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Elegantly Wasted
Studio album by INXS
Released	April 4, 1997
Recorded	1996 & early 1997
Genre	Rock
Length	47:57
Label	Mercury Records
Producer(s)	Bruce Fairbairn with Andrew Farriss
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
INXS chronology
Full Moon, Dirty Hearts (1993)	Elegantly Wasted (1997)	Switch (2005)

Elegantly Wasted is the 10th studio album by the Australian rock band INXS. It was released on 15 April 1997 and is the final album recorded with lead singer Michael Hutchence who was found dead in a Sydney hotel room on November 22 of that year. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... INXS: Elegantly Wasted File links The following pages link to this file: Elegantly Wasted ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... INXS (pronounced In Excess) is an Australian rock group. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Bruce Fairbairn press photo Bruce Earl Fairbairn (born in Vancouver, Canada on December 30, 1949, died May 17, 1999) was a music producers who was prominent during the 1980s and 1990s, producing songs for bands such as Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Loverboy. ... Andrew Charles Farriss is a rock musician (born March 27, 1959 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) best known as the keyboardist and key songwriter for the Australian band INXS. Farriss first met INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence in high school after breaking up a fight between Hutchence and another student. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 2_stars. ... INXS (pronounced In Excess) is an Australian rock group. ... Full Moon, Dirty Hearts is a single-disc CD album released by Australian band INXS in 1993, through Warner Music Australia. ... Switch is the 11th studio album by the Australian rock band INXS. It was released on November 29, 2005. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... INXS (pronounced In Excess) is an Australian rock group. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Kelland John Hutchence (January 22, 1960 – November 22, 1997) was the lead singer of the Australian rock band, INXS. // Michael Hutchence of INXS - San Francisco, 1986 Hutchence was born in Sydney, son of Kelland (Kell) and Patricia Hutchence, but was subsequently raised in Hong Kong. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See Bang the Drum EP for two songs that didn't make the final cut of the album. Bang The Drum Ep is a EP by Australian band INXS. Its an internet-only download thats exclusive to iTunes only. ...

Track listing

1. "Show Me (Cherry Baby)" – 4:16
2. "Elegantly Wasted" – 4:32
3. "Everything" – 3:13
4. "Don't Lose Your Head" – 4:02
5. "Searching" – 4:04
6. "I'm Just a Man" – 4:48
7. "Girl on Fire" – 3:55
8. "We Are Thrown Together" – 5:36
9. "Shake the Tree" – 4:10
10. "She Is Rising" – 5:24
11. "Building Bridges" – 3:57
12. "Shine" - 3:50

Elegantly Wasted was the first single from the album Elegantly Wasted by INXS. Elegantly Wasted is a deft mix of rock infused with dance beats that was, in 1997, ahead of the pack. ... Im Just a Man is a song off Australian rock band INXSs 10th album Elegantly Wasted. ...

Singles

• "Elegantly Wasted" (March 1997)
• "Everything" (May 1997)
• "Don't Lose Your Head" (September 1997)
• "Searching" (never released)

Miscellanea

• This was the last album with Michael Hutchence as the lead singer as he died on November 22, 1997.
• Several of the band members of INXS considered this album to be some of their finest material.
• The Japanese regular edition and Australian limited edition release of the album features the bonus track "Let It Ride".
• Listen to the chorus of the song Elegantly Wasted and you hear the background vocals saying "I'm better than Oasis." Reference: the official INXS autobiography, INXS: Story to Story.
• This is the only album on Mercury in the US and Canada, as the bulk of the INXS catalogue is on that label in the rest of the world.