INXS “Dekadance”
INXS “Dekadance” 1983. Four-song EP of remixes from their 1982 album Shabooh Shoobah. (The Australian edition of Dekadance was completely different, including seven remixes from the 1984 album The Swing). Dekadance has two of my favorite tracks from Shabooh Shoobah: “To Look At You” and “The One Thing.” The extended version of “To Look At You” has a much longer instrumental portion, with a funky bass line, lots of bright 80′s keyboard effects and world-music rhythms and retains my favorite line from the song “fairy tale, and I love you.” “The One Thing (extended version)” has a super-highly produced and drawn-out intro (and extra Michael Hutchence vocals = beautiful, echoey) before moving all soft and slippery into the epic new wave pop anthem (with added marimba effects). Also on Dekadance are the songs “Black and White (extended version)” and “Here Comes II (new version)” which is, not surpassingly, a new version that plays around with the originals’s tempo, alternating between upbeat dance and slow and sultry.
Daily (maybe) pulls from the vault: 33-1/3, 45, 78, old, older, classic, new, good, bad. Subjective. Autobiographical. Occasionally putting a record up for sale.