INXS Remasters - May 2011

[BigManRestless]

Available individually or in a 10CD box:

http://www.indietective.de/product-160716.html

[hampden623]

Great news...thanks for the post!

[ApolloZero]

Great I see they are being offered on Japanese cd sites as well. Wonder what country this release is from.

[rewind]

Amazon Germany has them listed. No tracks yet.

[moni]

Strange there is no mention of these on their official website and apart from that link above and amazon de there is no mention of these anywhere else.

[Andee1970]

bit unsure bout this - how come it wasn't announced by their own website - it may just be a reissue collection

[moni]

If these were genuine remasters they would be advertised everywhere considering they are supposedly being released next month. I hope if they do release these that they will be doubles or with bonus tracks and not just straight remasters without any extras.

[AlwaysSaturday]

Some good reissues of Shabooh Shoobah, The Swing, and Listen Like Thieves are on top of my reissue dream list.

It's strange that I have not heard anything about this from the INXS site or the INXS Facebook page, though.

[Andee1970]

they are on Amazon.co.uk - with no track list yet - my guess prob straight albums- still strange no word from the official source

[janus]

According to Universal Music Germany these are straight remasters without any extras!

http://www.universal-music.de/inxs/alben/

[crystal]

[quote][i]Originally posted by janus[/i]
<br>According to Universal Music Germany these are straight remasters without any extras!

http://www.universal-music.de/inxs/alben/
[/quote]

[:(] disappointing news but I didn't expect anything different, just a shame with those kind of release chances are pretty much zero for real rereleases with additional tracks or as deluxe editions in the future.

[moni]

What a pile of crap having no extras[:(] I noticed Welcome To Wherever You Are and Full Moon, Dirty Hearts have been totally ignored and what's the point in doing Kick again when there is a double remaster already available. Just to let people know if some are unaware but there was remaster of X and Welcome To Wherever You Are with bonus tracks released on Rhino in the US only in 2002.

[clarence]

despite no extras, it will be nice to finally have a remastered version of the swing. best inxs album imho.

[moni]

From Music Week magazine 3/5/11

The next two years will see an explosion in activity around the INXS catalogue, after Universal Strategic Marketing agreed a deal for the band’s 10 studio albums with Michael Hutchence.

The major’s Mercury label previously had the rights to three of the band’s albums but this will be the first time in Europe that the rights to the 10 key catalogue albums – including the 6m-selling Kick – are held by one company.

The first fruits of the deal – which is for the world excluding the Americas – will be the re-release of the 10 studio albums physically and digitally on May 30.

Universal Strategic Marketing vice president Andrew Daw, who led Universal’s highly successful campaign for the re-release of The Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street, said the band’s reputation as one of the key stadium rock acts of the Eighties had declined over the years, with little activity on their catalogue and many albums not even available.

“It is the first chance we have had to work the catalogue digitally and physically,” said Daw. “We feel like their back catalogue has stalled for a long period of time. It is important to re-introduce people to them – they and U2 and Guns ’N Roses were the big stadium bands of the Eighties, they haven’t gone on and held that position.”

“It is quite a phenomenal catalogue – they have had 30m album sales, 23 UK hits, 17 hits in the US, with seven of them top 10, and 33 hits in Australia,” he added.

Key to the campaign will be a live date the band are playing this summer at the Southern Sounds festival in London. The band, who decided to continue after the death of Hutchence in 1997, will headline the event, which concentrates on music from the Southern Hemisphere. Daw explained it is an opportunity for them to play before European promoters and journalists.


This, however, will just be the start of two years of INXS activity: Universal is currently working on a new best of for release for September/October, as well as a TV documentary of the band that will include previously unaired footage from a 1997 Brussels gig.

2012 will then see the re-release of Kick to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the album’s original release, with Universal prepping multiple formats – from iTunes LP to super deluxe – complete with unreleased material. The year will end with the release of a “career boxed set”. “They have never had a proper INXS boxed set before,” said Daw. “We feel that is something missing in their catalogue.”

Daw said the deal – which came about after Chris Murphy took over the band’s management again – was a “really good deal financially” explaining that he believed the catalogue would sell consistently.

“I think the catalogue will prove to be rock solid, if you can remind people about the band and hit their nostalgic sweet spots. There are a lot of people who would put Kick as a guilty pleasure,” he said.

The 10 albums covered by the deal start with the band’s 1980 debut INXS, running through to 1997’s Elegantly Wasted, their last album with Hutchence. The deal also includes “other bits and pieces”, according to Daw, including live material.

[moni]

[quote][i]Originally posted by clarence[/i]
<br>despite no extras, it will be nice to finally have a remastered version of the swing. best inxs album imho.
[/quote]
Totally agree my favourite album of theirs as well.