March 23, 2025 • 42 mins
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl Adam and I discuss this Austrian band's 6th studio album and most successful release. That band is INXS and the album is Kick!
Song of The Week!
The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Don’t Change - Spanish Love Songs - Single
Stump The Barron!
Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean - Tear Down These Walls
INXS - KICK
Genre: Pop Rock
Release Date: October 19, 1987
Studio(s): Rhinoceros (Sydney), Studio De La Grande Armee (Paris)
Producer(s): Chris Thomas
Label: WEA - Mercury - Atlantic
Length: 39:50
Number of Tracks: 12
For more information on the band INXS you can check out their website at www.inxs.com . If you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
Song of The Week!
The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Don’t Change - Spanish Love Songs - Single
Stump The Barron!
Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean - Tear Down These Walls
INXS - KICK
Genre: Pop Rock
Release Date: October 19, 1987
Studio(s): Rhinoceros (Sydney), Studio De La Grande Armee (Paris)
Producer(s): Chris Thomas
Label: WEA - Mercury - Atlantic
Length: 39:50
Number of Tracks: 12
For more information on the band INXS you can check out their website at www.inxs.com . If you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl abb And, I
discussed this Australian bands six studio album and their most
successful release. That band is in Excess and the album
is Kick. What do you think about this whole daylight
(00:35):
savings time time change thing. I'm a bobber.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I do not like it.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I understand give in my hour back. I get the
meaning behind it. I think they're thinking about kids and
going home from things and don't want them walking home
in the dark and all that. I think it used
to be tied to farming. Yeah, but dude, what kids
walk home anymore in the dark?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, people don't walk anywhere anymore. It seems like
my parents are just more available to take their kids places.
Kids don't really have to walk places. It just doesn't
make any sense to me, at least not an hour area.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, I would love it if we just got this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I just, you know, don't like losing sleep and throwing
off my schedule, yeah, all that other stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah. Oh no, it's wrecked havoc on my kids and
trying to get them out the door. Oh yeah, every
day into bed both double CHAMMI.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, it's too early.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I can't sleep daddy exactly. Yeah, and then you can't
wake them up in the morning. I know there's zombies.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, because it's an hour earlier. I'll the schedule, see
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And then when I get up on Tuesday mornings for
my five am jiu jitsu class to teach it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Its like breaking up at three. Yeah, I know, it's terrible.
It's terrible. I used to work out a lot in
the morning, and I just really found it difficult this winter.
Like I've been hitting lunch and stuff like that. My
schedule is so off. I'm surprised I'm getting any gains.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It doesn't affect mine.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
My routine is so jacked up right now.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I work out ten am.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, and so I mean it really doesn't affect
me at all in that respect, except for sleep. Yeah,
it's sleep. It's really rectamic on my sleep. Yeah, more
this year I think than any other year I can remember.
But anyways, man in excess. Yeah, so this is interesting. Yeah,
this is interesting. Yeah, this is a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, so, hey, this week I kind of went obscure
with my song of the Week pick. As I was
listening to kick over the past week which was a
short one short prep yeah, yeah, short prep.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Thanks to Adam's schedule this week, I started looking for bands.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I've covered one of my favorite Nxcess songs that's on
this album Never Tear Us Apart, Okay, and the one
I found was performed by Band of Horses. So Band
of Horses is an alternative ban out of Seattle. This
is actually the six track off there titled the Great
Salt Lake, and it was their second single off their
debut album Everything All the Time. So it's the Band
(02:58):
of Horses.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Band of Horses.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know, I think my wife, when we've been in
the car, has put this song.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah yeah, I mean they're not really popular, but I
think a solid kind of I think.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The pretty like pretty established in the indie scene.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah yeah, not mainstream, but I think a very good
indie band.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh it's good.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
My wife is very into independent music along these lines,
and I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's not what I go see go out, but I
like it. It's good.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, I mean it was like it was good. And
their cover is actually they do it on YouTube because
it's a live performance, right, so you know you can
check it out on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh for sure, yeah, what about you? What's your song?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So I also went the NXS cover route, Oh okay
from one of their earlier albums, this song.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I've found more artists covering this song when they go
to Australia than any other XS song. For some reason,
Bruce Springsteen covered this song in Australia. The Killers covered
this song in Australia. Now, the band that I chose
is as well known as those groups, but Spanish Love
Songs they do a cover of Don't Change.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So there's this label out there called Pure Noise Records
and they have a lot of well known like hardcore
and punk and indie bands. They kind of released these
compilations of covers and this one is off of Volume three.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's just three tracks on it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's also a band called four Year Strong, another band
called Grumster, but Spanish Love Songs does Don't Change by
Nxcess and it's just a good cover.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And what the albums Don't Change off of Don't Change?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's off of I want to say, It's not kick No,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It came out I think a couple albums before.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah it but it's a great Inxcess I can't remember
if it was off of Shaboushiba or if it was
off of uh shoot, No, it wasn't off underneath the colors.
It might have been off the swing, but it was
one of those song. It also was very commercially successful.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, I was, and I think I recognized it. I
was like, hey, I've heard this cover lots of times before.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I've actually this has been the NXS song that I
think I've gravitated towards the most in the last year
or so that I've really been getting myself back into NXS.
One of the reasons why I recommended this one for
today is just because I've found myself going back to
XS specifically. Have you ever seen their concert at Wembley Stadium?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Probably pieces of it on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So they had a absolutely massive show at Wembley
Stadium and I believe it was nineteen ninety one. They
sold out the stadium and put on a banger of
a show. Thankfully there was a video crew there to
record that one, and now you can find it anywhere
on YouTube that you want. It's one of the best
live concerts that I've watched on TV.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, it was at their peak. Michael Hutchins was peak.
Michael Hutchins, the.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Band was on.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Everything was just rock solid.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Go get on YouTube and find Wembley Stadium INXS nineteen
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You'll thank me.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Later, all right, all right, and with that we start
another episode of the Ventures of Vino, and that means
another round of Stump the Baron. On Stump the Baron,
I pick a random song from a random genre. Give
Adam a few clues with his above mediocre levels and
his knowledge music attempts to guess the artist album in
song title. There are no other scores. I just wanna
(06:28):
play Alex Trebek. Okay, all right, all right, So this
week on Stump the Baron, we visited the Billboard Hot
one hundred in the year nineteen ninety eight. The song
top the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. It could be
and cannot be unseated by one of nxs's most popular
singles that was released on the album We are featuring Today.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Okay, all right, you're ready, let's hear it. Okay, and
it's not don't change what yeared?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Did you say?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
This was again nineteen ninety eight, ninety eight. It should
be instantly recognized for here Janet Jackson, Nope, no, no, no,
Paula du no no no, I get while you're going there?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh shoot, is this Get Out of My Dreams Get
into the Car?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh who did this song?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Dang it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I should know this. I know the song.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, instantly recognized. Out of my Dreams. Yep. Do you
remember what what feature film?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It wasn't licensed to drive? It was licensed to drive?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It was Yeah, I remembered it was in I couldn't.
I couldn't remember it was this or Ferris Bueller or
Ferris Bueller was earlier. Yeah, okay, I don't remember who
did it though, No, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Get Out of My Dreams Get into My Cars the
first single off of Billy Oceans seven studio album, Tear
Down These Walls. Okay, this hit top of the Billboard
one hundred, one of the I think in Excess's most
popular single. Could not top it in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Just nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine, yeah, yeah, nineteen
eighty nine. Yeah, couldn't hit it couldn't wow. Yeah, okay.
Billy Ocean not to be overdone by NX.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Frank Ocean or and then Yeah, Inxcess couldn't unseen them,
Not to be confused with Frank Ocean and inxs just
Couldn't Break or Danny Ocean Yeah, or Danny Ocean Oceans eleven.
You know, if you're a Frank Sinatra fan or George
Clooney Brad Pitt film. Have you seen that new movie
on Apple Plus. It's called Wolves, Wolves, It's with it's
(08:48):
him and Brad hit Yeah, yeah up, and their team
up is so good. So I watched this on a plane,
so I was flying back because I don't ever watch
films unless I'm traveling for business because you're stuck. Sometimes
you get Wi fi. Sometimes you don't sit there and
watch movie. But there are two like clean up men,
(09:08):
clean up guys. Why they call him not hatchet man.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But once the hit man's done his thing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I keep thinking of like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so like they just make things janitor right, but they're
both and then they get synced up and it's really good. Actually,
it's a really good movie.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I think I've seen it advertised, but I've never actually interested.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So yeah, cool. And that was something a little bit
different from stuff the baron this week.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay, I got the song at least yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, it's good. It was interesting. The good news is
you recognize one movie. Yeah, And I was like, well,
if he gets he should recognize the song.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. Well, and it was
one that I remember listening to a lot as a kid.
I just didn't recognize the intro because it's been a
long time since I've.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Heard the song.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Do you remember License to Drive? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, so it had the Corey but also had.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The girls had a Gram.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Heather Graham before Heather Graham was Heather Graham. Heather Gram
before Heather Gram was Heather Grown. Okay here, absolutely right,
very cool. Cool, All right man, how are you ready?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Let's dive into Kick?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh right. Kick is the sixth studio album by Australian
rock band In Excess. It was released on October nineteenth,
nineteen eighty seven, through WA and Australia, Mercury Records in Europe,
and Atlantic Records in the US and Canada. The album
clocks in at a total length of thirty nine minutes
and fifty seconds and consists of twelve tracks. The opening
(10:32):
track of the background is titled Guns in the Sky.
It clocks in at two minutes and twenty one seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I like the drum programming. Yep, it's pretty cool drum programming.
That's an interesting, like, hey, drum programming. Yes, I mean,
if nothing else, he's using triggers. Yeah, you're not getting
that with just your your regular based drum at Tom's
of course, a nice, hard hitting based drum.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I like the beat, just a simple.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Ride, yeah yeah, I mean it's just cause it's kind
of the anchor of the song right there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, it's kind of a nice driving beat and it
opens up the album really good.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's good, you know, you know, it's funny though if
you judge it by the first track, you know, leg
it's a good album.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
At least I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The first track is good. It's not great, Yeah, the
greatest to come. Oh yeah, and so but I like
the guitar solo in it. There's not a lot to
the song, but I feel like it's kind of more
of an intro than anything else. Yeah, it's almost just
like a like a song intro to the album itself.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What do you think about No, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Agree, like I didn't think of it as a deep
cut and I was like, Okay, it's just a good
I got a listen to this to get to the
next one.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, and it's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. I mean,
but it's it's not the meat no of the album.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, it didn't like wow, wow.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's not that banger opener that you might be expecting.
It's just different.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, it's just different, but not bad.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is. Yeah, all right, moving on man, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Moving On is the second track and second single off
the album is titled New Sensation. It was released as
a single on December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty seven. New
Sensation clocks in at three minutes of thirty nine seconds.
The B side of this single album was the first track,
Guns in the Sky.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, Number twenty five on the UK Singles Chart, number
three on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number eleven on
Dance Club Song, number thirty three on Dance Single Sales,
number eight on Mainstream Rock, Certified silver in the UK
as a single. I mean, if you don't know any
other NXS song, you gotta know this song.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That would agree.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's the quintessential NXS song. I grew up with this song.
The lead guitar riff just all throughout is so simple
and yet so catchy. I love the twiny chorus, guitars,
and I just yeah the rhythm. Yeah man, it's a
just keyboard programming in there. Michael Hutchins's absolutely amazing voice.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, a great song.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If I want to talk about one of the great
underrated frontmen of the eighties and nineties is Michael Hutchins.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That guy had such a stage presence.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I mean it's really incredible. I go back to that
Wembley Stadium show. You see his presence there and what
he brought, and it's really just amazing. Do you remember
after Michael Hutchins passed that there was a show I
want to say it was like on maybe CBS or ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Was it the h one behind Music because they did
one on NXS.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, this was when NXS looked for he Leads a replacement. Oh,
it was like the yes, yes, yes, yes, okay. I
remember that they were auditioned. It was the whole show
was them trying to find a new sing Yeah. Yes,
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It was like find the band and like Queen tried
to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I thought, Queen, no Queen, Queen no, Queen just ended
up hiring Adam Adam Lambert Lambert.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, but I forget.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Who was the I remember it came down to a
girl and a boy. It was a dude.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They ended up getting a guy from like the Philippines
or something like that, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, that's Journey. I'm thinking Journey. Okay, that's Journey, because
Journey did kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well yeah, well he was just a guy that's saying
covers and his voice was immaculate. There's a whole thing
about Jerry. I think it's on Netflix or something.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But I mean, in Excess was one of the first
bands to like kind of do that that thing where
they're like, hey, we're gonna do a TV show looking
for a new singer, But how do you replace Michael Hutchins.
I don't think you can. I mean, have they had
the same success since? No, No, they just haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I just remember, as I think, good, but this was
like over twenty years ago. Yeah, that all of us
were watching that, I think at some point in talking
about it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So vaguely remember that. So I want to I want
to go over some of the facts about this album. Yeah,
Rolling Stone has it is the number three best album
of nineteen eighty eight, and it's on their one hundred
Greatest Albums of the Eighties at number eleven. Yep VH
one has Need You Tonight the top six. It's number
sixteen on the top of one hundred Songs of the eighties.
(14:48):
It was number five on La Weekly's twenty Sexiest Songs
of the eighties. So Rolling Stone Australia had this is
the number two greatest album of all time.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They're a little biased Australia. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But I mean it did amazing around the world, six
times platinum in the US, I think overall across the world.
I think I want to say it went eight times platinum,
but it was charting all over the world. Well, it
was a global, global hit global. This album, the album,
not just the song. The album was a global, massive,
(15:19):
massive success. Crazy thing about this album is Atlantic Records.
When they got a copy of the album, they said,
we don't like this. We will pay you a million
dollars to go re record and the band said, yes,
screw you, we're not doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We have faith in it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
In that pop if you listen to kind of the
pop sound, you know, it's just really incredible. It really
really really really incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They nailed it with this album all the way throughout
We'll get We'll get there more. I mean, but the
band had five albums prior to really dial in their sound,
and they really hit their peak I think with Kick.
So speaking of great songs, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The third track of third single off the album, Devil Inside,
was released as a single on February eighth, nineteen eighty eight.
Devil Inside clocks in a five minutes of fourteen seconds.
It is the longest track on the album. The B
side of this single was a track called on the Rocks.
One thing to note on this one, Adam, is that
the single version of this song is shorter, like three
minutes and fifty five seconds. Back the rock radio didn't
(16:20):
believe in anything over three and a half minutes, right,
So there's probably a verse that's left out at what
you remember from the.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Or citiestrumental session sections y yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
this one was also huge.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh I love this song.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Number forty seven on the UK Singles Track It was
number two on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number two.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
On the Hot one hundred, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Number thirty two on the dance single sales and number
two on mainstream rock. I mean, just fun jungle drums
at the beginning, a nice dark sounding guitar leading into
like Hutchins's kind of low key sexy vocals here. Well,
and here's what was cool, Like like I was really
I was probably eleven twelve, and that's when I really
started getting into music.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, right, and that's where cassette tapes listen. Like that's
what we talked about in school, in middle school and
things like that. And there was the video of this
on MTV. It was like I remember, like they had
to play it after a certain amount of.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Time, right, it was like yeah, right, if your town
even had MTV, if your town had yeah and mine
did not.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, well I yeah, And I lived in a town
before we move back to Arkansas that had MTV, So
I had all this great music exposure until I moved
back to Arkansas and that.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Got takena We didn't even get MTV until like mid
nineties or something like that, late nineties.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
But this one.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What really impresses me about this song, it's when the
band doesn't play Yeah, that's a sign of musical maturity
right there. When the instruments know to layout and let
something else shine and take the.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right It's just like the clean chord from the guitar.
It's just helping add those and rarely do you see
just someone string like a simple whole note chord and
just let it ring out to add to, not take
away from what else is going on.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I think what really sets this song apart is the
drumming and the vocals. Yes, those are what drive the
vibe of this song. Everything else, keys, bass, guitars, they
are just there to accentuate the vibe created by the
drums and vocals.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, and when you look at it right and you
really really listen, the emphasis of this song I think
is Hudginson's vocals, vocal.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
One hundred percent just he's all over the place in
this song. Yeah, obviously the band needs to lay out
to let that come through. And I think that's what
really impresses me the most, because this song is one
hundred percent a vibe.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, it's got a low down, dirty feel to it.
It's just a really masterfully written song. Yeah, I agree,
And I love the placement on the album too. You
got new sensation like super Up, Super poppy, and then
this one kind of brings it down and low, and
it leads perfectly into it and.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's kind of eerie, but it's poppy at the same time. Yes,
and that's what makes it a really good song.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yes, masterfully written man, and so again it leads perly
into the next track, the next track, which is another banger.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah. So Need You Tonight is the first single off
the album that was released on September twenty first, nineteen
eighty seven. The fourth track off the album, Needs You Tonight,
clocks in at three minutes and one second. The B
side of the single, Adam, was the track called I'm
Coming Home, which is not featured on this album, but
I think it's on the deluxe thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Ditionhit wouldn't surprise me. So if you know two NXS songs,
you know this one. You have to know this one.
It's like devil inside, no sensation, and then they Need
You Tonight this one.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I remember watching the video for this. Oh, it's perfect
for this.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well and in this whole the way video is really
good and what they do in the video when they
combine the next track, it's just super cool.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yes, Yes, and we'll get there. So this one was
also huge. This was the first single that they released.
Was number two on the UK Singles Chart, number one
on the Billboard Hot One hunder Day, number one, number
seven on the Dance Club Songs, number ten on the
Dance sing Sales, number seventy three on the Hot R
and B and Hip Hop Songs, number twelve in Mainstream Rock.
(20:06):
Certified platinum in the UK as a single, Gold and Spain, Italy, Denmark, Australia.
You got three bangers in a row, yep. I mean,
just man, it's beautiful and again this is another song.
It's when they don't play, Yeah, that helps set the
vibe for the song. You have different pieces coming in
at different times. Yeah, letting Michael Hutchins just do his
(20:30):
thing in the mix.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So good.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It is so good man, it's I mean, they give
this song all the room it needs to vibe. Yeah,
another song that is a vibe and you can see
why they call it one of the sexiest songs of
the eighties because dude, it just listen to it it, man,
They just they could three minutes like and it's like
a solid, awesome three minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes of a so so it's good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This to me is where Michael hutchins master of his craft. Yeah,
I mean by the sixth volvel, he knows exactly what
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's effortless to him and he just nails it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean, man, what a loss we had in nineteen
ninety seven when he took his own life. Yeah, I mean, terrible,
terrible thing. But anyways, man, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right. Moving on. The track that follows Need You
Tonight is called Meditate. It's the fifth track, and it's
segues from the previous track, same beats, same tempo, everything
now to take clocks in two minutes and thirty six seconds.
It was never released as a single, but there was
a video for it that came at the end of
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Needs You Tonight. So, and they would cut it out
on MTV sometimes, but then then when they left it
in it was cool.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I remember MTV at one point they did this thing
that was called like extended play, and you would get
like the full versions of music videos without them being
cut down.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
This one.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, So you know Michael Hutchinson and Bono were buddies. Yeah,
they lived next to each other, they did things together.
Families were friendly. So it's funny. When I listen to this,
it's almost a precursor to the song Numb.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you've ever heard the song Numb, it's a very
monotone like sparse song.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
This very much reminds me of that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, it's a nice change up after three high tempo,
energetic bangers in a row. Not necessarily single worthy on
its own, but when you combine it with needs You Tonight, it's.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Good, right, it's great, It's great.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And the one thing the video is really cool because
it pays homage to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick blues.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Ah. Yes, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember reading that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That was pretty cool and you know, late eighties.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But yeah, all right, next one.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, after meditate, we mediate, mediate, not I need. I
need to meditate. That's why I'm thinking to meditate on
your pronunciation, you need to meditate. I need to handle
my work life balance and meditate more. The Loved One,
which was previously recorded twice by XS, is the six
track off the album. Clocks in a three minutes and
thirty seven seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
So cool bluesy intro.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean marching drumbeat alternates between the vocals and
the guitar riff a lot like a blues song does. Yeah,
a lot of times you'd have a the singer is
also the lead guitar player. It's obviously hard to do
both of those things at the same time, to hit
a lead line while you're singing, so you'd see a
lot of you know, guitar lick sing, guitar lick sing.
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This kind of has that dynamic to it. It doesn't
break a lot of new ground, but it's infinitely fun
and lighthearted.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah. I like it and it's good. No, it's not bad.
It feels like a pub song. Yeah, it's just kind
of one of those in the background.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, throw it on the jukebox while you're sitting there drinking,
talking to your friends, hanging out. I love this anthemic chorus. Yeah,
it's fun.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It was a Stone too. It was a lot of
rolling Stone songs that are like that. Yeah. Yeah, you
just definitely, but it's not it's very singable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's got a simple chorus, fun song, man, I got
there's nothing to dislike about it, all right, moving on?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Moving on with the seventh track is called Wildlife, clocking
into three minutes and ten seconds. It's the seventh track.
It starts the second side of the album or side
B sidday. What do you think of the first side?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Saday Oh, I mean, dude, fantastic, Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Is there anything on said?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Ay? You're like, eh, I mean drums and the skirit
when it's guns in the Sky's in the Sky's Guns
the Sky, synthetic drums and it's it's the weak point
if anything. But again, if you look at it as
an intro, then you can't really poke holes in.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It well because you don't expect a lot of at
least when I listen to an album, I'm kind of
like the first songs, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's like sometimes sometimes it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Sometimes bands lead with the single, right, I mean, but
you know it's not bad. The first first side of
the album though, is all the hole is great? Just
great period.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What about Wildlife? It's familiar. I remember listening to it.
I think it's been featured in like films or something.
But yeah, I was looking for it, but.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I've heard I When I listened to it, I thought
I've heard this song.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, that was a song from somewhere. Yeah, I couldn't
place it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm sure if I dug deep enough, I could probably
find where it's been used in a movie or a
TV show or something like that. But I love the
percussive guitar playing the face and the drums are locked
in yep. I mean, the rhythm section is strong in
this one, especially that that one minute mark where they
do like the kind of double time yep. Man, it
was fantastic. Yeah, like the thing about in Excess, they
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have a knack for creating killer beats and killer grooves
and they just do it through simplicity. Yeah, but they
do it in their own unique way. I also love
the female backing vocals in the song. They just work.
They work perfectly. It's a great song. It gets me moving.
I found myself like constantly bobbing my head along to
every song.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was just they're so wasn't bad like working out,
you know, Like I guess Friday, when I was in
the gym during lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I could see throwing this album onto workout too.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. I was just loving it. It was just like
I was just working out. I was like, hey, this
is really not a bad look.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
High energy keeps you going, keeps your brain like engaged
in what you're doing. But it's something in the background
to set your tempo for.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, yeah it was. It was really good kind of tempo,
you know, just getting a good cadence. Yeah, right, I
guess that is what I would say. All right, ready
for the next let's do it all right. The eight
track four single off the album and one of my
favorite in Xcess in Excess songs, but wors hard, I know,
I know, especially on a Tuesday. Yeah, Never Tear Us
(26:40):
Apart was released in June of nineteen eighty eight, clocks
in at three minutes and five seconds. The B side
of this single was Different World.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, so this one wasn't as commercially successful as the
other ones. It was number sixteen on the UK Singles
Chart and it was certified silver as a single.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. Interesting ballad.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, the build. I like the build. Yeah, so, I
mean heavy on the keys here. It's well placed on
the album in my opinion. I like that it feels
very intentional the way they structure the album. I always
appreciate a sax solo man.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know this as a former saxophone player. Yeah, that
probably had something to do that's my favorite Nxcess song.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now, I will say that I gravitate less to this
song personally than I do to some of the.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Other I could see, But it's this part that's what
I like. I get is that build up, Yeah, and
then the saxophone.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
How they completely drop and then come back in and
work their way back up. It's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's like a big band type of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, So when I say that I don't necessarily gravitate
towards it, I am not, by any means saying that
it is not a good song, it's not worth listening to.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you got to remember what album it's on.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, there's just other songs that I immediately go to well,
and you know, it's a ballad in this type of album,
it's almost like.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Almost doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But at the same time, when you think about it
from the singles perspective, they had five singles.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
On this album.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, you gotta have something a little different, right right.
The other three were like the other three we've talked
about so far, we're very up tempo, upbeat. This one
brings it down a bit and shows variety in what
the band has to offer. I mean, so I appreciate it.
It's not the one I would pick as my favorite,
or my second favorite or my third favorite, but it's good. Yep,
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it's really good.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right. The next track off the album is called Mystify,
the ninth track and fifth and final single of the album.
It's released as a single on March fifthteenth, nineteen eighty nine. Wow,
nineteen eighty nine, it's twenty twenty five, and March nineteenth
is like next week, yeh fifteenth. It's like, you know
what I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Realized about this album? It was released on my dad's
thirtieth birthday. Really yeah wow Yeah, October nineteenth of nineteen
eighty seven. That was my dad's thirtieth birthday and he
had an eight year old son at this point.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, that's cool. My parents started young. Yeah, so did
my wife. Mystified clocks in at three minutes and seventeen seconds.
This single had a lot of B sides, a lot
of different versions. It included a bunch of remixes and
KLP versions of previous and excess songs. So like, if
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you're like a single vinyl collect there's a ton of
them out there. I think the seven inch Australia released
the original singles, probably.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
The one that has all the extras on it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, no, no, no, it's like the legit release. Okay, okay,
but mystify that this it's was featured in I.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Want to say that records, the music store, Empire record Records.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think they there's like a portion of that movie
that this is just in the background and they acted out,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I think it has to do with that. Do the
in Greece too? Who plays the the person it's around
that scene, the name Anthony LaPaglia.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I think he was in it. Maybe I'm thinking, I
hope I'm thinking of the right guy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, you're not. You're thinking that was the I was
thinking of the dude that rode the motorcycle. Okay, he
was Australian.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Oh okay, okay, I was thinking of the guy that
runs the record store.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
No, no, no, you're talking about okay, No, anyway, I mean
it's a I like the piano driven nature of the song. Yeah,
I think it's a cool dynamic to throw in there
after the rest of them being very more guitar, bass,
drumsh some real nice lead guitar work during the verses. Yeah,
here you know, good stuff. I mean, I don't know
(30:39):
why I like this song. Maybe it's the dynamics, but
I liked this song a lot more than I thought
I would. Yeah, it's catchy, Yeah, it's it's really good.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I kind of found.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Another one that just gets me moving, yeah, in a
different way, but like I found myself just nodding my
head along to it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah it's a solid, solid song.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah. All right, So on onto the title track, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The title track of the album Kick clocks in at
three minutes of fourteen seconds. I think this is one that, like,
I listened to it several times and I'm like, Okay,
this is probably my least favorite track off the album,
and that was my summary.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But man, it comes in super poppy horn section right
at the beginning, and I'm just like, Okay, this is
just it's not necessarily my groove.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's a funky kind of song, right, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah. I was like, it's a good song, and.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I love the base lines. The bass takes center stage
in this. I really like that. Of course is a
bass player myself, lots of room for Michael Hudges's vocals
to Breathe here.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, I love that we get another Sack solo in it.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, you know, I mean are always cools, are always good.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What is it about pop in the mid late eighties?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, I was like it was rock but it
was pop, but there was elements of funk and well
you had his like, man, there was so much great
pop rock, Huey Lewis and the New Huey Lewis in
a Freaking News. It's like that's kind of grew up
on those albums. That's like the next That was my
dad's band, and I grew up in the Bay Area,
so of course they were huge in the Bay Area.
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Every song they played on the radio was y Lewis.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
In the eighties, you kind of hand it. I was
like this it was a lot like in excess, but yeah,
I mean there was a lot of like you had
horn sections. You had it was like what Dave Matthews
band equivalent of a Dave Matthews band in.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The eighties, sure, yeah, right, but like more electric guitar
than we got with Dave Matthews.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Which is more like a horn section on a fulky
type of thing right where exactly where this is more
like hey, I'm going to combine horns with just pop, right,
I mean, it's what kind of gave you an R
and B feel because normally you see horns in an
R and B or a soul band, right, and they
brought that element. Hue Lewis and The News did too,
but probably their influences. I imagine how to be soul
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in R and B.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
You listened to any album of theirs and you can
tell for sure, And I same with NXS. I would
say that there was absolutely, you know, blues R and
B influences that play into these songs. I mean they're everywhere, yeah,
everywhere on the album. Well, and you listen to hints
of like Motown. Motown is all in the song right here,
I mean all Motown. So it's funny. The chorus is
(33:19):
just so simple. Sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked.
That's it. But it's fun. It's a fun, fun song.
I wouldn't say it's a standout, but it's a fun song.
It's interesting that it's the title track, but at the
same time, when you think about it, it's a cool
thing to name an album.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Kick Yeah. Sometimes you get kicked and sometimes you kick yeah,
or the other way.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Around. Yeah, all right, on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
All Right, Calling All Nations is the eleventh track off
the album that clocks in three minutes of two seconds.
Another grooven track.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
This is the deep cut. To me, this is the
deep cut. Well, I freaking love this song in the
second half of the album.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Doesn't really like Nope, nope, it's just a good album.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Super percussive, high end guitar you're here right here, the
great groove from the bass and the drums.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I love the lead guitar line.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I didn't expect this to be much and it's the
second to last song on the album. Those songs are
usually not that great, should be real, but this song
is absolutely fantastic. I mean I was just getting into
this song when I listened to it for the first time.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, it's the groove. It's the groove is what. Lyrically,
there's a I don't think there's a lot of much
going on, no, right, but the overall groove of the
song is cool.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's what I have here is super infectious groove. Yeah,
I mean that is the keyword for this song.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
To me, this is just another kid.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's a great dynamics. This is a song that I
had not heard until I did this. Listen through an
Allah one hundred percent be coming back to this song.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, it's so dang good man. I love it. That's yeah.
I'm just gonna keep saying I love it. I keep
talking to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Hey, if you were wondering if Adam likes the song,
the answer is yes, Calling all Nations deep cut, all right,
wrapping up the album, it's the last track, which is
titled tiny Daggers, Tinier dag Tiny daggers. Tiny daggers are
what Nicole does. She shoots those tiny naggers daggers with
her eyes daggers, eye daggers.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
When I smil my wife, I get those glaring eye daggers.
It clocks in at three minutes of twenty nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, So when you hear this song, yeah, think of
another artist. Who do you think of when you hear
this song? I'm genuinely curious, see if we get the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Springsteen?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Kay, we got the same thing Springsteen. So I the
first thing from the jump I thought of Bruce Springsteen.
It really it's that driving beat.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, which is like Springsteen's perfect standard standards Dancing in
the dark. Man, yeah, that's what came to mind.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I was like, this has a lot of dancing, It's
a fun driving track. I think, just a solid closer
to the album. I mean, the album came in with
a bang and it goes out with a bang. So, man,
what do you think? What are your final thoughts on Kick?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right, so I guess we got to talk about
would you buy it the thirtieth anniversary deluxe edition or
the original vinyl?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Original vinyl?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I would really think hard about owning the original vinyl,
but I also like want to list the album a
few more times. Now Here's there's a lot of Inexcess
songs I really really like, and they're not all from
this album. No, there's a when I think about, like
my my album. Like if a band that I like
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but I'm not into their catalog, I would probably start
by buying the of an Excess just to have something
to put on to list to all my favorite.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Figned out Which album contains the most tracks that you enjoyed?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Right now? This is it? Like if it was the
greatest hits in this one and they were next to
each other, I'd probably just buy it just to say, hey,
I like Kick it's just going to be in the collection.
But if I'm listening to something, I'm gonna probably put
the greatest hits on.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Okay, all right, But.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Now talking about a like the album one of their
six yeah, like or that they're the five up to this,
I think they had two. Give you you have a
total of eight albums. If I'm picking an album, I'm
picking this is the one you got to own.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, one percent. I think it's not even.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I think if you're a collector and you're like, hey,
I want to know what an Excess's most influential best
album is.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It's kick kick on percent, So what would you give it?
It's not a ten, No, it's not an eight, no,
somewhere between. I gave it a nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, it's it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
It's so close, yeah, so close if they had opened
with something other than guns.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, that's it is the weak part of the album.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I mean, even the songs that I don't gravitate towards
as much, like Never Tear Us Apart or even Mystify,
there's still still really good songs.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah, it's just the gun.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
When you're getting that nitpicky, you know you're onto something. Yeah,
it's just but it's guns in the Sky. If they
had just gone straight into New Sensation, I would have
been all over it. Yeah, I would have given this
a ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd agree with that as
it is. It's a nine and a half because even
Guns in the Sky is not a bad song, it's
just not anywhere near the caliber of the rest of
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the tracks.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
On the album.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, i'd agree.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
So nine and a half.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I mean it's a it's a darn near perfect album,
just not quite there, not like My Bloody Valentine.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, you know you you see a little bit of
NXS on cerrus XM right, a lot of the streaming stuff. Yeah,
but it's not really in popular rotation. So I'm hoping, like, hey,
I remember an excess. You know, this is a good
one to kind of pull out, pull out of your
streaming cat.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Short our memories are pull the.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
CD out of the collection and put it in if
you got that cassette tape. Oh. I actually found a
portable CD player the other day, really a real one. Wow,
Like this company Fio out of China makes it. And
I've had like some amplifiers and headphones from these guys.
And I was like, I've got a CD collection. I've
got some really nice CDs. I was like, I need
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a proper CD player, and I think I'm gonna just
a portable one or rack. Well, you know, it's a
portable that it's also a rock mount oh okay, or
not a rock melt, but you can plug it in,
uh huh to whatever bookshelf system.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Kicking around the idea of getting a bookshelf system building one. Well,
and all I do is like, I mean you've seen
my setup. You just you All you need is like
a headphone, apps, bookshelf, speakers and a pre amp and uh,
then you just buy a It's so.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Easy to get a good own system, it really is.
It's a lot cheaper than it used to.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, le's the two hundred bucks. I mean, you're you know,
you can get a decent record player and some speakers bucks. Now, yeah,
it's good. So, hey, what are we featuring next? We
talked about to Huey Lewis and the news. We talked
about Springsteen. What are we doing next week?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Okay, we're gonna have to figure it out and it
before we do it. Yeah, Yeah, we've got some life's
getting busy. Yeah, so we'll try to plan out the
next few That's why we're recording a little earlier than
we normally would because I'm gonna be out the rest
of the week.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
So yeah, we'll try to schedule some episodes, I think. Yeah. Yeah,
So we get ready for April and May and birthday month.
We got to figure out what we're doing for birthday.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, we're gonna have some fun.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Well I'm putting my record store list together. Nice, and
that's gonna be a pretty good day, I think.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I can all right, man. And with that we
close another episode of Adventures and Vinyl. If you like
the music featured on this episode, please check out the
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bar and myself at Todd David Warden. With that, I'm
Todd ward.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
And I'm Adam Barron.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
We will see you next time on another episode of
Adventures in Vinyl.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I don't know about you, Todd. I need you tonight.
I've got the devil inside and I'm feeling a new
sensation team to get it out. I think you got
to keep that to yourself this
On this episode of Adventures in Vinyl abb And, I
discussed this Australian bands six studio album and their most
successful release. That band is in Excess and the album
is Kick. What do you think about this whole daylight
(00:35):
savings time time change thing. I'm a bobber.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I do not like it.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I hate it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I understand give in my hour back. I get the
meaning behind it. I think they're thinking about kids and
going home from things and don't want them walking home
in the dark and all that. I think it used
to be tied to farming. Yeah, but dude, what kids
walk home anymore in the dark?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, people don't walk anywhere anymore. It seems like
my parents are just more available to take their kids places.
Kids don't really have to walk places. It just doesn't
make any sense to me, at least not an hour area.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, I would love it if we just got this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I just, you know, don't like losing sleep and throwing
off my schedule, yeah, all that other stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah. Oh no, it's wrecked havoc on my kids and
trying to get them out the door. Oh yeah, every
day into bed both double CHAMMI.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, it's too early.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I can't sleep daddy exactly. Yeah, and then you can't
wake them up in the morning. I know there's zombies.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, because it's an hour earlier. I'll the schedule, see
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And then when I get up on Tuesday mornings for
my five am jiu jitsu class to teach it.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Its like breaking up at three. Yeah, I know, it's terrible.
It's terrible. I used to work out a lot in
the morning, and I just really found it difficult this winter.
Like I've been hitting lunch and stuff like that. My
schedule is so off. I'm surprised I'm getting any gains.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It doesn't affect mine.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
My routine is so jacked up right now.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I work out ten am.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh yeah, and so I mean it really doesn't affect
me at all in that respect, except for sleep. Yeah,
it's sleep. It's really rectamic on my sleep. Yeah, more
this year I think than any other year I can remember.
But anyways, man in excess. Yeah, so this is interesting. Yeah,
this is interesting. Yeah, this is a good one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, so, hey, this week I kind of went obscure
with my song of the Week pick. As I was
listening to kick over the past week which was a
short one short prep yeah, yeah, short prep.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Thanks to Adam's schedule this week, I started looking for bands.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I've covered one of my favorite Nxcess songs that's on
this album Never Tear Us Apart, Okay, and the one
I found was performed by Band of Horses. So Band
of Horses is an alternative ban out of Seattle. This
is actually the six track off there titled the Great
Salt Lake, and it was their second single off their
debut album Everything All the Time. So it's the Band
(02:58):
of Horses.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Band of Horses.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know, I think my wife, when we've been in
the car, has put this song.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah yeah, I mean they're not really popular, but I
think a solid kind of I think.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The pretty like pretty established in the indie scene.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah yeah, not mainstream, but I think a very good
indie band.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh it's good.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's good.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
My wife is very into independent music along these lines,
and I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's not what I go see go out, but I
like it. It's good.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
No, I mean it was like it was good. And
their cover is actually they do it on YouTube because
it's a live performance, right, so you know you can
check it out on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh for sure, yeah, what about you? What's your song?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So I also went the NXS cover route, Oh okay
from one of their earlier albums, this song.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I've found more artists covering this song when they go
to Australia than any other XS song. For some reason,
Bruce Springsteen covered this song in Australia. The Killers covered
this song in Australia. Now, the band that I chose
is as well known as those groups, but Spanish Love
Songs they do a cover of Don't Change.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So there's this label out there called Pure Noise Records
and they have a lot of well known like hardcore
and punk and indie bands. They kind of released these
compilations of covers and this one is off of Volume three.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's just three tracks on it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's also a band called four Year Strong, another band
called Grumster, but Spanish Love Songs does Don't Change by
Nxcess and it's just a good cover.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And what the albums Don't Change off of Don't Change?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's off of I want to say, It's not kick No,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It came out I think a couple albums before.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah it but it's a great Inxcess I can't remember
if it was off of Shaboushiba or if it was
off of uh shoot, No, it wasn't off underneath the colors.
It might have been off the swing, but it was
one of those song. It also was very commercially successful.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, I was, and I think I recognized it. I
was like, hey, I've heard this cover lots of times before.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I've actually this has been the NXS song that I
think I've gravitated towards the most in the last year
or so that I've really been getting myself back into NXS.
One of the reasons why I recommended this one for
today is just because I've found myself going back to
XS specifically. Have you ever seen their concert at Wembley Stadium?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Probably pieces of it on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So they had a absolutely massive show at Wembley
Stadium and I believe it was nineteen ninety one. They
sold out the stadium and put on a banger of
a show. Thankfully there was a video crew there to
record that one, and now you can find it anywhere
on YouTube that you want. It's one of the best
live concerts that I've watched on TV.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, it was at their peak. Michael Hutchins was peak.
Michael Hutchins, the.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Band was on.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Everything was just rock solid.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Go get on YouTube and find Wembley Stadium INXS nineteen
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
You'll thank me.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Later, all right, all right, and with that we start
another episode of the Ventures of Vino, and that means
another round of Stump the Baron. On Stump the Baron,
I pick a random song from a random genre. Give
Adam a few clues with his above mediocre levels and
his knowledge music attempts to guess the artist album in
song title. There are no other scores. I just wanna
(06:28):
play Alex Trebek. Okay, all right, all right, So this
week on Stump the Baron, we visited the Billboard Hot
one hundred in the year nineteen ninety eight. The song
top the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. It could be
and cannot be unseated by one of nxs's most popular
singles that was released on the album We are featuring Today.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Okay, all right, you're ready, let's hear it. Okay, and
it's not don't change what yeared?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Did you say?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
This was again nineteen ninety eight, ninety eight. It should
be instantly recognized for here Janet Jackson, Nope, no, no, no,
Paula du no no no, I get while you're going there?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh shoot, is this Get Out of My Dreams Get
into the Car?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh who did this song?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Dang it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I should know this. I know the song.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, instantly recognized. Out of my Dreams. Yep. Do you
remember what what feature film?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It wasn't licensed to drive? It was licensed to drive?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It was Yeah, I remembered it was in I couldn't.
I couldn't remember it was this or Ferris Bueller or
Ferris Bueller was earlier. Yeah, okay, I don't remember who
did it though, No, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Get Out of My Dreams Get into My Cars the
first single off of Billy Oceans seven studio album, Tear
Down These Walls. Okay, this hit top of the Billboard
one hundred, one of the I think in Excess's most
popular single. Could not top it in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Just nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine, yeah, yeah, nineteen
eighty nine. Yeah, couldn't hit it couldn't wow. Yeah, okay.
Billy Ocean not to be overdone by NX.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Frank Ocean or and then Yeah, Inxcess couldn't unseen them,
Not to be confused with Frank Ocean and inxs just
Couldn't Break or Danny Ocean Yeah, or Danny Ocean Oceans eleven.
You know, if you're a Frank Sinatra fan or George
Clooney Brad Pitt film. Have you seen that new movie
on Apple Plus. It's called Wolves, Wolves, It's with it's
(08:48):
him and Brad hit Yeah, yeah up, and their team
up is so good. So I watched this on a plane,
so I was flying back because I don't ever watch
films unless I'm traveling for business because you're stuck. Sometimes
you get Wi fi. Sometimes you don't sit there and
watch movie. But there are two like clean up men,
(09:08):
clean up guys. Why they call him not hatchet man.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But once the hit man's done his thing.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, I keep thinking of like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so like they just make things janitor right, but they're
both and then they get synced up and it's really good. Actually,
it's a really good movie.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I think I've seen it advertised, but I've never actually interested.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So yeah, cool. And that was something a little bit
different from stuff the baron this week.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay, I got the song at least yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No, it's good. It was interesting. The good news is
you recognize one movie. Yeah, And I was like, well,
if he gets he should recognize the song.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. Well, and it was
one that I remember listening to a lot as a kid.
I just didn't recognize the intro because it's been a
long time since I've.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Heard the song.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Do you remember License to Drive? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, so it had the Corey but also had.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The girls had a Gram.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Heather Graham before Heather Graham was Heather Graham. Heather Gram
before Heather Gram was Heather Grown. Okay here, absolutely right,
very cool. Cool, All right man, how are you ready?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Let's dive into Kick?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh right. Kick is the sixth studio album by Australian
rock band In Excess. It was released on October nineteenth,
nineteen eighty seven, through WA and Australia, Mercury Records in Europe,
and Atlantic Records in the US and Canada. The album
clocks in at a total length of thirty nine minutes
and fifty seconds and consists of twelve tracks. The opening
(10:32):
track of the background is titled Guns in the Sky.
It clocks in at two minutes and twenty one seconds. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I like the drum programming. Yep, it's pretty cool drum programming.
That's an interesting, like, hey, drum programming. Yes, I mean,
if nothing else, he's using triggers. Yeah, you're not getting
that with just your your regular based drum at Tom's
of course, a nice, hard hitting based drum.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I like the beat, just a simple.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Ride, yeah yeah, I mean it's just cause it's kind
of the anchor of the song right there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, it's kind of a nice driving beat and it
opens up the album really good.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's good, you know, you know, it's funny though if
you judge it by the first track, you know, leg
it's a good album.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
At least I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
The first track is good. It's not great, Yeah, the
greatest to come. Oh yeah, and so but I like
the guitar solo in it. There's not a lot to
the song, but I feel like it's kind of more
of an intro than anything else. Yeah, it's almost just
like a like a song intro to the album itself.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What do you think about No, I kind of.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Agree, like I didn't think of it as a deep
cut and I was like, Okay, it's just a good
I got a listen to this to get to the
next one.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, and it's not bad. Yeah, it's not bad. I mean,
but it's it's not the meat no of the album.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, it didn't like wow, wow.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It's not that banger opener that you might be expecting.
It's just different.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, it's just different, but not bad.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It is. Yeah, all right, moving on man, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Moving On is the second track and second single off
the album is titled New Sensation. It was released as
a single on December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty seven. New
Sensation clocks in at three minutes of thirty nine seconds.
The B side of this single album was the first track,
Guns in the Sky.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, Number twenty five on the UK Singles Chart, number
three on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number eleven on
Dance Club Song, number thirty three on Dance Single Sales,
number eight on Mainstream Rock, Certified silver in the UK
as a single. I mean, if you don't know any
other NXS song, you gotta know this song.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That would agree.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's the quintessential NXS song. I grew up with this song.
The lead guitar riff just all throughout is so simple
and yet so catchy. I love the twiny chorus, guitars,
and I just yeah the rhythm. Yeah man, it's a
just keyboard programming in there. Michael Hutchins's absolutely amazing voice.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, a great song.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If I want to talk about one of the great
underrated frontmen of the eighties and nineties is Michael Hutchins.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That guy had such a stage presence.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I mean it's really incredible. I go back to that
Wembley Stadium show. You see his presence there and what
he brought, and it's really just amazing. Do you remember
after Michael Hutchins passed that there was a show I
want to say it was like on maybe CBS or ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Was it the h one behind Music because they did
one on NXS.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, this was when NXS looked for he Leads a replacement. Oh,
it was like the yes, yes, yes, yes, okay. I
remember that they were auditioned. It was the whole show
was them trying to find a new sing Yeah. Yes,
I remember that.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It was like find the band and like Queen tried
to do it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I thought, Queen, no Queen, Queen no, Queen just ended
up hiring Adam Adam Lambert Lambert.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, but I forget.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Who was the I remember it came down to a
girl and a boy. It was a dude.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
They ended up getting a guy from like the Philippines
or something like that, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, that's Journey. I'm thinking Journey. Okay, that's Journey, because
Journey did kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well yeah, well he was just a guy that's saying
covers and his voice was immaculate. There's a whole thing
about Jerry. I think it's on Netflix or something.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
But I mean, in Excess was one of the first
bands to like kind of do that that thing where
they're like, hey, we're gonna do a TV show looking
for a new singer, But how do you replace Michael Hutchins.
I don't think you can. I mean, have they had
the same success since? No, No, they just haven't.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I just remember, as I think, good, but this was
like over twenty years ago. Yeah, that all of us
were watching that, I think at some point in talking
about it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So vaguely remember that. So I want to I want
to go over some of the facts about this album. Yeah,
Rolling Stone has it is the number three best album
of nineteen eighty eight, and it's on their one hundred
Greatest Albums of the Eighties at number eleven. Yep VH
one has Need You Tonight the top six. It's number
sixteen on the top of one hundred Songs of the eighties.
(14:48):
It was number five on La Weekly's twenty Sexiest Songs
of the eighties. So Rolling Stone Australia had this is
the number two greatest album of all time.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They're a little biased Australia. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
But I mean it did amazing around the world, six
times platinum in the US, I think overall across the world.
I think I want to say it went eight times platinum,
but it was charting all over the world. Well, it
was a global, global hit global. This album, the album,
not just the song. The album was a global, massive,
(15:19):
massive success. Crazy thing about this album is Atlantic Records.
When they got a copy of the album, they said,
we don't like this. We will pay you a million
dollars to go re record and the band said, yes,
screw you, we're not doing that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
We have faith in it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
In that pop if you listen to kind of the
pop sound, you know, it's just really incredible. It really
really really really incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They nailed it with this album all the way throughout
We'll get We'll get there more. I mean, but the
band had five albums prior to really dial in their sound,
and they really hit their peak I think with Kick.
So speaking of great songs, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
The third track of third single off the album, Devil Inside,
was released as a single on February eighth, nineteen eighty eight.
Devil Inside clocks in a five minutes of fourteen seconds.
It is the longest track on the album. The B
side of this single was a track called on the Rocks.
One thing to note on this one, Adam, is that
the single version of this song is shorter, like three
minutes and fifty five seconds. Back the rock radio didn't
(16:20):
believe in anything over three and a half minutes, right,
So there's probably a verse that's left out at what
you remember from the.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Or citiestrumental session sections y yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
this one was also huge.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh I love this song.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Number forty seven on the UK Singles Track It was
number two on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number two.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
On the Hot one hundred, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Number thirty two on the dance single sales and number
two on mainstream rock. I mean, just fun jungle drums
at the beginning, a nice dark sounding guitar leading into
like Hutchins's kind of low key sexy vocals here. Well,
and here's what was cool, Like like I was really
I was probably eleven twelve, and that's when I really
started getting into music.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, right, and that's where cassette tapes listen. Like that's
what we talked about in school, in middle school and
things like that. And there was the video of this
on MTV. It was like I remember, like they had
to play it after a certain amount of.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Time, right, it was like yeah, right, if your town
even had MTV, if your town had yeah and mine
did not.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, well I yeah, And I lived in a town
before we move back to Arkansas that had MTV, So
I had all this great music exposure until I moved
back to Arkansas and that.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Got takena We didn't even get MTV until like mid
nineties or something like that, late nineties.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
But this one.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What really impresses me about this song, it's when the
band doesn't play Yeah, that's a sign of musical maturity
right there. When the instruments know to layout and let
something else shine and take the.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Right It's just like the clean chord from the guitar.
It's just helping add those and rarely do you see
just someone string like a simple whole note chord and
just let it ring out to add to, not take
away from what else is going on.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I think what really sets this song apart is the
drumming and the vocals. Yes, those are what drive the
vibe of this song. Everything else, keys, bass, guitars, they
are just there to accentuate the vibe created by the
drums and vocals.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, and when you look at it right and you
really really listen, the emphasis of this song I think
is Hudginson's vocals, vocal.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
One hundred percent just he's all over the place in
this song. Yeah, obviously the band needs to lay out
to let that come through. And I think that's what
really impresses me the most, because this song is one
hundred percent a vibe.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean, it's got a low down, dirty feel to it.
It's just a really masterfully written song. Yeah, I agree,
And I love the placement on the album too. You
got new sensation like super Up, Super poppy, and then
this one kind of brings it down and low, and
it leads perfectly into it and.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's kind of eerie, but it's poppy at the same time. Yes,
and that's what makes it a really good song.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yes, masterfully written man, and so again it leads perly
into the next track, the next track, which is another banger.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah. So Need You Tonight is the first single off
the album that was released on September twenty first, nineteen
eighty seven. The fourth track off the album, Needs You Tonight,
clocks in at three minutes and one second. The B
side of the single, Adam, was the track called I'm
Coming Home, which is not featured on this album, but
I think it's on the deluxe thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Ditionhit wouldn't surprise me. So if you know two NXS songs,
you know this one. You have to know this one.
It's like devil inside, no sensation, and then they Need
You Tonight this one.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I remember watching the video for this. Oh, it's perfect
for this.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well and in this whole the way video is really
good and what they do in the video when they
combine the next track, it's just super cool.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yes, Yes, and we'll get there. So this one was
also huge. This was the first single that they released.
Was number two on the UK Singles Chart, number one
on the Billboard Hot One hunder Day, number one, number
seven on the Dance Club Songs, number ten on the
Dance sing Sales, number seventy three on the Hot R
and B and Hip Hop Songs, number twelve in Mainstream Rock.
(20:06):
Certified platinum in the UK as a single, Gold and Spain, Italy, Denmark, Australia.
You got three bangers in a row, yep. I mean,
just man, it's beautiful and again this is another song.
It's when they don't play, Yeah, that helps set the
vibe for the song. You have different pieces coming in
at different times. Yeah, letting Michael Hutchins just do his
(20:30):
thing in the mix.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So good.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It is so good man, it's I mean, they give
this song all the room it needs to vibe. Yeah,
another song that is a vibe and you can see
why they call it one of the sexiest songs of
the eighties because dude, it just listen to it it, man,
They just they could three minutes like and it's like
a solid, awesome three minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes of a so so it's good.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This to me is where Michael hutchins master of his craft. Yeah,
I mean by the sixth volvel, he knows exactly what
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's effortless to him and he just nails it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean, man, what a loss we had in nineteen
ninety seven when he took his own life. Yeah, I mean, terrible,
terrible thing. But anyways, man, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right. Moving on. The track that follows Need You
Tonight is called Meditate. It's the fifth track, and it's
segues from the previous track, same beats, same tempo, everything
now to take clocks in two minutes and thirty six seconds.
It was never released as a single, but there was
a video for it that came at the end of
(21:36):
Needs You Tonight. So, and they would cut it out
on MTV sometimes, but then then when they left it
in it was cool.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I remember MTV at one point they did this thing
that was called like extended play, and you would get
like the full versions of music videos without them being
cut down.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
This one.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, So you know Michael Hutchinson and Bono were buddies. Yeah,
they lived next to each other, they did things together.
Families were friendly. So it's funny. When I listen to this,
it's almost a precursor to the song Numb.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you've ever heard the song Numb, it's a very
monotone like sparse song.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
This very much reminds me of that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, it's a nice change up after three high tempo,
energetic bangers in a row. Not necessarily single worthy on
its own, but when you combine it with needs You Tonight, it's.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Good, right, it's great, It's great.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And the one thing the video is really cool because
it pays homage to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick blues.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Ah. Yes, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I remember reading that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
That was pretty cool and you know, late eighties.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But yeah, all right, next one.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, after meditate, we mediate, mediate, not I need. I
need to meditate. That's why I'm thinking to meditate on
your pronunciation, you need to meditate. I need to handle
my work life balance and meditate more. The Loved One,
which was previously recorded twice by XS, is the six
track off the album. Clocks in a three minutes and
thirty seven seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
So cool bluesy intro.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, I mean marching drumbeat alternates between the vocals and
the guitar riff a lot like a blues song does. Yeah,
a lot of times you'd have a the singer is
also the lead guitar player. It's obviously hard to do
both of those things at the same time, to hit
a lead line while you're singing, so you'd see a
lot of you know, guitar lick sing, guitar lick sing.
(23:33):
This kind of has that dynamic to it. It doesn't
break a lot of new ground, but it's infinitely fun
and lighthearted.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah. I like it and it's good. No, it's not bad.
It feels like a pub song. Yeah, it's just kind
of one of those in the background.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, throw it on the jukebox while you're sitting there drinking,
talking to your friends, hanging out. I love this anthemic chorus. Yeah,
it's fun.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It was a Stone too. It was a lot of
rolling Stone songs that are like that. Yeah. Yeah, you
just definitely, but it's not it's very singable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's got a simple chorus, fun song, man, I got
there's nothing to dislike about it, all right, moving on?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Moving on with the seventh track is called Wildlife, clocking
into three minutes and ten seconds. It's the seventh track.
It starts the second side of the album or side
B sidday. What do you think of the first side?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Saday Oh, I mean, dude, fantastic, Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Is there anything on said?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Ay? You're like, eh, I mean drums and the skirit
when it's guns in the Sky's in the Sky's Guns
the Sky, synthetic drums and it's it's the weak point
if anything. But again, if you look at it as
an intro, then you can't really poke holes in.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
It well because you don't expect a lot of at
least when I listen to an album, I'm kind of
like the first songs, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's like sometimes sometimes it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Sometimes bands lead with the single, right, I mean, but
you know it's not bad. The first first side of
the album though, is all the hole is great? Just
great period.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What about Wildlife? It's familiar. I remember listening to it.
I think it's been featured in like films or something.
But yeah, I was looking for it, but.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I've heard I When I listened to it, I thought
I've heard this song.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, that was a song from somewhere. Yeah, I couldn't
place it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm sure if I dug deep enough, I could probably
find where it's been used in a movie or a
TV show or something like that. But I love the
percussive guitar playing the face and the drums are locked
in yep. I mean, the rhythm section is strong in
this one, especially that that one minute mark where they
do like the kind of double time yep. Man, it
was fantastic. Yeah, like the thing about in Excess, they
(25:39):
have a knack for creating killer beats and killer grooves
and they just do it through simplicity. Yeah, but they
do it in their own unique way. I also love
the female backing vocals in the song. They just work.
They work perfectly. It's a great song. It gets me moving.
I found myself like constantly bobbing my head along to
every song.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was just they're so wasn't bad like working out,
you know, Like I guess Friday, when I was in
the gym during lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I could see throwing this album onto workout too.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. I was just loving it. It was just like
I was just working out. I was like, hey, this
is really not a bad look.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
High energy keeps you going, keeps your brain like engaged
in what you're doing. But it's something in the background
to set your tempo for.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, yeah it was. It was really good kind of tempo,
you know, just getting a good cadence. Yeah, right, I
guess that is what I would say. All right, ready
for the next let's do it all right. The eight
track four single off the album and one of my
favorite in Xcess in Excess songs, but wors hard, I know,
I know, especially on a Tuesday. Yeah, Never Tear Us
(26:40):
Apart was released in June of nineteen eighty eight, clocks
in at three minutes and five seconds. The B side
of this single was Different World.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, so this one wasn't as commercially successful as the
other ones. It was number sixteen on the UK Singles
Chart and it was certified silver as a single.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. Interesting ballad.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, the build. I like the build. Yeah, so, I
mean heavy on the keys here. It's well placed on
the album in my opinion. I like that it feels
very intentional the way they structure the album. I always
appreciate a sax solo man.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know this as a former saxophone player. Yeah, that
probably had something to do that's my favorite Nxcess song.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now, I will say that I gravitate less to this
song personally than I do to some of the.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Other I could see, But it's this part that's what
I like. I get is that build up, Yeah, and
then the saxophone.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
How they completely drop and then come back in and
work their way back up. It's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's like a big band type of thing.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, So when I say that I don't necessarily gravitate
towards it, I am not, by any means saying that
it is not a good song, it's not worth listening to.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you got to remember what album it's on.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, there's just other songs that I immediately go to well,
and you know, it's a ballad in this type of album,
it's almost like.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Almost doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
But at the same time, when you think about it
from the singles perspective, they had five singles.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
On this album.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, you gotta have something a little different, right right.
The other three were like the other three we've talked
about so far, we're very up tempo, upbeat. This one
brings it down a bit and shows variety in what
the band has to offer. I mean, so I appreciate it.
It's not the one I would pick as my favorite,
or my second favorite or my third favorite, but it's good. Yep,
(28:28):
it's really good.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right. The next track off the album is called Mystify,
the ninth track and fifth and final single of the album.
It's released as a single on March fifthteenth, nineteen eighty nine. Wow,
nineteen eighty nine, it's twenty twenty five, and March nineteenth
is like next week, yeh fifteenth. It's like, you know
what I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Realized about this album? It was released on my dad's
thirtieth birthday. Really yeah wow Yeah, October nineteenth of nineteen
eighty seven. That was my dad's thirtieth birthday and he
had an eight year old son at this point.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, that's cool. My parents started young. Yeah, so did
my wife. Mystified clocks in at three minutes and seventeen seconds.
This single had a lot of B sides, a lot
of different versions. It included a bunch of remixes and
KLP versions of previous and excess songs. So like, if
(29:24):
you're like a single vinyl collect there's a ton of
them out there. I think the seven inch Australia released
the original singles, probably.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
The one that has all the extras on it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
No, no, no, no, it's like the legit release. Okay, okay,
but mystify that this it's was featured in I.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Want to say that records, the music store, Empire record Records.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think they there's like a portion of that movie
that this is just in the background and they acted out,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I think it has to do with that. Do the
in Greece too? Who plays the the person it's around
that scene, the name Anthony LaPaglia.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I think he was in it. Maybe I'm thinking, I
hope I'm thinking of the right guy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, you're not. You're thinking that was the I was
thinking of the dude that rode the motorcycle. Okay, he
was Australian.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Oh okay, okay, I was thinking of the guy that
runs the record store.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
No, no, no, you're talking about okay, No, anyway, I mean
it's a I like the piano driven nature of the song. Yeah,
I think it's a cool dynamic to throw in there
after the rest of them being very more guitar, bass,
drumsh some real nice lead guitar work during the verses. Yeah,
here you know, good stuff. I mean, I don't know
(30:39):
why I like this song. Maybe it's the dynamics, but
I liked this song a lot more than I thought
I would. Yeah, it's catchy, Yeah, it's it's really good.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I kind of found.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Another one that just gets me moving, yeah, in a
different way, but like I found myself just nodding my
head along to it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah it's a solid, solid song.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah. All right, So on onto the title track, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The title track of the album Kick clocks in at
three minutes of fourteen seconds. I think this is one that, like,
I listened to it several times and I'm like, Okay,
this is probably my least favorite track off the album,
and that was my summary.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But man, it comes in super poppy horn section right
at the beginning, and I'm just like, Okay, this is
just it's not necessarily my groove.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's a funky kind of song, right, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah. I was like, it's a good song, and.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I love the base lines. The bass takes center stage
in this. I really like that. Of course is a
bass player myself, lots of room for Michael Hudges's vocals
to Breathe here.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, I love that we get another Sack solo in it.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, you know, I mean are always cools, are always good.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What is it about pop in the mid late eighties?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know, I was like it was rock but it
was pop, but there was elements of funk and well
you had his like, man, there was so much great
pop rock, Huey Lewis and the New Huey Lewis in
a Freaking News. It's like that's kind of grew up
on those albums. That's like the next That was my
dad's band, and I grew up in the Bay Area,
so of course they were huge in the Bay Area.
(32:15):
Every song they played on the radio was y Lewis.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
In the eighties, you kind of hand it. I was
like this it was a lot like in excess, but yeah,
I mean there was a lot of like you had
horn sections. You had it was like what Dave Matthews
band equivalent of a Dave Matthews band in.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The eighties, sure, yeah, right, but like more electric guitar
than we got with Dave Matthews.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Which is more like a horn section on a fulky
type of thing right where exactly where this is more
like hey, I'm going to combine horns with just pop, right,
I mean, it's what kind of gave you an R
and B feel because normally you see horns in an
R and B or a soul band, right, and they
brought that element. Hue Lewis and The News did too,
but probably their influences. I imagine how to be soul
(32:55):
in R and B.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
You listened to any album of theirs and you can
tell for sure, And I same with NXS. I would
say that there was absolutely, you know, blues R and
B influences that play into these songs. I mean they're everywhere, yeah,
everywhere on the album. Well, and you listen to hints
of like Motown. Motown is all in the song right here,
I mean all Motown. So it's funny. The chorus is
(33:19):
just so simple. Sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked.
That's it. But it's fun. It's a fun, fun song.
I wouldn't say it's a standout, but it's a fun song.
It's interesting that it's the title track, but at the
same time, when you think about it, it's a cool
thing to name an album.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Kick Yeah. Sometimes you get kicked and sometimes you kick yeah,
or the other way.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Around. Yeah, all right, on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
All Right, Calling All Nations is the eleventh track off
the album that clocks in three minutes of two seconds.
Another grooven track.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
This is the deep cut. To me, this is the
deep cut. Well, I freaking love this song in the
second half of the album.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Doesn't really like Nope, nope, it's just a good album.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Super percussive, high end guitar you're here right here, the
great groove from the bass and the drums.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I love the lead guitar line.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I didn't expect this to be much and it's the
second to last song on the album. Those songs are
usually not that great, should be real, but this song
is absolutely fantastic. I mean I was just getting into
this song when I listened to it for the first time.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well, it's the groove. It's the groove is what. Lyrically,
there's a I don't think there's a lot of much
going on, no, right, but the overall groove of the
song is cool.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That's what I have here is super infectious groove. Yeah,
I mean that is the keyword for this song.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
To me, this is just another kid.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's a great dynamics. This is a song that I
had not heard until I did this. Listen through an
Allah one hundred percent be coming back to this song.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, it's so dang good man. I love it. That's yeah.
I'm just gonna keep saying I love it. I keep
talking to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Hey, if you were wondering if Adam likes the song,
the answer is yes, Calling all Nations deep cut, all right,
wrapping up the album, it's the last track, which is
titled tiny Daggers, Tinier dag Tiny daggers. Tiny daggers are
what Nicole does. She shoots those tiny naggers daggers with
her eyes daggers, eye daggers.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
When I smil my wife, I get those glaring eye daggers.
It clocks in at three minutes of twenty nine seconds.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, So when you hear this song, yeah, think of
another artist. Who do you think of when you hear
this song? I'm genuinely curious, see if we get the
same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Springsteen?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Kay, we got the same thing Springsteen. So I the
first thing from the jump I thought of Bruce Springsteen.
It really it's that driving beat.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, which is like Springsteen's perfect standard standards Dancing in
the dark. Man, yeah, that's what came to mind.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I was like, this has a lot of dancing, It's
a fun driving track. I think, just a solid closer
to the album. I mean, the album came in with
a bang and it goes out with a bang. So, man,
what do you think? What are your final thoughts on Kick?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right, so I guess we got to talk about
would you buy it the thirtieth anniversary deluxe edition or
the original vinyl?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Original vinyl?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I would really think hard about owning the original vinyl,
but I also like want to list the album a
few more times. Now Here's there's a lot of Inexcess
songs I really really like, and they're not all from
this album. No, there's a when I think about, like
my my album. Like if a band that I like
(36:55):
but I'm not into their catalog, I would probably start
by buying the of an Excess just to have something
to put on to list to all my favorite.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Figned out Which album contains the most tracks that you enjoyed?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Right now? This is it? Like if it was the
greatest hits in this one and they were next to
each other, I'd probably just buy it just to say, hey,
I like Kick it's just going to be in the collection.
But if I'm listening to something, I'm gonna probably put
the greatest hits on.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Okay, all right, But.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Now talking about a like the album one of their
six yeah, like or that they're the five up to this,
I think they had two. Give you you have a
total of eight albums. If I'm picking an album, I'm
picking this is the one you got to own.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, one percent. I think it's not even.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I think if you're a collector and you're like, hey,
I want to know what an Excess's most influential best
album is.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It's kick kick on percent, So what would you give it?
It's not a ten, No, it's not an eight, no,
somewhere between. I gave it a nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, it's it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
It's so close, yeah, so close if they had opened
with something other than guns.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yeah, that's it is the weak part of the album.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I mean, even the songs that I don't gravitate towards
as much, like Never Tear Us Apart or even Mystify,
there's still still really good songs.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah, it's just the gun.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
When you're getting that nitpicky, you know you're onto something. Yeah,
it's just but it's guns in the Sky. If they
had just gone straight into New Sensation, I would have
been all over it. Yeah, I would have given this
a ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd agree with that as
it is. It's a nine and a half because even
Guns in the Sky is not a bad song, it's
just not anywhere near the caliber of the rest of
(38:43):
the tracks.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
On the album.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, i'd agree.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
So nine and a half.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I mean it's a it's a darn near perfect album,
just not quite there, not like My Bloody Valentine.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, you know you you see a little bit of
NXS on cerrus XM right, a lot of the streaming stuff. Yeah,
but it's not really in popular rotation. So I'm hoping, like, hey,
I remember an excess. You know, this is a good
one to kind of pull out, pull out of your
streaming cat.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Short our memories are pull the.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
CD out of the collection and put it in if
you got that cassette tape. Oh. I actually found a
portable CD player the other day, really a real one. Wow,
Like this company Fio out of China makes it. And
I've had like some amplifiers and headphones from these guys.
And I was like, I've got a CD collection. I've
got some really nice CDs. I was like, I need
(39:32):
a proper CD player, and I think I'm gonna just
a portable one or rack. Well, you know, it's a
portable that it's also a rock mount oh okay, or
not a rock melt, but you can plug it in,
uh huh to whatever bookshelf system.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Kicking around the idea of getting a bookshelf system building one. Well,
and all I do is like, I mean you've seen
my setup. You just you All you need is like
a headphone, apps, bookshelf, speakers and a pre amp and uh,
then you just buy a It's so.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Easy to get a good own system, it really is.
It's a lot cheaper than it used to.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, le's the two hundred bucks. I mean, you're you know,
you can get a decent record player and some speakers bucks. Now, yeah,
it's good. So, hey, what are we featuring next? We
talked about to Huey Lewis and the news. We talked
about Springsteen. What are we doing next week?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Okay, we're gonna have to figure it out and it
before we do it. Yeah, Yeah, we've got some life's
getting busy. Yeah, so we'll try to plan out the
next few That's why we're recording a little earlier than
we normally would because I'm gonna be out the rest
of the week.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
So yeah, we'll try to schedule some episodes, I think. Yeah. Yeah,
So we get ready for April and May and birthday month.
We got to figure out what we're doing for birthday.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah, we're gonna have some fun.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Well I'm putting my record store list together. Nice, and
that's gonna be a pretty good day, I think.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I can all right, man. And with that we
close another episode of Adventures and Vinyl. If you like
the music featured on this episode, please check out the
website for the episode and you can find all the
links to the stuff you're baron and song of the week.
For more information on the band in Excess, you can
check out their website at www Dot NXS dot com.
(41:07):
And if you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to check
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(41:28):
bar and myself at Todd David Warden. With that, I'm
Todd ward.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
And I'm Adam Barron.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
We will see you next time on another episode of
Adventures in Vinyl.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I don't know about you, Todd. I need you tonight.
I've got the devil inside and I'm feeling a new
sensation team to get it out. I think you got
to keep that to yourself this
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