See No EPOLL In All Directions: The INXS singles poll (deluxe edition)

And by "ends at Kick" I mean of course "ends at Never Tear Us Apart"

"The Stairs" was one of my high school graduation theme songs (the other: Paula Abdul's "Promise of a New Day").

"What you need" doesn't get much play now, but that was the breakthrough in the UK.

Here too!

They kind of had two breakthroughs, didn't they? I have very clear memories of "The One Thing" and "Don't Change" being all over the radio.

Yeah, I heard "The One Thing" too (and it was their first Top 40 hit), but "What You Need" was a Top Fiver, and it sounded like a real breakthrough. I would hear it sandwiched between "West End Girls," "Let's Go All The Way," and "Rock Me, Amadeus."

"What You Need" was a Top Fiver

Everyhit doesn't have it!

If that's a mistake, it's the first one I've found there.

"What You Need" was the first song I remember on the radio, but the first time I heard/saw them was the Australian part of the Live Aid broadcast.

wiki has:

UK Singles Chart 58

Well, I never.

Everyhit doesn't have it!

in Amerikay.

Sure, but I'd have guessed top twenty at least, here.

lol at wikipedia for teaching me that they released a single called "Dream On Black Girl"

Feel sorry for the second disc, it doesn't really stand a chance here.

(even though large swaths of it are really good as well)

No shame in Disc Two's game. Disc One could go head to head with Sgt. Pepper in a Rolling Stone poll.

hahaha what???????

Okay I love this album to death and even I'm not willing to go that far.

lol I thought this was the Cure thread

still stand by what I said tho

aw do we not do lulz anymore? sorry guys :-(

I've never heard "Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)." Is it as good as that title?

if i had a choice between putting disc one on and putting on seargeant pepper's it would be inxs no contest!

Same here.

I'm with Tracer!

Well I don't know about anyone else, but when I fall down a mountain, I always kiss the dirt. I don't remember how that song goes, though.

maybe "good" means something different from "i want to listen to it more"

Had Bono died of an OD, Michael Hutchence woulda composed a better elegy than "Stuck In a Song You Can't Wait Till It Ends."

fuck, "Kiss The Dirt" is here

I've never heard "Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)." Is it as good as that title?

Awesome do-do-dos, not quite "This Time"/"Listen Like Thieves"/"Shine Like It Does" - whole LLT rekd's worth a spin

also voted "kiss the dirt," which was my favorite song evah when I was like 11. Also would takes disc 1 (and possible disc 2) of this over sgt. peppers (though this is partially because I really dislike sgt. peppers).

Don't know if I'd go as far as voting for it, but I like 'Heaven Sent' a lot. It was weirdly unsuccessful - first thing from their new album at a time when they seemed like the biggest band in the world, fashionably murky sound, loads of airplay - but only just scraped the top 40

Heaven Sent was the kind of "rock" song they hadn't done since Red Red Sun or Don't Change, uptempo straight 4/4 with lots of cymbals and big moments, and by 1993 that wasn't what the public at large wanted from INXS (although I found it refreshing).

Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, like Songs of Faith and Devotion, is the sound of a band too in love with Achtung Baby.

Though admittedly Songs had the advantage of improving on its model. But I could go on...

I like every song on this up to "Not Enough Time". "Beautiful Girl" is my pick, their last great single, and their best.

on the locked poll i said i'd vote for "don't change," but actually i'm conflicted. "don't change" sounds like some great new wave one-hit wonder, but not particularly like inxs per se (i.e. not the quasi-funky dance-rock stuff that really made them big). excluding "don't change," i'm down to the two "need" songs. will ponder it.

or possibly "devil inside." hmm.

"don't change" sounds like some great new wave one-hit wonder, but not particularly like inxs per se (i.e. not the quasi-funky dance-rock stuff that really made them big)

hmm... it's still a monster though...

"To Look At You" might get my vote it if not for the weak (but quasi-funky) bridge. Torn also on "Shine Like It Does" and "Not Enough Time." Strangely unmoved by all the monster stuff off Kick, except maybe "Need You Tonight" - WITHOUT "Mediate"...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7901279.stm

"Suicide Blonde" seems to have reversed the riff of "Need You Tonight."

All these years later I still don't know whether I like "Suicide Blonde." I love the harmonica and riff, but the lyrics don't GO anywhere.

I find "Suicide Blonde" guilty of faking the funk.

This Time. Killer tune, dude.

I actually saw them at the Meadowlands in 1990. they were great.

on the locked poll i said i'd vote for "don't change," but actually i'm conflicted.

I'm not: Don't Change, in a walk. Far more good songs by this band than I remembered, tho.

eventually went for 'Never Tear Us Apart', because of this^

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This Time. Killer tune, dude.

Indeed. Also tempted to vote for Shine Like It Does and To Look At You, because they're also killer tunes that no one will vote for.

But I'll probably vote for Don't Change...

Woulda voted for "The Stairs" if it were the studio version.

a cd (or 2 probably) of the first 25 tracks here would be a pretty darn good listen (tho i'd skip a few of the later tracks)

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well, the best man won... but not one vote for "shine like it does" ;_;