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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
o_O
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:20 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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
INXS calls it quits onstage in Australia after 35 years — and 15 without Michael Hutchence
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 November 2012 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
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
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 19 September 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
'mediate' is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs i have ever heard
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 19 September 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
Yes they slid from “endearingly pretentious” to “obnoxiously pretentious” pretty quickly around 1987
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
I'm not even sure what that means.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
INXS never had pretenses. They recorded brittle electrofunk, a lot of which worked.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
And those Kick and X singles fucking rule.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
lol “Mediate” always makes me roll my eyesits kinda cute now but at the time was like ughh what is this beat poetry lol it was v forced also kinda dovetails into Max Q stuff that followed in 1989
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
I always thought it was a goof, and never thought of it as a stand-alone song.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
was max q... pretty good? like i remember way of the world being lyrically trite, but also the fact that it was an (aus) chart single makes the heavy-handed lyrics seem kinda - subversive? and having ollie olsen in the charts was pretty cool.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
it is cool! but cool to me now as an adult with a bit more context. at the time as a early teen w limited tastes i thought it was weird & dumb lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgRWJP1Ktww
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link