INXS The Very Best Released October 21st 2011

Universal Music are releasing a career-spanning INXS: The Very Best compilation album on October 21th. The Very Best will transport listeners through the band’s worldwide hits of the past and present.

The Very Best will be released as 1CD and 2CD + DVD deluxe releases. The 1CD edition is a neat collection of hits including ‘Need You Tonight’, ‘Original Sin’, ‘What You Need’, ‘Beautiful Girl’, ‘Kick’ and ‘Suicide Blonde’. The deluxe 3 disc package is a far more comprehensive collection. This package covers hits, fan favourites, remixes and mashups, live, rare and unreleased bonus material and a DVD with full 45 minute documentary and award winning promos. The documentary features unseen interview footage of the late great Michael Hutchence, alongside a very recent interview with the Farriss brothers individually.

Below is the 2CD tracklisting, more details on the bonus / DVD features will be announced soon!

cd1:
Mystify
Suicide Blonde
Taste It
The Strangest Party (These Are The Times)
Need You Tonight
Original Sin
Heaven Sent
Disappear
Never Tear Us Apart
The Gift
Devil Inside
Beautiful Girl
By My Side
Shine Like It Does
Kiss The Dirt
New Sensation
Elegantly Wasted
What You Need
Listen Like Thieves
Baby Don't Cry

cd2:
Just Keep Walking
Don't Change
The One Thing
Shining Star
The Stairs
Please (You Got That..)
Burn For You
I Send A Message
Good Times
The Loved One
Stay Young
Kick
Salvation Jane
Searching
Melting In The Sun
To Look At You
Calling All Nations
Bitter Tears

http://www.michaelhutchence.com.au/home ... 21st-2011/

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/po ... the/654537

I assume this will get a US release?
Anyway, good news to me-JD Fortune is out. Finally. They should just retire now.

INXS are without a lead singer, once again.

J.D. Fortune has reportedly ended his term as frontman for the Australian band on amicable terms.

“Just wanted to let you all know personally that, despite media reports to the contrary – I did not leave INXS and I was not fired,” the Canadian rocker explained to fans on his website Tuesday.

“Prior to this summer’s amazing tour, INXS and I mutually agreed that my contracted services as their lead singer for the 'Original Sin' tour would end in Atlanta, GA on August 14.” continued Fortune. “We had a great time and a great tour and are all very proud of those shows. Now, as planned, we are all moving on to different artistic projects. We do retain a deep friendship and respect for each other that was built over the past 6 years of working together.”

“To be clear,” repeated J.D., “I did not leave INXS and I was not fired. We have completed this phase of our collaboration on friendly terms and wish each other nothing but the best.”

“Right now,” summed up Fortune, “I am currently developing several exciting projects as a solo artist that I had put on hold until my obligation for the INXS tour was complete.”

INXS fans were thrilled with the addition of Fortune back in 2005, after he was chosen lead singer for the band on their “RockStar: INXS” reality series. J.D. seemed to breathe new life into the group, who were left without a frontman following the passing of Michael Hutchence in 1997. The band recorded “Switch” and toured extensively, especially in Fortune’s Canadian homeland, but the singer developed a cocaine habit and was fired in 2009.

Early this year, INXS released “Original Sin,” a reworking of their hits with a variety of high-profile guest vocalists, while simultaneously bringing Fortune back into the fold. Now we know that was a temporary stop-gap measure for the group, and INXS is without a frontman and, perhaps, a future, once again.

Australian media are reporting an official statement from INXS is expected later this week.

Stay tuned.

I don't think they could have used a poorer turn of phrase there.

Good point. Also, the article is totally incorrect. INXS did 2 big one-off shows in 1998 w/ Jimmy Barnes and 1999 w/ Terrence Trent D'Arby. But, from 2000-03 they DID have a new singer in Jon Stevens who was very, very good (I have a DVD of a pro-shot gig in Chile that was excellent). He left because they weren't doing any new music (he only recorded one song with them).
Then they did the horrid Rock Star show in 2005. Fortune wasn't bad at all, but he wasn't right for the band. Let him go back to doing coke and living in his car.