No poll coming, just name your favorite INXS album.
I immediately thought of X, but that’s probably my bias. It was the right album at the right time for me. It wasn’t just me playing it loudly at my college dorm, the music was everywhere.
I then put Kick on, and I still can’t separate it from the heavy MTV rotation of most of the songs. It just sounds really 1980s.
Kick, Listen Like Thieves, then X.
Listen Like Thieves
Shabooh Shobaah
God, I miss them 
Kick. Not even very close to me.
Another vote for Kick. Absolute classic.
Kick with X being a close 2nd.
Yet another vote for Kick, and not just for the hit singles. “Guns In The Sky” is one of my faves.
Kick, hands down.
The perfect mix of rock, swing, and dance. The arrangements and flow of the album are a masterpiece.
Besides, the first sign of a great album is when the record company hates it!
(quickly reviewing the INXS discography list…)
Hmm, turns out I like most of the songs on Listen Like Thieves, particularly the title track and Kiss The Dirt.
Turns out I like about half the songs on Kick
Turns out I only like a few songs off X (and I even owned the CD).
Turns out I forgot about the other 8 or so studio albums up to Switch and reviewing the song lists I believe I’m not missing much.
I do recall back in the day really hating "I Send* a Message’ from Swing, not because it is a horrible song (it’s just kind of meh), but because it got played and played and played a wee too much on WLIR at the time…
*Misheard lyrics - I always heard it as “I Sent A Message” - oh well.
Listen Like Thieves, then Kick. They were one of the best concerts I ever saw, they had 15000 people dancing in the aisles and singing along for 2 hours.
Listen Like Thieves and Shabooh Shoobah
I owned a copy of Kick for a while. It was a gift from a former roommate, but I never got into it. It either stayed with my ex-wife or went to the used CD store at some point.
Kick, but they are all great.
Not familiar with the INXS, but I could be persuaded to check out one or more of their albums.
Are they even available on Amazon Music? Every time I ask my Echo to play music by the INXS, Alexa tells me that she can’t find them.
By the way, where does their name come from? I’ve never even heard of an inx.
It’s pronounced “in excess”.
While “Don’t Change” is my favorite song by them, I vote for Kick as their best album.
Whoosh?
Ask Alexa to play " Need You Tonight," “Suicide Blonde,” “Devil Inside,” or “New Sensation” for a sampling of their greatest hits here in the US. I’m sure you must have heard some of these along the way.
I suspected that, but wasn’t sure, so happy to promote INXS whenever I can.
I just checked Amazon music and they’re there. You’re probably familiar with their music as they were definitely a band that got AirPlay on both top 40/pop radio as well as rock radio. They were also in heavy rotation during MTV’s era of playing music videos.
When I listen to music on the radio, it’s a jazz station.
And I’ve never been an MTV watcher.
And if they want us to know that it’s not inxs, they should put a space between the “IN” and the “XS.”
If it were “inxs,” as the plural of “inx,” I guess, it’d be “inxes.” And “IN XS” just doesn’t look as nice as “INXS.” And, to be clear, it’s not quite pronounced exactly the same as “in excess,” (at least not to me) which to me has a clear accent on the first syllable of “excess” but rather like “in eck-SESS” with the accent on the latter syllable, or at least equal accenting on the X and S part. When I say “in excess,” it’s more like “in ECK-sess.” Maybe it’s hairsplitting or my own way of pronouncing, but the phrase “in excess” and the band “INXS” are pronounced slightly different to me. Anyhow, good audio samples here.