- rock, new wave, power pop
- 37 min
- 11 tracks
- Mercury Records
Listen Like Thieves is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band INXS. It was released on 14 October 1985. It spent two weeks at number one on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Considered an international breakthrough album for the band, it peaked at No. 11 on the United States Billboard 200, No. 24 on the Canadian RPM 100 Albums and in the top 50 in the United Kingdom.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock4/5
- The Palm Beach Post3/5 ★
- Pitchfork8/10
- (The New)Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1What You Need3:36
- 2Listen Like Thieves3:48
- 3Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)3:56
- 4Shine Like It Does3:07
- 5Good + Bad Times2:44
- 6Biting Bullets2:49
- 7This Time3:11
- 8Three Sisters2:28
- 9Same Direction4:58
- 10One x One3:05
- 11Red Red Sun3:32
11 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- INXS
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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