INXS - The One Thing (Mercury)

Listening to this makes you realise how few new groups have any simple old fashioned energy. This is not the greatest song in the world but INXS go for it as if it were their one and only chance of making a record, selling it with enormous zest and lots of concise instrumental fills (there's even a guitar riff in there, but I wouldn't spread it about). "The One Thing" doesn't really sound like anyone else at all, which is recommendation enough these days. Single Of The Fortnight. (David Hepworth, Smash Hits, September 15, 1983)

INXS - This Time (Phonogram)

INXS, Australia's most popular rock band, gave a very good account of themselves on a recent edition of the Tube. Singer Michael Hutchence looked and sounded like a star and the band played that Simple Minds and U2 variation of late 60s pop meets the modern studio and lives. Too bad this single is so plain. (Max Bell, No 1, February 1, 1986)

INXS - Don't Change (Mercury)

Synth intro into a truly brilliant early Skids-like guitar thrash and one hell of a bellowed song to back it up. As they say, if Big Country can make it so can INXS. Fact is they're about a hundred times better (and fresher). (John Shearlaw, Record Mirror, June 18, 1983)