Song · INXS
“The Gift” by INXS
From the EP Time (Australian Tour Souvenir EP) (1993)
“The Gift” by INXS appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2002. It was first released in 1993 on the EP Time (Australian Tour Souvenir EP). Its best result is #1605 on the CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,544 alternative song of all time.
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INXS opened the Full Moon, Dirty Hearts campaign with "The Gift" in October 1993, the first single off the band's ninth studio album, and Michael Hutchence and Jon Farriss were among its writers. It's a restless, bristling rocker, and American rock radio went for it: the song climbed to number six on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart, hit number two in Portugal and reached 16 at home in Australia.
The video stirred up the real trouble. Longtime collaborator Richard Lowenstein packed it with the world's horrors, war and terrorism, famine and pollution, while the band seemed to crash out through the TV screen in fury. His aim was to show how numb viewers had grown to pictures of human suffering; MTV banned it all the same, objecting to its Holocaust and Gulf War footage.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1613 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1613 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1613 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1605 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
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