In Case You Missed It: INXS’ Wembley Show Lives Anew in Digital Reissue
If you’ve ever wondered why so much INXS catalogue activity centers solely around 1987’s Kick, there’s something new and different for you available: a live concert from the early 1990s, instead.
The Australian band have recently released Live At Wembley Stadium 1991 to digital retailers. This 22-track album features audio from the band’s July 13, 1991 concert at London’s famed stadium, which exactly six years prior held a rapt audience for Live Aid. Their Summer XS tour promoted the previous year’s release of tenth studio album X, another polished collaboration with Kick producer Chris Thomas that yielded more global success with singles like “Suicide Blonde” and “Disappear” becoming worldwide Top 10 hits.
Fans will recognize this program as identical to what was released on the videotape Live Baby Live that same year. A live album of the same name was recorded throughout the tour, and added one new studio track, “Shining Star.” (That same track features here, as well.) The audio from that video is here newly remastered by producer Mark Opitz, who produced the band’s Shabooh Shoobah (1982), Welcome to Wherever You Are (1992) and Full Moon, Dirty Hearts (1993) as well as the original Live Baby Live album.
So far, only iTunes seems to be the place you can get Live At Wembley Stadium 1991, although the band’s official site is selling a two-disc edition of the set, ostensibly to tie into the recent Australian broadcast of INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, a miniseries about the country’s favorite musical sons (the critical reception of which actually bought Kick and a recent compilation back into the country’s Top 10). The track list for this vintage show is below.
INXS, Live At Wembley Stadium 1991 (Petrol Electric, 2014)
- Guns in the Sky
- New Sensation
- I Send a Message
- The Stairs
- Know the Difference
- Disappear
- By My Side
- Hear That Sound
- Original Sin
- The Loved One
- Wild Life
- Mystify
- Bitter Tears
- Suicide Blonde
- What You Need
- Kick
- Need You Tonight
- Mediate
- Never Tear Us Apart
- Who Pays the Price
- Devil Inside
- Shining Star
All tracks except Track 22 recorded live at Wembley Stadium, London – 7/13/1991
Track 22 first released on Live Baby Live (EastWest 9031 75630-2 (AUS)/Atlantic 82294 (U.S.), 1991)
The Second Disc 
That’s very funny! When this was originally released no one could pronounce the title right who did not know other wise! People thought it said “Live” as in a “live” concert but it was the opposite. It was pronounced “liv” as in “Live your life.”. If what I am saying…or typing is making sense. Well the confusion is gone…but so is the creative title. I think that is somewhat sad…of course…it could always be re-released the way it was some day! 🙂
AlexKx
February 27, 2014 at 13:59