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Biography
Use dmy dates|date=March 2012Use Australian English|date=March 2012one source|date=March 2008Infobox album | | Name = Listen Like Thieves| Type = Album | Artist = INXS | Cover = Listenlikethieves.jpg| Released = 14 October 1985| Recorded = August 1985 at Rhinoceros Studios, Sydney , Australia | Genre = New Wave music|New Wave , Australian rock , alternative rock | Length = 37:16| Label = Atlantic Records|Atlantic (US) Mercury Records Warner Music Group|WEA Records | Producer = Chris Thomas (record producer)|Chris Thomas | Last album = The Swing (1984)| This album = Listen Like Thieves (1985)| Next album = Kick (INXS album)|Kick (1987)Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|4|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r9885| rev2 = Rolling Stone (1985)| rev2Score = (favorable) http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/inxs/albums/album/148097/review/5944088/listen_like_thieves dead link|date=February 2012| rev3 = Rolling Stone (2004)| rev3Score = Rating|3.5|5cite web|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=lRgtYCC6OUwC& pg=PA406& dq=Listen+Like+Thieves+review |title=The new Rolling Stone album guide - Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard - Google Boeken |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=28 February 2012For|the song|Listen Like Thieves (song) Listen Like Thieves is the fifth album by the Australia n Rock music|rock band INXS . It was released in 1985. Considered a breakthrough album for the band, it featured their first top 5 single in the United States, "What You Need." This album also marks the beginning of their off and on alliance with Chris Thomas.
Track listing
All songs written by Andrew Farriss & Michael Hutchence , except where noted. # " What You Need (song)|What You Need " – 3:35 # " Listen Like Thieves (song)|Listen Like Thieves (INXS)" – 3:47 # " Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) " – 3:56 # "Shine Like It Does" – 3:05 # "Good + Bad Times" (Hutchence, Pengilly) – 2:46 # "Biting Bullets" (Hutchence, Pengilly) – 2:49 # "This Time" (Farriss) – 3:11 # "Three Sisters"(Instrumental) ( Tim Farriss ) – 2:27 # "Same Direction" – 4:58 # "One x One" – 3:05 # "Red Red Sun" (Farriss, Jon Farriss ) – 3:32
Personnel
Garry Gary Beers & nbsp;– bass guitar
Andrew Farriss & nbsp;– guitar, keyboards
Jon Farriss & nbsp;– percussion, drums
Tim Farriss & nbsp;– guitar
Michael Hutchence & nbsp;– vocals
Kirk Pengilly & nbsp;– guitar, saxophone, vocals
Chart positions
Year
Chart
Position
1985
U.S. Billboard 200
11
1985
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart
3
Singles
"This Time"/"Sweet as Sin" (September 1985)
" What You Need (song)|What You Need "/"I'm Over You" (December 1985)
" Listen Like Thieves (song)|Listen Like Thieves "/"Different World" (April 1986)
"Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)"/"Six Knots" (August 1986)
"Shine Like It Does" (1986)
Videos
"This Time"
"What You Need"
"Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)"
"Listen Like Thieves"
References
Reflist s-startsuccession box| before = Be Yourself Tonight by Eurythmics | title = Kent Music Report|Australian Kent Music Report Number-one albums of 1985 (Australia)|number-one album | years = 14–27 October 1985 | after = For the Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes end INXS Category:INXS albums Category:1985 albums Category:Albums produced by Chris Thomas
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