Kick [VINYL]

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If you are new to Dolby Atmos, here’s the science bit: “This advanced technology delivers moving audio – a complete atmosphere of sound, with individual sounds that can be precisely placed and moved all around the listener, even overhead. 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.

INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl

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.

According to guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly, "We wanted an album where all the songs were possible singles". Kick remains the band's best-selling album in Canada, earning a diamond certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), for shipments of one million copies. The super deluxe edition comes in a ten-inch square slipcase, with an 84-page hard back book inside, a red disc wallet for the four discs (three CD's and 1 DVD), an original tour poster and a Kick sticker sheet. I've been hunting for an older pressing of this, one of my favorite records since the day it came out in '87.

INXS - Kick (reissue) Vinyl at Juno Records. INXS - Kick (reissue) Vinyl at Juno Records.

Perhaps not as velvety as the vinyl sound I'm used to from my MoFi albums, but a good sound nonetheless. He found a market when the head of college radio promotion agreed to concentrate a strategy on campus radio.INXS finished up the second leg of the American tour with a handful of shows being played in key cities across the California state, including San Francisco, Fresno and San Diego. The album was produced by British producer Chris Thomas, recorded by David Nicholas in Sydney and Paris and mixed by Bob Clearmountain at Air Studios in London. 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. Murphy said that he resisted Atlantic's proposition of one million dollars to produce the album all over again. There was an audience waiting for the product, but I decided that they didn't have the right songs yet".