Great Southern Land

About Great Southern Land

Great Southern Land is a compilation album by Australian rock/synthpop band Icehouse, released by Chrysalis Records / Regular Records in October 1989. It peaked at #2 on the Australian albums charts, and contained two new singles "Touch the Fire", which peaked at #13 on the singles charts, and "Jimmy Dean", which peaked at #47. There are quite a few different versions of this album, the Regular Records release for Australian / New Zealand markets was as a 16 track double vinyl LP, twin music cassette or CD; Chrysalis Records US versions were as 10 track LP / music cassette or 11 track CD release with a different track order; Chrysalis Records UK versions had 12 tracks (some not included on original Australian release); and a video version of 15 tracks was released in VHS PAL format.  more »