"Listen Like Thieves" is the 4th single from INXS's fifth album "Listen Like Thieves". The b-side to the single was "Different World", which appeared on the "Crocodile" Dundee soundtrack.
@Rick Scicluna Great points and nowadays I have a greater appreciation for my time in the 21st Century, I was definitely one of those cassette buying , posters applying and watching the Vampire's all dying .
The chemistry those six lads shared together over the years made it all happen. Of course it didn't hurt that inxs had the best frontman the world has ever seen. ...be at peace Michael
As someone who was born when this came out these guys were one of the biggest bands and IMO this is their best song. I'm surprised it didn't hold up with the other songs you still hear occasionally on the radio today
As someone who was a teen when Listen Like Thieves was released, I'll tell you why. In the US, INXS was still a niche band. When LLT was the newest album, my cousin and I were the only people that really knew the album and band (became one of my fav albums at the time). Kick was the release where EVERYONE knew INXS and they became a household name. That's why songs from Kick and newer are the ones you hear - they are the songs that everyone knew back then. A lot of people missed out on LLT
@@cathsalazar9930 first inxs song I heard on a vhs 📼 copy from the Montreaux rock festival. Loved it, but didn’t pick up on inxs again until the strangest party. I kick myself
I know how dare he rnd his beautiful life.. if only he let him check his brain he could still be here after the Paris accident. Paris seems to be a bad place to go when your a ROCK STAR.
Saw these guys in 1987 for their Kick tour. That album had over 20 songs - a lot of them great. Of course they played this too. A *mostly* great decade for music and to be in HS.
Michael still to this day his voice is one of the best in music history. I'm about the same age as Michael would have been he was like ten months older than me so INXS has been in my music world since I first saw them on MTv. These guys are awesome and some of the most talented musicians out there. I've been playing guitar for fifty years and into a lot of different music like metal and old school. What's really great about INXS that they didn't stay with just one style nor did anyone in the band try to be a guitar shredder like what was popular. Every instrument in the songs has importance and stands out. The blend of sax and guitar they had is incredible. Glad they didn't try to stick to a mold and be like everyone else. At 62 I start my day cranking INXS videos. Shame Michael is gone. We were about the same age he being a few months older. I've wondered what he'd look like and sound like if he was around today. I think his voice would still be awesome. Like Mick from the Stones
this tape was sent to our house by accident. I fell in love and got shaboo and the swing and kick. Then my gramma gave me kiss me x3 by cure lol -- sorry boys! I left for the cure. so much love - all the memorization but amazing how these songs still stand
I still have a really vivid memory of walking along the Esplanade towards Acland Street on a weekend with my parents. When we passed the Palais there was a plane sticking out of the facade and burned out cars. I thought it was a movie set, didn’t’t see this video till years later and it all came together. Pointless story that went nowhere #36.
On the talk back show On the radio At the local bar In the hot traffic by the red tail lights Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands? And we take it down To the end of town Where they have control But they're losing touch when the lights go out Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands? Everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves for the answers But who needs that When you got it all in your hands It's all in your hands It's all in your hands You are all you need You are all you need And that is everything So don't hesitate There's no time to waste You just, just do it for yourself I said everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands You got it all You got it all It's all in your hands You got it all, you got it all I said everybody's down on their knees Listen like thieves But who needs that When it's all in your hands
Ties in to the huge inspiration that the movie Dune had on music videos of the time. Wild Boys by Duran Duran conjures that as well. And they were close with Michael Hutchence.
@@david2869 yes, i think more Mad Max. That was my association at the time. Honestly, same for Duran, especially as I think their director was Australian.
I legit just finished watching Escape from New York, and this video is heavily influenced by that film! I was thinking about it all while watching it. The main character enters Manhattan which has become a maximum security prison on a mission, and he has an eyepatch, gun and big boots. He walks into a theatre at one point and there is a play going on, and the vibes are very similar to that film in that scene.
Still killer😍TBH I thought my adult life would have way more Thunderdome and suspenders and I lay the blame squarely at the feet of these lads. Man we were spoiled with music back then !
I liked it when music videos had that Mad Max vibe or were just plain weird. Examples; Wild Boys - Duran Duran, Loverboy by Billy Ocean, Self Control by Laura Braningan, Catch My Fall - Billy Idol, Somebody's Watching - Rockwell and Torture by The Jacksons (a truly bizarre video).
p3tr0l After reading your comment I watched that video for the first time (don't know how I missed it for so long) And yea, it has a definite 80s weirdness. Even weirdness is different today.
+O.P. Quintard You brought up memories that have lain dormant in my aging feeble mind over the last 30 yrs or so. Thanks for reconnecting me to some good memories mate.
+Eric Bush Happy to do so friend. Based on your other comment I think I'll review the whole Synchronicity album tonight. In my earlier post I forgot to mention the "Wouldn't it be Good" video by Nick Kershaw, also slightly weird, and the dystopian "Sex Crime" video by Eurythmics.
😂 I listened to INXS when they first came out. However, I don’t recall his video. Which is odd because I lived on MTV. One thing I can say that I’ve learned from this … there’s never a bad time to make shadow puppets.
Guitarist & Sax Man just right riff to move your internal.organs ~ Dance ~ Limbs optional.but they got the message ~ so many facets to INXS ~ did not understand all.of that when I was young ~ just the very best ice cream on the very best cake 🍰🍨
Hmm I was in junior high when this came out.We use to have this 3 hour video show that was on a local uhf station everyday. This video and Killing Jokes "Eighties" where played every day that summer I was 12. UGH every thing they did after this was pop shit.
We are going to combine with some frequencies. Lets find the ones that we can learn from, and teach things too. I guess we are going.. Lets go right through this.. I know a spot .
This was filmed in Sydney or Melbourne wasn't it I remember reading someone's comments how they watched the filming of this as a teenager across the street but yeah
[06 August 2021] Such a brilliant video; maybe INXS's best video. I just have to ask: is the blonde girl who appears at the 1:54-minute mark Saskia Post?
Are you shitting me??? I had to be almost 60 years old before i heard Ray Charles jammin' with INXS??? What kind of witchcraft is THIS??? So THIS is what discombobulated feels like. Ok...i got it now...
The video is very obviously inspired from "escape from New York", but that skinny dude ain't no snake pliskin lol. This is from the scene in the movie when snake walks into the theater and sees a bunch of guys in drag doing a show. Nice parody.
I was wondering the same thing. The video was very dark, as though a bunch of thugs were trying to ambush the band, and most of the people in the video looked stoned. This was the first time I saw the video: I didn't know there was one for this song.
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I got this tape in 1984 when it came out, maybe 85. Anyways, their sound and this video even stands up today. Freakin incredible.
85
1985
I honestly don't think these guys came out with one bad song. Just one golden one after next.
@Rick Scicluna Great points and nowadays I have a greater appreciation for my time in the 21st Century, I was definitely one of those cassette buying , posters applying and watching the Vampire's all dying .
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well... the songs they did with jd fortune were crap.
I absolutely agree
Definitely an extremely underrated band
Michael was core, the heart, and the engine of the band.
The chemistry those six lads shared together over the years made it all happen.
Of course it didn't hurt that inxs had the best frontman the world has ever seen.
...be at peace Michael
Very true. But the rest of the band is incredibly talented as well
And Jon is the beat....
My heart broke the day when Michael passed and it’s never been the same
As someone who was born when this came out these guys were one of the biggest bands and IMO this is their best song. I'm surprised it didn't hold up with the other songs you still hear occasionally on the radio today
As someone who was a teen when Listen Like Thieves was released, I'll tell you why.
In the US, INXS was still a niche band. When LLT was the newest album, my cousin and I were the only people that really knew the album and band (became one of my fav albums at the time).
Kick was the release where EVERYONE knew INXS and they became a household name. That's why songs from Kick and newer are the ones you hear - they are the songs that everyone knew back then. A lot of people missed out on LLT
Wow I bet you have cats on table parody please comment if you self deletion?
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Colours
No offense youngsters.
In my top five of favorite INXS songs. Love the Mad Max vibe :)
Same!
@@cathsalazar9930 first inxs song I heard on a vhs 📼 copy from the Montreaux rock festival. Loved it, but didn’t pick up on inxs again until the strangest party. I kick myself
Watch Escape From New York.
It also has the _Escape from New York_ vibe. Should definitely check it out if you haven't seen it.
Looking back on these songs and videos, they never get old, just great music from great bands!
You got that right!
I’m 50 yo,remember these fellas when I was bloody young man, and still are my go to band
What an amazing sultry soulful voice. It's mesmerizing
Fur damn sure!🔥
INXS FOR EVER ❤
INXS POR SIEMPRE ❤
I just love Michael Hutchence!!😍
to this day Inxs still rocks. rip Michael.
The man had mad skills. He would melt American Idols stage. This song kicks ass. Can someone make some great music again! Please!
I like Dirty Honey.
Why would he go on American Idol? He already had a record deal. . .
the bestest band INXS 💖
I love INXS
Bless you Aussie boys
Michael rest your beautiful soul
This has always been one of my favorites... Michael Hutchence was taken away too soon...
Yea😕
Same
Came back soon enoch ƵƸƹⅣϚ℥℠😇
I know how dare he rnd his beautiful life.. if only he let him check his brain he could still be here after the Paris accident. Paris seems to be a bad place to go when your a ROCK STAR.
One of the best groups of all time. One of the groups me and my son's like, wow
Jim Morrison, Michael Hutchence and since I'm drunk the guy from soundgarden-- 0ne kof a kind!
Just saw the inxs never tear us apart documentary awesome great actors
In '80s, I dreamed after apocalypse all that will remain is AK-47 and INXS music. Dream lives on. 😈
And cockroaches, can't forget them
nunca habia visto el video!y lo escuho desde el 2000 q estava en el colegio..
One of there best hands down
Saw these guys in 1987 for their Kick tour. That album had over 20 songs - a lot of them great. Of course they played this too. A *mostly* great decade for music and to be in HS.
Michael still to this day his voice is one of the best in music history. I'm about the same age as Michael would have been he was like ten months older than me so INXS has been in my music world since I first saw them on MTv. These guys are awesome and some of the most talented musicians out there. I've been playing guitar for fifty years and into a lot of different music like metal and old school. What's really great about INXS that they didn't stay with just one style nor did anyone in the band try to be a guitar shredder like what was popular. Every instrument in the songs has importance and stands out. The blend of sax and guitar they had is incredible. Glad they didn't try to stick to a mold and be like everyone else. At 62 I start my day cranking INXS videos. Shame Michael is gone. We were about the same age he being a few months older. I've wondered what he'd look like and sound like if he was around today. I think his voice would still be awesome. Like Mick from the Stones
Great comment Craig thanks for sharing.
...be at peace Michael
❤️ forever Michael Hutchence 💋 ❤️ INXS!
Their best song IMO
The 12" version of this is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I miss Michael! RIP Michael Hutchence.
Me 2
Glad to have this available again in the US. Why was it blocked for years?
Cuz record labels are dumb lol
Because you can't operate a VPN??
@@jackkinoff6943 .....and you are a moron. 😂 😂 😂
International royalty issues. Basically, how can record labels screw a legacy
@@jackkinoff6943 hahahha...
They're helpful!
una delle cose più belle di sempre
The last rock star. I miss him physically .,.mentally. sexy hasn't happened since. 🎉
"Listen like thieves....Well, who needs that? It's all in your hands!"
LOL !
Very Mad Max.
Cool song and video
Mad max ish
this tape was sent to our house by accident. I fell in love and got shaboo and the swing and kick. Then my gramma gave me kiss me x3 by cure lol -- sorry boys! I left for the cure. so much love - all the memorization but amazing how these songs still stand
Inxs and the Cure are my 2 fave bands !!!!
Your Grandma gave you The Cure? Dude, looks like there’s three generations in your family that kicks asz. Cool.
I still have a really vivid memory of walking along the Esplanade towards Acland Street on a weekend with my parents. When we passed the Palais there was a plane sticking out of the facade and burned out cars. I thought it was a movie set, didn’t’t see this video till years later and it all came together. Pointless story that went nowhere #36.
On the talk back show
On the radio
At the local bar
In the hot traffic by the red tail lights
Everybody's down on their knees
Listen like thieves
But who needs that
When it's all in your hands?
And we take it down
To the end of town
Where they have control
But they're losing touch when the lights go out
Everybody's down on their knees
Listen like thieves
But who needs that
When it's all in your hands?
Everybody's down on their knees
Listen like thieves for the answers
But who needs that
When you got it all in your hands
It's all in your hands
It's all in your hands
You are all you need
You are all you need
And that is everything
So don't hesitate
There's no time to waste
You just, just do it for yourself
I said everybody's down on their knees
Listen like thieves
But who needs that
When it's all in your hands
You got it all
You got it all
It's all in your hands
You got it all, you got it all
I said everybody's down on their knees
Listen like thieves
But who needs that
When it's all in your hands
I wonder what this song means.
Ty’s 4 lyrics mate!🙏
@@Nightmareman3That’s for you yourself (and you alone) to determine! That’s the magic of music!
Brilliance 😊❤️🌹
Geniales!!!!..
I've been looking for this vid for ages! Thanks for posting.
This always reminded me of Escape From New York.
Reminds me of Mad Max
Ties in to the huge inspiration that the movie Dune had on music videos of the time. Wild Boys by Duran Duran conjures that as well. And they were close with Michael Hutchence.
That, and the influence of the Mad Max movies.
@@david2869 yes, i think more Mad Max. That was my association at the time. Honestly, same for Duran, especially as I think their director was Australian.
I legit just finished watching Escape from New York, and this video is heavily influenced by that film! I was thinking about it all while watching it. The main character enters Manhattan which has become a maximum security prison on a mission, and he has an eyepatch, gun and big boots. He walks into a theatre at one point and there is a play going on, and the vibes are very similar to that film in that scene.
Still killer😍TBH I thought my adult life would have way more Thunderdome and suspenders and I lay the blame squarely at the feet of these lads.
Man we were spoiled with music back then !
All time great band! We don't need a fucking magazine to tell us greatness! This band was great!! Michael was an outstanding front man!
I liked it when music videos had that Mad Max vibe or were just plain weird. Examples; Wild Boys - Duran Duran, Loverboy by Billy Ocean, Self Control by Laura Braningan, Catch My Fall - Billy Idol, Somebody's Watching - Rockwell and Torture by The Jacksons (a truly bizarre video).
O.P. Quintard How about The Police - Synchronicity II
p3tr0l After reading your comment I watched that video for the first time (don't know how I missed it for so long) And yea, it has a definite 80s weirdness. Even weirdness is different today.
+O.P. Quintard You brought up memories that have lain dormant in my aging feeble mind over the last 30 yrs or so. Thanks for reconnecting me to some good memories mate.
+p3tr0l t The entire Synchronicity album is a timeless piece of art that endures through the ages.
+Eric Bush Happy to do so friend. Based on your other comment I think I'll review the whole Synchronicity album tonight. In my earlier post I forgot to mention the "Wouldn't it be Good" video by Nick Kershaw, also slightly weird, and the dystopian "Sex Crime" video by Eurythmics.
Superb! ❤️from🇺🇸🙏👍
God I miss Michael. 😢
Wow, never seen this. Big production
I love what you've done with the place!
Excellent song... So so video
AWESOME
Totally!
Awesome Aussies! Miss U
Dawn of 24 and still holds up
😂 I listened to INXS when they first came out. However, I don’t recall his video. Which is odd because I lived on MTV.
One thing I can say that I’ve learned from this … there’s never a bad time to make shadow puppets.
Thank you!!
Guitarist & Sax Man just right riff to move your internal.organs ~ Dance ~ Limbs optional.but they got the message ~ so many facets to INXS ~ did not understand all.of that when I was young ~ just the very best ice cream on the very best cake 🍰🍨
Hmm I was in junior high when this came out.We use to have this 3 hour video show that was on a local uhf station everyday. This video and Killing Jokes "Eighties" where played every day that summer I was 12. UGH every thing they did after this was pop shit.
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INXS should have been BIGGER . . . than U2 their songs were much better.
Many references to Mad Max on the comments here but this undoubtedly draws inspiration and pays homage to Escape From New York
I am almost 99.99% sure that Peta Wilson from La Femme Nikita is in this video. The video looks a post apocalyptic nightmare but that is the point.
Gorgeous
Same . An oldie but goodie forever !
Best Ozzie band ever
Yes. I instantly thought of Crazy train.
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*Love*
is Evol backwards
1:13 music starts(let's go!)
the best
I might smell like a thief, but I don't listen like one, dammit!
Glad they took the dialogue out of the actors from the video
SO IT WILL BE HAPPEN... IM LOOKING FOR YOU..CAPTAIN OF MY HEART...NEED YOUR SHELTER...LOVELI 💜🖤💜🖤💜🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
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1985 "Mad Max" was HOT inn Australia.....can you feel it in this vid?
1:56 Me watching any opening band.
MH One of a kind. No other pairs him, by far
My favorite band of australia
In the us this was the third single the title track listen like thieves the follow up to the 2nd single what you need
You are all you need.
Damn, Michael was a beautiful man, grrrrrrr ;)
Yeah. Mike was a beautiful SOB. Gone too soon. Epitome of 80s cool.
I became a fan I. The U.S. with Shaboo Shabah (apologies). I liked The Swing. But, Listen Like Thieves is my Mount Rushmore INXS album.
These guys predicted Napster. When it came out we were all listening like thieves.
interesting song thieves
I see some of the Dogs In Space cast here: the "Luchio!" girl, Nique Needles, Deanna Bond.
We are going to combine with some frequencies. Lets find the ones that we can learn from, and teach things too. I guess we are going.. Lets go right through this.. I know a spot .
Someone needs to make a haunted housed based off this intro.
4:08 sax solo.....
2:52 it's all in your hands!
handful of eggs.....
Some lecturers are smarter than others.
Okay the guy in all black with the eye patch and rifle is Michael right? lol
This was filmed in Sydney or Melbourne wasn't it I remember reading someone's comments how they watched the filming of this as a teenager across the street but yeah
[06 August 2021] Such a brilliant video; maybe INXS's best video. I just have to ask: is the blonde girl who appears at the 1:54-minute mark Saskia Post?
I think that's Deanna Bond - "The Girl" from Dogs in Space.
@@finnichiro yes. That is her.
Looks like a nod to 1981 Escape from New York.
Are you shitting me???
I had to be almost 60 years old before i heard Ray Charles jammin' with INXS???
What kind of witchcraft is THIS???
So THIS is what discombobulated feels like.
Ok...i got it now...
Next time I'll type faster
The video is very obviously inspired from "escape from New York", but that skinny dude ain't no snake pliskin lol. This is from the scene in the movie when snake walks into the theater and sees a bunch of guys in drag doing a show. Nice parody.
2.1k likes....get a grip world!
How did y'all get Pruella DeVille in this video??
Eternity
5:00 Madd Maxx, you ain't.....!
En este video se querían parecer a wild boys de Durán Durán
It's an uplifting tune. Why is the video set in the methpocalypse.
I was wondering the same thing. The video was very dark, as though a bunch of thugs were trying to ambush the band, and most of the people in the video looked stoned. This was the first time I saw the video: I didn't know there was one for this song.