I've been hunting for an older pressing of this, one of my favorite records since the day it came out in '87. Kick remains the band's best selling album in the UK, having gone three times platinum in 1989, with over 1 million units sold. I don't have any distortion on "Need You Tonight" or "Mediate," but "The Loved One" doesn't sound that great.

INXS – Kick (1988, Vinyl) - Discogs

It was an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top 10 US singles, "New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside" and the No.Kick remains the band's best-selling album in Canada, earning a diamond certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), for shipments of one million copies. In Canada, Kick is the second album by an Australian act to receive a diamond accreditation, the first being AC/DC's Back in Black. When Hutchence heard the demo in Hong Kong, he wrote the song's lyrics, writing most in just ten minutes.

INXS – Kick (1987, Gatefold, Vinyl) - Discogs INXS – Kick (1987, Gatefold, Vinyl) - Discogs

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. Nicholas said in the band's official autobiography, "I rewound his tape and hit play just as "Need You Tonight" ended and synced up so perfectly that I actually thought something was wrong". 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. 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. I only have my memory and the recent Dolby Atmos version to compare it to, so take that as a grain of salt.In the United States, the album was certified platinum on 22 December 1987, less than two months after its release, by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for sales of one million copies. BBC Music's Cormac Heron reviewed the 2004 deluxe edition, "superfluous second disc notwithstanding, this is a near flawless collection of songs" and felt that the "production still sounds fresh and the song-writing partnership of Hutchence/Farriss wins you over with an anthemic glory". In a retrospective review, Q wrote, "Hutchence's knowing, Jaggeresque vocal swagger turned 'Devil Inside,' 'Never Tear Us Apart' and the mighty 'Mystify' into something beyond what INXS had done before and what they would do again". The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Kick as six times Platinum, with shipments of six million units, in 1997. 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.

INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl

Each format includes the original Kick album remastered, with all of the bonus tracks from the 2002 Rhino expanded release and the 2004 Mercury UK deluxe set. This four-disc Kick 30 set comes in DVD-sized ‘fan-deluxe’ which includes a 48-page booklet with interviews, essays and rare photos. Upon its release, Kick was noted for being in sync with the visual media of the late 80's, which is instantly evident in the album's opening track "Guns in the Sky"; the song described the state of the world and its obsession with arms.It was later reported by the Daily Express that a DVD would be included in the collection, featuring brand new video clips of Hutchence, as well as never before seen handwritten lyrics, sourced directly from the singer's family archives. While Kick had been considered as the album's name during the recording sessions in Australia, when the word appeared in a couple of tracks, a song of the same name was written in Hong Kong and it was chosen for certain. In the US, the album spent a total of 79 weeks on the Billboard 200, staying 22 consecutive weeks in the top 10. The band had just come off a really successful tour of the US on the back of Listen Like Thieves, which really broke them there and they were on fire".