INXS "Heaven Sent" vs. Midnight Oil "Drums Of Heaven"

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Which wish-the-eighties-weren't-over Aussie band had the best early '90s proto-Monster modern rock hit (both made that charts' top ten! I just checked!) which opened with a big driving riff and then kinda got less memorable and clumpy?

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

early '90s proto-Monster modern rock hit

As if Monster was some big bench-mark?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sold four million!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

meaningless statistic

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh boo yourself.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently "Heaven Sent" was written as a ballad and then in the studio they were like, fuck it, let's rock.

anyway, "Heaven Sent"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I also vote for "Heaven Sent."

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, Antoine, citing how many copies Monster sold is no indication of its arguable quality and influence on that which it preceded. In the same way box office grosses say nothing about the quality of a movie (a point I believe you agreed with me on another thread).

In any event, I'm goin' with INXS on this one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I was basically making a joke, Alex. I should know better than to do that in front of '80s college rock bands on ILM.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Drums of Heaven" a lot, but "Heaven Sent" was the last INXS song that caught my ear. Eno's on that record, too! Well, maybe not the single, but somewhere on the album, doing, um, something.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 14 November 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

will peter garrett still release crappy records now that he is an mp?

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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