…featuring a new remix of the original album by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks plus two discs of unreleased material: one covering unheard demos and outtakes from the album sessions, and the other featuring a newly unearthed BBC recording of a 1986 set at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The release of Listen Like Thieves marked a major step forward for the hard-striving group (the late frontman Michael Hutchence; the Farriss brothers, Andrew (guitar/keyboards), Tim (guitar) and Jon (drums); bassist Garry Gary Beers and guitarist/ saxophonist Kirk Pengilly). Though they’d already had minor international hits with 1982’s “The One Thing” and 1984’s Nile Rodgers-produced dance-rocker “Original Sin,” INXS was hungry for further domination. For this, their fifth LP,…