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| Single by INXS | |||||
| from the album Kick | |||||
| B-side | "I'm Coming (Home)" | ||||
| Released | 1987 2005 (remixes) |
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| Format | CD single 7" single |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 3:00 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence | ||||
| Producer | Chris Thomas | ||||
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"Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album. It was also the only single of the band's to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also achieved their highest peak at number two on the UK Singles Chart. While it would arguably become the band's signature song, it was one of the last songs recorded for the album.
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Background
In INXS's official autobiography, INXS: Story to Story, Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very annoyed driver. This riff was later described as sounding like a cross between Keith Richards and Prince.
The song is a much more electronic track than most of the band's material before or after, combining sequencers with regular drum tracks and a number of tracks of layered guitars. To approximate the sound on the recorded track, the band often utilizes click tracks for a frequent synthesizer chord as well as rim shots heard throughout the song.
On the Kick album, the song is linked to the next song, entitled either "Mediate" or "Meditate" depending on the pressing of the album. On some compilations, the two tunes appear together and on others, only "Need You Tonight" appears (rarely, if ever, has "Mediate" appeared on its own).
Music video
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The song is also notable for its promotional music video which combined live action and different kinds of animation. Directed by Richard Lowenstein, the video was actually "Need You Tonight / Mediate", as it combined two songs from the album. For "Mediate", it segues into a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The members flip cue cards with words from the song, followed by a Kirk Pengilly saxophone solo. Beneath the lyric "a special date" in the "Mediate" portion of the video, the cue card shown reads "9-8-1945". This refers to the date 9 August, 1945 which was the date the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. As the date is in the Australian format, with the day first and month second, American observers sometimes confuse the date for 8 September, 1945.
The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including Video of The Year and was ranked at number twenty-one on MTV's countdown of the 100 greatest videos of all time.[1]
Cover versions
- Rogue Traders have covered and remixed the song and released it as a single in Australia, where it reached #10. It was renamed One Of My Kind. See One of My Kind (Rogue Traders vs. INXS).
- Canadian singer Jacynthe covered this song in 2003 for her album Seize the Day.
- Lostprophets covered this song on The Fake Sound of Progress CD single.
- Portuguese band The Room 74 covered this song in 2005 on their album Metrosexual, giving it an all new Funk sound.
- Australian singer Gilli Moon covered this song in 2003 on her album Woman as a much slower arrangement.
- A cappella group Ac Rock covered this song in 1999 on their album Acapellago
- Cassettes Won't Listen covered the song for the Guilt by Association Vol. 2 compilation, released by Engine Room Recordings in November of 2008.[2]
- DJ McSleazy produced a memorable mashup of this song, mixing it up with Neneh Cherry's "I've Got You Under My Skin". The resultant mashup has been entitled "Got your cherry tonight", and was aired on MTV.
- Crimpshrine has a live cover of this song on the Benecia By the Bay Compilation.
Track listings
- 7" single
- "Need You Tonight" — 3:01
- "I'm Coming (Home)" — 4:54
- CD single
- "Need You Tonight" — 3:01
- "Mediate" — 2:35
- "I'm Coming (Home)" — 4:53
Charts
| Chart (1987-1989) | Peak position |
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| Austrian Singles Chart[3] | 16 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart[3] | 10 |
| German Singles Chart[4] | 16 |
| Irish Singles Chart[5] | 2 |
| Italian Singles Chart[6] | 8 |
| UK Singles Chart[7] | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[8] | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[8] | 10 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[8] | 12 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 1 |
| Chart (2005-2006)1 | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 1 [8] | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 2 [8] | 40 |
1 Static Revenger/Koishii & Hush Mixes
2 Remixes
| Preceded by "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single January 30, 1988 (1 week) |
Succeeded by "Could've Been" by Tiffany |
| ARC Weekly Top 40 number one single January 23, 1988 - January 30, 1988 (2 weeks) |
References
- ^ Mvdbase.com
- ^ Matthew Solarski (19 November 2008). "My Brightest Diamond, Frightened Rabbit Do Covers". Pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/news/34070-my-brightest-diamond-frightened-rabbit-do-covers/. Retrieved on 2009-06-11.
- ^ a b "Need You Tonight", in French and Austrian Singles Charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
- ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
- ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
- ^ Italian Single Chart [1] (Retrieved July 22, 2008)
- ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved March 28, 2008)
- ^ a b c d e f Billboard Allumic.com (Retrieved September 1, 2008)
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