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Music from the eighties suffers a bum deal far too often but sometimes people need reminding about the bonafide, undisputed classics that this decade thrust upon us. Albums like Thriller, Born In The USA, Reckless, Brothers In Arms and Hysteria proved in both sales figures and public enthusiasm that it was indeed a decade of the biggest of the big. Kick is another album to add to that list. Much like those aforementioned works it worked the singles market into a frenzy with almost half the tracks being not only singles but BIG singles! The album was huge. Who saw it coming? Well, 1985's Listen Like Thieves should have been an indication that the blue touchpaper had been lit and was ready to fire. Producer Chris Thomas tidied up the sound, took away the doodling and injected a grand ol' dose of stadium rock into the equation. Reprising this role on Kick with a bunch of short sharp no-filler tunes to play with it was beyond doubt that this was a classic. Like a snowball rolling down a hill it picked up speed and just seemed to keep on going. It seemed like the album would never go away and well into 1988 it was still ringing around the world. Clocking in at 3 seconds under 40 minutes its dozen songs are a perfect combination of those 80s stalwarts - the ballads and the punch-the-sky rockers. Made for stadiums and radio airplay, you couldn't get away from this no matter how you tried. And why would you want to. This was music made to be enjoyed. It didn't need to take its clothes off or autotune itself to death to get the public to buy it - it just came in shook you about and got out before you could complain. Even today, it doesn't sound dated like a lot of 80s albums do. The standards of production, musicianship and songwriting made sure this was an album built to last.
Like the rest of the INXS remasters the sound has not been tampered with to pander to the lo-fi generation. Instead, the dynamics have been retained, cleaned up for clarity and given a good polish. A nice healthy bottom end (perhaps on occasions a little too healthy) has been flown in and the result is very favourable. No extra tracks and the artwork is unchanged (with the nostalgic explanation in four languages of how to care for your compact discs still intact). However, the remasters have been priced sensibly and, in my opinion, are long overdue.
Kick was the peak and much like Def Leppard, who released Hysteria the same year, it was a slow but consistent journey downwards. But isn't that always the story?
Like the rest of the INXS remasters the sound has not been tampered with to pander to the lo-fi generation. Instead, the dynamics have been retained, cleaned up for clarity and given a good polish. A nice healthy bottom end (perhaps on occasions a little too healthy) has been flown in and the result is very favourable. No extra tracks and the artwork is unchanged (with the nostalgic explanation in four languages of how to care for your compact discs still intact). However, the remasters have been priced sensibly and, in my opinion, are long overdue.
Kick was the peak and much like Def Leppard, who released Hysteria the same year, it was a slow but consistent journey downwards. But isn't that always the story?
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