- Audio CD (27 Sep 2004)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Box set
- Label: Commercial Marketing
- ASIN: B0002SV978
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,290 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Guns In The Sky | |||
| 2. New Sensation | |||
| 3. Devil Inside | |||
| 4. Need You Tonight | |||
| 5. Mediate | |||
| 6. The Loved One | |||
| 7. Wildlife | |||
| 8. Never Tear Us Apart | |||
| 9. Mystify | |||
| 10. Kick | |||
| 11. Calling All Nations | |||
| 12. Tiny Daggers | |||
| 13. Move On | |||
| 14. I'm Coming (Home) | |||
| 15. On The Rocks | |||
| 16. Mystify (Chicago Demo) | |||
| 17. Jesus Was A Man (Demo/Outtakes) | |||
| 18. The Trap (Demo) | |||
| 19. New Sensation (Nick 12" Mix) | |||
| 20. Guns In The Sky (Kick Ass Remix) | |||
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Product Description
Review
"New Sensation", "Devil Inside", "Need You Tonight", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Mystify": The Greatest Hits of INXS? No. Well yes, but it's actually called Kick. And what an album!
Celebrating the 25th year of the band's formation, Universal are releasing this 'Deluxe Version' of the album that shot a cultish, Aussie group from student hall murkiness into Stadium Arena superstardom. After the preceding release of Listen Like Thieves there was much anticipation about the band. But nobody expected this!
Opening with a guitar riff that is both Queen and the B-52's, "Guns In The Sky" lets you know this is not an album that can be ignored. Hutchence assures this with his manic yelping. And even if he didn't convince you, there's that unyielding guitar solo...
The album does indeed run like a Greatest Hits collection from 1987 - a time where music was in a world of its own, with Guns 'n' Roses' Appetite For Destruction at one end of the scale and U2's The Joshua Tree at the other with Kick strutting its stuff in the middle.
Famed often as the Jim Morrison of the 80s, the tragedy of Hutchence's death does add a greater intrigue to this album, attaching more mystique to this band of stadium fillers. The production still sounds fresh and the song-writing partnership of Hutchence/Farriss wins you over with an anthemic glory. This is the stuff of legends, with Hutchence's finest moment undoubtably being the soulful track which was played at his own funeral, "Never Tear Us Apart."
Disc 2 is the predictable collection of demos, b-sides, 12-inchers and live outtakes and it runs as awkwardly as you'd expect, although the live tracks and the 12" mix of "New Sensation" make it worth the effort (the 12"...what a great art-form). Superfluous second disc notwithstanding, this is a near flawless collection of songs. --Cormac Heron
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An extra kick, twenty years later
4 Jan 2008
Format:Audio CD
This is considered INXS's benchmark album. Almost everyone who's made it has at least one. This needs little introduction. We all grew up with it. Now, it's better than ever, with more material. I used to have the EU original, but I sold it. This edition was only released outside the US and Canada (though the reissue we've got sufficed). The B-sides have few or no lyrics, as do most of them from this and "X", as they are improvisations or padded remixes. "Different World" and the video version of "Never Tear Us Apart" could have fit here. Deluxe Edition is a series of reissues of classic albums in the Universal catalogue (Warner for North America). This belongs up there with them.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Some of the best songs from a phenomenal band
1 Aug 2006
Format:Audio CD
Kick is a solid album by one of the world's greatest bands. I owned the original album back when it was first released, but wanted the deluxe edition for the dance mixes and previously unreleased tracks. This album was well worth the price. I absolutely love it! This is a great album for long-time fans as well as those with a new interest in this important band. Absolutely spectacular.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Purchase :)
21 Oct 2007
Format:Audio CD
Hello! I Purchase This Item For a Friend Of Mine, Because I Already Have
The Japanese Old Edition Of Kick & For Me, It's More Thane Enough, Anyway,
I Have To Admit Something, This Double Edition Not Only Contain All The
Bonus Tracks That Appears in The Japanese Version, They Included More!
The Sound is Excelent & The Package Is Beautiful, Really, I'm a Old Fan
Of Inxs and I Will Remember The Rest Of My Life That Michael Died, I Wake
Up And Put Mtv and I Noted that They Played Videos Of Inxs, And, This is
Not a Common Situation in MTV, So, I Start To Think & Said: Oh No! And
In That Moment They Repeat the Notice..Everybody (I Mean EVERYBODY: This
Include The Rest Of The Band, Even they Make Another Stupid American Idol
Singer Contest That They Never Have Again Something Like Michael) So, As I Said, Everybody Feels that We Lose Something..So, I Feel Glad When I
Bought the Double DVD Set of The Inxs Videos With All the Interviews and
The Footage About Michael :) I Never Understand Why They DON'T Include "Guns In the Sky" And the Collection Will Be Complete..Anyway, This CD Is Highly Recommended To Any Fan of Inxs, New of Older Like Me :)
The Japanese Old Edition Of Kick & For Me, It's More Thane Enough, Anyway,
I Have To Admit Something, This Double Edition Not Only Contain All The
Bonus Tracks That Appears in The Japanese Version, They Included More!
The Sound is Excelent & The Package Is Beautiful, Really, I'm a Old Fan
Of Inxs and I Will Remember The Rest Of My Life That Michael Died, I Wake
Up And Put Mtv and I Noted that They Played Videos Of Inxs, And, This is
Not a Common Situation in MTV, So, I Start To Think & Said: Oh No! And
In That Moment They Repeat the Notice..Everybody (I Mean EVERYBODY: This
Include The Rest Of The Band, Even they Make Another Stupid American Idol
Singer Contest That They Never Have Again Something Like Michael) So, As I Said, Everybody Feels that We Lose Something..So, I Feel Glad When I
Bought the Double DVD Set of The Inxs Videos With All the Interviews and
The Footage About Michael :) I Never Understand Why They DON'T Include "Guns In the Sky" And the Collection Will Be Complete..Anyway, This CD Is Highly Recommended To Any Fan of Inxs, New of Older Like Me :)
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