Post by friday on Aug 9, 2007 2:47:55 GMT -4
Music video
This was their first top 40 hit. I've been discovering a lot of their non-Kick singles lately. Songs like "This Time," "Listen Like Thieves," "Kiss the Dirt," and "Elegantly Wasted" are all woefully underrepresented on radio today, and this one is among them. I mean, along with Bono, Mike Hutchence was probably the most dynamic and engaging frontman of the 80s. He easily had one of the best voices in modern rock in his day. I didn't pay much attention when he killed himself ten years ago, but as I think about it a little more, that was such a huge loss for music. And you know, if he hadn't died, I'd bet INXS would've probably cemented themselves along with U2, Depeche Mode and New Order as one of the great alternative rock bands of all time.
And checking out some of their other videos on Youtube, this was a great video band as well, due in no small part to Hutchence's magnetism. I mean, there are certain bands that you can tell just intrinsically know what they're doing when making videos, and as such, consistently make great videos. Hell, they even take a simple performance clip like "Don't Change" and turn it into gold. This was just truly a kickass group, and, despite the current incarnation today, it's a shame they'll never be what they should've been.
This was their first top 40 hit. I've been discovering a lot of their non-Kick singles lately. Songs like "This Time," "Listen Like Thieves," "Kiss the Dirt," and "Elegantly Wasted" are all woefully underrepresented on radio today, and this one is among them. I mean, along with Bono, Mike Hutchence was probably the most dynamic and engaging frontman of the 80s. He easily had one of the best voices in modern rock in his day. I didn't pay much attention when he killed himself ten years ago, but as I think about it a little more, that was such a huge loss for music. And you know, if he hadn't died, I'd bet INXS would've probably cemented themselves along with U2, Depeche Mode and New Order as one of the great alternative rock bands of all time.
And checking out some of their other videos on Youtube, this was a great video band as well, due in no small part to Hutchence's magnetism. I mean, there are certain bands that you can tell just intrinsically know what they're doing when making videos, and as such, consistently make great videos. Hell, they even take a simple performance clip like "Don't Change" and turn it into gold. This was just truly a kickass group, and, despite the current incarnation today, it's a shame they'll never be what they should've been.
