In celebration of its 1987 release, INXS has will release three newly remastered Kick 25th Anniversary Editions of their highly successful studio album. The editions are available as a limited edition LP on red vinyl, a 25-track expanded Deluxe 2CD set; and a 32-track collector's edition Super Deluxe 3CD set coupled with a 60-minute DVD and 80-page hard cover book.
All three versions are available for purchase now and available exclusively online at inxs.com. The Deluxe 2CD Edition includes the remastered version of the original album, along with a bonus disc of early demo recordings and outtakes, live concert tracks, rare b-sides and remixes.
The collector's edition Super Deluxe 3CD+1DVD+80-page hardcover book edition includes the remastered version of the original album, a second CD of early demos, live concert tracks, rare b-sides and remixes, along with a third CD featuring special single edit versions and bonus remixes of "Never Tear Us Apart," "New Sensation," and "Devil Inside" among others. The added DVD features never-before-seen exclusive footage titled Through Our Eyes Only filmed by the band themselves, taking fans behind-the-scenes during the 1987-1988 "Calling All Nations World Tour."
Additional DVD features include unseen live-in-concert recordings, rare promos for the band and album, music videos, and a track-by-track documentary filmed during the late-80s to present on the making of the classic album featuring intimate interviews with the late Michael Hutchence and brothers Andrew, Jon and Tim Farriss. The collector's edition Super Deluxe set also comes with an 80-page art book that includes never-before-seen handwritten lyrics from the Michael Hutchence family archives, previously unseen photos, diaries, a Kick sticker sheet and original tour poster.
INXS has an entirely new line of merchandise and apparel commemorating the Kick 25th Anniversary available only online at: http://shop.petrolelectric.com/kick-25. For more information please visit the bands' official website, inxs.com.
Originally released on October 19, 1987, Kick was originally rejected at the time by their record label, who offered the band $1,000,000 to go back to Australia and record an entirely different album. Instead, it became a worldwide, multi-platinum success. Yielding four Top 10 singles: "Devil Inside," "New Sensation," "Never Tear Us Apart," and "Need You Tonight" (which hit #1 in the U.S.), Kick solidified the band as one of the world's top concert attractions with a relentless radio presence and constant video rotation at MTV.
During this prolific period - the album from beginning to end, front to back, including the now iconic imagery - everything contributed to conjuring up one of the most inspired INXS albums of their career and one of the most exciting albums of that musical era, with sales now approaching 20 million worldwide.
In the accompanying DVD of the Kick 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Andrew Farriss recalled "the Kick album was a very important album for INXS' career on lots of levels. We'd had chart success prior to that album. It was our sixth studio album, but the chart success we'd had prior to that album was a mixed bag."
Tim Farriss remembered, "Kick, to me, was an extension of Listen Like Thieves, the album we had just made with producer Chris Thomas. And it just felt like we had really just gotten it happening."
"We came up with 'What You Need' which was a top five hit for us then in the United States...and that really did change things in a big way for us," said Andrew Farriss. We knew what we had to do with Kick as an album, so Michael and I talked with the other guys in the band on a tour bus, I think in Germany of all places and said to them 'Look, you know, this album we're about to make, it feels like a big career move for us...if you really trust us with the songwriting, we'll try to give you ten 'What You Needs.' And the guys, to their credit, said 'okay, you write all the songs.' And we (Michael and I) went, 'alright!,' because now we had our mission statement. So, we sat down and carefully designed Kick."
Jon Farriss described the album and bands' then evolving sound as having "a groove element, a dance element that lies underneath a lot of that stuff. Motown (was) definitely a very influential aspect of INXS."
Michael Hutchence continued "It's a soul thing, really. I sort of write songs where there's just a movement, an energy, and rhythm. But, they're basically moral songs. 'Being good to each other, taking care of each other.' They're love songs. They're not trite. They're very passionate."
INXS KICK 25th Anniversary limited-edition red LP tracklisting:
Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
The Loved One
Wildlife
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick
Calling All Nations
Tiny Daggers
INXS KICK 25th Anniversary Deluxe 2CD tracklisting:
CD1
Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
The Loved One
Wildlife
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick
Calling All Nations
Tiny Daggers
CD2
Move On - Guitar Version
I'm Coming (Home)
Mediate - Live From America
Never Tear Us Apart - Live From America
Kick - Live From America
On The Rocks
Do Wot You Do - B Side New Sensation
Mystify - Chicago Demo
Jesus Was A Man - Demo
The Trap - Demo
Guns In The Sky - Kick Ass Remix
Need You Tonight - Mendelson Extended Mix
Move On
INXS Kick 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe 3CD+1DVD (w/80 page hardcover book):
CD1
Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
The Loved One
Wildlife
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick
Calling All Nations
Tiny Daggers
CD2
Move On - Guitar Version
I'm Coming (Home)
Mediate - Live From America
Never Tear Us Apart - Live From America
Kick - Live From America
On The Rocks
Do Wot You Do - B Side New Sensation
Mystify - Chicago Demo
Jesus Was A Man - Demo
The Trap - Demo
Guns In The Sky - Kick Ass Remix
Need You Tonight - Mendelson Extended Mix
Move On
CD3
Never Tear Us Apart - Soul Version
New Sensation - Nick 12" Mix
New Sensation - Nick 7"
Devil Inside - Extended Remix
Devil Inside - 7"
Different World - 7"
Calling All Nations - Kids On Bridges Remix
DVD
Documentary: Track Baby Track Documentary
INXS KICK World Tour: Exclusive Band Footage [Through Our Eyes Only]
Promos
Mystify
Guns in the Sky
Need You Tonight
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