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Žanr: Alternativni Rok, Fank i Soul, Pop, Rok
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Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band INXS, which was released on 3 August 1992. With grunge and alternative music breaking into the mainstream, INXS tried to establish a new direction for itself, incorporating sitars, a 60-piece orchestra, and a much more `raw` sound to their music. In its four star review of the album, Q called it `... a far more engaging and heartfelt collection than anything the group has put out in recent memory ... It rocks,` and listed it as one of the 50 Best Albums of 1992. It was the first album by an Australian artist to debut on the UK album chart at number one since AC/DC`s `Back in Black`.

Despite the positive critical reception, along with charting well on most countries` album charts (including topping the UK chart and reaching number two in Australia), the album marked a commercial decline for the band, especially in the United States, where it only peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The commercial decline was partially due to the lack of promotion by their label and changing musical tastes towards grunge and alternative. Also hurting promotions, the band elected to take a break and not tour in support of the album. The plan was that the band would instead record the follow-up (which went on to become 1993`s Full Moon, Dirty Hearts) and then tour in support of both albums. The downside of this, however, was that Welcome to Wherever You Are faded from press and public attention more quickly, and, as a result, failed to match the success of INXS`s two previous albums, Kick and X.

While the single `Baby Don`t Cry` was a Top 20 hit in the UK, the album`s biggest American hit was `Not Enough Time`, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and stayed there for five consecutive weeks.

In 2002, a remastered version of the album was released, which included five previously unreleased tracks.
Released 3 August 1992
Recorded 1991–1992
Studio Rhinoceros (Sydney)
Genre Alternative rock, pop rock
Length 45:49
Label Atlantic US
Mercury Records EU
East West Records
Producer Mark Opitz, INXS
Background
Following the release of their seventh studio album, X, INXS staged a worldwide concert tour titled the X-Factor Tour. The ten-month tour began in October 1990 and consisted of four legs with a total of 121 shows.[1][2] The 1990-91 tour proved successful, attracting 1.2 million fans across four continents.[3] To coincide with the successful tour, INXS released their first live album, Live Baby Live, a few months after the tour had finished.[contradictory] Live Baby Live features 15 live tracks taken from various shows during the band`s Summer XS leg of the tour.[4][5] Although the album was commercially successful, peaking in the top 10 on both the Australian[6] and UK album charts,[7] as well as earning platinum status in the United States,[7][8] some critics criticized the album for sounding too studio-like.

The members of INXS began preparations for their eighth studio album towards the end of the X tour.[1] Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Farriss had already written a number of songs while the band was on the road, including Shining Star, which was quickly recorded and added to the Live Baby Live album as a bonus studio track.[1] Once the band got back to Australia, the song-writing duo of Farriss and vocalist Michael Hutchence paired up to begin writing new material.[1] Rehearsals for Welcome to Wherever You Are soon took place at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, NSW, Australia.[9]

Recording and production
In November 1991, INXS entered Rhinoceros studios in Sydney, Australia to begin work on their eighth studio album.[1] With no time constraints and enough money to make new studio recordings, the band members continued writing new material and experimenting with new sounds. Having worked with producer Chris Thomas previously on Listen Like Thieves, Kick and X, the band chose to work with Australian producer Mark Opitz, who was behind the production of the band`s third studio album, Shabooh Shoobah, ten years earlier. For this album, INXS decided to shift their musical direction by incorporating a much `rawer` sound. To achieve this, a variety of techniques were used during production, such as stripping down the polished sound that was present on their previous albums with Thomas. Heavy distortion was used on the guitars.[10] Opitz and Hutchence also used heavy distortion on the vocals, an experience that Hutchence enjoyed.[10] In a 1992 radio interview promoting the release of Welcome to Wherever You Are, guitarist Tim Farriss recalls the same technique used in producing music in the 1960s: `Sometimes they used to mix the vocal back so the band would sound louder, punchier and harder`.[10]

The album includes the work and sound of the Australian Concert orchestra on the songs `Baby Don`t Cry` and `Men and Women`.[11] The band recorded both tracks live in the studio, with the 60-piece orchestra being conducted by Colin Piper and engineered by Neil Sandbach.[11] For the opening track `Questions`, guitarist and saxophonist Kirk Pengilly used a brass horn to create a Far East sound. Australian singer Deni Hines was hired to provide backing vocals on one of the album`s singles, `Not Enough Time`, and the track `Strange Desire`.[11] The singer would go on to marry Pengilly one year later.[12] Tim Farriss was absent during most of the album`s production because he was suffering from exostosis.[13] Pengilly had to play most of his material.[13] Pengilly himself was recovering from the end of a ten-year relationship.[13] Other band members were also going through eventful experiences in their lives, including drummer Jon Farriss, who was preparing to marry his girlfriend at the time, Leslie Bega, whom he had met the previous year in Los Angeles.[14] Bassist Garry Gary Beers and his then-wife, Jodie, were awaiting the birth of their second child.[13] In the band`s 2005 official autobiography, INXS: Story to Story, Optiz recalls, `The album is very much Andrew, Michael and myself. We didn`t have everyone`s minds on the job because some of them were going through significant things in their personal lives`.[13]

In the midst of recording, the band were approached to headline the Concert for Life, a benefit show staged in Sydney`s Centennial Park on 28 March 1992.[15] The event was held to help raise money for the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Centre and AIDS Patient Services and Research, at St Vincent`s Hospital.[15] More than 62,000 people attended the event, with other Australian acts, including Crowded House and Jimmy Barnes headlining.[15] For the encore, the orchestra were hired once again to help INXS perform their new song, `Baby Don`t Cry`, as well as `Never Tear Us Apart`.[16] The band included two more songs from the new album on their set list: `Taste It` and `All Around`.[15] Upon returning to the studio to finish the rest of the album, the band members decided not to tour in support for Welcome to Wherever You Are; instead they came up with the idea of doing a follow-up album, and then touring in support of both.[9] Opitz went on to produce the follow-up, Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, a year later, continuing the band`s experimentation with their musical style. Welcome to Wherever You Are is the first studio album to have all members of INXS share production credits.[11]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, except where noted.

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Questions` Andrew Farriss 2:19
2. `Heaven Sent` A. Farriss 3:18
3. `Communication` 5:29
4. `Taste It` 3:27
5. `Not Enough Time` 4:26
6. `All Around` 3:30
7. `Baby Don`t Cry` A. Farriss 4:57
8. `Beautiful Girl` A. Farriss 3:33
9. `Wishing Well` 3:40
10. `Back on Line` Jon Farriss, Hutchence 3:24
11. `Strange Desire` 4:39
12. `Men and Women` Hutchence 4:38
Personnel
Personnel as listed in the album`s liner notes are:[11]

INXS

Michael Hutchence – vocals
Andrew Farriss – keyboards, guitars, orchestral arrangements (7, 12)
Tim Farriss – guitars
Kirk Pengilly – guitars, saxophone, vocals
Garry Gary Beers – bass, vocals
Jon Farriss – drums, percussion, vocals
Additional musicians

Sunil De Silva – percussion (5)
Australian Concert Orchestra – orchestra (7, 12)
Mick Kenny – orchestral arrangements (7, 12)
Colin Piper – conductor (7, 12)
Phillip Hartl – concertmaster (7, 12)
Deni Hines – backing vocals (5, 11)
Production
Mark Opitz – producer
INXS – producers
Bob Clearmountain – mixing at A&M Studios (Hollywood, California, USA)
Niven Garland – engineer
Melissa Van Twest – assistant engineer
Neil Sandbach – orchestral engineer (7, 12)
Leon Zervos – mastering at Studios 301 (Sydney, Australia)
Chris Murphy – management
Steve Pyke – cover photography
Peggy Sirota – band photography
Michael Nash Assoc. – design