INXS Poll: The best track on Kick

I listened to this recently and was surprised how well it stood up. I like a few songs from Listen Like Thieves a little more, but the production on that one is more dated.

Ended up going with "Need You Tonight" by an "aah", but depending on the day I could have gone with pretty much anything besides "Devil Inside".

it's a load of shit

Never liked INXS, but Johnny's right, there is one here - 'Never Tear us Apart'

I only know the singles, "Devil Inside" is not completely bad.

Great poll!

Good album - totally holds up. I love "Mystify" and "Need You Tonight," but picked "Guns in the Sky" because I played it once at a club between, like, DJ /rupture and Psychcic TV, and everyone seemed to go bonkers.

Never Tear Us Apart

forever and always and I don't even have a love interest I connect to the song, so there.

Assholes Could Fly - Where were you on the Psychic TV thread man? We could have used the company!

Only retarded cunts could ever listen an INXS song for more than five seconds.

Honestly, how could it be anything other than "New Sensation"?

I <i>hated</i> "Need You Tonight" in 1988, now it sounds great.

"Devil Inside", but "New Sensation" is close.

"Devil Inside" is great, probably the best of the rest is "Never Tear Us Apart".

Every one of the singles on this album is so huge!
"Tiny Daggers" is sort of the odd one out, but it's really good, too.
Still voted Guns in the Sky, cuz they want to put GUNS in the SKY!?!?!?!

And Need You Tonight/Mediate always get played together, don't they?

the definitive revisionist INXS essay still needs to be written.

And Need You Tonight/Mediate always get played together, don't they?

only if they're being played off the album, cos the one goes into the other innit

INXS - Classicking or Dudding?

I wish I could find dave q's little write-up on Guns In The Sky, he makes it sound like some real avant shit

LA LA LA
LOVE YOUR HAIR

oh, sorry, it's "da da da"

When I saw them live way back when, they had an intermission in the middle of Never Tear Us Apart - it was like ten minutes, and then the srings and the drums came back in - doo doo DOO dooo....I was like 11, it was awesome

Haven't read dave q's piece, but, for an opening tune, Guns In The Sky IS quite insane.

What a cool fucking way to go about an intermission. I'm serious.

there better be a combined 0 votes for the fucking b-side of this album. Most top-heavy LP in history.

Aside from "Never Tear Us Apart," of course.

Don't dismiss "Mystify" and "Calling All Nations" so quick.

Guns In The Sky IS quite insane.

This would sound totally at home mixed with Mark Stewart & the Mafia.

Side 2 is fine, dude - "Mystify" is one of my favorites. But yeah, the rest is kinda meh, I guess. Even "Wild Life" (which, if I remember right, ends side 1) is pretty dull. God how the hell do I remember this shit?

"Need You Tonight" may be close to the only INXS track worth voting for at all.

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Hmm. Even though I voted for Never Tear Us Apart, I rather wish New Sensation had won rather than the bare bones nothingness of Need You Tonight.

New Sensation still gives me goose pimples.

Honestly, how could it be anything other than "New Sensation"?

Seriously OTM. New Sensation forgives a lot of sins.

That's it! It forgives the sins! Totally, man. Cause it's like...I mean I'm an atheist, but the whole song is like this sermon.

Does anyone know the story of why Michael Hutchence says "Trumpet!" right before the sax solo in "New Sensation"?

had never rly gotten to know Pengilly

lol

"guns in the sky" is so dope, it's like the gangsta rap album intro of inxs songs

everytime i played that tape in the car w/ the fam i'd always have to suddenly cough loudly over the 'it's a load of shit' part

"no, he said 'it's a load of trumpet'"