"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian

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band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in October 1981 on

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for the Australian market. The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse, they had signed to

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and most of Flowers' material was released under the new name into Europe, UK and US markets. "Love in Motion" peaked at #10 on the Australian singles charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until

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created their own

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in mid-1988. The B-side, "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" was included on the 1982 album '' Primitive Man'' with "Love in Motion" included on the Chrysalis Records US / European versions of the album, the UK 1983 version of the album was re-titled '' Love in Motion''. Both tracks of the single were written by the Flowers/Icehouse founder and mainstay Iva Davies Note: requires user to input song title e.g. LOVE IN MOTION who recorded the tracks while Icehouse were on tour in

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using the

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, and produced them with Steve Nye. In 1992, Icehouse released a compilation album '' Masterfile'' on Massive Records, which included the Davies duet with Christina Amphlett of

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on "Love in Motion" also released as a CD-single. A 1996 Icehouse compilation was called '' Love in Motion'' and released by dIVA / Massive Records. A remix version by

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was released on the Icehouse album '' Meltdown'' in 2002.

Track listing

All tracks written by Iva Davies.

1981 single (Australian/NZ release)

# "Love in Motion" - 3:41 # "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" - 4:00

1992 single (featuring Christina Amphlett)

# "Love in Motion" (single edit) # "Love in Motion" (7" with Lenin version) # "Crazy" (original version) # "Love in Motion" (original Laswell version)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{authority control 1981 singles 1992 singles Icehouse (band) songs Songs written by Iva Davies 1981 songs Regular Records singles