There was an audience waiting for the product, but I decided that they didn't have the right songs yet". Kick was a commercial success in other territories across Europe, earning platinum accreditations in France, [46] Spain [47] and Switzerland. The release of Listen Like Thieves and its second single "What You Need" in 1985 brought the group international acclaim, as well as a breakthrough in the United States. I've been hunting for an older pressing of this, one of my favorite records since the day it came out in '87.

INXS - Kick Vinyl at Juno Records.

In the US, the album spent a total of 79 weeks on the Billboard 200, staying 22 consecutive weeks in the top 10. In the band's 2005 official autobiography, the band's manager Chris Murphy stated that upon completion of Kick, he flew to New York to play the finished album for the top executives of Atlantic Records. Fleets of trucks were hired to transport the band's equipment, lighting and wardrobe across thousands of miles of road over the next three months. Murphy said that he resisted Atlantic's proposition of one million dollars to produce the album all over again. INXS finished up the second leg of the American tour with a handful of shows being played in key cities across the California state, including San Francisco, Fresno and San Diego.According to INXS: The Official Inside Story of a Band on the Road, Andrew said, "Prior to the Kick tour I'd never written on the road – mainly because I didn't have time I guess. A very wide soundstage has been created here by hard panning rhythm guitar and individual percussion elements to the extreme edges.

INXS – Kick (1988, Vinyl) - Discogs

With the growing popularity of Kick, and the release of its first single, "Need You Tonight", all twelve songs from the album quickly became staples of the tour's setlists, with " Don't Change" being regularly played during a show's encore. Specialty Records Corporation pressing denoted by "SP" in label matrix, SRC stamp in runouts and an embossed "E A S T" around the spindle hole. years after its release, Kick re-entered the Australian and New Zealand charts where it peaked again at No.The US record label first rejected the album, feeling that the funk and dance elements would alienate the band's traditional rock following. In the band's native Australia, Kick has gone seven times platinum, marking just over 500,000 in sales. The first disc in this forthcoming Kick 30 package is a newly remastered version of the album, while the second CD is identical to CD 2 from the previous reissue. According to the band's official autobiography, the album sold nearly 10 million units internationally only two years after its release. The super deluxe edition comes in a ten-inch square slipcase, with an 84-page hard back book inside, a red disc wallet for the four discs (three CD's and 1 DVD), an original tour poster and a Kick sticker sheet.

INXS – Kick (2018, 30th Anniversary Edition, Vinyl) - Discogs INXS – Kick (2018, 30th Anniversary Edition, Vinyl) - Discogs

If you are new to Dolby Atmos, here’s the science bit: “This advanced technology delivers moving audio – a complete atmosphere of sound, with individual sounds that can be precisely placed and moved all around the listener, even overhead. Dynamic, HUGE soundstage, DEAD SILENT vinyl (the quietest I have ever heard, tbh) and just impressive in that a 30 year old record sounds modern, full, rich, ALIVE. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top 10 US singles, "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and the No. Kick is the band's best-selling album, with reported sales approaching 20 million worldwide as of 2012.

Perhaps not as velvety as the vinyl sound I'm used to from my MoFi albums, but a good sound nonetheless. The tour resumed in March with the band playing three sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City from 18 to 20 March. The album also spawned four US top 10 singles, " New Sensation", " Never Tear Us Apart", " Devil Inside" and " Need You Tonight", the last of which reached the top of the US Billboard singles charts. The band had just come off a really successful tour of the US on the back of Listen Like Thieves, which really broke them there and they were on fire". Kick remains the band's best selling album in the UK, having gone three times platinum in 1989, with over 1 million units sold.