'The Swing' vs. 'Listen Like Thieves'

No jokes about 'Swing''s title unless they're RILLY funny

C'mon, give us a goddamm clue!

'Listen Like Thieves' has the distinction of being one of few records I've bought, then sold. C'mon dave, you serious?

the swing ? heh heh heh i geddit

I dont..."twisting by the pool uh ha"

listen like thieves was one of the first albums (er...cassettes!) that i ever purchased. i can remember hearing it in the tower store and running over to grab myself a copy. (ditto: the queen is dead, but...) i kind of worked my way backwards from there until i had (gasp!) FOUR ALBUMS BY INXS!!! this was unheard of at that point in my life. i remember expressing this sentiment to my cousin (best friend at the time) My god, how much do you have to love a band to have FOUR of their records.

The swing was among the first LP's i ever bought. i dont really remember which was actually the first. i do remember having a particular love of this record, esp 'original sin' and 'what i say' It's hard for me to think clearly about this music now, it's from a remote part of my life. a time when i'd fall asleep every night listening to cassettes in my headphones (all i had was a cassette deck, no stereo yet!) i was falling in love with music. but i'd heard so little. by the time i left home for college, i had amassed nearly ONE WHOLE CRATE of records, although i had a number of cassettes, but probably nor more than 100 or so.

well, blah blah blah. i dont listen to inxs evah anymore, although i've put the swing on as we speak. actually that's not true i did pull out that listen like thieves cassette recently, but shelved it pretty quick because the sound quality of the 17(??) yr old cassette is fairly miserable. i can't refute the opinion that 'listen' is blander, although i probably wouldnt agree. i think it is a superior album, but i'm no good at explaining my opinions, i'm not cerebral enough i think. i'll just say that there are more GRATE songs, like 'kiss the dirt', 'good + bad times', 'THIS TIME'

I could have written Ron's last post, except for the fact that I have no idea where my INXS albums are now -- I had them on cassette and I gave all of those away to Goodwill a couple of years back.