INXS?

Think Kick is an amazing album.

Not a huge fan but have several of the mid to late 80s albums. Was done with em when Suicide Blonde hit.

I love them. Got a hrm, Greatest hits some time ago since I have Kick on vinyl and can't really listen to it. They were great. I also watched some live concerts on yoootoobe since I never got to see them live. Listened to them again just days ago.

wore out my cassette tape of Kick.

They were REALLY GOOD live, especially on Listen Like Thieves tour. I had a really surreal experience sitting with the remaining members when they toured with Jon Stevens as their singer, and the Who's bass player John Entwistle had just died while the Who were on tour. I asked them if they thought the Who should continue touring, and ironically the drummer and bass player of INXS emphatically stated that "Of course not! The whole rhythm section is dead! How can they go on??" which I found so fascinating, given how many INXS fans felt the same way about them going on after Michael Hutchence's death. But they were really talented.

Wow...lots of parallels between him and Jagger.

I just see their authenticity and pure love for music and how they give it.

Plus the gyrations.

Big big fan from their second album Underneath The Colours, I have everyone of their albums up until Micheals death. I saw them on their Kick tour which so so good. I didn't think they top Listen Like Thieves but they certainly did with Kick. This what their manager Chris Murphy recalls what the record company said about the album KICK......

"They hated it, absolutely hated it. They said there was no way they could get this music on rock radio. They said it was suited for black radio, but they didn't want to promote it that way. The president of the label told me that he'd give us $1 million to go back to Australia and make another album."

Man were they ever wrong. One of the few bands on cassette you could listen from side 1 to side 2.

Peace

They've been on my mind too lately, since the anniversaries of the releases of both Listen Like Thieves and Kick were about 2 weeks apart (so said an 80s music page I like on Facebook) and that was a little while ago. I started reading more about them on the net and looking at more videos... this is probably TMI but a funny interview I saw that wasn't that long before Michael died, the interviewer asked him what strange things fans had said or done, and he said he was somewhere and a female fan tried to lure him into a bathroom, said she had something to show him that he had to see. He said he was thinking "I'm pretty sure I've already seen whatever you want to show me..." but he went in anyway, she went in a stall while he stood outside, and she started to pee. She said "Do you hear that?" He said "What, you pissing?" She said "No, I'm playing "Mystify Me" with pee!" and sure enough, she was starting and stopping her pee flow in time with the rhythm of how the song goes!!! I SWEAR Michael Hutchence tells that story in an interview that is somewhere on youtube, one can only imagine the other things he saw/experienced!

My personal favorite story of someone else's involving Hutchence is this: I'm a giant, monstrous Clash fan, and I've heard this story told many times so it did happen: Joe Strummer ended up somewhere that INXS was during INXS's heyday, like at the same club or same hotel bar. INXS had a lot of respect for the Clash, and Joe Strummer and Hutchence ended up sitting at a table together for awhile. At some point in the middle of trying to talk, a bunch of female fans descended on Hutchence and it took awhile for him to be able to go back to talking to Strummer. Hutchence said to Strummer "I mean, you know how it is... being treated like a sex symbol and all..." and Strummer answered "No... no, I don't know. I've never been a sex symbol. Just a Voice of a Generation..." AWESOME!!!! (and so true!)

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And just in case you aren't a Clash fan and Strummer's response sounds obnoxious, that really was the mantle he and the Clash were given by fans and the press. He was being ironic I'm pretty sure (he wasn't a pompous person at all).

I'm a huge Clash fan too though never got to see them live. However, it's true what Joe said and has every right to say so.....he had that kind of mentality.

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