We Can Get Together

Not to be confused with Can We Get Together.

"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]

"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)

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)

1. "We Can Get Together" - 3:37
2. "Paradise Lost" - 5:54

7" single (UK release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)

10" single (UK release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)
3. "Paradise Lost"

7" single (US release)

1. "We Can Get Together"
2. "Not My Kind"

7" single (Europe release)

1. "We Can Get Together" (Edit)
2. "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