Numbers don’t always tell the whole story, do they? The album that INXS will be remembered for (Kick) didn’t get to number 1 in Australia. It got to number 2 twice (in 1987 and again in 2014). It got to number 3 in the US and number 9 in the UK. Sadly, this was the last number 1 album that INXS had (at least while MH was alive).
But on the other hand, sometimes numbers do tell the story. 4 of the top 5 INXS songs on Spotify come from Kick and it has sold 20 million copies worldwide whereas X has only sold half this amount.
X has always felt a bit like Kick part 2 to me, and it hasn’t aged particularly well. It’s not without its merits, but it has the hallmarks of a band trying to give the public what they think they want rather than a band following their muse or naturally evolving. It feels like they’re actually trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle thing that made Kick so great. That said, Suicide Blonde and Disappear are still both great tracks. But if you’re looking for a INXS fix, you’ll probably put on Kick and not X.
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