INXS - Kiss The Dirt - Radio Paradise -Internet Radio

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Artist:

INXS [ more ]

Song:

Kiss The Dirt

Album:

Listen Like Thieves [ info ]

Released:

1985

Last Played:

May 09, 2013 - 21:51

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7.1 (Total Ratings: 550)

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119 comments for this song:

iTuner

Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 22:41

7 becomes 8. Good tune.

Segue
(Almost Paradise)

Posted: Jan 22, 2013 - 16:34

Always underwhelmed by INXS but time treats them well and RP makes anything sound good in the mix.

DavidS_UK
(Central England, UK)

Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 14:31

Ages since I heard a good Inxs track, thanks for this one; I have given it a 7 but it may yet go up...

lily34
(lexvegas)

Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 11:41

that's a good one.

i love this song.

stahlwerk

Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 01:53

This is my favourite misheard lyrics song:

Falling down the Mountain
Anarchists and Ducks

lemmoth
(NYC)

Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 12:52

Was pretty sure this was Listn Like Thieves when I heard it. These guys really did have a "sound" which they repeated over and over and over and over and .......

drsteevo
(Location Location)

Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 10:05

Thanks! This song brought back some specific good memories and feelings.

overlandrover
(Norfolk... Nelson's County!)

Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 09:47

Wow. This is the first time I've heard this on "the radio". Refreshing to hear it again after all these years.

I used to listen to this album a lot, but I don't necessarily think this is their best....
...and better was to come on "Kick" and "X".

This one's easily worthy of a seven - no less.

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)

Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 09:43

Definitely dig this tune - been a LONG time since I've heard it - good memories!

lily34
(lexvegas)

Posted: Feb 10, 2012 - 15:39

Synth80s wrote:

This was the last INXS album that I really identified with. "Shabooh Shoobah" and "The Swing" were both monsters and both very formative for me. "Listen Like Thieves" was the transitional album that set them up for the massive fame that really came with "Kick." I like the later albums as well, but it didn't feel as quirky and original as the early albums.

Today INXS may be written off as something from a far off time and land (and their current pursuits to don't so them any favors) but for most of the 1980s they could do no wrong. I really wish we would have had the opportunity to see how they could have evolved with a healthy, happy Hutchence, but it wasn't to be.

i agree with your first paragraph word for word!! same for me!

and feel the same way about your 2nd.

Synth80s
(*Beautiful* Southern California (cough, choke, honk))

Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 09:09

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)

Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 08:47

Proclivities wrote:

I saw PIL around 1990 or '91, in NYC - they had quite a talented, well-rehearsed band, which enabled Lydon to run all over the stage being "theatrical". I can't speak for all of their shows, but that one was quite good.

Thanks for that live review—I've always kind of admired them, and like some of their songs, but generally couldn't make it all the way through any of their albums without dumping out.

Radio Paradise has deemed only 1 cut of theirs worthy, and it's the last on this "Greatest Hits" package:

Track Listing
1 -	Public Image
2 -	Death Disco
3 -	Memories
4 -	Careering
5 -	Flowers Of Romance
6 -	This Is Not A Love Song
7 -	Rise
8 -	Home
9 -	Seattle
10 -	The Body
11 -	Rules And Regulations
12 -	Disappointed
13 -	Warrior
14 -	Don't Ask Me

Rumor has it they're coming back for more fun—

>>John Lydon, the guy that used to front the Sex Pistols and go by Johnny Rotten, has announced that his band Public Image Ltd. will release a new album titled This Is PiL at some point in 2012. NME reported yesterday that the Lydon-fronted art-punks have been working on the album for the past two years. It will be their first since 1992's That What Is Not.

Lydon talked to BBC 6Music about the album, where he said he had to tour for two years to raise funds to cover the recording costs.

"I was always full of ideas, but I had to wait until I had enough money to release an album," Lydon told the BBC. "Everybody thinks I made such a fortune with the Sex Pistols. Well, unfortunately that is not true."

iTuner

Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 21:04

MiracleDrug wrote:

these guys could do NO musical wrong for a brief moment in time...

Well said

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)

Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 06:20

vit wrote:

Hard to kiss the dirt when your feet can't touch the floor.

Ouch. Black humour at its best.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)

Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 06:19