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Guns in the Sky 2:21 New Sensation 3:39 Devil Inside 5:14 Need You Tonight 3:01 Mediate 2:36 The Loved One 3:37 Wild Life 3:10 Never Tear Us Apart 3:05 Mystify 3:17 Kick 3:14 Calling All Nations 3:02

Kick is the sixth studio album by INXS, released in 1987 by WEA in Australia, Atlantic Records in the United States and Phonogram Records in the United Kingdom on Audio CD, Compact Cassette and Gramophone record.

As the band’s most successful studio album, it is certified six times platinum by the RIAA, and spawned four US top 10 singles, “New Sensation”, “Never Tear Us Apart”, “Devil Inside” and “Need You Tonight”, the last of which reached the top of the Billboard singles charts.

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INXS recorded albums made for communal euphoria. With thick bottoms and light funk filigrees, their songs fit all the needs of 1980s pop radio, but it was singer Michael Hutchence who distinguished the Australian sextet from Duran Duran . Simon Le Bon could sing about unions of the snake but not shout, “I’ll take you where you really need to be” as INXS’ hit “What You Need” did. The lead single from 1985’s Listen Like Thieves inaugurated a five-year period during which they were as inescapable on radio and MTV as Whitney Houston , George Michael , and U2 . Hutchence’s suicide in 1997 has lent this era a beguiling glow: for a while, INXS earned the right to act as if they were a new sensation, a shimmering novelty instead of vets six albums into a career.

If time has proven Listen Like Thieves a superior album, the 30th-anniversary edition of Kick makes clear why the six-times platinum release is better remembered. Thanks to Chris Thomas’ sumptuous production, miraculously free of the ’80s’ production stereotypes that scolds like to claim are “dated,” Kick fulfills the title’s promise. Besides, Listen Like Thieves didn’t have “Need You Tonight” and a trio of follow-up singles that kept Kick in the Top 30 for close to a year. By the time the album/tour cycle expired, INXS were one of the world’s most popular concert draws, competing with U2, especially in South America (where they remain, according to conversations with my students, as beloved and canonical as U2).

Meanwhile, one thing hasn’t changed: Kick sounds fucking great blasting from the car. This edition makes the point rather too sumptuously: a three-CD/one Blu-ray set, including a Dolby surround-sound version of the original release and a welter of previously available demos and 7” and 12” mixes. In case you don’t need the Kookaburra Mix of “Guns in the Sky” as much as I do, starting with “Need You Tonight” is a good idea. Before it hit No. 1 in January 1988, INXS’ biggest American hit sounded like a classic upon its release, and like many such miracles, its simplicity was the key. Guitarist-keyboardist Andrew Farriss, co-writer of many of the band’s hits, claimed that “Need You Tonight” came to him while waiting for a cab to pick him up at the airport; when he got to Hong Kong, he and Hutchence finished the lyrics.

What you hear is a beefed up demo: Farriss’ drum part recorded on a Roland 707 drum machine, keyboard bass, and that riff—maybe the most recognizable opening three notes of the late ’80s. Huffing, whispering, leaping into falsetto, and squealing, Hutchence turned in a performance that was a karaoke version of itself. When Bonnie Raitt covered it in 2016, she didn’t even try to compete; she didn’t have to. All “Need You Tonight” requires is a performer who understands the folly of outsinging the groove. In video form, “Need You Tonight” segued into the nonsensical “Mediate,” during which Hutchence and an obviously hungover band, imitating Bob Dylan in the iconic clip of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” but fabulous in leather, dropped title cards.

The other three singles aren’t so much advancements as refinements. Over a rippling guitar line that showed how much INXS had heard from their former producer Nile Rodgers , “New Sensation” shows Hutchence in the declamatory mode that best suited him, with Thomas isolating instrumental elements every time the chorus swings around: a sax bleat, a terse guitar interjection, synth horns; it’s “Original Sin” recast as a plea for world domination. “Devil Inside” is even better: Elton John ’s “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting ” with bull’s blood in its veins. The fourth single, released as Kick ’s promotional cycle wound down, was the first to peak outside the American top five, but ask anyone born after 1985 and “Never Tear Us Apart” will be the INXS song they know. This ballad, anchored by keyboard strings, is rather blowzy—Hutchence can do the grand manner, but he’s too intense, as if still in that declamatory “Need You Tonight” mode. But millions of fans of Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut disagree, and so did the band: “Never Tear Us Apart” blasted as Hutchence’s coffin was carried out of St. Andrews Cathedral in 1997.

If no one has tried reclaiming Kick as classic, blame the album tracks, which are vestigial at best. “The Loved One” is the band embarrassing themselves with Steve Winwood yuppie blooze. “Calling All Nations” and “Wild Life” boast identical dueling guitar parts, one of which is tuned to “shred.” For a while, though, INXS had enough concentration to cough up a reasonable facsimile like 1990’s X ; the top ten single “Disappear” boasts Hutchence’s most convincing show of soul. As they entered the 90s, the band’s steady commercial decline mirrored Hutchence’s personal decline: drugs and a taste for violence led to desultory albums like 1993’s Full Moon, Dirty Hearts , in which Farriss can’t hide his distaste for the pseudo-grunge material he forced himself to write. Hutchence’s death forestalled an ignominious fade.

Enough of that. Releasing a collection as overstuffed as Kick: 30th Deluxe Edition in 2017 hearkens back to the opulence of the INXS era itself; to ask whether the album deserves the incense is beside the point. I’m sure U2, obsessed with significance, will get similar treatment. But Kick ’s slithery grooves are at least a match for The Joshua Tree ’s hymns, and, as the live versions of “Mediate” and “Never Tear Us Apart” included therein attest, INXS at their peak summoned a grandeur no less numinous for being sex-drenched. At this stage in their careers, INXS were more authentic about their lightness than U2 were about their meaningfulness. After all, Bono, a chum of Hutchence’s, also wrote about the devil inside; Michael Hutchence sang as if he’d confronted him—and liked the cut of his jib. The devil was himself.

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INXS’ ‘Kick’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

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During their first 10 years as a band, INXS went from playing pubs across Australia to filling modest-size venues in the United States. But that wasn’t enough for the group, made up of singer Michael Hutchence ; guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly; bassist Garry Gary Beers; and the brothers Farriss – guitarist Tim, keyboardist and guitarist Andrew, and drummer Jon.

The result of their rising ambition was  Kick , their sixth studio LP, released 30 years ago this week. With its sensuous, danceable blend of rock, funk, pop and blues, the album peaked at Number Three on the Billboard charts, surpassing their earlier career-best ranking of Number 11 with 1985’s  Listen Like Thieves , which generated their first Top 10 hit, “What You Need.”

Kick has been certified platinum six times over in the United States, and has reportedly sold 20 million copies worldwide. Four singles off the album reached the Top 10 in the U.S., with “Need You Tonight” becoming the band’s first and only Number One. A special 30th-anniversary reissue of Kick will be released next month. In honor of the milestone, here are 10 facts about the album, from its initial reception to connections with Eighties vampire movies.

1. Their label hated the album. After the success of Listen Like Thieves , the band teamed back up with legendary producer Chris Thomas to take their collective efforts a step further. Recording for a good portion of 1987, both in their native Australia and in France, the band felt they had built upon the possibilities opened up by “What You Need.” After the album was finished, longtime manager Chris Murphy took it to Atlantic Records president Doug Morris. “He put his feet up on the desk and closed his eyes from the minute the record went on to the minute it finished,” Murphy said in INXS KICK: the Words , a book that accompanied the anniversary reissue of the album. “When it stopped, he said, ‘I’ll give you a million dollars to go and record another album. This is not happening, this is shit.'” After that meeting, in which he failed to persuade Morris how “Need You Tonight” fit perfectly into the zeitgeist, Murphy received a call from the worldwide president of Polygram, who according to Murphy, asked, “What the fuck are Andrew and Michael doing?” And just for good measure, the head of Warner Music Australia echoed those sentiments. “Three different record companies with no interrelationship are all telling me the same thing,” Murphy said. One positive response did come in, giving Murphy hope to press forward. “I got a call from my product manager in France,” Murphy said. “He wanted to tell me that the band were geniuses, and that “Never Tear Us Apart” will be one of the biggest singles he’d ever heard and all the other tracks were brilliant. That gave me the spirit.”

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2. A renegade move from their manager saved the LP. After the initial bouts of rejection, Murphy, in an intrepid move, arranged a somewhat-clandestine meeting with Atlantic’s radio promotions executives to play them some of the songs. While the rock and R&B department staffers couldn’t figure out what to do with the heady mix presented before them, Andrea Guinness, who spearheaded college radio promotions, enamored with what she heard. Murphy booked a college tour – on his dime and the band’s – while the fate of the album was still up in the air. As “Need You Tonight” took off on college radio and the band sold out shows across campuses around the country, the efforts to make a major breakthrough in the U.S. began to pay off. Atlantic added the album to its fall release schedule. But the struggle was intense and according to the band’s official biography,  INXS Story to Story , the members didn’t know how drastic the measures were that had to be taken. “I risked every dollar they had and every dollar I had on that tour,” Murphy said. “If it failed, there would have been a mutiny. It would have been the end of everything and I knew it.”

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INXS ‘ breakthrough album, Kick , is set to celebrate its 35th anniversary with an exclusive new immersive audio edition overseen by Giles Martin.

The legendary Australian band have further reason to celebrate for last week, INXS – The Very Best was recognized for its outstanding achievement in the ARIA Top 100 Album Chart where it has successfully remained for an incredible 500 weeks in just under a decade. This is more than any album in the current top 100, with seven of those weeks spent at No.1.

“500 weeks in the Top 100 Album chart is an absolutely phenomenal achievement, even if you happen to be one of the greatest and most iconic bands Australia has ever seen. On behalf of us all at ARIA I am thrilled to congratulate INXS and again thank them for their enormous contribution to the Australian recording industry,” said ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd.

In 2020 the anthemic collection of hits officially reached “Diamond” status on the ARIA charts and was recognized for sales in excess of half a million units and was crowned the top Australian Album of the Decade.

Many of those hit songs featured on The Very Best can be accredited to their 7-x Platinum, highest-charting album , Kick . To celebrate the album’s 35th anniversary this year, Kick has undergone an exclusive remix by British-born, two-time Grammy Award winning music producer extraordinaire Giles Martin who has delivered his latest spatial audio masterpiece that is available now on Apple Music.

“Giles has done a fantastic job! We were so used to hearing the stereo mix for all these years that it was initially a shock hearing it remixed in Dolby Atmos. I noticed straightaway so many more details, you hear all the other intricacies highlighted in an immersive mix. The remixing process is very delicately balanced to enhance the incredible originals by Bob Clearmountain & Chris Thomas. The immersive mix offers the listener a whole new audio experience that lets you hear the record (almost) as if you were sitting amongst the band in the recording studio while they were playing. Giles has taken this album to an exciting new level,” said, Tim Farriss.

“When the record was first recorded 35 years ago in the 80’s, there was a lot more external equipment required that was specific to that era – outboard gear, etc. That equipment is no longer available, so I take my hat off to Giles, who has been able to recreate the record and process the sounds accurately with today’s technology. It sounds like the original album but now, spread out over a 3D space. It sounds incredible,” said Kirk Pengilly.

“It was a privilege to work with my friends, the brilliant band INXS that I love. It was a collaborative effort to bring this album into an immersive format. The biggest difference to the sound is that immersive audio surrounds you whilst stereo punches you in the face. Collectively, we managed to bring out the rock and roll and still deliver that incredible spatial audio experience,” adds, Giles Martin.

In 2017, Kick became the second album in the world to be remixed by Martin for a unique cinematic experience that showcased the new Dolby Atmos sound as part of the Kick 30th anniversary celebrations. To date, Martin has worked with The Beatles , INXS and The Rolling Stones in the spatial audio format. Now in 2022, Giles Martin continues to ensure the INXS legacy is honored exactly the way late Petrol Records Chairman, Chris Murphy envisioned.

During their first collaboration in 2017, Chris Murphy spoke of the relationship between INXS and Martin, “Giles Martin’s track record speaks for itself. We need to ensure INXS’ incredible music and extraordinary story is heard by and told to future generations and as such, we want the best eyes and ears partnering with us across all our innovative and exciting upcoming projects. Giles is a dear friend of the band and someone we can trust unquestionably to deliver outstanding creative input and a rare musical perspective.”

“500 weeks is an incredible honor and just shows the appreciation of such an incredible album. Chris Murphy’s presence is always felt on all INXS projects, and we are proud to passionately continue his work,” said Andrew Daw, Executive Vice President, International Marketing at UMe, Universal Music Group’s global catalog company.

Originally formed in 1977, INXS’ career spans an extraordinary 45 years, during which they have sold over 60 million records worldwide, including No.1 albums in four different continents. Delivering an avalanche of hits including “Need You Tonight”, “New Sensation”, “Never Tear Us Apart”, “Devil Inside” and “Mystify”, Kick sold over 20 million copies worldwide and made INXS one of the biggest bands on the planet.

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INXS’ ‘Kick’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

Inspiration in a taxi cab, a favor from ‘lost boys’ director joel schumacher and other factors that played into the success of the band’s 1987 smash.

[This article was originally published in October 2017]

During their first 10 years as a band, INXS went from playing pubs across Australia to filling modest-size venues in the United States. But that wasn’t enough for the group, made up of singer Michael Hutchence ; guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly; bassist Garry Gary Beers; and the brothers Farriss – guitarist Tim, keyboardist and guitarist Andrew, and drummer Jon.

The result of their rising ambition was  Kick , their sixth studio LP, released 30 years ago this week. With its sensuous, danceable blend of rock, funk, pop and blues, the album peaked at Number Three on the Billboard charts, surpassing their earlier career-best ranking of Number 11 with 1985’s  Listen Like Thieves , which generated their first Top 10 hit, “What You Need.”

Kick has been certified platinum six times over in the United States, and has reportedly sold 20 million copies worldwide. Four singles off the album reached the Top 10 in the U.S., with “Need You Tonight” becoming the band’s first and only Number One. A special 30th-anniversary reissue of Kick will be released next month. In honor of the milestone, here are 10 facts about the album, from its initial reception to connections with Eighties vampire movies.

1. Their label hated the album. After the success of Listen Like Thieves , the band teamed back up with legendary producer Chris Thomas to take their collective efforts a step further. Recording for a good portion of 1987, both in their native Australia and in France, the band felt they had built upon the possibilities opened up by “What You Need.” After the album was finished, longtime manager Chris Murphy took it to Atlantic Records president Doug Morris. “He put his feet up on the desk and closed his eyes from the minute the record went on to the minute it finished,” Murphy said in INXS KICK: the Words , a book that accompanied the anniversary reissue of the album. “When it stopped, he said, ‘I’ll give you a million dollars to go and record another album. This is not happening, this is shit.’” After that meeting, in which he failed to persuade Morris how “Need You Tonight” fit perfectly into the zeitgeist, Murphy received a call from the worldwide president of Polygram, who according to Murphy, asked, “What the fuck are Andrew and Michael doing?” And just for good measure, the head of Warner Music Australia echoed those sentiments. “Three different record companies with no interrelationship are all telling me the same thing,” Murphy said. One positive response did come in, giving Murphy hope to press forward. “I got a call from my product manager in France,” Murphy said. “He wanted to tell me that the band were geniuses, and that “Never Tear Us Apart” will be one of the biggest singles he’d ever heard and all the other tracks were brilliant. That gave me the spirit.”

2. A renegade move from their manager saved the LP. After the initial bouts of rejection, Murphy, in an intrepid move, arranged a somewhat-clandestine meeting with Atlantic’s radio promotions executives to play them some of the songs. While the rock and R&B department staffers couldn’t figure out what to do with the heady mix presented before them, Andrea Guinness, who spearheaded college radio promotions, enamored with what she heard. Murphy booked a college tour – on his dime and the band’s – while the fate of the album was still up in the air. As “Need You Tonight” took off on college radio and the band sold out shows across campuses around the country, the efforts to make a major breakthrough in the U.S. began to pay off. Atlantic added the album to its fall release schedule. But the struggle was intense and according to the band’s official biography,  INXS Story to Story , the members didn’t know how drastic the measures were that had to be taken. “I risked every dollar they had and every dollar I had on that tour,” Murphy said. “If it failed, there would have been a mutiny. It would have been the end of everything and I knew it.”

3. Hutchence and Andrew Farriss wrote all 11 of the original songs. Buoyed by the success of “What You Need,” Hutchence and Andrew Farriss – the primary lyricist and songwriter, respectively – producer Thomas and manager Murphy wanted to bank everything on the Hutchence-Farriss partnership: Those two would write every song on the Listen Like Thieves  follow-up. “That was the fundamental difference on Kick , Thomas said in Story to Story . “That songwriting partnership certainly worked – and it worked better than ever on that album. The massive success of ‘What You Need’ gave Andrew and Michael the optimism and confidence they needed to go further.” As Beers told Rolling Stone in 1988, “We understood that Andrew writes the best music, and Michael obviously writes the best lyrics, because he sings them. So we left it totally up to them.”

4. “Need You Tonight” came about at the last minute. During the first phase of recording, with a European tour on the horizon, the band laid down a number of tracks for the album. However, Thomas thought that the band was still missing a major single, so Andrew Farriss and Hutchence were charged to come up with one. On his way to collaborate with Hutchence in the Hong Kong apartment he shared with bandmate Jon Farriss, Andrew came up with the familiar riff to “Need You Tonight” just as he got in the cab on the way to the airport. He told the driver he forgot something and needed to run back up to his place, where he proceeded to record a rough demo with the riff, a drum track and the bass parts. When he made it to Hong Kong, he gave the tape to Hutchence, who according to Farriss in INXS Kick: The Words , said “‘I think this is really interesting, give me five or 10 minutes,’ and he came up with, again, most of what was on the finished version.”

5. “Never Tear Us Apart” started on a very different path. With Hutchence’s plaintive vocals, a distinctive guitar riff and the yearning cry of Pengilly’s sax solo, “Never Tear Us Apart” stands as one of definitive rock ballads of the late Eighties. How the song turned out is a far cry from its earliest incarnation. “‘Never Tear Us Apart’ was a piano song originally,” Thomas said in Story to Story . “It was a Fats Domino, bluesy, kind of Rolling Stonesy, early ’60s song. I heard it and thought we could do more [and] came up with the idea to substitute strings for the piano,” Thomas said. “That changed everything. It was what the song deserved, because in structure and lyrics, it was so strong already.” Andrew Farriss agreed with the decision, later telling MusicRadar.com that the strings “have the right kind of empathy for the vocal.” He also expressed his appreciation for his longtime songwriting partner Hutchence, who died in 1997, and his particular gifts. “He didn’t play an instrument, but his voice and his words were his instruments. He was phenomenal.”

6. Kick features the only cover song on an INXS studio LP. Along with 11 original songs written by Hutchence and Andrew Farriss, the band squeezed in an update of a song they had some familiarity with in “The Loved One.” The song is a cover of a track by Australian band the Loved Ones, released in 1966. INXS took its first crack at the song in 1981, when it was released as an Australia-only single and video. The band covered it again for Kick , offering a different arrangement from their own original interpretation. It’s the only song the band has covered that made it onto one of their albums. “Good Times,” a version of a 1968 song original recorded by the Easybeats that featured fellow Australian Jimmy Barnes, landed on the soundtrack for The Lost Boys , with that track cracking the Billboard Top 50.

7. Kick finally broke INXS in England – thanks to a “Need You Tonight” remix. While INXS first topped the U.S. charts with “Need You Tonight,” the band had some experience achieving that feat in other countries before, when “Original Sin,” from The Swing went to Number One in Australia and France back in 1984. However, breaking through in England proved to be difficult. When “Need You Tonight” came out there, it initially only went to Number 58. After it got a remix by Julian Mendelsohn, the song made it to Number Two, and Kick ended up becoming the band’s first BPI-certified platinum album. In 1991, INXS would headline a show at London’s Wembley Stadium in front of 72,000 fans.

8. For the “Devil Inside” clip, the band cashed in on a favor from Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher. The budget for The Lost Boys was $8.5 million, and not much was left for the film’s soundtrack. Joel Schumacher reportedly made arrangements with INXS and Lou Gramm (of Foreigner fame, who was also part of the project): He would direct future videos of theirs if they were to appear on the soundtrack. While he didn’t collaborate with Gramm later, he did team up with INXS for the “Devil Inside” clip, which echoed the beloved vampire flick, featuring the band performing in a bar on a Calfornia beach at night before a crowd of surfers and bikers. The video was nominated for Best Editing at the ’88 MTV VMAs, losing to “Need You Tonight”/”Mediate.”

9. The album’s string of hits kept Kick on the charts for more than a year. Kick maintained a presence on the Billboard Top 200 albums for well over a year, due in no small part to an aggressive singles campaign. “Need You Tonight,” “Devil Inside” and “New Sensation” went to Numbers One, Two and Three, respectively, while “Never Tear Us Apart” peaked at Number Seven. The title track, which Hutchence called “the great Zen song of all time” in 1991 (“Sometimes you kick/sometimes you get kicked”) didn’t reach the Hot 100, but it did make it to Number 33 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Songs Chart. The follow-up to that, “Mystify,” followed a similar path, making it to Number 17 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

10. The band partied with Guns N’ Roses and Iggy Pop after a surreal post- Kick gig. In September 1988, INXS headlined an MTV-sponsored gig during its Calling All Nations tour that was the epitome of diversity: It featured the Smithereens; Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers; Iggy Pop; and perhaps, most surprisingly, Guns N’ Roses, who were the openers. The Gunners were booked for the show months in advance, and by the time it happened, they were getting their own taste of fame. As the date approached, GN’R wanted to back out – to no avail. According to Story to Story , Hutchence and Andrew Farriss met Axl Rose and Slash before showtime, and Hutchence offered Rose some tips on handling success. “There is always going to be someone greater than you – always,” he said. “And you know what? So what, man. That doesn’t matter. Just do fine work and enjoy yourself. Believe me, that’s what it’s all about.” The rockers didn’t take Hutchence’s words entirely to heart as they cut their set short. As Pengilly wrote in his expansive tour diary, “Guns N’ Roses finished early (sounded terrible).” But there was a celebration with most of the acts afterward, he wrote: “Bit of a party backstage and then some back to the bar at the hotel and eventually most off to the M.H. suite for party till very late, along with Iggy Pop, our L.A. friends, Duff (from Guns N’ Roses) …”

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INXS's 1988 album Kick was one of those '80s albums that kept delivering the hits over a year later.  That gave the band some time to rest after their tour and regroup, releasing X in 1990.  Since the previous hits made it feel like they never left the new songs helped them stay on the charts as they molded their slick dance pop into something that resembled the alternative scene at the time. 

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