Going For The Gold: INXS

Please do not adjust your sets: Michael Hutchence was actually this fuzzy in 1990 (YouTube)

A gold, a pair of platinums and a trio of multi-platinum records hang on the walls of INXS‘ rec room. Let’s take a survey of the discs that have gone shiny for Australia’s biggest import outside of kangaroos and AC/DC.

INXs had a pair of albums on the shelves (including one that went to #15 in their homeland) before they went worldwide with Shabooh Shoobah in 1982. It’s the one that went gold, preceding their Aussie #1, The Swing, which was one of a pair of discs to sell a million and go platinum in the US.

The other single platinum-seller was released toward the end of their six album streak of top sellers. Dropped in 1992, Welcome to Wherever You Are was the second of two albums to sell a million copies for INXS.

Having considered their long gold and two platinum records, what were the three that went multi-platinum? First there was their breakout US album, Listen Like Thieves. Driven by the hit single, “What You Need,” Listen Like Thieves stormed to #11 on the pop chart and sold 2 million copies to boot.

Their biggest record of all, of course, was a Best Seller From the ’80s, 1987′s Kick. “Need You Tonight,” “Devil Inside,” “Never Tear Us Apart:” All hits that kicked Kick to the #3 spot on the US album charts and scored the band a million-seller six times over.

The last of the band’s six shiny discs came with Kick‘s follow-up, X, released in 1990. A #5 charter in 1990, it followed the singles “Suicide Blonde ” and “Disappear” to 2x platinum status by the following year.

Lyrics

Don't you know what you're doin'
You got a death wish
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde

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