INXS / All The Voices 10LP vinyl box

£99 on the universal store ;)

It would be great to get the early albums with the correct austrailian covers. Totally disagree that Welcome was not a great album!
The above photo has been updated. So I’m glad it’s the sailor boy on the cover now.
Looking forward to them.

Hi Paul. Thanks for that. I was astounded when Universal reissued the INXS back cat on CD in 2011 – replicating the Mercury (Holland) releases. The original Shabooh Shoobah CD (by Mercury) from 1988 faded “Spy Of Love” out too soon and mis-cues the gap between “Golden Playpen” and “Jan’s Song”. Therefore – Universal replicated those errors!!
They also replicated the generic Mercury CD labels – that’s beyond bizarre! Mercury also butchered the original album artwork (typical for the 80’s)…huge lettering, track numbers inside individual squares, large barcodes – Universal replicated the lot (instead of going back to the original artwork and restoring that for CD) – which is why I don’t have much hope for these “reissues”.

Richard Lowenstein and Ollie Olsen have mentioned a number of times in the last few years how tied up Universal and the Hutchence estate is. Ollie is constantly plagued by fans for a reissue of the 1989 Max Q album, and he’s all for it, but there’s too much nonsensical red tape.

Universal could do some really special Record Store Day stuff. On 20th March 1985, INXS released “Dekadance” in Australia – a cassette only release featuring alternate mixes of six songs from ‘The Swing’ with occasional recordings made by the band as they walked through airports (plus a cover of “Jackson”)…the cardboard case cassette was available in six different covers. The mixes on the cassette have never been released digitally, why not (finally) put that out on CD?
There was also a 12″ promo (only) of the cassette which omitted the bands airport recordings – a limited vinyl pressing for Record Store Day. It’s all been sitting in a vault somewhere since 1985, far more exciting than reissuing reissues of not very hard to find albums.

The “Welcome To….” album cover that is in the ‘All The Voices’ photo that you’ve included is 100% the original vinyl release. Sadly, not a great album. The first five were unbeatable. The first two reissued on CD by Raven Records, including all the B-sides, non album singles, unreleased demos, live tracks plus liner notes on each track from the surviving band members.
Shabooh Shoobah, The Swing and Listen Like Thieves have been constantly overlooked. How many Kick releases / reissues have there been now. Come on Universal!!!!!

Problem is, Universal will make ‘exact replicas’ of the European vinyl releases. The first three albums weren’t released in the U.K. until 1988.
The exact replicas should be of the Australian pressings.
“Underneath The Colours” should have the original typeface on the front (replaced outside Australia) and be a gatefold cover with the colour photo montage (not black and white as used by the rest of the world).
“Shabooh Shoobah” should include picture labels of the statue on the front cover and include a replica of the poster originally issued in Australia.
“The Swing” should be in a gatefold die-cut sleeve to replicate the photo montage of the original and include the original unique labels.
“Listen Like Thieves” should also be in a gatefold sleeve but without the band name in the top right hand corner that has ruined every rest of the world (excluding Japan) format pressing up to the present day.
…..but they won’t. It’s such a shame. Re-release them properly!! Give us all the b-sides and remixes from the early to late 80’s. Release a DVD compilation that includes a cleaned up version of The One Thing video (the one with the instruments in bandages) AND the video to To Look At You. How in 2014 do those things still not exist? Crazy!

Why not use the original masters tapes directly. I won’t pick this up. I’ll wait until they do like The Beatles are doing. Analog direct. If I wanted digital, I would get HD tracks

Thanx, Stephen!

@Shane

I’m not convinced about new studio albums been a few pounds under £17. So far this year, i’ve bought (items I have in hand) 37 viny records, a mixture of /new/remastered/re-issues, only one of them has been below £17. While I do agree the set will reduce in price, I disagree about vinyl been as cheap as you claim.

I love this band since I bought my first INXS lp, The Swing, in 1984. Good to have it again on vinyl with all the others albums including the last one with Michael Hutchence on vocals. I was waiting for them but expecially for the last one never realised on vinyl before. I bought the cds’ box set long ago, glad to add this vinyl box set to my INXS records’ collection.

17£ for each album is quite expensive. New studio albums are usually at least a few pounds cheaper, and if you consider that this is all previously issued material, and there is for sure not going to be anything extra to the packaging, there is really no justification for such a high price. I wonder if the WTWYA will be glossy like the original.
Anyway yes, the price will drop for sure.

The true spirit of the band died with the passing of Michael Hutchence, so I think it right to not add any albums post his death. But I have to admit that to my ears the song Afterglow from the Switch album is perhaps the finest thing they ever recorded.

All these ‘classic’ albums are available for peanuts at a charity shop near you every day of the week.

Switch is a good album have to say, several classic Inxsy tracks on there.

Have you seen the price GBP 170! That’s insane.

It obviously is not all of INXS’s studio l.p.s or it would not stop at “Elegantly Wasted”.

I’d like to have an expanded edition of Live Baby Live.