yes! AFTP is definitely a classic, their best album since their debut full-length imo, but their earliest "mumble & kudzu" records (Chronic Town EP, Murmur) are also classics and will always be my favorites because I heard them first
― Dan S, Friday, 4 January 2019 08:34 (five years ago) link
I'm going Never Tear Us Apart because of the whirl of memory it stirs up with me and Claire Eldridge at the centre of it, dancing at the swimming club disco.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 4 January 2019 11:30 (five years ago) link
I like Try Not to Breathe, Find the River and NIghtswimming. Drive is fine. Man on the Moon was overplayed and it wasn't good enough to withstand that. Plus, I hate Andy Kaufman. The rest of the album is completely meh.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 January 2019 11:35 (five years ago) link
Star Me Kitten gave 11-year-old-me the fear
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 January 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link
They should've gone full on Santo and Johnny on that song. Instead it bores the shit out of me.
― Yerac, Friday, 4 January 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
I've never understood the "best album" thing. I may have thought about AFTP more than any other record over the years, so perplexing is this notion. I almost sold my copy early on. Previews on radio suggested a serious decline, but I was still pretty loyal in 1992 and bought it anyway. But the endless bars of thin, nothingy guitars going around in circles really bummed me out. The string arrangements were welcome but still insufficient to make certain tracks add up to much. I eventually took to programming a 25-minute album I did kinda like if I could avoid the rest. (I may have included "Man on the Moon" once, but it hasn't proved especially durable.)
Try Not to Breathe / The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite / New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 / Sweetness Follows / Nightswimming / Find the River
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 4 January 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
*sad montage of frowning Buck/Berry/Mills/Stipe*
When your day is long... and the night... the night is yours alone...
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
Wow. Everybody Hurts pulled in a lot more than expected.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
^^^
I was expecting an even more brutal stomping.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
Sometimes you kick... sometimes you get kicked.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
"But if I hurt youI'd make wine from your tears"
my whole life i didn't know what he was singing there, just looked it up
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
I also couldn't parse those lyrix for a long time (but eventually learned them somewhere).
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
terrible line lol
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 January 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/11c3aac1f638a12bb36635d5eba52177/tumblr_oh1vghbW3c1r4poono1_250.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
AH TOLD YOU
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
(it's a great line obv in the context of this big dumb dramatic awesome song that isn't even sure what it's about)
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
lol
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
I guess I can understand people not liking AFTP that much today
I remember the fever for the album at the time though
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:25 (five years ago) link
It was buzzbin popular when it came out. It seems a lot more popular now.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
Well it’s 4x platinum
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
I think I bought a Dig album around that time. It was like, the height of MtV alternativeness. I was obsessed with REM in jr high/hs, but gah this album sucked.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
I don't remember that. I remember loving Night Swimming, Man on the Moon, Try Not to Breathe
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
Why is no one ITT reminiscing on their relationship w/“Kick”?
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
because we are gracious & REM fans seem to need the toom
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:39 (five years ago) link
*room
BUT IF YOU WANNA KNOWMy best friend brought me back a bootleg cassette of Kick from her family holiday in Bali when I was in sixth grade (or maybe seventh?). we listened to it over and over It still sounds exactly like my memory of 1987/88Especially “New Sensation” — THAT sounds like summer to me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
<3<3<3
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
and Never Tear Us Apart reminds me of these hardboiled sweets i loved at that time...i ate a whole bag in one sitting & i had a stomachache & i must have been listening to this song bcz i always think of those sweets now whenever I hear it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
Kick is a baller album, probably my favorite in the INXS catalog
I bought the cassette shortly after hearing "Need You Tonight" and getting super obsessed with it, and then completely bugged out when I heard how good the rest of the album was.
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
I remember being really super into Guns in the Sky my first few listens, i liked the sound of it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
My summer camp had a low-power radio station where campers took turn DJ’ing, and “Kick” was one of the main LPs we would grab off the shelf to play cuts from... pretty much everyone liked it, and almost every song was a hit.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
Kick, Sign o the Times, Appetite for Destruction, Joshua Tree, Hysteria, Document, Lion and the Cobra, what a year
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
totally!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link
inxs was not big in pittsburgh-area high schools circa 1987 -- we'd heard some of it, of course, but it was neither g'n'r nor poison nor, for the edgy kids, the joshua tree
even 30 years later it all pales beside my need for more DJ fuckin P
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 January 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:15 (five years ago) link
Just came across this precedential thread (pre–poll era?): TS: INXS "Need You Tonight" Vs. Nine Inch Nails "Closer"
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:22 (five years ago) link
from memory INXS were already massive from The Swing & then Listen Like Thieves even moreso older girls I knew in primary school had full size wall posters of Michael Hutchence in 84-85 Like, it was Duran Duran, Nik Kershaw & INXSBut Kick was when INXS’ manager started hitting US college radio super hard & that was how the album ended up being massive for them in the US.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:22 (five years ago) link
poor colin hay
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
i’m sure he was on someone’s wall too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 07:38 (five years ago) link
(citation needed)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 January 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
nah serious though prob a dude’s wallthey kinda had a lot of guy fans iirc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
Think Listen Like Thieves was the breakthrough album in the UK but then Kick took it to another level
― groovypanda, Saturday, 5 January 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
in America too
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
"the one thing" --> "what you need" --> "need you tonight" ~ three killer singles, three albums in a row, was massive
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
You're missing something from The Swing, and I hope the something is "Original Sin."
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this outcome is undoubtedly one of those "only on ILM" things. No way on Earth or any other planet do INXS have a song that is better than R.E.M. at their worst, and 'Everybody Hurts' is far from R.E.M. at their worst.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
*removes earrings*
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
He's right about the other planets thing, I looked into it.
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
turri cant
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link