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Track Listings
| 1. Questions |
| 2. Heaven Sent |
| 3. Communication |
| 4. Taste It |
| 5. Not Enough Time |
| 6. All Around |
| 7. Baby Don't Cry - INXS, Australian Concert Orchestra, Phillip Hartl |
| 8. Beautiful Girl |
| 9. Wishing Well |
| 10. Back On Line |
| 11. Strange Desire |
| 12. Men And Women |
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is a classic, a set of songs of amazing variety and great melodic depth. I love the sitars and tabla on Questions and the raucous rock of Heaven Sent. Communication is a catchy slice of pop-rock with a driving beat, Taste It sounds like one the Stones’ funky ballads with its jerky rollicking rhythm, whilst Not Enough Time is a soulful love song with beautiful vocals and gripping chorus.
All Around is a powerful up-tempo rock gem and the tuneful Baby Don’t Cry with its sixties flavour and uplifting harmonies is irresistible. One of the highlights of this great album is the poignant Beautiful Girl, where great lyrics, vocals and playing gel into a pop masterpiece. Back On Line, Strange Desire and Men and Women are great too.
There are no duds on Welcome To Wherever You Are. It is one of those rare albums where every track offers something special. Inxs’ s mastery of such a variety of styles is impressive. This is probably one of the very best, and most underappreciated, rock albums of the 1990s.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The follow up to `X' had to be different, and the band delivered wholesale with Welcome to wherever you are. In retrospect in a similar way to U2's Rattle and Hum the Live baby live album was the end of a chapter for the band, and again similar to U2's Achtung Baby on this album INXS rediscover themselves, and as a result produce one their most original works.
Unfortunately at the time of release (1994) under the shadow of a changed music scene in the UK (that already seen Grunge come and go) where Oasis's debut Definitely Maybe and Blur's `Parklife' were released and Britpop was gathering momentum, the public had by now turned its eyes elsewhere from a band that were now considered deeply un-cool and an 80's relic, and their best album was largely ignored. It was also this point that saw the beginning of the bands eventual decline and to the unfortunate episode that saw their lead singers untimely passing.
The energy that goes into the recording is relentless, and instead of glossy tight production being at the fore, guitars, loops, samples and drums are all given space to make themselves heard, Heaven Sent, Taste it, Not enough time, Beautiful girl and Baby don't cry were all strong singles. This really the sound of a band going for it musically, and for me the band never equalled this album.
Unfortunately at the time of release (1994) under the shadow of a changed music scene in the UK (that already seen Grunge come and go) where Oasis's debut Definitely Maybe and Blur's `Parklife' were released and Britpop was gathering momentum, the public had by now turned its eyes elsewhere from a band that were now considered deeply un-cool and an 80's relic, and their best album was largely ignored. It was also this point that saw the beginning of the bands eventual decline and to the unfortunate episode that saw their lead singers untimely passing.
The energy that goes into the recording is relentless, and instead of glossy tight production being at the fore, guitars, loops, samples and drums are all given space to make themselves heard, Heaven Sent, Taste it, Not enough time, Beautiful girl and Baby don't cry were all strong singles. This really the sound of a band going for it musically, and for me the band never equalled this album.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
INXS head off into a wise change of direction following the sucess of Kick and X. The album begins soaked in Indian influences and ends with dark shards of guitars and orchestra. In between there's the snarling vocals of Heaven Sent, the chattering Communication, the beautiful Not Enough Time and Beautiful Girl and the Stonesy swagger of All Around. Add to that Taste It's rolling drums, moments of pschydelia and the album's best moment, the life-affirming Baby Don't Cry (with INXS's best ever chorus) and you get a fantastic mix of great pop moments, rock and roll, dance and songs that other bands should give their back teeth for...
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Published 15 months ago by Artichoke
Brilliant!!
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michael and co roll with the punches
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Published on 5 Aug 2005 by .Richard
Brilliant...
sublime lyrics, and rhythms that you certainly `feel'. This is an album which all fans of pop/rock and even the remotest fans of INXS fans will enjoy. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2003 by Mr. Naveed H. Siddiqui
One or two good songs but overall unimpressive
INXS had been around for some time although they did not go to the extremes that U2 did to reinvent themselves they did try. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 1999
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