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INXS - Kick

I remember seeing the cover for Shabooh Shoobah  in the early '80s and trying to work out how to say the band's name. Without radio or video I just assumed it was pronounced inks . The band would slowly start to build here in Canada and "Original Sin" got quite a bit of airplay, and then came "What You Need" which was a pretty big song. I thought they were good, but there were a lot of good bands and I only had so much money.  Kick was one of those albums that managed to connect with people in a big way. Fronted by Michael Hutchence who was simply mesmerizing and backed by an incredibly tight band INXS delivered a near perfect album. The timing could not have been better and the album would go on to move over 20,000,000 copies, almost ten times more than their previous record and it would be the band's high-water mark. At the time I had no idea this was as big as it was. I knew who the band was before Kick came out, and while I knew it was a popular albu...