Welcome To Wherever You Are Music Cd

Inxs - Welcome To Wherever You Are

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Welcome to Wherever You Are      Artist : INXS      List Price : $5.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1992-08-04      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (16 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Welcome To Wherever You Are      One of INXS best...      Rating:      While I have been a fan of this band since the late 80's, since Kick of course, I only owned Kick and X which are both great CDs. Recently I decided to collect more INXS CDs, this being one of them. This CD is awesome! Why didn't I get it sooner? It is full of good songs, my favorites being Beautiful Girl, which is a lovely song in itself, All Around, Taste It and I really like the opener, Questions. All the songs are good though, this entire CD is listenable, good for playing in the background or in the car. There are familiar INXS sounds and some newer sounds like ones heard in Questions, which is a brief song but it just sounds so cool. People have said that INXS dropped off after X and even Kick, I disagree. This CD is great, I would highly recommend for any INXS fan. Maybe it didn't sell as well as the others but who cares? This is good music! I think so anyway. Lots of guitars, but some softer sounds too, there is even some symphony music, it's great.     Customer Reviews for Welcome To Wherever You Are Cd      Right out of the Vaults      Rating:      Cut in 1992 this one qualifies as a vault recording, it isn't timeless, it isn't destined to be a classic. INXS, from Australia, hit all the right buttons in the late 80's and petered and fizzled out into the 90's. The album packaging did prove that over the years the band did learn how to all dress like each other in snazzy matching outfits for photo shoots. "Welcome to Wherever You Are," was the Fixx making "Ink," the Cars making "Door to Door," Van Halen doing "Van Halen III," you know...the beginning of the end. "Welcome to Wherever You Are," granted has enough listenable material that you won't immediately go out running to your local Hastings to try to sell it dirt cheap or stick it in the pile of garage sale recordings right next to worn copies of Air Supply, Barry Manilow, and Bread. INXS became commercial...they were tainted by success. Maybe that was more than lead singer Michael Hutchence bargained for. Fame can be a daunting thing. Commercialism alone doesn't make a band start to pump out uninspired drivel but if heads aren't on right it can lead to it. Though the collective musicians of INXS seem to be talented enough that "Welcome To Wherever You Are," doesn't delve to the drivel level. Nevertheless the band members picked up the road signs, mapped it out on Mapquest, and yep with this CD they were heading to drivel city, USA. The album starts out interestingly enough with a Sitar-singed, "Questions." Follows it up with some hit top-40 radio play ditties in "Heaven Sent," "Taste It," and "Not Enough Time." But by the time they reach the big horns bouncy, "Baby Don't Cry," all inspiration has ran dry. "Wishing Well," has an interesting bass line, but the rest of the album is same 'ole same 'ole. Look elsewhere if you are starting out with INXS. Shaboo Shabah or Kick might be good places to start. The band did make some good music, unfortunately too little of it can be found on "Welcome to Wherever You Are." --MMW