Ever have that experience of listening to an album and realizing that you know the whole thing, all the way through, and have done so since you were eight years old or so? I'm having that experience right this instant with INXS's Kick, and being reminded in the process that the album is simultaneously (1) dead-simple and even 'unsophisticated,' and (2) basically a perfect pop album. I'd be a little embarrassed to play Kick right after Thriller or 1999 at a party, but that's just me and my anxieties, 'cause this is naked pleasure from first not to...
...oh my god 'Never Tear Us Apart' just came on, and since (notwithstanding the cheesiest sax solo ever recorded) we're close to the peak of Eighties pop here I'd better just stop typing and listen.
