Welcome to Wherever You Are
| Welcome to Wherever You Are | ||||
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| Studio album by INXS | ||||
| Released | 3 August 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991–1992 at Rhinoceros Recordings, Sydney, Australia | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 45:49 | |||
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AtlanticUS Mercury RecordsEU East West Records |
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| Producer | Mark Opitz, INXS | |||
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| Singles from Welcome to Wherever You Are | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
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| Independent | (favourable) |
| Q | |
Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth album by the Australian rock band INXS, which was released on 3 August 1992. With grunge and alternative music breaking into the mainstream, INXS tried to establish a new direction for itself, 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. Though it still reached number-one in the UK, 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 No. 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.
Following the release of their seventh studio album X, INXS staged a worldwide concert tour titled the X-Factor Tour. The ten month tour began in October 1990 and consisted of four legs with a total of 121 shows being played. The 1990-91 tour proved successful, attracting 1.2 million fans across four continents. To coincide with the successful tour, INXS released their first live album, Live Baby Live, a few months after the tour had finished. Live Baby Live features fifteen live tracks taken from various shows during the band's Summer XS leg of the tour. Although the album was commercially successful, peaking in the top 10 on both the Australian and UK album charts, as well as earning platinum status in the United States, some critics criticized the album for sounding too studio-like.
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