Listen Like Thieves 40th Anniversary’ is a deep dive celebration into INXS’s global breakthrough album.
The Deluxe Edition is a 1LP + 3CD set containing a brand-new 2025 stereo mix of the ‘Listen Like Thieves’ album by Giles Martin & Paul Hicks on CD and vinyl (also available on the 1LP & 2CD versions). Built from the ground up in partnership with the band, they have been able to find new layers of sonic depth and a fresh dimension giving fans a new listening experience with the record.
Also included in the deluxe edition is a trove of previously unreleased sessions tracks, outtakes and demos curated by Giles Martin, a rare BBC Recording; ‘Live From The Royal Albert Hall, London, 1986’, and extensive liner notes that include a brand new interview with the band by renowned journalist, Paul Sexton.
Tracks:
**LP & CD1 Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)**
1. What You Need
2. Listen Like Thieves
3. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
4. Shine Like It Does
5. Good + Bad Times
6. Biting Bullets
7. This Time
8. Three Sisters
9. Same Direction
10. One x One
11. Red Red Sun
**CD2 Demos & Outtakes**
1. "We're rolling it's 1985" Studio Dialogue
2. Funk Song #11 Take 2 Working Title of What You Need (Alternate Take)
3. Press the blue and red button Studio Dialogue
4. Kiss The Dirt (Studio Demo)
5. Meaning of the song Listen Like Thieves Interview Excerpt
6. Listen Like Thieves (Studio Demo)
7. INXS SA FM Radio Spot
8. One X One (Studio Demo)
9. This Time (Studio Demo)
10. Shine Like It Does (Studio Demo)
11. Good and Bad Times (Alternate Take)
12. Red Red Sun (Studio Jam)
13. Red Red Sun (Alternate Take)
14. Recording of Same Direction
15. Funk Song #9 (Working title of Same Direction)
16. What You Need (Studio Demo)
17. Shine Like It Does (Home Demo)
18. Listen Like Thieves (Home Demo)
19. Kiss the Dirt (Home Demo)
**CD3 Live from Royal Albert Hall 24th June 1986**
1. Introduction by Pete Drummond
2. Same Direction
3. Soul Mistake
4. Kiss The Dirt
5. Biting Bullets
6. Burn For You
7. Do Wot You Do
8. Original Sin
9. Different World
10. Shine Like it Does
11. Listen Like Thieves
12. One X One
13. What You Need
14. Red Red Sun
**Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)**
1. What You Need
2. Listen Like Thieves
3. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
4. Shine Like It Does
5. Good + Bad Times
6. Biting Bullets
7. This Time
8. Three Sisters
9. Same Direction
10. One x One
11. Red Red Sun
**CD1 Listen Like Thieves (2025 Giles Martin Mix)**
1. What You Need
2. Listen Like Thieves
3. Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)
4. Shine Like It Does
5. Good + Bad Times
6. Biting Bullets
7. This Time
8. Three Sisters
9. Same Direction
10. One x One
11. Red Red Sun
**CD2:Remixes B-Sides and Live**
1. Listen Like Thieves (Extended Remix)
2. Begotten
3. What You Need (Nick Launay Remix)
4. I'm Over You
5. Sweet As Sin
6. Six Knots
7. Listen Like Thieves (Instrumental Remix)
8. Same Direction (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
9. Kiss The Dirt (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
10. Biting Bullets (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
11. Shine Like it Does (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London, UK)
12. Listen Like Thieves (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
13. One X One (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London, UK)
14. What You Need (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
15. Red Red Sun (Live from Royal Albert Hall 1986 London UK)
