timothius said:
Do you challange me to listen to them a few more times do you?
YES. yes i do. especially...omigor...the swing and x, i love those albums. here's my rating of all their albums:
1. listen like thieves
2. underneath the colours
3. the swing
4. x
5. shabooh shoobah
6. kick
7. inxs
8. welcome to wherever you are
9. live baby live
10. elegantly wasted
11. full moon dirty hearts
and yeah, some of those albums are a grower. listen like thieves i got into right away. but the swing i HATED at first. i just couldn't stand the album. but then i gave myself the task of taking one album a day and listening to it all day, no skipping of tracks. it grew on me and i love it. it was a different sound for them, they never made another album like it before or after it.
their last two albums were a disappointment. full moon dirty hearts is so top heavy, i can't stand to really listen to what would be considered side b, i stop after please (you got that...) because the rest is so
. and elegantly wasted would've been better i think had michael not been so messed up. if he'd used that break the band took and got himself cleaned up, i think the album would've been a lot better. the album has its bright spots, but really it's only the three singles that are good. i'd rate live baby live higher if it were from one actual concert instead of spliced from several like U2 do with their live cds.