Can't Help Myself (Flowers song)

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B-side"Send Somebody"
Released13 May 1980 (1980-05-13)
Recorded1980
Genre
"Can't Help Myself"
Vinyl single label with word Regular Records written at top. Single title, Can't Help Myself is written across lower half followed by songwriting credit, Iva Davies. Bottom has artist name, Flowers, followed with Produced by Cameron Allan.
"Can't Help Myself" by Flowers
Single by Flowers
from the album Icehouse
B-side"Send Somebody"
Released13 May 1980 (1980-05-13)
Recorded1980
Genre
Length3:10
Label
Songwriter(s)Iva Davies
Producer(s)
Flowers singles chronology
"Can't Help Myself"
(1980)		 "We Can Get Together"
(1980)
Music video
"Can't Help Myself" on YouTube
"Can't Help Myself" by Flowers
Alternative cover
Band name, Flowers, at top, four men are shown diagonally across the middle, with title, Can't Help Myself, at bottom.
10" version (July 1980)
"Can't Help Myself" by Icehouse
Alternative cover
Single title across top, followed by five separated photos of band members diagonally down to right. Band name, Icehouse, displayed step-wise at bottom left.
Chrysalis Records (US / UK 1981 release)

"Can't Help Myself" is the first single released by the Australian synth-pop/rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse.[1][2] It was released in May 1980 as a 7" vinyl single on independent label, Regular Records, five months ahead of debut album Icehouse. A 10" vinyl single was released in July and had a cover depicting individual images of band members diagonally across the band's name and the single's title (see infobox at right middle). It peaked at #10 on the Australian Singles Charts.[3]

The music video was filmed in 1980 in a car park in Chatswood, Sydney.[4]

It was also released in the UK on Chrysalis Records in October 1981 as the second single under the band name Icehouse (see infobox at right below) as both a 7" and 10" vinyl single and later in the U.S. as a 7" and 12" single.[5] A remix version by Australian Trance DJ, beXta, was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.[6]

In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Can't Help Myself" was ranked number 85.[7]

In a single review Cash Box magazine called it "a quick stepping rhythm embellished by both guitar and synthesiser, draws the listener in."[8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Iva Davies (as Ivor Arthur Davies) unless otherwise indicated.[9][10][11]

7" single (Australian release)

  1. "Can't Help Myself" - 3:10
  2. "Send Somebody" (Iva Davies, Michael Hoste)[10] - 3:42

10" single (Australian release)

  1. "Can't Help Myself"
  2. "Send Somebody" (Davies, Hoste)
  3. "Can't Help Myself" (Extended version)

7" single (UK release)

  1. "Can't Help Myself" (Club Mix 1) - 3:27
  2. "Fatman"[11] - 3:50

12" single (UK release)

  1. "Can't Help Myself" (Club Mix 1)
  2. "Can't Help Myself" (Club Mix 2)
  3. "Fatman"

12" single (US release)

  1. "Can't Help Myself" (Version 1) - 5:56
  2. "Can't Help Myself" (Version 2) - 5:56

Personnel

Charts

References

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