Song · INXS
“Johnson's Aeroplane” by INXS
From the album The Swing (1984)
“Johnson's Aeroplane” by INXS appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2002. It was first released in 1984 on the album The Swing. Its best result is #1900 on the Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,396 alternative song of all time.
"Johnson's Aeroplane" comes from The Swing, the fourth studio album by Australian rockers INXS, released in 1984, and it's Andrew Farriss's song top to bottom: he wrote the words and the music and plays guitar and keyboards on it. While the album's lead single, "Original Sin", came out of New York sessions with Nile Rodgers, this one belongs to Nick Launay, who produced, engineered and mixed it.
The full Sydney six-piece is on board, with Michael Hutchence singing lead, Tim Farriss and Kirk Pengilly on guitars, Pengilly doubling on sax, Garry Gary Beers on bass and Jon Farriss on drums. The album around it pushed toward a slightly tougher sound than the band's earlier records, and it spent five nonconsecutive weeks at number one on the Kent Music Report back home.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 1900 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
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