Listen Like Thieves
| INXS
Listen Like Thieves
Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band INXS. It was released on 14 October 1985. It spent two weeks at number one on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Considered an international breakthrough album for the band, it peaked at No. 11 on the United States Billboard 200, No. 24 on the Canadian RPM 100 Albums and top 50 in the United Kingdom. The album featured the band’s first top 5 single in the U.S., “What You Need”, and it also won the group the Countdown Music and Video Award for ‘Best Video’ with that single, a sign of the critical acclaim that INXS had achieved. Listen Like Thieves also marks the beginning of the group’s off-and-on alliance with producer Chris Thomas.-Wikipedia
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Classic Rock Review
INXS forged their most successful rock formula on, Listen Like Thieves, the 1985 album which would set the pace for the group’s most successful commercial run through the late eighties and early nineties.
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AllMusic
INXS completes its transition into an excellent rock & roll singles band with this album.
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Mike's Daily Jukebox
The fifth INXS album, “Listen Like Thieves”, became the international breakthrough release that pushed INXS into overdrive.
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news.com.au
THIS was the album where INXS bonded with Chris Thomas, who’d go on to produce Kick. And indeed it feels like a band writing to soundtrack stadiums.
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MusicStack
This, friends, is a band, and Listen Like Thieves derives much of its power from the forward thrust of six guys pushing in the same direction.
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Stereogum
Listen Like Thieves came out in 1985, and it solidified the band's move from soft-edged post-punk to danceable pop-rock -- which they'd perfect on their next album, 1987's KICK.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
With their fifth studio album, INXS taught the world how to Listen Like Thieves — and started their own massive multi-platinum breakthrough along the way.
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New Music Ear
This is my favourite album because it is the band at their most original rocky best and seemed to be the logical step forward from the previous 4 albums.
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Rhino
Produced by Chris Thomas, Listen Like Thieves was INXS's fifth album, but it was by far the most successful effort they'd released up to that point in their career, hitting #11 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart when none of their preceding albums had made it any higher than #46.
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George Starostin's Reviews
In short, lotsa problems still, but it's getting better all the time.
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