INXS albums poll

The first time I heard "Don't Change" was in the finale of that reality show for INXS to find a new singer. I only had the '94 greatest hits at that point, which doesn't focus much on the early albums. I instantly fell in love hearing that song, even without Hutchence singing (the Hutchence version is even better, of course), and also felt angry that it was not included on the compilation I owned, in favor of, say, "The Stairs"

That's a grade-A WTF omission

i love Thieves & Shabooh, and I super love X these days way more than I did at the time but Kick is just like, the ~perfection~ of everything great about them, the hooks, the sound, his voice...

xp yup. Actually all their single disc compilations are weird, missing some key tracks here and there

Whenever a band makes an album that at least sounds good, but also sounds like they made in their sleep, I call it a Full Moon Dirty Hearts.

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I think they peaked with The Swing -- they had grown to be more compelling than they had been on earlier albums, but they hadn't yet sacrificed a lot of their interesting ideas and textures in their (successful) quest to produce huge hits. Listen Like Thieves is a close second.

I have a hunch that Kick is gonna win this in a walk, but I think this ^ is pretty OTM.

Their groundbreaking collaboration with John Coltrane should win:

https://www.discogs.com/John-Coltrane-INXS-Standard-Coltrane-X/release/10626791

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p much what you'd expect, right down to one demented rando throwing an indefensible vote to one of the dire post-Kick efforts, and it not mattering which one

they wanna put guns in the sky
someone out there ain't gonna like it
but it could be good, make us love each other
have to realize: "i own the future"

i, i was standing
you were there

i was totally upright and you were a witness to that
they can say it never happened,
but you know it did no matter what, we both know that's what was so
cosmic catastrophe could occur, but come judgement day,
no one can deny that i was standing, because you and i both have that event indelibly imprinted upon our transcendent consciousnesses,
and in the existential scheme of things,
that's all that can be said to have ever been true:
that i was standing, and you, you were there, a seraphic witness of that blessed event

an exegesis of my favorite lyric of all time

also, don't change is part of the holy triumvirate along with once in a lifetime and in between days.