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Boxes by Icehouse
Boxes is an album by Icehouse, released in 1985. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “No Promises”, on 10 lists with a best position of #86.
Boxes is the odd one out in the Icehouse catalog: not a band album at all but the score for a ballet, released on Festival in November 1985 and credited to the Sydney Dance Company with Iva Davies. Davies wrote it with his Icehouse partner Robert Kretschmer, working hand in hand with the company's choreographer Graeme Murphy, and the piece premiered on 7 November 1985 in the Sydney Opera House's Opera Theatre, with the two of them playing live alongside guest percussionist Masaki Tanazawa.
Wedged between Sidewalk and Measure for Measure, it lets Davies, the man who had done so much to bring synthesizers into Australian pop, stretch out beyond the three-minute single into moody, cinematic synth-pop built for bodies in motion. "No Promises" is the track that crossed over from the stage to the radio.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Boxes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Promises | 10 | #86 | – | 1986–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.