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"Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album. It was also the only single of the band's to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked at number two on the UK singles chart. While it would arguably become the band's signature song, it was one of the last songs recorded for the album.
In INXS's Official Autobiography, INXS: Story to Story, Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very pissed-off driver. This riff was later described as sounding like a cross between Keith Richards and Prince.
The song is a much more electronic track than most of the band's material before or after, combining sequencers with regular drum tracks and a number of tracks of layered guitars. To approximate the sound on the recorded track, the band often utilizes click tracks for a frequent synthesizer chord as well as rim shots heard throughout the song.
On the Kick album, the song is linked to the next song, entitled either "Mediate" or "Meditate" depending on the pressing of the album. On some compilations, the two tunes appear together and on others, only "Need You Tonight" appears (rarely, if ever, has "Mediate" appeared on its own).
The song is also notable for its promotional music video which combined live action and different kinds of animation as well as black and white and color images. As on the album, it segues into a video for "Mediate" (the two are sometimes counted as the same video) which is a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including Video of The Year and was ranked at number twenty-one on MTV's countdown of the 100 greatest videos of all time.
In INXS's Official Autobiography, INXS: Story to Story, Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very pissed-off driver. This riff was later described as sounding like a cross between Keith Richards and Prince.
The song is a much more electronic track than most of the band's material before or after, combining sequencers with regular drum tracks and a number of tracks of layered guitars. To approximate the sound on the recorded track, the band often utilizes click tracks for a frequent synthesizer chord as well as rim shots heard throughout the song.
On the Kick album, the song is linked to the next song, entitled either "Mediate" or "Meditate" depending on the pressing of the album. On some compilations, the two tunes appear together and on others, only "Need You Tonight" appears (rarely, if ever, has "Mediate" appeared on its own).
The song is also notable for its promotional music video which combined live action and different kinds of animation as well as black and white and color images. As on the album, it segues into a video for "Mediate" (the two are sometimes counted as the same video) which is a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including Video of The Year and was ranked at number twenty-one on MTV's countdown of the 100 greatest videos of all time.
Cover Versions
- Canadian singer Jacynthe covered this song in 2003 for her album Seize the Day.
- Lostprophets covered this song on The Fake Sound of Progress CD single.
| Preceded by "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson | Billboard Hot 100 number one single January 30 1988 | Succeeded by "Could've Been" by Tiffany |
INXS (pronounced "In Excess") is an Australian rock group. The band was formed on 16 August 1977, in Sydney, Australia.
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Kick is an album by the Australian rock band INXS, released in 1987. It is their best-selling album to date and according to Story To Story: The Official Autobiography
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Kick is an album by the Australian rock band INXS, released in 1987. It is their best-selling album to date and according to Story To Story: The Official Autobiography
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UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine, and published online at Yahoo! Music UK (formerly Dotmusic)
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Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician (born 27 March 1959 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia), best known as the keyboardist and key composer for the Australian band INXS.
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Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, producer and founding member of The Rolling Stones. With songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, he has written and recorded hundreds of songs.
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Synthesizer is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing.
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"Mediate" is a song by INXS from their 1987 album, Kick. The song is a segue from their big hit single, Need You Tonight. The song has the distinction of having almost every line rhyme with the word "ate" (as in "Mediate").
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Released April 1965
Format 7" single
Recorded Columbia Recording Studios, New York
14 January 1965
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:21
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Tom Wilson
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Recorded Columbia Recording Studios, New York
14 January 1965
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:21
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Tom Wilson
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Jacynthe Millette-Bilodeau (born September 13, 1979) is a Québécois pop singer who records as Jacynthe. She records material in English, French and Italian, and has had Top 40 hits on both the anglophone and francophone pop charts in Canada.
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Seize the Day is an album by Damien Dempsey released in Ireland in 2003 on Clear Records via Sony.
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Seize the Day is an album by Damien Dempsey released in Ireland in 2003 on Clear Records via Sony.
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Lostprophets (IPA: /lɒstˈprɒfɪts/) are a Welsh alternative metal band formed in 1997. They have produced several demos (none of which are still produced commercially), three studio albums and ten singles.
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Released 11th March 2002 (U.K)
Format CD
Genre Alternative metal
Label Visible Noise
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Format CD
Genre Alternative metal
Label Visible Noise
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- 21 (U.K)
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Released November 1987
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Genre R&B
Length 4:58
Label Epic Records
Writer(s) Michael Jackson
Producer(s) Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones
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Genre R&B
Length 4:58
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Writer(s) Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ[1] as well as "The King of Pop",[2] is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for
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B-side(s) "The Heart of Love"
Released 1988
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Recorded 1987
Genre Pop
Length 3:32
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Writer(s) Lois Blaisch
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Released 1988
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Recorded 1987
Genre Pop
Length 3:32
Label MCA Records
Writer(s) Lois Blaisch
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Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2 1971), known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer who had a number of teen pop hits during the late 1980s.
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