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"Love your mateDon't suffocate on your own hateDesignate your love as fate "--??"Mediate"?? by INXS
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INXS
Kick
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AMG Review of Kick
Steve Huey
All Music Guide"What You Need" had taken INXS from college radio into the American Top Five, but there was little indication that the group would follow it with a multi-platinum blockbuster like Kick. Where the follow-ups to "What You Need" made barely a ripple on the pop charts, Kick spun off four Top Ten singles, including the band's only American number one, "Need You Tonight." Kick crystallized all of the band's influences -- Stones-y rock & roll, pop, funk, contemporary dance-pop -- into a cool, stylish dance/rock hybrid. It was perfectly suited to lead singer Michael Hutchence's feline sexuality, which certainly didn't hurt the band's already inventive videos. But it wasn't just image that provided their breakthrough. For the first (and really only) time, INXS made a consistently solid album that had no weak moments from top to bottom. More than that, really, Kick is an impeccably crafted pop tour de force, the band succeeding at everything they try. Every track has at least a subtly different feel from what came before it; INXS freely incorporates tense guitar riffs, rock & roll anthems, swing-tinged pop/rock, string-laden balladry, danceable pop-funk, horn-driven '60s soul, '80s R&B, and even a bit of the new wave-ish sound they'd started out with. More to the point, every song is catchy and memorable, branded with indelible hooks. Even without the band's sense of style, the flawless songcraft is intoxicating, and it's what makes Kick one of the best mainstream pop albums of the '80s.
How to Build the *+ULTIMATE TRUE ROCKER+*
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Just a quick one whilst the young *+Jedi _RAWKER_ sleeps+*.It's cool if you like playing kids songs for your kids... but my *RAWKIN* godson has been fed on rock from 5 months in the womb on & he is already givin the h1. RAWK FACE !!!_(see figure 1 below)_*(also note his left hand - total classic RAWK hand pose in motion...)*Yup, that kid is gonna be a Supah Dupah ROCK STAR - though I still say ...
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Lester Loves the 80's Pt 4
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Big big big music, 87, eight grade, these guys and U2 were just about the biggest bands goin at the time
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and sometimes i just love to dance in the rain
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thinking of making a rain mix, inspired by the morning rain on my skin as i walked into work.suggestions???lucy *
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Day 5 - INXS - Mystify
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Originally posted on September 17th, 2006I taught myself to play keyboards by ear in the mid to late eighties. One of the first songs that I remember trying to figure out was this song. I remember seeing concert footage of INXS performing “Mystify”, and thinking that they sounded fantastic live. Michael Hutchence was one hell of a frontman.If I start keeping track of my favorite albums, “Kic
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