― Geoff, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joseph, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Josh Eyre, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jack Redelfs, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
*"Don't Change" begins*
Yup, forgives a LOT of sins, like I said.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Queen G (Queeng), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 9 October 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
But Ned's right..."Don't Change" is all the argument that is needed.
Special mention needs to be given to "Just Keep Walking".
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 9 October 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
1980-88, though, they really could do no wrong.
However, while the show this summer was fun to watch and all, the prospect of an actual new record sans Hutchence is horrifying. Especially if the "new" song they were playing during the outro of the series finale is any indication.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 9 October 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Won't hear a bad word against WTWYA, either.
― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 9 October 2005 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link
So nobody's gonna say anything about the way Hutchence died? Or the way the remaining members of INXS asked Mike Patton to take his place (over the phone AND live on the air with some Aussy radio station, no less) only to be laughed at?
god, what a cock mike patton is.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 October 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
So, Michael Hutchence has been dead for 10 years today. Still not clear how exactly (on purpose or accidentally), we'll probably never know. Play an INXS track/album today y/n?
― StanM, Thursday, 22 November 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr. Wiki says that the guy who won the INXS frontman contest "is currently working on a solo album “Death of a Motivational Speaker."
― bendy, Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Play an INXS track/album today y/n?
No. INXS become less and less relevant as time passes.
― snoball, Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
relevant to what?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
They were not the most innovative band even at their best, so they don't have that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that". I did like some of their records at the time but there's nothing there that I'd want to listen to again.
― snoball, Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that" that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that" that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that" that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that"
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 22 November 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, wtf?
― Neil S, Thursday, 22 November 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
INXS don't sound corny to me at all.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I like all the hits except "Never Tear Us Apart," I think. I've probably said it before, but you could do worse than James Brown meets Derek Zoolander.
― da croupier, Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
How is it that I never weighed in on this one? In any case, classic.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 22 November 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
That first singles comp is ace. Classic for "Original Sin" alone.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 November 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
awful
― flowersdie, Thursday, 22 November 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i went to the usa one time in my life, in the summer of 1988, and heard 'kick' many, many times, cos my cousins loved it. this was in seattle. now they say they were all mudhoney and rubbish like that.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 22 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
so anyway classic.
A few great singles. I like "The Original Sin", "Need You Tonight", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Disappear" and "Baby Don't Cry" and that's about it.
Sad ending to Hutchence's life, but that doesn't make them classic. Mostly dud.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 23 November 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
DON'T CHANGE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Does anyone else love this song?
Love Is (What I Say)
I've been a big fan of that one for a long time. But I resisted posting the clip for the "Burn For You" video, even though it's equally brilliant. I think I told ILX already that The Swing album is amazing. But apparently not on this thread.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Never Tear Us Apart (Extended Version)
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link
god i love this band
in the video for "don't change" they look like dexy's midnight runners!
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 April 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Don't Dance" morelike. Thanks for posting that though. That's a great song and I never knew who did it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 12 April 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
YOUNG HEARTS BE FREE TONIGHT TIME IS ON YR SIDE
― balls, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
INXS greatest hits was the last album i ever bought on cassette
― blueski, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
anyhow nothing but love for inxs, for every single they have i'm bored to death by they have two that lotsa fun. took duran duran's roxy music + chic model subbing the stones for roxy music. never touch duran duran's sublime moments (i like 'never tears us apart' but it doesn't even come close to breathing the strange ether 'save a prayer' gives off), and, w/ the exception of 'mediate', their silly moments are way more boring than duran duran's. still - 'don't change', 'what you need', 'new sensation', 'disappear' - this band had ALOT of great singles.
― balls, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
plus they put my skateboard on one of their album covers! http://www.skateboard-decks.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/psycho-stick.jpg
― balls, Saturday, 12 April 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread inspired me to listen to "Not Enough Time" (their hat in the ring for the Madchester craze - see also U2's "Mysterious Ways") for the first time in, I don't know, well over a decade at least. It holds up! Classic, then, I suppose.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 12 April 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Psycho Stick!!
Once upon a time I dismissed this band. I'm over the hipster asshole phase now. These guys are pretty great. "Don't Change" is everything I love about 80's rock.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 12 April 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
man i was gonna download that rhino comp and somehow 'kiss the dirt' isn't on there! wtf - HAVE THESE PPL NEVER BEEN TO VICE CITY???
― balls, Saturday, 12 April 2008 17:09 (sixteen 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
Also, wtf is Kav Temperly doing on this thing?
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
I remember always being a little disappointed when the radio or MTV only played “Need You Tonight,” without the segue.
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
Nice revive, made me look out my copy of the Dekadance cassette, here is a rip if anyone wants it - https://fromsmash.com/6EabD4Gybu-bt
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
Mystify was some real time-travelling, a specific time and place where someone and something like Hutchence and INXS could, with the help of some solid home run songs, thrive in their own specific spot. It's tempting to what-if: if what happened didn't happen, could that hot hand have continued post-1992 into some sort of U2-arena level something? (assuming that Andrew Farriss, nine albums in, was ready to write their Achtung Baby). I saw INXS on the Kick tour - they were OK. I wish I could say more, but all these years later it's so much them I remember, but the era when a band like them could be around and sound great on the radio.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 May 2023 09:48 (eleven months ago) link
Have you seen the restored "Live Baby Live"? They went back to the original 35mm. It is glorious
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 May 2023 10:26 (eleven months ago) link
Bits of "Welcome to Wherever You Are" sound like the retrenched album they might have made *after* an experimental detour, though fwiw Eno is credited with mixing this one from the next album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jl7FItnP4
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 May 2023 11:51 (eleven months ago) link
Alfred the diff between “endearingly” and “obnoxiously” is “don’t know any better” vs “should know better”. To me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 15 May 2023 12:07 (eleven months ago) link
Ha never would have guessed Eno was involved on "I'm Only Looking", but I suppose it's only mixing. The synth washes do sound like him but everyone's did by 1993
― Vinnie, Monday, 15 May 2023 15:20 (eleven months ago) link
Didn't know about this. (and apparently I do have to see it)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 08:17 (eleven months ago) link
Meant to say "it's not so much them I remember, but the era when a band like them could be around" earlier
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 08:29 (eleven months ago) link
Video Rockers in Balboa: “Too Freaky”By GINA ARNOLD Nov. 20, 1987 12 AM PTEllie Trapp, 13, of Newport Beach was in school Wednesday afternoon when she heard the news that INXS, an Australian rock band, was shooting a video on the Balboa Peninsula.“And so,” she recounted later that day, standing outside the Balboa Inn, “I ran out to the pay phone at recess and called my dad. He left work and picked me up and drove me over here.”“Now,” said Anja Breton, also 13, “we’re missing social studies and P.E.”Ellie’s arms and pants had been signed by various band members after much pestering by her. “Just think,” she said. “INXS could have been filming anywhere on earth , and they’re here in Newport Beach.“It’s too freaky! I can’t believe it!”Ellie and Anja were the first of INXS’s fans to arrive on the scene. Dozens more followed as the shooting--for “Devil Inside,” the band’s newest single and video--continued well into the night.The night before, Tuesday, shooting in a local bar had lasted until 4 a.m. The band was somewhat more under the gun Wednesday, having to be in Toronto for a concert the following night.The shooting moved into a pinball parlor where a gigantic, loud, smoke-spewing machine (“actually a mosquito fogger,” a technician said, “without any insecticide in it”) was being used to turn the parlor into a dank mystery spot. It is there that video watchers will see INXS encountering all kinds of subcultures and sociopaths who, according to the song’s lyrics, “have the devil inside.”Hanging around picturesquely, those “subcultures” (actually professional extras) turned the peninsula from “white-bread bunny beach heaven,” as one observer described it, to something wholly other and far tougher.Several said they didn’t mind having to miss the U2 concert in Los Angeles that night. “Are you kidding?” one said. “INXS beat out U2 any day! That U2 is just a bunch of sloppy dudes. Bono needs a bath.”Inside the parlor, everything was nearing readiness for lights-camera-action. Director Joel Schumacher (“The Lost Boys”) was about 10 minutes behind schedule . . . and losing his marbles. “After this is over,” he said, “will somebody buy me a T-shirt that says, ‘Too Old for Video’?” When the shot was delayed yet again, he pleaded, to no one in particular, “Come on--make an old man happy.”One person who was extremely happy was Ellie Trapp, who had managed to wiggle her way into the parlor and alongside singer Michael Hutchence, and who had persuaded a passer-by to take pictures of them hugging (much to Hutchence’s girlfriend’s annoyance.)“Don’t you wish you were part of my generation?” Ellie asked everyone who wasn’t.
“And so,” she recounted later that day, standing outside the Balboa Inn, “I ran out to the pay phone at recess and called my dad. He left work and picked me up and drove me over here.”
“Now,” said Anja Breton, also 13, “we’re missing social studies and P.E.”
Ellie’s arms and pants had been signed by various band members after much pestering by her. “Just think,” she said. “INXS could have been filming anywhere on earth , and they’re here in Newport Beach.
“It’s too freaky! I can’t believe it!”
Ellie and Anja were the first of INXS’s fans to arrive on the scene. Dozens more followed as the shooting--for “Devil Inside,” the band’s newest single and video--continued well into the night.
The night before, Tuesday, shooting in a local bar had lasted until 4 a.m. The band was somewhat more under the gun Wednesday, having to be in Toronto for a concert the following night.
The shooting moved into a pinball parlor where a gigantic, loud, smoke-spewing machine (“actually a mosquito fogger,” a technician said, “without any insecticide in it”) was being used to turn the parlor into a dank mystery spot. It is there that video watchers will see INXS encountering all kinds of subcultures and sociopaths who, according to the song’s lyrics, “have the devil inside.”
Hanging around picturesquely, those “subcultures” (actually professional extras) turned the peninsula from “white-bread bunny beach heaven,” as one observer described it, to something wholly other and far tougher.
Several said they didn’t mind having to miss the U2 concert in Los Angeles that night. “Are you kidding?” one said. “INXS beat out U2 any day! That U2 is just a bunch of sloppy dudes. Bono needs a bath.”
Inside the parlor, everything was nearing readiness for lights-camera-action. Director Joel Schumacher (“The Lost Boys”) was about 10 minutes behind schedule . . . and losing his marbles. “After this is over,” he said, “will somebody buy me a T-shirt that says, ‘Too Old for Video’?” When the shot was delayed yet again, he pleaded, to no one in particular, “Come on--make an old man happy.”
One person who was extremely happy was Ellie Trapp, who had managed to wiggle her way into the parlor and alongside singer Michael Hutchence, and who had persuaded a passer-by to take pictures of them hugging (much to Hutchence’s girlfriend’s annoyance.)
“Don’t you wish you were part of my generation?” Ellie asked everyone who wasn’t.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 08:30 (eleven months ago) link
From: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-20-ca-15339-story.html