INXS - Classicking or Dudding?

*checks track listing*

yes i agree

Welcome to Wherever You Are wins at life.

Perfect place to cut it off, you can immediately take the second disc out and tie it to the porch to dazzle cats

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!

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

posting this meters away from where they michael hutchance killed himself ~spooky~

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.

Garry Gary Beers

GARRY GARY BEERS

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/

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?

nothing wrong with TTD

xpost -- first read that as Jon Stewart.

nothing wrong with TTD, as long as he's not fronting INXS ffs.

This has been out here for 1.5 weeks and I haven't heard a single thing about it. Says everything.

Also, wtf is Kav Temperly doing on this thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPyIyRa_c4

this is kind of the bomb though

hand me my gun.

xpost, Autumn; gives me faith in my homeland that they're avoiding it like the diseased thing it is.

#65 here, according to wikipaedia. How did these people find out about it?

It went up on album blogs last week. That's the only reason I knew about it.

I think if INXS and TTD could've made it work, there would've been some decent new material as a result.

65? Surely not.

don't worry, i think you only need to sell 20 copies to get to #65 these days

36 copies is double platinum iirc.

lol

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 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.

Also, wtf is Kav Temperly doing on this thing?

singing?

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!

I got Kick on picture-disc vinyl when it came out. Played it to death. Still got it somewhere.

xp to sic: HAR

he's a better match for them than JD Fortune!

tbf, Tricky on Mediate and Dan Sultan on Just Keep Walking are good choices

Loved Kick SO much in junior high.

Yep, me too. Had that one and Listen Like Thieves on cassette.

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.

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.

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

inxs reminds me of middle school in just the worst way

believe it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIwRDj8KsFQ

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.

o_O

I'd give INXS the advantage. INXS and U2 each have a handful of pretty good songs, but INXS have fewer overplayed boring songs.

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.

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).

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.

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.

inxs reminds me of middle school in just the worst way

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.

I heard the title track of LLT last Saturday. Such a gas.

INXS calls it quits onstage in Australia after 35 years — and 15 without Michael Hutchence

Some discussion here already: Classic or Dud: INXS - Kick

I actually meant to revive this thread the other day, but didn't realize I'd clicked on the wrong one until I'd already posted.

I remember it well. #originalsin we did in one take. The band seemed to not play as well as I knew they could as I'd seen them live. So i went out and played with them. Drummer Jon Farris got so excited that he broke the bass drum head on our 1st pass. That became THE TAKE https://t.co/naoGdjJNM1

— Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) June 20, 2022

this week, out of nowhere, I've been revisiting the Australian Dekadance cassette-only compilation of extended mixes from The Swing (there was a US 12" with tracks from Shabooh Shoobah; this is different). I listened obsessively to it around 1985 but lost the cassette and fell in love with The Cure shortly after, so haven't heard it in any form for 37 years. Aside from the great extended mixes from my favourite era of them, I had forgotten the quite brilliant musique concrète sound collages between some of the tracks, most notably before the "bonus" cover of "Jackson". I've tried but I can't find it on YouTube so I can't share it here. A recent vinyl reissue omitted the sound collages altogether, presumably some clearance issues for the movie dialogue etc. Anyway - very little point to this post I guess. It's not often I've had an absolutely clean break from a piece of music I once loved, for this length of time.
https://rarerecords.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/INXS-Dekadance.jpg

'mediate' is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs i have ever heard