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Kick [UK] [Special Edition]
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Album: Kick [UK]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Guns in the Sky
2)    New Sensation
3)    Devil Inside
4)    Need You Tonight
5)    Mediate
6)    Loved One, The
1)    Wild Life
2)    Never Tear Us Apart
3)    Mystify
4)    Kick
5)    Calling All Nations
6)    Tiny Daggers
 

Album: Kick [UK]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Guns in the Sky
2)    New Sensation
3)    Devil Inside
4)    Need You Tonight
5)    Mediate
6)    Loved One, The
1)    Wild Life
2)    Never Tear Us Apart
3)    Mystify
4)    Kick
5)    Calling All Nations
6)    Tiny Daggers
 
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Performer Notes
  • INXS: Michael Hutchence (vocals); Kirk Pengilly (guitar, saxophone, background vocals); Andrew Farris (guitar, keyboards); Tim Farriss (guitar); Garry Gary Beers (bass); Jon Farriss (drums, percussion).
  • Recorded at Rhinoceros Studios, Sydney, Australia and Studio De La Grande Armee, Paris, France. Originally released on Atlantic (8179). Includes liner notes by Chris Thomas.
  • All tracks have been digitally remastered.
  • Okay, this album's omnipresence (it produced no less than five charting singles out of 12 songs) on radio and television for over a year and a half--alongside singer Michael Hutchence's mass media anointment as THE premier rock and roll sex symbol of the late '80s--makes it difficult to hear KICK as simply an album. KICK isn't a pop culture icon on the level of BORN IN THE USA or IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK, but once you've hit a certain commercial threshold and the inevitable backlash has set in (see also THE JOSHUA TREE and I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN'T GOT), the musical worth of a disc ceases to matter much. KICK's five hits are easily its best tracks, and the remaining seven range from excellent to inoffensive. If you want to mentally recreate 1988, look no further.
Professional Reviews
CMJ (1/5/04, p.22) - Ranked #18 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1988"

Q (Magazine) (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Hutchence's knowing, Jaggeresque vocal swagger turned 'Devil Inside,' 'Never Tear Us Apart' and the mighty 'Mystify' into something beyond what INXS had done before and what they would do again."

Pitchfork (Website) - "[A] jewel of '80s pop-rock. It's a showcase of the band's opulent production, slithery grooves, and the allure of Michael Hutchence's simplicity."
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