For the related INXS song, see Listen Like Thieves (song).
1985 studio album by INXS
Listen Like Thieves
Studio album by
INXS
Released
14 October 1985 (1985-10-14)
Recorded
August 1985
Studio
Rhinoceros Studios (Sydney, Australia) AIR Studios (London, UK)
Genre
New wave
alternative rock
plastic soul[1]
Length
37:16
Label
WEA, Mercury, Atlantic
Producer
Chris Thomas
INXS chronology
The Swing (1984)
Listen Like Thieves (1985)
Kick (1987)
Singles from Listen Like Thieves
"What You Need" Released: August 1985
"This Time" Released: November 1985
"Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" Released: March 1986
"Listen Like Thieves" Released: June 1986
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.
The album features the band's first top 5 single in the U.S., "What You Need", and it also won the group the Countdown Music and Video Award for 'Best Video'. Listen Like Thieves also marks the beginning of the group's off-and-on alliance with producer Chris Thomas.
^Breihan, Tom (12 April 2021). "The Number Ones: INXS' "Need You Tonight". Stereogum. Retrieved 9 November 2023. Listen Like Thieves was a hard, brittle plastic-soul album, and it sounded something like Duran Duran playing Young Americans.
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