If you want to see exactly why they were called the best live band in the world, check out their concert at Wembley from 1991. Perfection from start to finish.

INXS brilliant...... but live? out of this world!!!...... I still remember goosebumps phenomenal absolutely Australian we werent really aware of their international success we felt they were only playing for us. The sax in INXS songs pure artistry.

Love INXS! Their Wembley concert was amazing!

Hutchence was the Jim Morrison of the late eighties/nineties. A charismatic and sexy frontman.

I was crazy about INXS back in the day, and I'll happily admit to shedding a tear or 2 when Hutchence died. 'Kick' was on auto replay for many a day. My son loved them also and he went to several of their concerts...all over this great country of ours. I hope Farnham is your day 5 pick, or chris's pick should I say. Cheers chris for some great songs.

One of my favourite Aussie bands. You picked a good one here. Classic Aussie rock by the fantastic INXS. Another great rock party tune is a duet collaboration with Jimmy Barnes/INXS - ‘Good Times’ . If you wanna have a great time and put a smile on your dial then give it a listen. Cheers ! 👍🏼

Beautiful Michael! Such a fabulous singer/Frontman. I saw them in Perth WA where they were supported by Noise works (another amazing Group btw) and it was no surprise to see them go on to bigger things 👍♥️

The tone! Michael’s voice always gave me chills. Yes they were great musicians but Michael’s charismatic presence and songwriting raised them to another level. What a loss.

The alto sax is so rare these days that when I hear it, I really enjoy every note.

I grew up listening to and love INXS. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain) and Dancing On The Jetty are my favourite tracks of theirs.

Alex….I swore off rock for several years …….early eighties…..went into smooth jazz and Windham Hill in a a big way……so when I went back to popular music around 1986….I “discovered” Simple Minds, Mike and the Mechanics, Roxy Music (Avalon) and INXS and all the solo work of Collins, Henley and Winwood. It was so much fun diving into all that great music……..so much of that sound is “dated” now, but I’ve never been one of those who sneer at it….I loved it at the time. And INXS really ROCKS. You gents should most definitely watch some of the songs from their live show at Wembley Stadium. You asked months ago about best live shows……..that one would be on the list.

We Aussies punch way above our weight when it comes to music, we have had some amazing bands in our time...........

You pair remind me more of Gonzo and Rizzo - they made a great team back in the day. Easybeats 'Friday on my Mind' (with guitarist George Young (big brother of Angus and Malcolm). Assume you knew ACDC are an Aussie band. Easybeats lead singer Stevie Wright 'Evie - live at the Sydney Opera House' - probably the best live performance ever in Oz.

So good! If you saw a live video I think the “Australian” would come through stronger. By this song, they were very well rounded so I understand what George is saying. Awesome content guys!✌🏼

One Word -BRILLIANT

Loved Michaels voice, being an aussie I suppose i'm a bit biased but he was incredibly talented.

If you want to see how big they were, watch New Sensation live from Wembley, London shook. I live near Kirk (saxophonist) and his also very famous wife, both wonderful, nice and down to earth people.

I got free tickets to an INXS concert (from their lighting guy who I knew) when the band was yet to really break through. They were clearly special even then

This particular INXS song belongs in your “ Romantic” segment next week…….closest they get to Journey power ballads, IMO. And YEAH, the guy was gorgeous with a dark kind of aura to me……..harking back to Jim Morrison. And he ended in much the same way, from what I’ve read.

This video is such a tearjerker

INXS - Live baby live at wembley is one of the best live recordings ever. (now in 4k).

It's hard for young Aussies to believe now, but way back in the 50's Australian audiences had no interest in fellow Australian performers in the music industry. Because they hadn't heard of him before and he was a local, Johnny O'Keefe was booed at. So he said something like "Just you wait, you're gonna love me", 2 minutes later, girls were screaming in the aisles. It was tough going, trying to get international recognition and many got screwed over by agents etc. Then in 74' I think it was, a music show called Countdown was born and Aussie artists were finally beginning to get recognized, although, even in those early days, they were mostly noticed by English artists like David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Elton John.

The Swing was a great Album which made them famous in Australia

"All of us have wings, but some of us don't know why." Music stimulates our minds with no unwanted side effects... I love your reactions boys, you really appreciate the music. Appreciation is legal tender all souls enjoy... I want to party with you guys. 😈😈😈

In the 80's we would go and watch them at pubs, they were very Aussie especially with their antics lol , in Australia you would be hard to find a couples wedding video without this song on it lol

I've always thought this clip has a touch of James Bond. Mysterious and moody old European city, (Prague) Incredibly handsome man. Gorgeous girl on a bridge. They must be spies right? Loving your Aussie theme, thank you and G'day.

Still a very popular song with young people nowadays ….drunkenly sung everywhere!

Hello George and Alex! Aaaah this takes me back. Great track, great reaction. Thanx! Take care. 🤘

I had this in my cover bands songlist for over a decade. It packed the dancefloor so well that we played an extra verse and added a solo, so they could slow dance longer. I don't care if they were bikers, business professionals or whatever - this song has a lot of sentiment for almost everyone that knows it Cheers

Written by another band member, Andrew Farris, as a much different piano based blues style song, but it was Hutchence who slowed it down into a strings and synthesizer based modern Viennese waltz style of song. This is why it was filmed along the banks of the Danube by a great Australian cinematographer, Richard Lowenstein, who made films like Dogs in Space, and He Died With A Felafil In His Hand. He also made music videos for U2. It was filmed in Prague and those video sequences and the vignettes of lovers and the characters of Prague are a sensational part of the impact of the song. However, live performances of the song featured much longer pauses, and a much longer sax solo. The song was played at Hutchence funeral as his coffin was carried from Sydney’s St. Andrew’s Cathedral.

INXS used to play gigs at a pub near my mums house and she used to drive past and see their name written on the board outside and think “who the F is Inks?”… she had no idea what she was missing out on 😂

I'm Beeker from Colorado, used to be San Francisco. This is Rolf from L.A. Going back through the Aussie weeks as they are indeed amazing. I always liked this song a lot, but never thought much about it. Really should give INXS a look too...

This song was always great, but I never really liked INXS as a teen, but they grew on me and I appreciate them much more now.

I like "Original Sin" a lot too and the film clip was something different.

Greatest rock band all time kicks album brilliant

I once sang this song in repeat at Karaoke in Saitama with a mate from Birmingham for two straight hours. Good we were obnoxious drunks. Of course as an Aussie and a Pom singing this ad nauseum seemed like the absolute funniest thing ever to us.

Thank you both for allowing the song to play through - unlike others. Keeps the tension when it counts. Great reaction for a "brilliant" song.

I'd forgotten how great that song was. ••• Thanks! PEACE!!!

Amoooooo o INXS!!! Suas músicas são muito atuais... Sobre o sotaque do Michael, li outro dia, que seu sotaque é devido ter estudado em escola que ensinava inglês britânico na china, onde viveu parte da infância. 😊 Foram ótimos em apresentações ao vivo! Hoje em dia não vemos mais atuações tão boas ao vivo!!! 😏 ✌️

After playing chisel and INXS check out INXS and Jimmy Barnes playing the Easybeats hit good times live

They were known as the Farrass

The Thamesmen check out Inxs Wembley live baby live July 13 1991 the best concert ever

HUGE in the 80s through the 90s/ My FAVOURITE band and Michael was the GOAT frontman. As big as U2. They paid their dues in spades...started out on the pub circuit the night Elvis diedThey were NOT the vegetables...they were the Farriss Brothers!!!!!

I used to go and watch INXS at my local pub (Bayview Tavern at Gladesville) on Sunday afternoons for free..

Do Billy Joel week, you will get a tonne of Alto Sax, the Pianoman was one of the best song writers to use the sax at every opportunity!

it's a classy masterpiece. Quality Aussie band.

You have to watch their live at Wembley concert! BRILLIANT!! The band are incredible too!

The Sax is my favorite woodwind instrument, the Didgeridoo is my favorite brass instrument,

Yes they evolved from the Australian pub scene as many of our best bands did and have that sound, maybe not so much in this song but in many of their other hits.

Interestingly the Kick album was recorded in Australia and France and mixed in the UK. :)

This song has had an afterlife as a football team plays it at the start of each of it's matches like "you will never walk alone" is belted out by an English team

The started out as a pop ska band playing to small crowds in Sydney pubs !

What I remember most was after Michael Hutchence past away they started a TV Series Rock Star:INXS with 15 contestant to compete to become the new lead signer.

One of the Aussie Rules Football clubs have the crowd sing this song before every home game (like Liverpool sing You will never walk alone). I hate the football club but boy does the hair stand up on the back of your neck every time you hear it.

I too was in a different groove back then and didn't think this era had much to offer, But enjoyed this offering although when the alto sax came in found myself tuning out. I had only heard of them through the Paula Yates and Bob Geroff !! dalliance.

He'd definitely be Rolf the piano player!

My favorite song of all time I 🎧 N 💓 X 🎶 S

They were known as the Farrass Brothers before they change the name to INXS. They were never known as the Vegetable’s

i remember my mum calling us boys in to come and listen to this new band "Inks" lol

Beautiful song, but unfortunately ever time I listen to the song now, all I see my head is Michael's coffin and the purple flowers 😥

I’ve watched younger generations react to this song and they absolutely love the alto sax! I’m curious to know how this track would do if it was re-released. Great reaction! Great band! ❤

Since you mention INXS and Cold Chisel, I should mention that INXS and Jimmy Barnes teamed up to do a fantastic cover of the old Easybeats song "Good Times", raucously over the top and a hugely enjoyable listen. Just one to keep in the back pocket for Aus Week 3 :)

If it wasn't for the 70's and 80's there wouldn't be a music scene worth remembering.

TBH I've always found this track a bit overblown, as was often the case with tracks from the late 80s-early 90s. For me, a more classic INXS sound is 1982's Don't Change. A tight, pumping rock track that's really stood the test of time.

Aussie songs that are well worth a listen from 80's... Go Betweens - Streets of Your Town and The Triffids- Wide Open Road. Inxs Don't Change.. Also ...Great Southern Land by Icehouse are real Aussie style and atmosphere songs..

The biggest Australian band ever. Michael was raised in Hong Kong so his accent is Oz but mixed.

(Fallin Down the Mountain) Kiss the Dirt, or Kick are great tunes - bangers.

You still end to do "mistify ", it even starts with the opening piano ofthis song....

The documentary MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE is an Australian made and an in depth and fascinating look into Michael and the bands early to end magnetic story. All of the song writing and music composition and arrangements came from Michael and the Farris brothers within the band. I saw their posters in their early days playing around Perth, their home base, and thought their band was pronounced ' INKS' because they had a black silhouette of the band on the poster. But not for long as the cars in the local Herdsman Pub car park were overflowing around my local neighbourhood streets whenever they played there.. They were knocking out big hits before they were world famous with big money for big productions.

Michael Huchence…….nobody gets as close to Mick Jagger as this dude

Many thanks, love that you are checking out some of our Aussie Legends. BUT If John Farnham is not on the list this time round...you really need to make a new list. You could spend a week on him alone. He is the most loved Aussie artist ever. And is beleived to be the most successful Pop Rock artist ever in this country. Voted the number one singer in Aus by his peers. He is the only artist in Australia to have had number one hits in every decade from the 60's, 70's , 80's, 90's, 2000's and 2015(if you include the album he did with Olivia Newton John) Only other artist world wide to come close to this is Sir Cliff Richard 5 decades. His 1987 album Whispering Jack, still holds the Australian record to this day of being the highest ever selling Australian Album with 24x platinum. And only just pipped by Meatloaf into second if you include international artists. Just sayin. Followed closely by Jimmy Barnes another legend who has been relevent for almost as long

They were originally called The Farriss Brothers, "We are the vegetables" was their first single, then they changed to INXS!!

I have just seen Jon Stevens who fronted Noiseworks and INXS after Micheals death. He was amazing made a joke about still rocking on at 60 boy does he still have it. With it being both bands not a bad song amongst them and everyone a singer

Saw them at Brisbane Entertainment centre, they just returned from world tour. They road skateboards out on to the stage. Great concert, except for all the girls screaming, impossible to hear. Yes the Vegetables name would be ok on a T shirt in Oz as we would call them the "Vegies" ha ha

I want more sax.

Anything from Wembley live but Suicide Blonde rocks!

If only I had a video camera at Bangalow RSL in 1980.

Go immediately and do a few from the Wembley livebabylive ‘91 gig. I’d say, what you need, new sensation, mystify and suicide blonde

Inxs learnt a lesson at NARRARA 83 another 3-Day All Aussie Band Concert. At the time their big hit was "One Thing". No one must have advised them on how much Sound they would need at a Big Festival so when they played you could barely hear them and the crowd was cool to them. Also the song didn't seem to suit a Concert.The songs and equipment they used after that were Concert Ready.

When they first came out I thought the X was a Roman ten and they were InTense.

You both should listen and react to INXS suicide blonde the song Michael hutchence wrote about Kylie minogue who was his then girlfriend

Prague was the city that it was filmed in

If Kenny G ever comes on the radio, Geof practically screams, and we can’t turn it off fast enough. I don’t mind him so much, but talk about overexposure…..and yeah, to me, a little sax is a marvelous and powerful thing…..a constant diet of it dilutes it’s effect. But I will take Stan Getz over Kenny G any day. There was a collab between Getz and Giberto from Brazil waaay back…….great album. Don’t know if you’re familiar with it…

so much more great aussie music - come said the boy, mondo rock . through your arms around me - hunters and collectors. james reyne and james blundell - way out west.

Hey George, just wanted to chime in and let you know that I think I get what you mean about it not being specifically Aussie but more world wide. In much the same way British bands like Queen & The Rolling Stones became so globally encompassing. You could easily sell the idea to an American (as international cultural heavyweights) that Queen was American, you could easily do the same with INXS, especially to younger people who didn't live through the initial export periods respectively. It isn't the idea that the band being Australian is difficult, it's just their universal appeal means you could believe they were from anywhere.

If you want the definition of Australian music react 2 John Farnham and jimmy Barnes - when something is wrong with my baby, live hey hey it’s Saturday

Filmed in Prague ..

You guys have to react to John Farnham he is the voice of Australia and he is so funny. Check out “angels” live kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8Viga2Drsqmf2w.html

Please do nick cave mercy seat

I'm not doing farkin Kenny G🤣🤣🤣

ACDC is a must

Newcastle NSW the coal capital's soccer team the Jets has this as their Never Walk Alone song. For Sax appeal the Moving Pictures What about Me is great 80's

Michael Hutchence was assaulted by a taxi driver in Paris, when he was dating Helena Christensen . He was knocked unconscious and had a quite severe brain injury. He lost his sense of smell, and apparently this incidence changed him profoundly..

I like your T-Shirt. Banker or Wanker. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

These two songs were on the US Tonight show and were great - (1) Bitter Tears kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8yGZZdzm5ipenU.html and (2) Suicide Blonde kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZ-fm8eZvcfYiZ8.html Great if you can show these some time as they were my favorite songs from them. Michael looked so wonderful in his shiny black leather pants!!

The start was different , seems like a re-mastered version.

I´m an INXS-fan, but I actually prefer Ash Morgans version on the Voice.

Hutchence did have everything but very troubled !

I think Robert’s got a point. Australian band but not consistent with the uniquely Australian pub rock type sound.

Great band. Saw them live once at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, but the sound was terrible. I think the live sound engineer took a sick day.