INXS - Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary)

Listen Like Thieves 40th Anniversary is a deep dive celebration into INXS’s global breakthrough album. The Deluxe Edition is a 1LP + 3CD set containing a brand-new 2025 stereo mix of the Listen Like Thieves album by Giles Martin & Paul Hicks on CD and vinyl. Built from the ground up in partnership with the band, they have been able to find new layers of sonic depth and a fresh dimension giving fans a new listening experience with the record. Also included is a trove of previously unreleased sessions tracks, outtakes and demos curated by Giles Martin, a rare BBC Recording; ‘Live From The Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986’, and extensive liner notes that include a brand new interview with the band by renowned journalist Paul Sexton.

Tracklistings:

1LP + 3CD

LP & CD1: Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)

What You Need
Listen Like Thieves
Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
Shine Like It Does
Good + Bad Times
Biting Bullets
This Time
Three Sisters
Same Direction
One x One
Red Red Sun

CD2: Demos & Outtakes

"We're rolling, it's 1985" - Studio Dialogue
Funk Song #11 - Take 2 / Working Title of What You Need (Alternate Take)
"Press the blue and red button" - Studio Dialogue
Kiss The Dirt (Studio Demo)
Meaning of the song "Listen Like Thieves" - Interview Excerpt
Listen Like Thieves (Studio Demo)
INXS SA FM Radio Spot
One X One (Studio Demo)
This Time (Studio Demo)
Shine Like It Does (Studio Demo)
Good and Bad Times (Alternate Take)
Red Red Sun (Studio Jam)
Red Red Sun (Alternate Take)
Recording of Same Direction
Funk Song #9 (Working title of Same Direction)
What You Need (Studio Demo)
Shine Like It Does (Home Demo)
Listen Like Thieves (Home Demo)
Kiss the Dirt (Home Demo)

CD3: Live from Royal Albert Hall - 24th June, 1986

Introduction by Pete Drummond (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Same Direction (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Soul Mistake (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Kiss The Dirt (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Biting Bullets (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Burn For You (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Do Wot You Do (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Original Sin (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Different World (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Shine Like it Does (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Listen Like Thieves (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
One X One (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
What You Need (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Red Red Sun (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)

2CD

CD1: Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)

What You Need
Listen Like Thieves
Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
Shine Like It Does
Good + Bad Times
Biting Bullets
This Time
Three Sisters
Same Direction
One X One
Red Red Sun

CD2: Remixes, B-Sides and Live

Listen Like Thieves (Extended Remix)
Begotten
What You Need (Nick Launay Remix)
I'm Over You
Sweet As Sin
Six Knots
Listen Like Thieves (Instrumental Remix)
Same Direction (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Kiss The Dirt (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Biting Bullets (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Shine Like it Does (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Listen Like Thieves (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
One X One (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
What You Need (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)
Red Red Sun (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 - London, UK)

1LP

Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)

What You Need
Listen Like Thieves
Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
Shine Like It Does
Good + Bad Times
Biting Bullets
This Time
Three Sisters
Same Direction
One X One
Red Red Sun

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