No Promises (Icehouse song)

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{{Infobox song

| name = No Promises

| cover = Np-icehouse.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Icehouse

| album = Measure for Measure

| B-side = The Perfect Crime

| released = 28 October 1985{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/Oa1RM4s.jpg|title=Kent Music Report No 590 – 28 October 1985 > Singles: New Releases|publisher=Kent Music Report|via=Imgur.com|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

| recorded = 1985

| studio =

| genre = New wave

| length = 4:10

| label =

| writer =

| producer =

| prev_title = Dusty Pages

| prev_year = 1984

| next_title = Baby You're So Strange

| next_year = 1986

}}

"No Promises" is a song by Australian band Icehouse, released in October 1985, 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.{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Charts Book 1970–1992|isbn=0-646-11917-6|year=1993|publisher=Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W.|page=147}} N.B. The Kent Music Report chart was licensed by ARIA from mid-1983 to 12 June 1988. A remixed version by (Love) Tattoo was included on the Icehouse remix album Meltdown in 2002.{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r615650|pure_url=yes}} |title=Meltdown credits |publisher=allmusic guide |accessdate=16 July 2008}}

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

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!Chart (1985-1986)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/taPRoik.jpg|title=Australian ARIA Chart Top 50 Singles – Week Ending 16th February, 1986|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

|align=center|30

{{singlechart|Flanders|34|artist=Icehouse|song=No Promises|rowheader=true|accessdate=24 July 2020}}
scope="row"|Canada (RPM Top Singles){{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

|align=center|61

{{singlechart|New Zealand|29|artist=Icehouse|song=No Promises|rowheader=true|accessdate=24 July 2020}}
{{singlechart|UK|72|date=19860427|rowheader=true|accessdate=24 July 2020}}
scope="row"|US Billboard Hot 100{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/icehouse/chart-history/hsi/|title=Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Hot 100|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

|align=center|79

scope="row"|US Billboard Top Rock Tracks{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/icehouse/chart-history/rtt/|title=Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Mainstream Rock Songs|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

|align=center|9

scope="row"|US Billboard Dance Club Songs{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/icehouse/chart-history/dsi/|title=Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Dance Club Songs|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

|align=center|7

scope="row"|US Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/icehouse/chart-history/dsa/|title=Billboard Chart History > Icehouse > Dance Singles Sales|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=24 July 2020}}

|align=center|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:{{Cite web|last=Peart|first=Neil|title=Roadshow - Landscape With Drums: a Concert Tour by Motorcycle|url=https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/peart-roadshow.php|access-date=2023-08-17|website=cygnus-x1.net}}

{{Quote|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}}

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