INXS – X (1990):  INXS (“in excess”) are Australian superstars who savvily melded dance pop, new wave, funk, and Rolling-Stones–style rock into a winning formula for a number of years.  I probably ordered this record thinking it was a retrospective album; then, I thought maybe X was their tenth album, per the Roman numeral, but that wasn’t it either.  X is actually the seventh album by INXS and the follow-up to their best-selling album Kick that featured four massive hit songs, all quite different:  “Need You Tonight”, “Devil Inside”, “New Sensation”, and “Never Tear Us Apart”.  X continues the hitmaking ways of INXS with two Top 10 U.S. hits, “Suicide Blonde” and “Disappear”, plus two other singles, “Bitter Tears” and “By My Side”.