best song: 'just keep walking'
a handful of good singles, but even the greatest hits comp is difficult to stomach all the way through the 'kick' era was slick and catchy, but ultimately gimmicky and shallow
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 13 April 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
they had michael hutchence. he is classic all the way. oh yes, i am being superficial.
― ConnieXX, Sunday, 13 April 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I love "Never Tear Us Apart" and haven't looked for much else.
― Tape Store, Sunday, 13 April 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh shit. Bimble is an early 80's Top 40 whore. Oh no. Call the cops. Don't Change.
― Bat Penatar (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 22 December 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
since recent snap decision to sing 'need you tonight' at karaoke i have been revisiting 'the years', the singles comp from a few years ago. the cover of 'the loved one' is appalling, otherwise the first disc of that 'the years' singles comp is so, so classic.
― "shrimp" on the "barbie" (haitch), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
*checks track listing*
yes i agree
― the barenaked ladies are the roaring night (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome to Wherever You Are wins at life.
― 14d. South African cleric (2,2) (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Perfect place to cut it off, you can immediately take the second disc out and tie it to the porch to dazzle cats
― dick cave & the anal beads (sic), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't Change is getting a lot of love on this thread, but let's not forget To Look at You from the same album, which is fantastic. So romantic!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, I looked at the tracklist for Years and I love "Suicide Blonde" a lot but um not really anything else on that 2nd disc
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
posting this meters away from where they michael hutchance killed himself ~spooky~
― Pro Bono Impersonator (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
FYI the more years pass, the more that INXS sounds really shit.
But do yourself a favour and read Rhett Hutchence's 'TotalXS' for some of the best laughs that you'll ever have.
― Pro Bono Impersonator (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Garry Gary Beers
GARRY GARY BEERS
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
There been a thread about this shit yet?
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2010/10/21/inxs-original-sin-tracklist-rob-thomas-ben-harper-jd-fortune/
― EL CUCUY (lpz), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you have GOT to be kidding. ugh.
wtf is wrong with them? as if Terence Trent Darby and Jon Stevens and that stupid freaking reality show weren't bad enough.
can we send them some kind of cease and desist?
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing wrong with TTD
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- first read that as Jon Stewart.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing wrong with TTD, as long as he's not fronting INXS ffs.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
This has been out here for 1.5 weeks and I haven't heard a single thing about it. Says everything.
― 14d. South African cleric (2,2) (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, wtf is Kav Temperly doing on this thing?
― 14d. South African cleric (2,2) (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPyIyRa_c4
this is kind of the bomb though
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
hand me my gun.
xpost, Autumn; gives me faith in my homeland that they're avoiding it like the diseased thing it is.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
#65 here, according to wikipaedia. How did these people find out about it?
― 14d. South African cleric (2,2) (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
It went up on album blogs last week. That's the only reason I knew about it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I think if INXS and TTD could've made it work, there would've been some decent new material as a result.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
65? Surely not.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
don't worry, i think you only need to sell 20 copies to get to #65 these days
― "shrimp" on the "barbie" (haitch), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
36 copies is double platinum iirc.
― IN BEDDING WITH MADONNA!!! (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Man I haven't listened to these guys in forever, since my copies of Kick, X, and Welcome to Wherever You Are were stolen. Loved Kick SO much in junior high.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought a few of them on Itunes not long ago, since I'd only ever had them on cassette til moved here. My copy of Kick was a cheap pirated version my best friend bought back from her holiday in Bali, lol.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
singing?
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to Kick now is like getting in a time machine.
I put on Shabooh Shoobah and was like holy crap I remember all of these songs, and I don't think ever owned it!
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I got Kick on picture-disc vinyl when it came out. Played it to death. Still got it somewhere.
― IN BEDDING WITH MADONNA!!! (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
xp to sic: HAR
― IN BEDDING WITH MADONNA!!! (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a better match for them than JD Fortune!
tbf, Tricky on Mediate and Dan Sultan on Just Keep Walking are good choices
― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Loved Kick SO much in junior high.
Yep, me too. Had that one and Listen Like Thieves on cassette.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone get/getting the remasters? They're not outrageous as imports to the states (I don't know if a domestic release is planned) and I'm sorely tempted to get the Shabooh -Kick run.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 June 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
No but I was thinking the other day about how I still like Listen Like Thieves. It's like INXS's Unforgettable Fire, at least for me.
― Garyln (La Lechera), Friday, 17 June 2011 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
In fact, I was thinking that maybe INXS would get a cool revival now that apparently everyone is into sax solos.
wtf is up with kirk pengilly http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/10/10/16117656_gallery__598x400.jpg
― Garyln (La Lechera), Friday, 17 June 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
inxs reminds me of middle school in just the worst way
believe it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIwRDj8KsFQ
― Garyln (La Lechera), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of agree with your Listen Like Thieves/Unforgettable Fire comparison, but INXS were so much better than U2 it's not even funny.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd give INXS the advantage. INXS and U2 each have a handful of pretty good songs, but INXS have fewer overplayed boring songs.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
will buy remasters, some of them, once I get the word that they haven't been brickwalled and sound like shit, which happens to like 2 out of 3 remasters these days.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Ddid some poking around and Universal, which controls the catalog outside the states, has stated they will put out a deluxe 25th anniversary version of Kick for next year and a career-spanning boxset for 2012 as well. So I'll stick with my 2002 Kick release and look toward picking up Shabooh, Swing and Listen (if they aren't brickwalled, as f. hazel pointed out).
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude I got "The Swing" for a buck! I think it is one of those CDs that is supposed to be so expensive. I am so happy. It has aged well, goes well with r & b.
― There are lots of people named Dennis in this world (u s steel), Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone get the Kick 25 megabox? I would love to see the dvd once, but it's super silly expensive. Same with the 2-disc version; I'm sure it'd be fun to hear some of the single remixes, but I think the 2011 remastered album will do me just fine.
Wish they'd just done the career retrospective box set instead. I haven't seen any further news on that front so I hope it's not scuppered.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Years ago I had to see John Mayer, back when he was just breaking, and my thoughts mid-show were that he sounded like something that would have been played at my junior prom. And then he covered "Never Tear Us Apart," which was my junior prom theme.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the title track of LLT last Saturday. Such a gas.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link