Great reissue!! Not noise, great sound, bass and high frequencies, very, very clear sound! So happy with this edition (I can't compare, cos I don't own other version, but this is very good) Index: Releases". Record Mirror. 19 December 1987. p.12. INXS, those good looking guys from Aussie, release their single 'New Sensation' on December 29.

INXS - Kick Vinyl at Juno Records.

a b c d e f INXS; Bozza, Anthony (2005). INXS: Story to Story: The Official Autobiography. Atria Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7432-8404-2. Retrieved 18 June 2017 During production, management booked dates for the band's upcoming European tour, [12] which proved a problem for Thomas, as he felt the album needed more songs. "They had an incredible momentum building and were gaining fans all the time", Thomas recalls. "There was an audience waiting for the product, but I decided that they didn't have the right songs yet". [12] Thomas persuaded primary songwriters Hutchence and Andrew Farriss to fly to Hong Kong (where Hutchence and drummer Jon Farriss owned an apartment) to write more material for the forthcoming album. [12]

That is not to say it is all roses... I can see some fans NOT enjoying the new master. It sounds different. It just does. I like the difference, but it's almost got a new sound. Likely because each of the instruments and vocals are so individual yet so fluid and cohesive at the same time, that it is like hearing a different album. With such clarity, comes a new sound, but I happen to think it is BRILLIANT.

INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl INXS – Kick (1987, SP - Specialty Pressing, Gatefold, Vinyl

Andrew Farriss recalls, "Hutchence's instrument was his voice; he couldn't explain what he was thinking in musical terms. He would say things like, 'It needs to feel like this.' And I'd try to translate that into notes". [16] You can hear this album like you’ve never-before,” says Giles Martin. “You can hear Michael so close to you, you can hear his breath. You feel like you’re in the studio with the band. You have a record that’s 30 years old, but it’s been taken in a completely new direction and you can listen to it in a completely new way and it becomes new again. Great music and great songs, they don’t get old.”Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.149. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.