A lizard prince bitchin’ in long hair and leather, confident in the Giants Stadium scale adoration of black boys and white girls, white boys and black girls (especially in South America, where teens adored him), Michael Hutchence died before he turned into Roger Daltrey. He was Bono as a libertine, and to my ears INXS’s arena moves have aged better. They were pop and pop product, proud of it, their credo condensed in the lyric excerpt I used for this list.
1. Original Sin (Extended remix)
2. Shine Like It Does
3. Don’t Change
4. Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
5. What You Need
6. Devil Inside
7. Listen Like Thieves
8. Not Enough Time
9. Disappear
10. Bitter Tears
11. The One Thing
12. Suicide Blonde
13. This Time
14. Same Direction
15. Need You Tonight
16. Just Keep Walking
17. Biting Bullets
18. Burn For You
19. Guns in the Sky
20. To Look at You
Humanizing The Vacuum 
Truly great.
That entire list is “solid sound” – “good to great!” Here’s the Monk Mix:
1. Original Sin (Extended remix)
2. I Send A Message
3. To Look At You
4. Don’t Change
5. Burn For You
6. Suicide Blonde
7. Disappear
8. Shine Like It Does
9. Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
10. Bitter Tears
11. Need You Tonight
12. Same Direction
13. Listen Like Thieves
14. Not Enough Time
15. Devil Inside
16. What You Need
17. The One Thing
18. This Time
19. Just Keep Walking
20. Guns In The Sky
I’d put “Never Tear Us Apart” at 11 and lose “Guns In the Sky” if I could. INXS were the best mainstream pop/rock band of their era. They were to the 80s what the Rolling Stones were to the 60s.
Absolutely great rock/pop band, a thing that used to be fundamental and today is so illusive. Michael and the guys somehow managed to be both very popular and persistently underrated! Was it that they were too Aussie for Americans? Or was it the mistaken postmortem reality show that harms their legacy? Because otherwise it’s all there – danceable, excellent tunes delivered with a charisma and cool that Bono admits he was jealous of.
They still had the songs after 1990 but they couldn’t figure out how they wanted them to sound.