November’s Hi-Fi Friday / My Music Monday theme is “The Worst Song From Your Favourite Artists.” I picked the theme. And Blobby was all in agreement. Because we all hate to love, or love to hate, a good train wreck. You know, like Madonna in the later years. Okay, I kid. All her decades!

“Worst” is relative. What I might dislike, I’m sure someone out there must like. Someone at the record label must have since it hit the album.

Another one of my all-time favorite bands: INXS. And just like The B-52’s last week, if there’s something INXS has done, I more than likely own it.

Again, I’m going to keep my selection to songs released on U.S. studio albums. Of which there are 12-ish. 10 of which I’ll actually consider here, as #11—Swing—was with a replacement lead singer after Michael Hutchence died. And then there was the last album they put out, which was a retelling of their old hits as sung by other artists, which I already wrote about a few years ago.

There are many bands that when you hear a song, it has a distinctive “sound” of that band. Pretty much all of INXS’ work has that distinctive sound. To me. Except for one song. It doesn’t feel or sound like INXS, even though the liner notes have it listed as being written by INXS. Every time I hear it I think it’s U2. It has that U2 feel for some reason. And I can’t say I’m a fan of U2 for the most part.

The song is “I’m Just a Man”, from INXS’ 1997 album Elegantly Wasted.