Kick (INXS album)

Kick
Studio album by
INXS
Released19 October 1987[1]
Recorded1986–1987
Studio
  • Rhinoceros (Sydney)
  • Studio De La Grande Armée (Paris)
Genre
Length39:50
Label
ProducerChris Thomas
INXS chronology
Listen Like Thieves
(1985) 		Kick
(1987) 		X
(1990)
Singles from Kick
  1. "Need You Tonight"
    Released: 21 September 1987
  2. "Devil Inside"
    Released: 8 February 1988
  3. "New Sensation"
    Released: March 1988[a]
  4. "Never Tear Us Apart"
    Released: June 1988
  5. "Mystify"
    Released: 15 March 1989

Kick is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band INXS, released on 19 October 1987 through WEA in Australia, Mercury Records in Europe, and Atlantic Records in the United States and Canada. 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.

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 album also spawned four US top 10 singles, "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight", the last of which reached the top of the US Billboard singles charts.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Australian Music Report No 690 – 12 October 1987". Imgur.com (original document published by Australian Music Report). Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Index: Releases". Record Mirror. 19 December 1987. p. 12. INXS, those good looking guys from Aussie, release their single 'New Sensation' on December 29.
  3. ^ Sias, Van (19 October 2017). "INXS' 'Kick': 10 Things You Didn't Know". Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ "INXS' "Kick"s through genres". 5 January 2018.


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