Welcome to Wherever You Are
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studio album
First released:
Aug 4 1992

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Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth album by the Australian rock and roll group INXS, released in 1992. With grunge music and alternative music breaking into the mainstream, INXS tried to establish a new direction for itself, à la U2 and Achtung Baby, incorporating sitars, a 60-piece orchestra, and a much more "raw" sound to their music. In its four star review of the album, Q called it "...a far more engaging and heartfelt collection than anything the group has put out in recent memory... It rocks," and listed it as one of the 50 Best Albums of 1992.

Ultimately, however, with lack of promotion by their label and the band not touring for the album (wanting a break), the record failed to match the success of INXS's two previous albums, Kick and X. However, it still reached #1 in the UK, but the band's popularity soon waned. While the single "Baby Don't Cry" was a Top 20 hit in the UK, the album's biggest American hit was "Not Enough Time", which reached #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and stayed there for five consecutive weeks.

In 2002, a remastered version of the album was released that included five previously unreleased tracks.

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Release dates:
  • Aug 4 1992 in Australia
  • Aug 4 1992 in United States

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Album-Oriented Rock (AOR), Classic Rock, New Wave, Pop, Rock. Vote on Genres

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5 stars Better late than never.......
I bought this album ages ago, fell in love with it, then forgot about it for a few years! I recently went through my music collection, found it again, only to be disappointed that the disc was so scratched from being overplayed. I bought it again. By far the best INXS album. Yes, there were many 80's classics, but they were all spread out on different albums. This one has a unique flow, with a few classics:

Not Enough Time

Communication

Taste It

Baby Don't Cry

Beautiful Girl

Highy recommen…
Written by jabdigital
3 stars Right out of the Vaults
Cut in 1992 this one qualifies as a vault recording, it isn't timeless, it isn't destined to be a classic. INXS, from Australia, hit all the right buttons in the late 80's and petered and fizzled out into the 90's.

The album packaging did prove that over the years the band did learn how to all dress like each other in snazzy matching outfits for photo shoots.

"Welcome to Wherever You Are," was the Fixx making "Ink," the Cars making "Door to Door," Van Halen doing "Van Halen III," you know...the …
Written by M. Swinney "Marc My Words"

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17 tracks format: 1 x CD
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Welcome to Wherever You Are 17 tracks format: 1 x unknown format
catalog number: A2 82394
release dates: Oct 15 2002
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