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Nov 8, 2023 · This INXS discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top INXS albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included INXS singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums.
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- Kick (1987) “Without any doubt this is a big old dumb album, totally lacking in any intellect whatsoever. Thankfully that’s all part of its enduring charm.
- Listen Like Thieves (1985) ‘This album hits the ground running like an Olympic sprinter, but fades somewhat towards the end. Side one is flawless, but with the inclusion of the pointless instrumental “Three Sisters” and a couple of lesser lights on the b-side, the musical effort as a whole loses some steam.
- The Swing (1984) “The Swing tickles my fancy all the way to four and a half stars. Only the plodding “Face the Change” breaks the momentum, and even then it’s not that bad a song.
- Shabooh Shoobah (1982) “Again, at least Five out of the Ten Songs on Shabooh Shoobah are Rock Classics because INXS are Forever Immortal-Michael Hutchence becomes a poet down under as he took a book of Australian Poems and set them to an Art Form called Rock & Roll in any pub that would have them.
- Switch
- Inxs
- Underneath The Colours
- Elegantly Wasted
- Full Moon, Dirty Hearts
- Live Baby Live
- Shabooh Shoobah
- The Swing
- Listen Like Thieves
- Kick
AC/DC’s Back In Blackwas a great example of a band squeezing a new singer into a dead man’s shoes and catapulting to greater heights. Switch, alas, was not. INXS’s original following probably thought it a betrayal they should go to something as uncool as reality television (Rock Star: INXS) to find a replacement for Michael Hutchence. According to ...
The first INXS album was made at Sydney’s Trafalgar Studios on a budget of $10,000 and was a taster to their new wave-ska bent. Sessions were held after midnight, usually after a gig, and co-produced by the band with Ayers Rock’s Duncan Macguire. “I’m not a great fan of the first album. It’s naïve and kinda cute, almost. It’s these young guys strug...
By the time of their second album, INXS were developing into a tight live act but were still awkward in the studio. Thankfully producer Richard Clapton was encouraging them how to be more instinctive, the writing was getting less derivative, and “Stay Young”, which peaked at #21, was showing how Hutchence was incorporating his onstage swaggering pe...
By the time of their 10th album, their manager Chris Murphyhad got them signed with Mercury/ PolyGram in a deal rumouredly worth $40 million and the new label packed them off to Canada to work with Bruce Fairbairn to expand their resonance with the globe. But there were dark issues at play. They were exhausted, and their stylistic mix of rock and f...
The full moon ushers in all kinds of insanity. In this case, it saw Michael Hutchence get into a fight with a taxi driver — an argy-bargy that led to Hutchence crack his skull on the pavement. Following the incident, Hutchence’s personality was never quite the same. During sessions, the late frontman through violent tantrums. This must-have affecte...
This was recorded on July 13, 1991, on a glorious English summer day at London’s Wembley Stadium before 74,000 fans. It captured the band – and Hutchence – at their peak, delivering 16 of their gems. But the album suffered from criticism from some quarters that a lot of the electricity was limp-noodled by tweaks in the studio –something which the b...
It was on this, their third album, that INXS changed gear, and vroomed-vroomed forward to become a global band. The mix of swagger, rock, R&B/funk, rock star aesthetics, and glossy videos with controls set to the heart of MTV finally fell in place. These were cloaked around certified gems as‘The One Thing’, ‘Don’t Change’, ‘To Look at You’ and ‘Bla...
International touring and a 10cc boost of confidence not only muscled them up as a band but opened them up to the latest global sounds for Album Number Four. The coolest producer at the time was Nile Rodgers of Chic, who’d made a solo album Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove. INXS met him backstage during a Canadian show and he agreed to pro...
INXS continued to get better and better, as more markets fell under their spell. Listen Like Thievesjust missed out on becoming an American Top 10 by one spot and was also their first UK Top 50 entry. Their wins at video awards also showed how well their visual approach was working. At the end of their three-month sessions in Sydney for this album,...
Thirty-four years later, and Kick still creates debate – among their fans as well as within the INXS camp itself – as just where it sits in their canon artistically. For their new global audience, Kick was a masterwork with all the best ingredients of rock as the ‘90s approached. However, for their rock crowds, the record was style over substance, ...
- X [1990] Best single: By My Side. Best non-single track: Lately. X followed hot on the heels of Kick. So it was a tough act to follow, and in fact the band’s seventh studio album didn’t manage to replicate its predecessor’s success.
- Kick [1987] Best single: Mystify. Best non-single track: Guns In The Sky. Guns In The Sky opened INXS’s set list at Wembley in 1991, and what a way to start the biggest show of their career.
- The Swing [1984] Best single: Burn For You. Best non-single track: Johnson’s Aeroplane. I love The Swing. It’s so 80s and so new wave, for starters. Just look at the cover and check out those mullets!
- Welcome To Wherever You Are [1992] Best single: Beautiful Girl. Best non-single track: Communication. The follow-up to X marked a change in direction for INXS, to me.
Every INXS Album Ranked From Worst to Best. Author: stingbitten. [b]Contact me on nearly_famous88@hotmail.com if you wish to discuss any of my rankings further or make suggestions [/b] A ranking of the six INXS studio albums.
The top ranked albums by INXS are Kick, The Swing and Listen Like Thieves. The top rated tracks by INXS are Never Tear Us Apart, Need You Tonight, Don't Change, Devil Inside and Mystify. This artist appears in 978 charts and has received 7 comments and 48 ratings from BestEverAlbums.com site members.
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Mar 1, 2022 · They recorded 10 full length studio albums from 1980 to 1997 and then one more with JD Fortune on vocals (more on that later) in 2005 and these are the albums I’m ranking. No live or compilation releases. Let’s get into it: See all INXS artwork at www.INXS.com. 11. INXS - 1980 A little goofy & awkward.
