Need You Tonight
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In February 2014, after the Channel 7 screening of the INXS: Never Tear Us Apart mini-series, "Need You Tonight" charted again in Australia via download sales. It peaked at No. 28 on the ARIA Singles Chart.[1] In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Need You Tonight" was ranked number 69.[2]
Music video
The music video 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. Lowenstein claimed that the particular visual effects in "Need You Tonight" were created by cutting up 35mm film and photocopying the individual frames, before re-layering those images over the original footage.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
For "Mediate", it segues into a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The members flip cue cards with words from the song; the last one displays the words "Sax Solo," at which point Kirk Pengilly starts a saxophone solo. Beneath the lyric "a special date" in the "Mediate" portion of the video, the cue card shown reads "9-8-1945" which in Australian date format is 9 August 1945, the date which the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including 1988 Video of The Year and was ranked at number twenty-one on MTV's countdown of the 100 greatest videos of all time.[3]
Track listings
7-inch single
- "Need You Tonight" – 3:01
- "I'm Coming (Home)" – 4:54
7-inch single
- "Need You Tonight" – 3:01
- "Need You Tonight" (Mendelsohn extended mix) – 7:02
12-inch single
- "Need You Tonight" – 3:01
- "Mediate" – 2:35
- "I'm Coming (Home)" – 4:53
12-inch single
- "Need You Tonight" (Mendelsohn extended mix) – 7:02
- "Move On" – 4:47
- "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)" – 3:54
12-inch single
- "Need You Tonight" (Ben Liebrand mix) – 7:18
- "Move On" – 4:47
- "New Sensation" (extended mix) – 6:30
Maxi-CD single
- "Need You Tonight" – 3:05
- "Don't Dream It's Over" – 4:00
- "Need You Tonight" (extended version) – 6:36
- "Need You Tonight" (remix) – 4:03
UK Re-release CD single
- "Need You Tonight" (Mendelsohn Mix) - 5:11
- "Move On" (4:47)
- "Original Sin" (5:16)
- "Don't Change" (4:24)
Personnel
Personnel are sourced from Mix.[4]
- Michael Hutchence – lead and backing vocals
- Andrew Farriss – electric guitar, E-mu Emulator II, synthesizer, Roland TR-707 programming
- Tim Farriss – electric guitar
- Kirk Pengilly – electric guitar, saxophone
- Garry Gary Beers – bass guitar
- Jon Farriss – drums, Roland TR-707 programming
Charts
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Release history
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 21 September 1987 | 7-inch vinyl | WEA | [20] |
| Japan | 25 February 1988 | Mini-CD | [21] | |
| United Kingdom (re-release) | 31 October 1988 | Template:Hlist | Template:Hlist | [22] |
| 14 November 1988 | CD | [23] |
Rogue Traders remix
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Rogue Traders covered and remixed "Need You Tonight" and released it as a single in Australia. The song was renamed "One of My Kind", where it reached No. 10 on the Australian Top 100 Singles Chart, becoming their first top-10 hit. "One of My Kind" is the second single released by the Rogue Traders for their debut album We Know What You're Up To.Template:Fact
The music video is set in a dance party where the lizard on the single cover wanders around looking for a girl of his kind. He finds one looking lonely. The two sit together and he sings the line 'you're one of my kind' before the video ends.[24]
The Sam Bennetts and Rising Sun Pictures directed music video was nominated for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 2003.[25]
Track listings
Maxi-CD single
- "One of My Kind" (radio edit)
- "One of My Kind" (club mix edit)
- "One of My Kind" (Phunked remix)
12-inch vinyl
- "One of My Kind" (12-inch mix)
- "One of My Kind" (radio edit)
- "One of My Kind" (dub mix)
Australian CD single
- "One of My Kind" (radio edit)
- "One of My Kind" (Rogue Traders Club Adventure)
- "One of My Kind" (Swimming in Blue mix)
- "One of My Kind" (Rogue Traders dub)
- "Make It Better" (original mix)
Charts
The single spent 15 weeks on the ARIA Charts, nine of which were in the top 50.[26][27] The single also topped the ARIA Club and Dance charts.[28][29]
Weekly charts
Template:SinglechartTemplate:SinglechartTemplate:Cbignore| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Club Chart (ARIA)[28] | 1 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2003) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Dance (ARIA)[30] | 15 |
Other cover versions
- Australian singer Kylie Minogue performed the song as part of the setlist of her Kiss Me Once Tour. Minogue, a one-time romantic partner of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, considered her performances of the song to be a tribute to him.[31]
- In March 2010, UK rapper Professor Green released a song based entirely on the song called "I Need You Tonight".[32]
- English singer and songwriter Dua Lipa's 2020 single "Break My Heart" interpolates the song's guitar riff.[33]
See also
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1988
- List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1988
References
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