Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
The Loved One
Wild Life
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick
Calling All Nations
Tiny Daggers
Frogtoon Music Album Info: Kick
Published: 07 Jul 2016, 04:58
After The Success Of Their Fifth Studio Album Listen Like Thieves 1985 And Its Second Single "What You Need" 1986 INXS Knew Their New Material Would Have To Be Even Better According To Guitarist Kirk Pengilly "We Wanted An Album Where All The Songs Were Possible Singles". They Recorded Kick In Sydney And Paris It Was Produced By Chris Thomas Again But Atlantic Records Was Not Happy With The Result As Manager Chris Murphy Remembers 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. Despite Atlantic's Protests Kick Was Released In October 1987 And Provided The Band With Worldwide Popularity It Peaked At No. 1 In Australia No. 3 On The US Billboard 200 No. 9 In UK And No. 15 In Austria. It Was An Upbeat Confident Album That Yielded Four Top 10 US Singles "New Sensation" "Never Tear Us Apart" "Devil Inside" And No. 1 "Need You Tonight". "Need You Tonight" Peaked No. 2 On The UK Charts No. 3 In Australia And No. 10 In France. They Toured Heavily Behind The Album Throughout 1987 And 1988. The Video For The 1987 INXS Track "Mediate" Which Played After The Video For "Need You Tonight" Replicated The Format Of Bob Dylan's Video For "Subterranean Homesick Blues " Even In Its Use Of Apparently Deliberate Errors. In September 1988 The Band Won 5 Categories In The MTV Video Music Awards With The Video For "Need You Tonight/Mediate". During 1989 Hutchence Collaborated With Ian 'Ollie' Olsen On A Side Project Max Q The Two Had Previously Worked Together On Lowenstein's Film Dogs In Space. The Rest Of The Band Also Took A Break To Work On Side Projects But Returned To The Studio To Record Their Follow-Up Album X 1990 . In 2002 Rhino Entertainment Released A Remastered Reissue Of 'Kick' With Four Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks. Mercury/Universal Reissued The Album In 2004 As Part Of Their Deluxe Edition Series Of Albums. The Two-Disc Collection Was Bolstered By A Disc Of Remixes B-Sides And Outtakes. Kick Is The Band's Best-Selling Album And Recording Industry Association Of America RIAA Certified It As 6× Platinum With Shipments Of Six Million Units In 1997. According To INXS Story To Story The Official Autobiography 2005 It Has Sold More Than 10 Million Copies In The US Alone. In March 2010 As Part Of His Record Club Series Where He Covers Classic Albums In Their Entirety Beck Released The First Video Of His Cover Version Of Kick On His Website. The Videos Were Submitted Weekly In The Same Track Order As The Original Release Although The Whole Album Was Recorded In Just Twelve Hours On 3 March. In October It Was Listed At No. 11 In The Book 100 Best Australian Albums.