INXS - Kick - 1987 - (CD)

INXS - KickЖанр: Dance-Rock
Год выпуска альбома: 1987
Производитель диска: Atlantic 81796-1
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC)
Тип рипа:tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: 24 bit / 96 khz
Продолжительность: 39:17
Источник : сеть
Трэклист:
A1 - Guns In The Sky
A2 - New Sensation
A3 - Devil Inside
A4 - Need You Tonight
A5 - Mediate
A6 - The Loved One
B1 - Wild Life
B2 - Never Tear Us Apart
B3 - Mystify
B4 - Kick
B5 - Calling All Nations
B6 - Tiny Daggers
Allmusic rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars

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What You Need had taken INXS from college radio into the American Top Five, but there was little indication that the group would follow it with a multi-platinum blockbuster like Kick. Where the follow-ups to What You Need made barely a ripple on the pop charts, Kick spun off four Top Ten singles, including the band's only American number one, Need You Tonight. Kick crystallized all of the band's influences — Stones-y rock roll, pop, funk, contemporary dance-pop — into a cool, stylish dance/rock hybrid. It was perfectly suited to lead singer Michael Hutchence's feline sexuality, which certainly didn't hurt the band's already inventive videos. But it wasn't just image that provided their breakthrough. For the first (and really only) time, INXS made a consistently solid album that had no weak moments from top to bottom. More than that, really, Kick is an impeccably crafted pop tour de force, the band succeeding at everything they try. Every track has at least a subtly different feel from what came before it; INXS freely incorporates tense guitar riffs, rock roll anthems, swing-tinged pop/rock, string-laden balladry, danceable pop-funk, horn-driven '60s soul, '80s RB, and even a bit of the new wave-ish sound they'd started out with. More to the point, every song is catchy and memorable, branded with indelible hooks. Even without the band's sense of style, the flawless songcraft is intoxicating, and it's what makes Kick one of the best mainstream pop albums of the '80s.

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Equipment:
VPI 16.5 Cleaning Machine
Custom KAB Technics SL-1200 MK2 with the following mods:
- Cardas Tonearm rewire
- KAB Fluid Dampener
- Herbie's Way Excellent II 3.7mm mat
- KAB rubber record clamp w/ bubble level
KAB Ortofon S30 (an Ortofon Concorde DJ cartridge body with an OM30 audiophile stylus)
Cambridge 640P Preamp
Mogami Interconnects
EMU 0202 USB
Cleaning:
1. Light steam / vaccuum to collect initial dust layer. Clean VPI pickup tube w/ steam.
2. Apply MoFi Record Wash and scrub w/ MoFi brush for 20 seconds while platter spins. Steam + scrub for another 15 seconds. Vaccuum.
3. Steam rinse. Vaccuum. Flip record onto second clean cork mat and repeat process.
4. Clean stylus w/ Mr. Clean magic eraser and dry brush with Audioquest brush prior to needledrop to destatic/final dust removal.
Capture:
1. Capture entire side in 32bit - 96khz with Adobe Audition 3.0, adjust gain levels on EMU 0202 so that peaks are around -3db to -1db range.
2. Fully manual click and pop removal using Adobe Audition (no more ClickRepair necessary).
3. Run fade-in/fade-out routines, cut sides into individual 32 bit WAV tracks.
4. Run IsotopeRX Advanced for SRC/Dither to 24/96 and 16/44.

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