I’m giving INXS an encore performance based on the positive response to yesterday’s track. Several commenters mentioned ‘Need You Tonight’ as a favorite INXS track and the YouTube gods have cooperated by allowing the track to live unmolested on their servers, so here you go.
I like how the band paired ‘Need You Tonight’ with ‘Mediate’ not just on the album, which is common enough, but in the video as well. It’s two-for-one with a nice Dylan homage to boot.
It’s funny how the right voice and some seductive music can make any lyric sexy. I mean, really, can you imagine being turned on by a guy in a bar coming up to you and saying “There’s something about you that makes me sweat”??
All you got is this moment
The twenty-first century’s yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does yeah that’s okay
So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I’ve got to let you know
I’ve got to let you know
You’re one of my kind
I need you tonight
‘Cause I’m not sleeping
There’s something about you girl
That makes me sweat
How do you feel
I’m lonely
What do you think
Can’t take it all
Whatcha gonna do
Gonna live my life
…
Hallucinate
Dessegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don’t suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animal we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate
Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate
Liberate
To moderate
Recreate
Or detonate
Annihiliate
Atomic fate
Mediate
Clear the state
Activate
Now radiate
A perfect state
Food on plate
Gravitate
The Earth’s own weight
Designate your love as fate
At ninety-eight we all rotate
Hallucinate
Dessegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don’t suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
Now devastate
Appreciate
Depreciate
Fabricate
Emulate
The truth dilate
Special date
The animals we ate
Guilt debate
The edge serrate
A better rate
The youth irate
Deliberate
Fascinate
Deviate
Reinstate
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate
Meet Me In Montauk 
Some seductive music? That’s the tricky part, isn’t it? What makes music seductive? 🙂 But, yes, not just his voice, but especially his delivery is what sells the song. Though I do think the lyrics themselves work quite well. Just looking at the way the words fill the screen reminds me far more of a poem than a typical song lyric – “So slide over here/
And give me a moment/
Your moves are so raw/
I’ve got to let you know…
You’re one of my kind”
Pure poetry, baby! That line (delivered by the right person) would work on anyone 🙂
I agree that the lyrics and the way there are sung contribute to the sexiness of this song, but much credit should also be given to the sharp clean guitar work, which is not so dissimilar to Prince’s Kiss. Also, the pauses (a personal favorite of Amy’s) work fantastically in this song.