"Listen Like Thieves" is the 4th single from INXS's fifth album "Listen Like Thieves". The b-side to the single was "Different World", which appeared on the "Crocodile" Dundee soundtrack.
@Rick Scicluna Great points and nowadays I have a greater appreciation for my time in the 21st Century, I was definitely one of those cassette buying , posters applying and watching the Vampire's all dying .
As someone who was born when this came out these guys were one of the biggest bands and IMO this is their best song. I'm surprised it didn't hold up with the other songs you still hear occasionally on the radio today
As someone who was a teen when Listen Like Thieves was released, I'll tell you why. In the US, INXS was still a niche band. When LLT was the newest album, my cousin and I were the only people that really knew the album and band (became one of my fav albums at the time). Kick was the release where EVERYONE knew INXS and they became a household name. That's why songs from Kick and newer are the ones you hear - they are the songs that everyone knew back then. A lot of people missed out on LLT
The chemistry those six lads shared together over the years made it all happen. Of course it didn't hurt that inxs had the best frontman the world has ever seen. ...be at peace Michael
@@cathsalazar9930 first inxs song I heard on a vhs 📼 copy from the Montreaux rock festival. Loved it, but didn’t pick up on inxs again until the strangest party. I kick myself
I know how dare he rnd his beautiful life.. if only he let him check his brain he could still be here after the Paris accident. Paris seems to be a bad place to go when your a ROCK STAR.
this tape was sent to our house by accident. I fell in love and got shaboo and the swing and kick. Then my gramma gave me kiss me x3 by cure lol -- sorry boys! I left for the cure. so much love - all the memorization but amazing how these songs still stand
Saw these guys in 1987 for their Kick tour. That album had over 20 songs - a lot of them great. Of course they played this too. A *mostly* great decade for music and to be in HS.
Michael still to this day his voice is one of the best in music history. I'm about the same age as Michael would have been he was like ten months older than me so INXS has been in my music world since I first saw them on MTv. These guys are awesome and some of the most talented musicians out there. I've been playing guitar for fifty years and into a lot of different music like metal and old school. What's really great about INXS that they didn't stay with just one style nor did anyone in the band try to be a guitar shredder like what was popular. Every instrument in the songs has importance and stands out. The blend of sax and guitar they had is incredible. Glad they didn't try to stick to a mold and be like everyone else. At 62 I start my day cranking INXS videos. Shame Michael is gone. We were about the same age he being a few months older. I've wondered what he'd look like and sound like if he was around today. I think his voice would still be awesome. Like Mick from the Stones
I still have a really vivid memory of walking along the Esplanade towards Acland Street on a weekend with my parents. When we passed the Palais there was a plane sticking out of the facade and burned out cars. I thought it was a movie set, didn’t’t see this video till years later and it all came together. Pointless story that went nowhere #36.
On the talk back show On the radio At the local bar In the hot traffic by the red tail lights Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands? And we take it down To the end of town Where they have control But they're losing touch when the lights go out Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands? Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves for the answers But who needs that When you got it all in your hands It's all in your hands It's all in your hands You are all you need You are all you need And that is everything So don't hesitate There's no time to waste You just, just do it for yourself I said everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands You got it all You got it all It's all in your hands You got it all, you got it all I said everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands
Ties in to the huge inspiration that the movie Dune had on music videos of the time. Wild Boys by Duran Duran conjures that as well. And they were close with Michael Hutchence.
@@david2869 yes, i think more Mad Max. That was my association at the time. Honestly, same for Duran, especially as I think their director was Australian.
I legit just finished watching Escape from New York, and this video is heavily influenced by that film! I was thinking about it all while watching it. The main character enters Manhattan which has become a maximum security prison on a mission, and he has an eyepatch, gun and big boots. He walks into a theatre at one point and there is a play going on, and the vibes are very similar to that film in that scene.
Still killer😍TBH I thought my adult life would have way more Thunderdome and suspenders and I lay the blame squarely at the feet of these lads. Man we were spoiled with music back then !
I liked it when music videos had that Mad Max vibe or were just plain weird. Examples; Wild Boys - Duran Duran, Loverboy by Billy Ocean, Self Control by Laura Braningan, Catch My Fall - Billy Idol, Somebody's Watching - Rockwell and Torture by The Jacksons (a truly bizarre video).
p3tr0l After reading your comment I watched that video for the first time (don't know how I missed it for so long) And yea, it has a definite 80s weirdness. Even weirdness is different today.
+O.P. Quintard You brought up memories that have lain dormant in my aging feeble mind over the last 30 yrs or so. Thanks for reconnecting me to some good memories mate.
+Eric Bush Happy to do so friend. Based on your other comment I think I'll review the whole Synchronicity album tonight. In my earlier post I forgot to mention the "Wouldn't it be Good" video by Nick Kershaw, also slightly weird, and the dystopian "Sex Crime" video by Eurythmics.
😂 I listened to INXS when they first came out. However, I don’t recall his video. Which is odd because I lived on MTV. One thing I can say that I’ve learned from this … there’s never a bad time to make shadow puppets.
Guitarist & Sax Man just right riff to move your internal.organs ~ Dance ~ Limbs optional.but they got the message ~ so many facets to INXS ~ did not understand all.of that when I was young ~ just the very best ice cream on the very best cake 🍰🍨
Hmm I was in junior high when this came out.We use to have this 3 hour video show that was on a local uhf station everyday. This video and Killing Jokes "Eighties" where played every day that summer I was 12. UGH every thing they did after this was pop shit.
We are going to combine with some frequencies. Lets find the ones that we can learn from, and teach things too. I guess we are going.. Lets go right through this.. I know a spot .
Are you shitting me??? I had to be almost 60 years old before i heard Ray Charles jammin' with INXS??? What kind of witchcraft is THIS??? So THIS is what discombobulated feels like. Ok...i got it now...
The video is very obviously inspired from "escape from New York", but that skinny dude ain't no snake pliskin lol. This is from the scene in the movie when snake walks into the theater and sees a bunch of guys in drag doing a show. Nice parody.
[06 August 2021] Such a brilliant video; maybe INXS's best video. I just have to ask: is the blonde girl who appears at the 1:54-minute mark Saskia Post?
This was filmed in Sydney or Melbourne wasn't it I remember reading someone's comments how they watched the filming of this as a teenager across the street but yeah
I was wondering the same thing. The video was very dark, as though a bunch of thugs were trying to ambush the band, and most of the people in the video looked stoned. This was the first time I saw the video: I didn't know there was one for this song.
