Icehouse - Cross the Border

[TheAussieinspain]

The best ever band EVER

[roadglide21]

Don't know why but the beat to this song reminds me of the song "Shout" by Tears for Fears.

[Destikim]

4 people prefer justin bieber music x(

[eddybck7]

AWESOME TUNE

[ginodiavonti]

Iva's singing reminds me a little of Bryan Ferry in this work. Such a class act. TY

[firstperson760]

Much better than Midnight Oil. Better tunes without all the whining ("let's give it back!")

[gambitakerx]

someone can tell a similar band ?icehouse is one of my favorite but i searching more

[boogiefever1985]

@gambitakerx Try Tears for Fears, David Bowie, Roxy Music. That sort of thing.

[0917gva]

Love, love this one. Fantastic accompanying video. Just fantastic all the way around. Thank you for a great post.

[jonnybridge]

That is one EPIC song!

[MrGziss]

awesome is rite. thanks for the post..and keeping the good sh*t alive.

...wish i had some icehouse dvds

[MegaJyms]

British and Australian bands are the best!!

[Gitaspeaks]

I am addicted to this song. I love how many Icehouse songs are so multilayered. They work on several levels - as metaphor, allegory. they're not just literal. Unlike a lot of popular music today. And no autotune, thank god.

[JMSS143]

Love Icehouse! Especially this song. Iva is no doubt good looking but, I've always thought the guitar player (name?)  is ultra-hot! <3

[22ndWave]

Deserved to chart higher. Such a cool band/ Come on Iva, get that new album out!!!

[84DTinman]

Just a good sounding band.

[crazygrainger2006]

When the band recorded the albums "Sidewalk", "Measure for Measure" and "Masterfile", it featured the legendary Guy Pratt on Bass.

[majito3180]

SIMPLE THE BEST!!!!!

[Roxtqz]

Essa música maravilhosa foi pouco tocada, mas é mais uma grande canção do excelente Icehouse, tempos que não voltam mais, mas as músicas ficam eternas.

[tweeber69]

I just picked up this album at a thrift store today. $1

[Sheepdawg7]

Iva Davies...brilliant. Why did we go the wrong way. This stuff was amazing.

[KIMMYDURANFAN1982]

If you don't have their greatest hits, get it.

[calgal1967]

Is there another man that can actually do the mullet justice like Iva?

[jotenor]

@calgal1967 no.

[occhiverdi19]

qui il cantante era prorpio figoooooooooo

[ALESSA73]

Just one thing:

He was so hot in the 80´s

but the recent videos, auchhhhh

Not good been old.

:(

I mean, so men with years look better

(like Sean Connery) but not him

so dissapointed.

[jotenor]

I understand what you are saying, I was also surprised to see how he did not age well. Some of the recent videos of him that I have watched he actually looks pretty good, it just depends. I think if he did his hair different and colored it that it would help. He is still very awesome!

[MsNapcat]

@ALESSA73 smoking and to much sun is a very bad thing

[aussietv2]

@ALESSA73 you'll be there one day, you're views will change.

[manjucus]

Hands up all those surfing through the Icehouse clips......Addictive isn't it?

[Keruaran]

Dammit this should have always been the FIRST single released from Measure For Measure. Baby You're So Strange was a surefire hit, but Cross The Border deserved to be put out in front.

[matt20092]

@Keruaran your dead right mate. I always thought that too.  I was a bit dissapointed in the whole album. Primative man, and Flowers were a hard act to follow. I luv Iva, but his music seemed to loose edge, as he went on. I thank him deeply for his music.

[Keruaran]

Yes, I think Iva should just do whatever he finds most challenging and satisfying. I have the impression that he's grown out of pop music, and if he's getting bored and just trying to make himself do it, the music gets boring also.

I think his non-pop work in more recent years shows that perhaps he should work on more film scores and other interesting projects. For example, I really liked his work which he did with Christopher Gordan and Richard Tongetti on the movie Master & Commander.

[matt20092]

@Keruaran yep, your right. Being a classical oboe player for the SSO, I guess pop music is a little shallow. But thats why I thought he would've gone down more of a Bowie route, and not put out pretty commercial stuff in the end. (I hope he's not listening in) lol

[Keruaran]

Well, Iva is a Bowie fan so maybe he'll still surprise us yet. :)

[Kedgereeclub]

With original recordings of the wall in 1961.

[georgeman2468]

Yes, does sound like Jim Kerr!

[Philipe0849]

Iva Davies sounds like Australians version of Jim Kerr of Simple Minds in this song... Both great voices...

[OldRottenDingo]

i like "Great Southern Land" really MUCH more.

[ASkywalker1]

don't make songs like this anymore, a damn shame. Long live Iva Davies and Icehouse!!

[jotenor]

well said!

[Microsloth]

Great band.... great music, very well produced.

[caitlinniamh]

Thanks for posting. This band were so under-rated in their homeland. From "Icehouse" to now the music is top notch. And from a feminine perspective he is very yummy.

[AJMST3K]

Could this video be anymore 80s? Mullet: check. Keytar: check. Cold War era theme: check. Trying to pass off a skinny hairless guy as a hunk: check.

(BTW, I do like this song.)

[nobbiedog]

skinny hairless guy..wheres he then

[Monamika84]

@AJMST3K hmm...you forgot a cool guitar solo:check. The 80s are the best!!!!

[Purrfectstranger]

great posting!

[spuddiem]

Voice in this is very like Jim Kerr in the early days of Simple Minds.

[glenhomer22]

Really great 80's tune! I really wish today's music was like this.

[jotenor]

amen.

[johndevault]

not bad sounds like the Fixx

[lisafs1]

nice beret wheels....!!! i think your ma made it for you.... hehehe!

[McKaganNN]

вокалист совершает какие-то непонятные движения на протяжении всего клипа :\

место 3:07-3:11 позабавило особенно :)))

[Crazyholger]

almost forgotten this perfect song. Never grow old. Better than the music today. Isnt it possible to make such fantastic melodies.

[Keruaran]

I forgot about this song ! Now I remember why I played this album to death in the mid 80's. So underrated.

[1986Testarossa]

cool song

[dvscorp]

Next to Billy Ray Cyrus - Iva's mid-80's mullet was one of the premier mullets of the 80's.

[Keruaran]

Iva certainly had a premium mullet. :P

Bono had an excellent mullet too... in fact his claims responsibioity for it. ;)

[ostra2007]

basistą jest glen krawczyk ojciec starego krawczyka

[ASkywalker1]

One of their best. ICEHOUSE are legendary.

[gaae2000]

...were waiting here in San francisco!!!!!!!!!!!!ROCK ON AGAIN DUDE

[Icehouse86]

MEASURE FOR MEASURE is still the geatest album ever made for me. Iva is/was a really great performer and singer.

[saeibok]

ICEHOUSE the best band ever!GREAT SONG!

[ostra2007]

witom

[timclasen]

ICEHOUSE- needs resurgence....this band is so good, if you all only knew..........

[eilirudy]

I know

[BB76USA]

The fans continue to wait. It's torture.

[ASkywalker1]

Believe me, I know. I grew up with them. Apparently there is an unreleased Icehouse album called 'Bipolar Poems' and a couple of the songs 'Your God Not Mine' and 'Big House' have been posted here on youtube. Check them out.

[Keruaran]

I had a listen to them. Not too bad. Interesting.

[knit1purl1]

Thanks so much for this. I had not seen this video in ages. A good riddance to that horrible Eastern block.

[upfrontbear74]

I had forgotten how many great songs they did.

[saeibok]

the 80 great time-great musik!-icecold musik!

[coffycup75]

I love this song so much. Second fave after Electric Blue (for sentimental reasons).

[opensourcethong]

nice song, but one of the corniest videos ever made

[vamborooolz]

well..it went with territory back then darling..

80's mullets..bad drum sounds..we thought we looked cool...just like people do now...until

they look at themselves further down the line....things move on

[Monamika84]

@vamborooolz people in the 80s looked cooler. Iva in this video is gorgeous. I love the hair, the clothes, the moves. The 80s were the best. The music was awesome (and drum sounds were perfect). The 90s destroyed everything...and the 2000s... it's a pain to even talk about the 2000s

[NinjaRaider2]

Sounds like "Steve Irwen, Steve Irwen, he Crossed the bor-der.

[s1201]

AMAZING!! I love this song, i can' stop listening to it!! Thanks

[yoscottyb]

Great song, thanks for posting it!

[sommer2007]

Awesome song.

[michael49221]

This gave me great memories!I saw them at the Raffles Hotel in Perth West Australia 1984 and they were awesome. Ive been and still go to tons of concerts and that was my best ever concert experience.

[re20bt]

probably my favourite icehouse song

his vocals in this particular song give me goosebumps!

[dreamssoreal]

my fav also

[michaelmoval]

Can anybody upload "Miss Divine" video for me, please?

[vsfreaks]

what is the album which contains this song?

[Calbear94]

Measure for Measure.

[MartinIrma]

@Calbear94 I have it also on Great Southern Land.

[mannyR37]

@Calbear94 Such a great album!

[pandaplodder]

its also on the album Great Southern Land (not sure if thats a greatest hits one?)

[sundogA]

Sort of. It has most of their big hits prior to Man Of Colours, but also a couple of new tracks (one of which - Jimmy Dean - was single quality).

[josephus72]

Thanks heaps for posting this. I've loved this song for ages but have never seen the clip until now.

[joostisabelle]

terrific song

[Bexhillian]

Agreed, Tubeway Army, Roxy Music, Tonight era Bowie and Simple Minds........ It'll be Nine Inch Nails next...lol

[Maxiclaudi]

Steve Jansen, ex Japan, drummed with David Sylvian lately, also drummed on this album!

[Kilt2302]

Shows pictures of our border....brutal but true and beside that it is an georgeous song!!!

[KyoCaz]

Thanks so much for posting this - I grew up listening to this! ^^

[mlower1968]

I loved Icehouse - along with Japan they were my favourite bands of the 80's. I even copied Iva's hair....

[crazygrainger2006]

Yay, Icehouse! Nice find, as well.

[kmphilcox]

this is one of my TOP 10 albums of all time....

every song is killer!

[big80sfan]

rare indeed! great find. Nice clip!

[none02910]

this was one of the best songs Icehouse did live when they opened for Cars Door to Door tour in 1989.I always thought Icehouse did a video for this song :-)

[Zmade]

Amazing song. Thank you so much for this.

[jokeypo1963]

Iva Davies is a Hunk. Great song. Fantastic Band! The Best!

[yanzzah]

though this a cool song as others but i think they resembles more of Simple Minds.

[BB76USA]

How can anyone not love this band? Anyway, Simon's pants could've been much tighter.

[dya91101]

Iva Davies was a babe! I love his long hair during this time! Icehouse rocks!

[mjfbush]

Do you have the video for "No Promises"?

[grimmo74]

This is soo cool! love icehouse!

[sc52p]

TOTALLY agree. really appreciate your posting this.