“Can't Help Myself” by Flowers

"Can't Help Myself" was the first single from Flowers, the Australian synth-pop/rock outfit that later renamed itself Icehouse, and it came out in May 1980 as a seven-inch on the independent Regular Records, five months before the debut album Icehouse. Iva Davies, the band's singer and lead guitarist, wrote it, crediting part of the spark to the guitar sounds near the fade of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".

It went to 10 in Australia and 29 in New Zealand, with a video shot in a Sydney car park in Chatswood. The song kept changing shape: the album carries a longer remix, and once Flowers became Icehouse in 1981, Davies and Ed Thacker remixed the record for Chrysalis and sent a new mix of the single out around the world on seven- and 12-inch vinyl.

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