Picture of the Day August 20, 2009
Last Friday at Mohawk Raceway. Anthony wears fire-retardent long underwear under his fire-retardent driver's suit. And you thought YOU were hot and sticky lately.INXSPosted for Thursday August 20th.....................
Happy Birthday, Mom!!Back in the early '80s, I was working in the lumber yard up at Spartan Industries. I had called home for some reason, and in the conversation, Mom told me that Margie had forgotten to send the slip in to refuse the selection of the month for the Columbia House Record and Tape Club. She had received two cassette tapes in the mail, and they were nothing she wanted and wondered if I wanted them. One was a Stevie Nicks tape and the other was a band called "The Inks, or something".
I got home later that day and checked out the tapes. Yes I wanted the Stevie Nicks tape and I looked at the other. The artist was..........
INXS.
Pronounced in-ex-ess.
or easier to say-inexcess.
The album was "Listen Like Thieves", and I had heard a couple of songs on CHOM-FM, so yes I did want it.
Their big album was Kick, released in 1987.
I have liked quite a few of their songs, and lately have started listening to them again. When I went to Burlington last week, I bought a used copy of Kick, and I listened to it Wednesday night while I was doing dishes. Great album. Great band in their day.
Michael Hutchence, lead singer, was a real talent, great voice, and it was a shame when he took his life in November of 1997.
Great songs. The One Thing. Original Sin. What you Need. Never Tear Us Apart. Need You Tonight. My three big favorites are Listen Like Thieves, the title track from the previously mentioned tape; Good Times, from The Lost Boys soundtrack; and Mystify, from the Kick album.
The new music and new artists are so foreign to me that I find myself revisiting the old bands.
Another band I'm thinking of revisiting-Cheap Trick. Dream Police, Live at Budokan. They have to be available on CD, don't you think?
