Kick [VINYL]

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Dynamic, HUGE soundstage, DEAD SILENT vinyl (the quietest I have ever heard, tbh) and just impressive in that a 30 year old record sounds modern, full, rich, ALIVE. At the band's request, fellow engineer David Nicholas was brought in to assist with the album's production. In the UK, Kick was the band's first album to attain a platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), achieving this designation in July 1988.

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I only have my memory and the recent Dolby Atmos version to compare it to, so take that as a grain of salt.

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.

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Perhaps not as velvety as the vinyl sound I'm used to from my MoFi albums, but a good sound nonetheless. s Automatic For The People being the first album to be mixed in Dolby Atmos, the Kick Dolby Atmos mix is actually going to beat R. There was an audience waiting for the product, but I decided that they didn't have the right songs yet". years after its release, Kick re-entered the Australian and New Zealand charts where it peaked again at No. In an interview with MusicRadar, Andrew Farriss stated, "The melding of funk and rock was always in our heads.The release of Listen Like Thieves and its second single "What You Need" in 1985 brought the group international acclaim, as well as a breakthrough in the United States. 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. Upon hearing both tracks being played simultaneously, Nicholas labored to have the two tracks combined. On the third disc, Universal do this time what they inexplicably failed to do five years ago and that’s fill out the disc with the ‘missing’ remixes. You have a record that’s 30 years old, but it’s been taken in a completely new direction and you can listen to it in a completely new way and it becomes new again.

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The US record label first rejected the album, feeling that the funk and dance elements would alienate the band's traditional rock following. According to guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly, "We wanted an album where all the songs were possible singles".The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Kick as six times Platinum, with shipments of six million units, in 1997. This four-disc Kick 30 set comes in DVD-sized ‘fan-deluxe’ which includes a 48-page booklet with interviews, essays and rare photos. Although you need a Dolby Atmos compatible amp and God knows how many speakers in your room to really get the benefit, we are assured that this will provide “an enhanced sound experience on any surround sound set-up”. With the growing popularity of Kick, and the release of its first single, "Need You Tonight", all twelve songs from the album quickly became staples of the tour's setlists, with " Don't Change" being regularly played during a show's encore.

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

Kick is the band's best-selling album, with reported sales approaching 20 million worldwide as of 2012. In October 2017, Universal Music Group announced that Kick would be re-issued in various formats to celebrate the album's 30th anniversary, which features a 3CD+Blu-ray, 2LP Vinyl Edition (half-speed mastered and pressed at 45RPM) and digital version. According to INXS: The Official Inside Story of a Band on the Road, Andrew said, "Prior to the Kick tour I'd never written on the road – mainly because I didn't have time I guess.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. All of the band mates are in super low contrast (clothes that are black on the original gatefold look gray on this one) and the skin tones and red hues are a bit off-tint. Various formats of Kick were simultaneously released on 12 September 2012: a deluxe edition, a super deluxe edition, two digital editions available for download and a limited-edition red-vinyl release. In the band's native Australia, Kick has gone seven times platinum, marking just over 500,000 in sales. Kick was a commercial success in other territories across Europe, earning platinum accreditations in France, [46] Spain [47] and Switzerland.