Listen Like Thieves

Welcome to a special episode of Season 9 of The Ultimate Catalogue Clash.

We've finished ranking the four in excess albums, Listen Like Thieves, Kick, X, and Welcome to Wherever You Are.

My name is Kevin Brown, and I'm joined, as always, by the man whose only superstition is he always orders two coffees at the Tim Hortons drive-thru.

One for him, and one for an imaginary Uncle Mickey, which he throws immediately in the garbage.

They didn't really explode on the international stage in the same way that maybe someone like NXS did.

So I was wondering, were they the darlings of the Aussie music scene before they went global? Or were they a little bit more sort of cult? What was your awareness of them before they hit big?

Yeah, so I think the Swing, Listen Like Thieves, I think they were around 84, 86, around that sort of period of time, then into Kickin' X towards the late 80s, 90s.

So I was born in 76.

But I don't mind it, but it's kind of in that, that's the right bracket for it, if a point either way, so yeah.

And then finally, Listen Like Thieves for you, number 44 at 74%, currently also tied with Trouble Gum, Communique, the original voting we did for Metallica's Black Album, and the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.

How about you? What are these albums for you, Corey?

Well, for me, I tell you what, both Kick and X made my top 10.

So those are right up there.

Let me just move on down here.

Listen Like Thieves I like better than you did.

I was at 79%.

One of the ones I love is Same Direction.

That album, Listen Like Thieves, is just a great album for me, top to bottom.

Also, when I saw them on the kick tour, they closed at Red Red Sun, which is one song they don't play very often, but they let it rip on that last song.

That album's been very special to me.

I went through it.

It's great stuff.

But yeah, for me, Listen Like Thieves was the huge one for me.

When it really hit, it really hit me hard.