INXS really, really blew up big in 1987. I had their previous album, Listen Like Thieves, and liked it, but the follow-up, Kick, was lightning in a bottle. The entire album was attention-grabbing, start to finish, and while it produced four big hits, I think there are at least four other album tracks that could've fared just as well had they been released instead. It was that kind of album. One thing I don't question is leading with "Need You Tonight." This song is just lousy with audio hooks, and when combined with "Mediate," it becomes something elevated. Everyone likes to pigeonhole the 80s as some variant of punk rock hair and day-glo colors, but this INXS video is the late 80s aesthetic in a nutshell.
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