Heaven Sent (INXS song)

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B-side
  • "It Ain't Easy"
  • "11th Revolution"
  • "Deepest Red"
Released22 June 1992 (1992-06-22)
Length3:18
LabelEastWest
"Heaven Sent"
Single by INXS
from the album Welcome to Wherever You Are
B-side
  • "It Ain't Easy"
  • "11th Revolution"
  • "Deepest Red"
Released22 June 1992 (1992-06-22)
Length3:18
LabelEastWest
SongwriterAndrew Farriss
ProducerMark Opitz
INXS singles chronology
"Shining Star"
(1991)		 "Heaven Sent"
(1992)		 "Baby Don't Cry"
(1992)

"Heaven Sent" is the first single from Australian rock band INXS's eighth studio album, Welcome to Wherever You Are (1992). It was released only in Europe, Japan, and Australia by East West Records. The song was written by Andrew Farriss who explained on the liner notes of the 2002 remaster: "Originally I wrote the song as a 3
4 ballad. The band heard it and rocked it up to make it the recording it became. The vocal effect helped give the track some extra attitude."[1]

The B-sides include "It Ain't Easy", "11th Revolution", and "Deepest Red", a full band outtake from the X album written by Michael Hutchence and Jon Farriss. The UK 12-inch picture disc and Australian CD single include a demo version of "Heaven Sent" instead of "Deepest Red".

Reception

Q noted the, "slashing guitar tone. A more conventional INXS song apart from the snarling "megaphone" vocal, redolent of Stooges-era Iggy Pop. But where the old INXS were all weighed down with big-funk pretensions, this has an air of pure unselfconscious glee. It rocks."[2]

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