Switch (INXS album)
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Switch is the eleventh studio album
by the Australian rock band
INXS
. It was released on 29 November 2005. It is notable for being the first album with new lead singer J.D. Fortune
since the 1997 death of Michael Hutchence
.
, died on 22 November 1997, reportedly of suicide. The band went through numerous lead singers following Hutchence's death, and performed irregularly, including a showing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
closing ceremony alongside Men at Work
. INXS were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame
in 2001, as they faded out of the public spotlight.
In 2005, the remaining members of INXS—Andrew Farriss
, Garry Gary Beers, Tim Farriss
, Kirk Pengilly
, and Jon Farriss
—joined forces with Mark Burnett
to be the subjects of the first series of Rock Star
; Rock Star: INXS
. Tim Farriss told Entertainment Weekly
"after Michael died, we wanted to search the world for a new singer but didn't know how we could effectively do that ... By having Mark... embrace the concept, we've now found a fantastic way to make that happen." J.D. Fortune
, a one-time homeless former Elvis impersonator
, ultimately won the competition, with Tim Farriss declaring the band chose him because of his "slightly dangerous edge" and "star quality".
", written by J.D. Fortune and Andrew Farriss
. It was released exclusively through iTunes Store
on 4 October 2005 for two weeks. Three singles were released from the album in America ("Pretty Vegas", "Afterglow
" and "Devil's Party"), with "Pretty Vegas" reaching #37 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In an interview with guitarist/saxophonist, Kirk Pengilly
, the last song in the track listing for Switch, "God's Top Ten" is dedicated to Michael Hutchence
and his daughter, Tiger. It paints Michael as a "wild colonial boy, drifting with the stars". "God's Top Ten" was only released as an airplay single in Poland and Canada to promote the album.
The song "Afterglow" is also dedicated to Hutchence.
Through different US digital service providers, the album has bonus tracks. iTunes
USA will exclusively carry a non-album cut entitled "Let's Ride" as well as a digital booklet
; MSN
will feature a different bonus track entitled "Amateur Night"; Real Rhapsody
will carry the familiar 'Easy Easy' and Yahoo! Music
will host a new mix of 'Devil's Party'. After each DSP's period of exclusivity, the whole package will be made available across all providers.
Upon its release INXS were praised for recapturing their old magic, but some critics commented Fortune may have relied too much on Hutchence's signature style of singing rather than adopting his own. [see review below]
version of the album was released in Australia. The CD audio side of the disc features the album in full. The DVD side contains all 11 songs in enhanced stereo, "The Making of Switch", a video documentary directed by Matt Skerritt, produced by Gregg Gilmore and Calvin Aurand and the "Pretty Vegas" music video. Then on 4 August 2006, a "Tour Edition" was also released in Australia with different cover art and a bonus disc featuring "Pretty Vegas", "Hot Girls", "Hungry" and "Devil's Party" all recorded live in Canada, plus music videos for "Pretty Vegas", "Afterglow" and "Perfect Strangers". "The Making of Switch" video documentary (30 min) was also added.
16 October 2006, saw the release of a "UK Edition" with different cover art and featured extra tracks: "Taste It" (live), "Never Let You Go" (Digital Dog Remix), and "Afterglow" (Redanka's Afterdark Remix); plus the "Afterglow" music video. It was reissued by indie label MX3 (distributed by Universal, like the back catalogue).
, and spent an up-and-down 30 weeks in the top 50. It also peaked at number nine on the RIANZ Singles Chart, on which it spent 34 weeks.
Switch peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200
, and appeared on the Canadian Hot 100
and Top Internet Albums charts at numbers two and 56, respectively. The album has sold 391,000 copies in the U.S. since release. The single "Pretty Vegas" received gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 26 January 2006.
Total sales of the album are estimated at just below one million.
INXS would eventually tour Canada two more times (coast to coast) before finally wrapping up the tour in late 2007.
BBC
's Jez Burr also rated the album three out of five. Burr noted "Devil's Party", stating that the resemblance between Fortune's vocals and Hutchence was uncanny. It thus described INXS as a Hutchence tribute band, and the album as "caught in a timewarp that is 1989".
The Boston Phoenix
rated Switch one and a half stars. Reviewer Mikael Wood described the album as "contrived", much like the TV show it came as a result of. Wood attacked the album's lyrics and musical style, claiming it contained "clumsy pre-fab grooves about hot girls and perfect strangers and how it ain’t pretty when the pretty leaves you. No joke, guys."
Entertainment Weekly
gave the album a C-. Reviewer David Browne said that INXS occasionally resembled their old selves—"churning out riffy half-songs just as they always did". This, he said, was preferable to the "strip-joint sleaze" that composed the rest of the album, which he summarised as secondhand.
Mike Schiller of PopMatters
agreed and gave Switch a score of five out of ten. Schiller again criticised the workings of Rockstar: INXS, noting aspects of favouritism, of the loss of Hutchence being too great, and of the "questionable popularity of INXS". He argued that Switch did not resemble an INXS album; rather, he said it sounded like "Rock Star INXS: The Album"—"rushed, undercooked, and a bit uncomfortable". Schiller, like Collar, praised "Devil's Party", as well as "Pretty Vegas"—he pointed out that Fortune sounded best on the songs he helped write. Meanwhile, the collaborative songwriting was criticised, with Schiller arguing that Guy Chambers "just doesn't quite know how to fit his songwriting style into the INXS template". He also pointed out that Rockstar INXS runner-up Suzie McNeil's performance on closing track "God's Top Ten" showed " a strong performance here that outshines Fortune's". Overall, he argued, Switch did not seem like an album by a well versed band, but a solo artist hiring some extra musicians.
The Sydney Morning Herald
s Bernard Zuel reviewed the album negatively, stating that the album more resembled the work of a cover band than Hutchence-era INXS. He argued that the majority of songs on the album were near replicas of earlier INXS songs, stating "you can hear 1985's Listen Like Thieves all through several songs". Zuel pointed out that Farriss' songwriting was still good, but that overall the album was "pretty much what you would have expected to hear from INXS in 1998, or 1988 for that matter."
Jane Stevenson of Toronto Sun
said Switch "raises as many questions as it answers" about INXS's future, in a three-and-a-half out of five stars review. She echoed Zuel's comments that the album sounded like INXS "stuck in the '80s". Despite this, the review noted that the album could have been a good deal worse—Farriss' collaborations with Chambers and Child were praised, described as slick and well-polished.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by the Australian rock band
Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
INXS
INXS
INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...
. It was released on 29 November 2005. It is notable for being the first album with new lead singer J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune , is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. He was the winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS, and fronted INXS until August 2011. - Early life :...
since the 1997 death of Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
.
Background
INXS co-founder and original lead singer, Michael HutchenceMichael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
, died on 22 November 1997, reportedly of suicide. The band went through numerous lead singers following Hutchence's death, and performed irregularly, including a showing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
closing ceremony alongside Men at Work
Men at Work
Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United States . They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United Kingdom...
. INXS were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame
ARIA Hall of Fame
Since 1988 the Australian Recording Industry Association has inducted artists into its ARIA Hall of Fame. While most have been recognised at the annual ARIA Music Awards, in 2005 ARIA sought to create a separate standalone "ARIA Icons: Hall of Fame" event as only one or two acts could be inducted...
in 2001, as they faded out of the public spotlight.
In 2005, the remaining members of INXS—Andrew Farriss
Andrew Farriss
Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician , best known as the keyboardist and main composer for the Australian band INXS.-Career:...
, Garry Gary Beers, Tim Farriss
Tim Farriss
Timothy William Farriss is a member of the rock band :INXS.-Early life and the formation of INXS:...
, Kirk Pengilly
Kirk Pengilly
Kirk Pengilly is an Australian musician, best known as a member of the rock group :INXS.-Early career:...
, and Jon Farriss
Jon Farriss
Jon Farriss is the drummer for the Australian rock band INXS.-Biography:...
—joined forces with Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...
to be the subjects of the first series of Rock Star
Rock Star (TV series)
Rock Star is a television series produced by Mark Burnett in which aspiring singers from all around the world competed to become the lead singer of a featured group. It debuted on CBS on July 11, 2005, to mediocre ratings. The show was hosted by television personality and commercial spokeswoman...
; Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS
Rock Star: INXS is the first season of the reality television show Rock Star where 15 contestants competed to become the lead vocalist for the Australian rock band INXS....
. Tim Farriss told Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
"after Michael died, we wanted to search the world for a new singer but didn't know how we could effectively do that ... By having Mark... embrace the concept, we've now found a fantastic way to make that happen." J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune , is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. He was the winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS, and fronted INXS until August 2011. - Early life :...
, a one-time homeless former Elvis impersonator
Elvis impersonator
An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies famed American musician Elvis Presley. Professional Elvis impersonators can work all over the world as entertainers, and such tribute acts are in great demand due to the unique iconic status of Elvis...
, ultimately won the competition, with Tim Farriss declaring the band chose him because of his "slightly dangerous edge" and "star quality".
History
The first single released from Switch was "Pretty VegasPretty Vegas
"Pretty Vegas" is the first single released from Switch, the eleventh studio album by the Australian rock band INXS and first with new lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released on 29 November 2005....
", written by J.D. Fortune and Andrew Farriss
Andrew Farriss
Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician , best known as the keyboardist and main composer for the Australian band INXS.-Career:...
. It was released exclusively through iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
on 4 October 2005 for two weeks. Three singles were released from the album in America ("Pretty Vegas", "Afterglow
Afterglow (song)
"Afterglow" is a song by Australian rock band INXS, released as the second single from the band's eleventh studio album, Switch, on 25 April 2006....
" and "Devil's Party"), with "Pretty Vegas" reaching #37 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In an interview with guitarist/saxophonist, Kirk Pengilly
Kirk Pengilly
Kirk Pengilly is an Australian musician, best known as a member of the rock group :INXS.-Early career:...
, the last song in the track listing for Switch, "God's Top Ten" is dedicated to Michael Hutchence
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian musician and actor. He was the founding lead singer-songwriter of rock band :INXS from 1977 to his death in 1997, a period of twenty years. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which was released...
and his daughter, Tiger. It paints Michael as a "wild colonial boy, drifting with the stars". "God's Top Ten" was only released as an airplay single in Poland and Canada to promote the album.
The song "Afterglow" is also dedicated to Hutchence.
Through different US digital service providers, the album has bonus tracks. iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
USA will exclusively carry a non-album cut entitled "Let's Ride" as well as a digital booklet
Digital booklet
Digital booklets are the digital equivalent of liner notes that often accompany digital music purchases. They are most commonly distributed in Portable Document Format. One well-known distributor of digital booklets with digital purchases is the iTunes Store; the first instance of this on the...
; MSN
MSN
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will feature a different bonus track entitled "Amateur Night"; Real Rhapsody
Rhapsody (online music service)
Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version...
will carry the familiar 'Easy Easy' and Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming...
will host a new mix of 'Devil's Party'. After each DSP's period of exclusivity, the whole package will be made available across all providers.
Upon its release INXS were praised for recapturing their old magic, but some critics commented Fortune may have relied too much on Hutchence's signature style of singing rather than adopting his own. [see review below]
2006 re-issues
On 14 April 2006, a DualDiscDualDisc
DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America...
version of the album was released in Australia. The CD audio side of the disc features the album in full. The DVD side contains all 11 songs in enhanced stereo, "The Making of Switch", a video documentary directed by Matt Skerritt, produced by Gregg Gilmore and Calvin Aurand and the "Pretty Vegas" music video. Then on 4 August 2006, a "Tour Edition" was also released in Australia with different cover art and a bonus disc featuring "Pretty Vegas", "Hot Girls", "Hungry" and "Devil's Party" all recorded live in Canada, plus music videos for "Pretty Vegas", "Afterglow" and "Perfect Strangers". "The Making of Switch" video documentary (30 min) was also added.
16 October 2006, saw the release of a "UK Edition" with different cover art and featured extra tracks: "Taste It" (live), "Never Let You Go" (Digital Dog Remix), and "Afterglow" (Redanka's Afterdark Remix); plus the "Afterglow" music video. It was reissued by indie label MX3 (distributed by Universal, like the back catalogue).
Album and single releases
Switch was released on 29 November 2005. In Canada, both the album and the single, Pretty Vegas, went platinum and reached number one on the chart. The album received platinum certification in Dec. 2005 by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), and Canadian sales of the album have exceeded 170,000 units. The album went platinum and peaked at number 18 on the ARIA Singles ChartARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
, and spent an up-and-down 30 weeks in the top 50. It also peaked at number nine on the RIANZ Singles Chart, on which it spent 34 weeks.
Switch peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, and appeared on the Canadian Hot 100
Canadian Hot 100
The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
and Top Internet Albums charts at numbers two and 56, respectively. The album has sold 391,000 copies in the U.S. since release. The single "Pretty Vegas" received gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 26 January 2006.
Total sales of the album are estimated at just below one million.
World Tour
The first leg of the Switched On world tour began with sold out dates in Vancouver, B.C. at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on 18 January 2006, Toronto's Massey Hall on 7 February, and included 20-plus dates through 18 February in Washington.INXS would eventually tour Canada two more times (coast to coast) before finally wrapping up the tour in late 2007.
Reception
Allmusic's Matt Collar rated Switch three stars out of five. He began the review negatively, with the claim "For all intents and purposes, the death of Australian rock band INXS' lead singer, Michael Hutchence, in 1997 ended the band's career." He argued that without Hutchence, there was little point in the band continuing, and criticised their use of Rockstar: INXS, arguing "all the band was looking for was a relatively good-looking, relatively tuneful young man who could evince some cocksure rock smarminess". Describing Hutchence as the best part of the old INXS, Collar argued that Switch could never equal its predecessors, but nonetheless noted some quality work—Fortune's lyrics on "Devil's Party" and "Afterglow" were approved of, though his vocals, Collar argued, could nowhere near match the original. Fortune's role as a "Sex God" was criticised, especially on "the icky and somewhat offensive "Hot Girls"." Collar concluded that the band had acknowledged they would never equal their success with Hutchence, and that "one's interest in Switch largely depends on the listener's ability to come to that same conclusion."BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Jez Burr also rated the album three out of five. Burr noted "Devil's Party", stating that the resemblance between Fortune's vocals and Hutchence was uncanny. It thus described INXS as a Hutchence tribute band, and the album as "caught in a timewarp that is 1989".
The Boston Phoenix
The Phoenix (newspaper)
The Phoenix is the name of several alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts including the Boston Phoenix, the Providence Phoenix, the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Worcester Phoenix...
rated Switch one and a half stars. Reviewer Mikael Wood described the album as "contrived", much like the TV show it came as a result of. Wood attacked the album's lyrics and musical style, claiming it contained "clumsy pre-fab grooves about hot girls and perfect strangers and how it ain’t pretty when the pretty leaves you. No joke, guys."
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
gave the album a C-. Reviewer David Browne said that INXS occasionally resembled their old selves—"churning out riffy half-songs just as they always did". This, he said, was preferable to the "strip-joint sleaze" that composed the rest of the album, which he summarised as secondhand.
Mike Schiller of PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
agreed and gave Switch a score of five out of ten. Schiller again criticised the workings of Rockstar: INXS, noting aspects of favouritism, of the loss of Hutchence being too great, and of the "questionable popularity of INXS". He argued that Switch did not resemble an INXS album; rather, he said it sounded like "Rock Star INXS: The Album"—"rushed, undercooked, and a bit uncomfortable". Schiller, like Collar, praised "Devil's Party", as well as "Pretty Vegas"—he pointed out that Fortune sounded best on the songs he helped write. Meanwhile, the collaborative songwriting was criticised, with Schiller arguing that Guy Chambers "just doesn't quite know how to fit his songwriting style into the INXS template". He also pointed out that Rockstar INXS runner-up Suzie McNeil's performance on closing track "God's Top Ten" showed " a strong performance here that outshines Fortune's". Overall, he argued, Switch did not seem like an album by a well versed band, but a solo artist hiring some extra musicians.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
s Bernard Zuel reviewed the album negatively, stating that the album more resembled the work of a cover band than Hutchence-era INXS. He argued that the majority of songs on the album were near replicas of earlier INXS songs, stating "you can hear 1985's Listen Like Thieves all through several songs". Zuel pointed out that Farriss' songwriting was still good, but that overall the album was "pretty much what you would have expected to hear from INXS in 1998, or 1988 for that matter."
Jane Stevenson of Toronto Sun
Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...
said Switch "raises as many questions as it answers" about INXS's future, in a three-and-a-half out of five stars review. She echoed Zuel's comments that the album sounded like INXS "stuck in the '80s". Despite this, the review noted that the album could have been a good deal worse—Farriss' collaborations with Chambers and Child were praised, described as slick and well-polished.
Track listing
- "Devil's Party" (Andrew FarrissAndrew FarrissAndrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician , best known as the keyboardist and main composer for the Australian band INXS.-Career:...
, J.D. FortuneJ.D. FortuneJ.D. Fortune , is a Canadian rock singer and songwriter. He was the winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series Rock Star: INXS, and fronted INXS until August 2011. - Early life :...
) – 3:25 - "Pretty VegasPretty Vegas"Pretty Vegas" is the first single released from Switch, the eleventh studio album by the Australian rock band INXS and first with new lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released on 29 November 2005....
" (Music: A. Farriss; Lyrics: Fortune, Marty CaseyMarty CaseyMartin Xavier "Marty" Casey is an American rock musician who is the lead singer, primary songwriter and second guitarist of the band Lovehammers....
, Jordis UngaJordis UngaJordis Unga is an American rock singer, songwriter and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. After years of building a cult following in Minneapolis, Unga reached international fame for her outstanding performances on the first season of the CBS television reality show Rock Star: INXS where 15...
) – 3:25 - "Afterglow" (A. Farriss, Desmond ChildDesmond ChildDesmond Child is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.-Career:...
) – 4:08 - "Hot Girls" (A. Farriss, Guy ChambersGuy ChambersGuy Chambers is an English songwriter and record producer, perhaps best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams.- Biography :...
, The Matrix) – 3:30 - "Perfect StrangersPerfect Strangers (INXS song)"Perfect Strangers" is a song by Australian band INXS released as the fourth single from their eleventh studio album Switch, which was also the first album with lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released in 2006.The song's music video was filmed at...
" (Garry Gary Beers, Tony Bruno, The Matrix, Shelly PeikenShelly PeikenShelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....
) – 4:12 - "Remember Who's Your Man" (A. Farriss, Gregg AlexanderGregg AlexanderGregg Alexander is an American singer/songwriter and producer, best known as the frontman of the New Radicals, who scored the international hit "You Get What You Give" in late 1998. Earlier in life he recorded two solo albums, Michigan Rain and Intoxifornication...
, Annie Roboff) – 3:28 - "Hungry" (A. Farriss) – 4:47
- "Never Let You Go" (Jon FarrissJon FarrissJon Farriss is the drummer for the Australian rock band INXS.-Biography:...
, Fortune) – 4:18 - "Like It or Not" (Kirk PengillyKirk PengillyKirk Pengilly is an Australian musician, best known as a member of the rock group :INXS.-Early career:...
, Hughie Murray) – 3:44 - "Us" (A. Farriss, Chambers) – 4:07
- "God's Top Ten" (A. Farriss) – 4:54
Singles
- "Pretty VegasPretty Vegas"Pretty Vegas" is the first single released from Switch, the eleventh studio album by the Australian rock band INXS and first with new lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released on 29 November 2005....
" - "Afterglow"
- "Devil's PartyDevil's Party (song)"Devil's Party" is a song by Australian band INXS, released as the third single from their eleventh studio album Switch, which was also the first with new lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released in 2006 andfeatures music written by Andrew...
" - "Perfect StrangersPerfect Strangers (INXS song)"Perfect Strangers" is a song by Australian band INXS released as the fourth single from their eleventh studio album Switch, which was also the first album with lead singer J.D. Fortune, winner of the Rock Star: INXS competition. The single was released in 2006.The song's music video was filmed at...
" (Australian release) - "God's Top Ten" (Polish promo single)