"No Promises"
Single by Icehouse
from the album Measure for Measure
B-side"The Perfect Crime"
Released28 October 1985[1]
Recorded1985
GenreNew wave
Length4:10
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Icehouse singles chronology
"Dusty Pages"
(1984) 		"No Promises"
(1985) 		"Baby You're So Strange"
(1986)

"No Promises" is a song by Australian band Icehouse, released in October 1985,[1] as the first single issued from the band's 1986 album, Measure for Measure. The single was released in Australia through Regular Records, on 7", 12" and maxi-cassette single formats. Chrysalis Records issued the single in the UK and Europe on 7" and 12" formats, with different track listings. "No Promises" was subsequently released in the US by Chrysalis on 7" and 12" formats, again with different track listings. The single peaked at #30 on the Australian singles chart in February 1986.[2][3] A remixed version by (Love) Tattoo was included on the Icehouse remix album Meltdown in 2002.[4] Two music videos were filmed to promote the single; the second of these was directed by Dieter Trattmann.

Track listings

7" single (Australian/NZ release)
  1. "No Promises" - 4:10
  2. "The Perfect Crime" - 3:34
7" single (UK/Europe release)
  1. "No Promises" - 4:10
  2. "The Perfect Crime" - 3:34
12" single (Australian/NZ release)
  1. "No Promises" (extended mix)
  2. "The Tempest"
  3. "Gravity"
  4. "Terra Incognito"
12" single (UK/Europe release)
  1. "No Promises" (extended mix) - 7:00
  2. "No Promises" - 3:40
  3. "The Perfect Crime" - 5:58
7" single (US release)
  1. "No Promises" - 3:59
  2. "Into The Wild" - 4:52
12" single (US release)
  1. "No Promises" (club mix) - 8:45
  2. "No Promises" (dub) - 5:10
  3. "No Promises" (instrumental) - 4:40

Charts

Chart (1985-1986) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 30
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[5] 34
Canada (RPM Top Singles)[citation needed] 61
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6] 29
UK Singles (OCC)[7] 72
US Billboard Hot 100[8] 79
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks[9] 9
US Billboard Dance Club Songs[10] 7
US Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales[11] 32

Trivia

Neil Peart of Rush has claimed in his memoirs "Roadshow - Landscape With Drums: a Concert Tour by Motorcycle" that "No Promises" was his favorite song during August of 1986:[12]

One week in August of '86, I went down to Newport with a group of friends from Toronto (the parking tag from Newport Yacht Club still hangs in my garage, and my favorite song at the time was "No Promises," by an Australian band called Icehouse-I remember playing it again and again as I drove my Porsche 911 convertible through the White Mountains of New Hampshire).

— Neil Peart, January 2006

References

  1. ^ a b "Kent Music Report No 590 – 28 October 1985 > Singles: New Releases". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 24 July 2020 – via Imgur.com.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Charts Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. p. 147. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Music Report chart was licensed by ARIA from mid-1983 to 12 June 1988.
  3. ^ a b "Australian ARIA Chart Top 50 Singles – Week Ending 16th February, 1986". ARIA. Retrieved 24 July 2020 – via Imgur.com.
  4. ^ "Meltdown credits". allmusic guide. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  5. ^ "Icehouse – No Promises" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Icehouse – No Promises". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Dance Singles Sales". Billboard. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  12. ^ Peart, Neil. "Roadshow - Landscape With Drums: a Concert Tour by Motorcycle". cygnus-x1.net. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
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