Kick [VINYL]

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VH1 placed the album's biggest single "Need You Tonight" at number 16 on its list of "Top 100 songs of the 80's". It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top 10 US singles, "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and the No. 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.

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The album was produced by British producer Chris Thomas, recorded by David Nicholas in Sydney and Paris and mixed by Bob Clearmountain at Air Studios in London. New additions include "Guns in the Sky (Kookaburra Mix), "Need You Tonight" (Ben Liebrand Mix), "Need You Tonight (Mendelsohn 7″ Edit)" and more. I only have my memory and the recent Dolby Atmos version to compare it to, so take that as a grain of salt. This one-year break allowed the members time off to spend with their families and to work on side projects.Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, asserted that Kick "became the band's most enduring release by mixing the hard rock sound of Thieves with a looser approach to dance grooves". Nick Launay, producer of the band's fourth studio album noted, "They'd lean more toward funk on The Swing and then they'd lean toward rock on Thieves to make it in America. There was an audience waiting for the product, but I decided that they didn't have the right songs yet".

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He told the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he went back to his motel room to grab something, when in fact, he went back to record the riff on a cassette. According to the band's official autobiography, the album sold nearly 10 million units internationally only two years after its release. 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.The band's most successful studio album, Kick has been certified six times platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. 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. Following the release of Kick, INXS embarked on a sixteen-month global tour playing arenas and stadiums in major cities across North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.

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The whole record was perfect, but on this track i had to dial my bass from a +2 t a -4 on my preamp just to get it to match the rest of the record. By the end of 1989, it was certified quadruple platinum, having sold in excess of four million units in the United States alone. Murphy said that he resisted Atlantic's proposition of one million dollars to produce the album all over again. INXS 'KICK' 25th Anniversary Edition To Be Released By Universal Music (UK) On September 17th, 2012".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.

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Kick remains the band's best-selling album in Canada, earning a diamond certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), for shipments of one million copies.

I think what makes the Kick album so dynamic is that we weren't so much interested in what everybody else was doing as what we wanted to do. But with Kick I started writing with a guitar, and I was kind of proud that I'd taught myself to do that". A very wide soundstage has been created here by hard panning rhythm guitar and individual percussion elements to the extreme edges. In the UK, Kick was the band's first album to attain a platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), achieving this designation in July 1988. The album achieved the same ranking on ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) list of 100 Best Australian Albums, a compendium compiled by Australian journalists John O’Donnell, Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson.