INXS: Live Baby Live - Wembley Stadium

INXS fans can rejoice over the release of this buoyant concert film shot during an ecstatic performance before 72000 hopping fans in London's Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1991. The Australian band's vocalist the late Michael Hutchence is at his feral-romantic best stalking and swiveling his way through an energized set of welterweight pop. The show starts with a big boomy "Guns In The Sky" takes a turn toward unexpected soulfulness with "New Sensation" and spreads the wealth with a sharp set of ballads and rockers. Hutchence has fun with a naughty "Know The Difference" plays around with a Jagger-esque take on confessional soul in "The Loved One" and milks "Never Tear Us Apart" for all it's worth. The band sounds more muscular than they did in the studio hard-charging and rough on "Suicide Blonde" drunk on a jazzy guitar hook in "Need You Tonight" and completely danceable on "Bitter Tears".