Throughout the early 1980s, INXS kept threatening to go big league, and with 1987’s Kick they broke wide open, sending a sharp quartet of singles-”New Sensation,” ”Devil Inside,” ”Need You Tonight,” and the shimmering ballad ”Never Tear US Apart”-right to the charts. The rest of Kick, especially the strutting ”Guns in the Sky” and the groovy ”Wild Life,” is of similar quality; all of it is marked by the band’s Stones-y guitars and angular, funk-tinged rhythms. Vocalist Michael Hutchence’s MTV good looks and Aretha-meets-Aerosmith swagger completed the musical equation for both the girls and the boys. One of the decade’s great live bands, too.