White Heat: 30 Hits is a two-disc compilation album released by Australian

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 band Icehouse

Icehouse (band)

Icehouse is an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S...

 on 26 August 2011 in Australia. It is their third best-of compilation, following 1989's Great Southern Land

Great Southern Land (album)

Great Southern Land is a compilation album by Australian rock synthpop band, Icehouse released by Chrysalis Records / Regular Records in October 1989. It peaked at #2 on the Australian albums charts, and contained two singles "Touch the Fire", which peaked at #13 on the singles charts, and "Jimmy...

and 1992's Masterfile.

The album presents the band's complete singles catalogue, all in chronological order, with 15 tracks on each disc. There is also a 3-disc edition which includes a DVD featuring all 32 of the band's music videos, also in chronological order.

The compilation was announced on 7 July 2011, in a press release by Universal Music.

Following the release of the Flowers Icehouse 30th Anniversary edition earlier this year, I was overwhelmed by the incredible amount of support and enthusiasm there was out there for the entire Icehouse catalogue. Many of the requests for what to put out next focused around some of the compilations we had released in the past.

I looked at the past sets and realised that there had never been a collection of every single we’d ever released throughout the history of the band nor a DVD compilation of every clip so that’s what we decided to do. Our criteria for the inclusion of tracks was that they had to have been released somewhere in the world as a single AND have had a clip made for them (in a couple of cases, two clips!). (Iva Davies

Iva Davies

Iva Davies , is the frontman for Australian electro/new wave/rock band Icehouse.-Biography:...

, speaking in the press release).

The album artwork was designed by Sydney design studio Debaser, and features the laser cage in which Iva Davies performed in during the band's time as Flowers. This can be seen in the "Flowers Folio" section of the band's website.

The tracks were remastered by Steve Smart at Studios 301 Mastering.

Tracklisting

DVD

1. "Can't Help Myself"
2. "We Can Get Together" (Australasian Version)
3. "We Can Get Together" (International Version)
4. "Walls"
5. "Icehouse"
6. "Love In Motion" (Original Version)
7. "Great Southern Land"
8. "Hey, Little Girl"
9. "Street Cafe"
10. "Glam"
11. "Taking the Town"
12. "Don't Believe Anymore"
13. "Dusty Pages"
14. "No Promises" (International Version)
15. "No Promises" (UK Version)
16. "Baby, You're So Strange"
17. "Mr Big"
18. "Cross the Border"
19. "Crazy" (Australasian Version)
20. "Crazy" (International Version)
21. "Electric Blue"
22. "My Obsession"
23. "Man of Colours"
24. "Nothing Too Serious"
25. "Touch the Fire"
26. "Big Fun"
27. "Miss Divine"
28. "Anything Is Possible"
29. "Satellite"
30. "Big Wheel"
31. "Invisible People"
32. "Love In Motion" (with Christina Amphlett)
33. "Sister" (from Countdown 1980)