INXS, Inxsive 1980-92 (1982)
I got hooked on INXS through the album Kick. It was the soundtrack to my final days at primary school, my first pair of basketball boots, my stone-wash jeans and the very-cheap Lacoste shirt my parents bought – the alligator facing the wrong way on this cheap copy-version. And then I checked out other albums. They were a good band. And this collection tells a different story, the story on the way toward Kick I guess. Listening to it now I hear them as contemporaries of our Dance Exponents, which they kinda were I guess, in an across the ditch sense. I first knew this album as a cassette tape, bought for $2.98 from Deka. I wanted something else (anything) by INXS and this was it. And at first it didn’t do it for me. But there was enough there to force me on. And I started really digging it. I don’t know when I bought the LP but it was one of those moments – I just know – where I bought it to represent the tape I once owned. I give it a listen now and then. And I like it. A lot. 

Sample Track: Simple Simon

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