℗ 1985 Atlantic Records
| Released | January 6, 2015 |
| Duration | 37m 07s |
| Record Label | Rhino Atlantic |
| Genre | Rock (Pop) |
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1.1
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What You Need (Single Version)
INXS |
3:36 | |||
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1.2
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Listen Like Thieves
INXS |
3:58 | |||
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1.3
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Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
INXS |
3:52 | |||
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1.4
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Shine Like It Does
INXS |
3:05 | |||
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1.5
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Good + Bad Times
INXS |
2:44 | |||
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1.6
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Biting Bullets
INXS |
2:47 | |||
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1.7
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This Time (Single Version)
INXS |
3:08 | |||
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1.8
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Three Sisters
INXS |
2:23 | |||
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1.9
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Same Direction
INXS |
4:56 | |||
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1.10
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One X One
INXS |
3:06 | |||
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1.11
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Red Red Sun
INXS |
3:32 |
Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band INXS. It was released on 14 October 1985. After recording their last album (The Swing) in New York and Oxfordshire, they returned to Sydney where they worked with Chris Thomas (Sex Pistols, Pretenders, Roxy Music, Elton John) producing at Rhinoceros Studios.
Many of the album's songs were written by the song writing duo of vocalist Hutchence and multi-instrumentalist Farriss. As production came close to completion, Thomas told the band that the album was lacking a crucial hit single, so the band members left the studio having just a few days to come up with one last song. "Chris Thomas told us there was still no 'hit'", Farriss later recalled. "We left the studio that night knowing we had one day left and we had to deliver a 'hit'. Talk about pressure."
Both Hutchence and Farriss searched through the demos that Farriss had composed throughout the album's production. Out of the remaining demos, Thomas persuaded the duo to focus on one particular demo titled "Funk Song no 13". "It was great. I thought, 'I could listen to that groove for 10 minutes!' I said, 'Let's work with that groove'", said Thomas. INXS spent the next two days working on the demo track, which would eventually turn out to be the hit single "What You Need", giving the band their first top 5 hit in the U.S.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Rhino Atlantic Studio Masters
Tracks 1-11 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-11 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.93 -1.12 to 0.00 | -12.31 -14.01 to -11.40 | -8.92 -11.20 to -7.90 | 7 7 to 8 | |
| 1 | What You Need (Single Version) | -1.08 | -12.43 | -8.6 | 7 |
| 2 | Listen Like Thieves | -1.09 | -12.13 | -8.4 | 7 |
| 3 | Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) | -1.11 | -12.23 | -9.0 | 7 |
| 4 | Shine Like It Does | -1.12 | -12.55 | -9.5 | 7 |
| 5 | Good + Bad Times | 0.00 | -12.33 | -8.7 | 7 |
| 6 | Biting Bullets | 0.00 | -11.40 | -7.9 | 7 |
| 7 | This Time (Single Version) | -1.08 | -12.31 | -8.7 | 7 |
| 8 | Three Sisters | -1.10 | -14.01 | -11.2 | 8 |
| 9 | Same Direction | -1.09 | -12.26 | -9.2 | 7 |
| 10 | One X One | -0.55 | -11.87 | -8.4 | 7 |
| 11 | Red Red Sun | -1.08 | -11.88 | -8.5 | 7 |