Greatest Songs From INXS's Kick (Album)

Kick was the record that took INXS from major band to global event. Released in 1987 after the group had already spent years building its sound in pubs, clubs, and studios, the album arrived at the tail end of a wild decade and sounded completely ready for it. You hear rock, funk, dance, pop, and that sleek late '80s studio polish all packed into one release that never feels stiff or overworked. Michael Hutchence brought the swagger, Andrew Farriss brought the musical range, and the rest of the band locked it all together with the kind of confidence that makes a song feel huge before the chorus even lands.

When people talk about the greatest INXS album released in the 1980s, this is the one that keeps barging into the room like it owns the place.

The Top Ten

  1. New Sensation

    I just wanna say a few things about this song.

    First, I went to Australia only because of this song. Second, despite the lyrics meaning good, I feel this song is really about changing some things that were raw in a simplistic and normal life like any other. And third, I love the live version more than this, the recorded version.

    I know no one asked me, but this song was ahead of its time.

    Better than Mystify.

  2. Mystify

  3. Need You Tonight

    I never really thought I would admit it, but this is perhaps the most original song that INXS has to date. Even in several YouTube videos on this subject, it has already been taken into account how the INXS song is definitely crowned as number one. It is also worth mentioning that while the lyrics were not very innovative for their time, they still have their own touch when concluding with that piece of funk-style guitar riff, and at least the video is strange but memorably conscious.

    How is this song not even Top 3? A song like Mediate is just a bad copy of this one. Okay to put it beside it. Both sound like good songs, but come on. Mediate is not even an INXS song that would fit in the Top 20 of INXS, while Need You Tonight is definitely a song that perfectly fits in the charts. To #20.

  4. Mediate

  5. Kick

  6. Never Tear Us Apart

    This is definitely the only INXS song that generates such a strong emotional state of love and melancholy in me. I still miss my beautiful girl Amanda, and this song describes how it was one of my best romances before everything was dissolved by heartbreak.

    This is probably one of the best ballads in the world. But I thought that this song would be ranked much higher. And if you ask me, yeah, it's very ridiculous to see this song in last place. I mean, come on! This is not fair.

    Best song ever made, and also the best on INXS Kick (this album).

  7. Calling All Nations

    This is the best to me.

  8. Tiny Daggers

    This song is so beautiful. It reminds me a bit of Rod Stewart's Young Turks.

    ARE YOU SERIOUS? Calling All Nations ABOVE THIS ONE?

  9. Devil Inside

    Better than much of the rest of the boring songs on this list.

    A much better song than Never Tear Us Apart, in my opinion.

    This song is too underrated.

  10. The Loved One

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