success than Davies' epic.
"Trojan Blue" is one of the Primitive Man's best tracks, an epic but yet subtle and ethereal song that has a slow but effective guitar riff to it. "One By One" is the most dated and unapologetically 1980's song in this set, right down to the droning vocals, quirky guitars and eerie synths. It sounds like it could have wound up on a Depeche Mode or Smiths record. The original album closes on a very high note with the anthemic "Good Night, Mr. Matthews".
More Roxy Music and Ultravox than Human League, Primitive Man is a great album and that possesses the finer points of New Wave, Art-Rock, timeless Pop elements and of course, some fine guitar work.
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