You might wonder why I chose as my theme "words starting with in- followed by the letter of the day." Now you know…
INXS started in Australia in 1977 as The Farriss Brothers, and the core of the band was Andrew (keyboards and main composer), Jon (drums), and Tim (guitar) Farriss. The other members were Garry Gary Beers (bass), Kirk Pengilly (guitar and saxophone), and Michael Hutchence (vocals). They had their first #1 single in Australia with "Original Sin" in 1984, and achieved international success with songs like "Suicide Blonde," "Need You Tonight," "Never Tear Us Apart," and "The Devil Inside."
Sadly, Michael Hutchence hanged himself in November 1997. The band continued to appear with guest singers like Jimmy Barnes, Terence Trent D’Arby, and Russell Hitchcock, before Jon Stevens, former singer with Australian band Noiseworks, took over. In 2005, they participated in the TV show Rock Star: INXS, a show similar to American Idol, which chose Canadian singer J. D. Fortune as the new vocalist. Fortune stayed with the band, on and off, until 2011, when Ciaran Gribbin took over on vocals. In a show at the Perth Arena in November 2012, they announced that they would no longer be touring.
Here are five of their more popular songs, for your musical enjoyment.
- Never Tear Us Apart
- Need You Tonight
- New Sensation
- Suicide Blonde
- Devil Inside
Do you have a favorite INXS song?
I have their tape cassette and played it u til it broke so I got another. I need to buy the CD
I wonder if Hutchence was trying to geta heightened sexual experience. It’s stated that people who try to hang themselves but not to die, do it for sexual pleasure. This is why David Carradine died
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What I do these days is stream it, or listen on YouTube.
I hadn’t thought of that with Hutchence. Hmmm….
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How can I find a favorite? I think I’ve loved every song of theirs I know. If I really had to choose a favorite, it would be “Never Tear Us Apart”. Alana ramblinwitham
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I met Michael Hutchence many years ago (sometime in the 70’s) and found him to be disarmingly quiet.
My own favourite (I am not a great fan, to be honest) was always the cover of ‘The Loved One’
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I can see that…
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I was kind of partial to “The Devil Inside” and “Ned You Tonight.”
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Suicide Bl9nde was always a favorite of mine.
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Great harmonica in that!
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I agree!
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Great group and I love Devil Inside. Their music is played frequently on The River 97.1.
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They did some great songs. I’m sorry they’ve gone their separate ways.
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Me too!
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Great band! And yes, clever use of the theme to avoid the no words begin with X in your theme dilemma…
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Any time I pick a theme, the first thing I do is to take care of the letter X.
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I wrote a post on Need You Tonight today.
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I saw it!
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Probably Devil Inside is my fave. I just cheated on X and used X-tra (same as last year)!
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You do what you have to. Very occasionally, you find a word that starts with X. one year, I’mgoing to make the letter of the day the LAST LETTER OF THE WORD…
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Ooh
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This group sure had a lot of great songs! 🙂
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They did! I like ’em a lot…
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I know the band by name and I know I’ve listened to some of their music over the years in Blogosphere but I couldn’t tell you a single song they did, though. It was nice to hear this playlist.
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Glad you liked it!
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Great group, I always like them who ever was singing with them but Hutchence was the best!
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He was unique….
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Yes indeed he was
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Huge fan of INXS. I went to one of their concerts in October 1990 (a really small venue in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Oz) and they filmed crowd scenes for one of their videos.Great concert. Michael Hutchence knew how to entertain.
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Sad he ended it all so horribly.
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I really loved their music
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It was excellent, that’s for certain.
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