Name: Underneath the Colours
Brand: IMS-MERCURY
SKU: 58947259
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Underneath the Colours

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Album: Underneath the Colours
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Stay Young	More Info...
2)	Horizons	More Info...
3)	Big Go Go	More Info...
4)	Underneath the Colours	More Info...
5)	Fair Weather Ahead	More Info...
6)	Night of Rebellion	More Info...
7)	Follow	More Info...
8)	Everyone Is Noah, Everyone in the Ark	More Info...
9)	What Would You Do	More Info...
10)	Just to Learn Again	More Info...

Album: Underneath the Colours
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Stay Young	More Info...
2)	Horizons	More Info...
3)	Big Go Go	More Info...
4)	Underneath the Colours	More Info...
5)	Fair Weather Ahead	More Info...
6)	Night of Rebellion	More Info...
7)	Follow	More Info...
8)	Everyone Is Noah, Everyone in the Ark	More Info...
9)	What Would You Do	More Info...
10)	Just to Learn Again	More Info...

Performer Notes

Perhaps the most underrated album of INXS's long career, 1981's UNDERNEATH THE COLOURS is an intriguing sidestep. The Sydney band's self-titled 1980 debut had been a mildly schizophrenic melange of straight-ahead rock & roll and new wave experiments. 1982's SHABOOH SHOOBAH would meld the two into a seamless, commercially viable whole, but this intervening album sounds in retrospect like INXS's attempt to get all its arty affectations out of the way once and for all.
Although the songs are melodic and basically commercial, the arrangements and production are quirky and dissonant. Kirk Pengilly's sax and Andrew Farriss's keyboards dominate the mix, with Michael Hutchence's vocals and Jon Farriss's increasingly dance-oriented drums lost in the background. The effect is very much of its time, but new wave fans and those who only caught up with INXS through its more successful later records will find UNDERNEATH THE COLOURS surprising and illuminating.