Glad to hear someone say they would give their non-preference a chance instead of "I'm never going to listen to them again." Kudos.

I'm a huge INXS fan & own a few CDs & have been listening to them since this show started -- back in the day, my friends dubbed my anthem as "Suicide Blonde," so I have especially good memories with that tune -- but good times associated by all of INXS's back catalog.

I started out this thing with a few favorites (front & foremost J.D., with MiG & Ty my other major contenders) but over the weeks, in my eyes, J.D. left the others in the dust.

I truly believe that the best chance for an INXS comeback (which I would love, for old time's sake) would be with J.D. as their lead singer -- out of all the contestants, he is the only one who can do their back catalog justice (although I have yet to hear MiG sing INXS yet) and J.D. has the best stage presence over all the others (Marty is my second in this category). So, in an overall assessment J.D. has everything needed to light INXS fire again.

MiG, Marty, Suzie have their different strengths & weaknesses and are talented in their own right, but I don't think any of these 3 would give INXS what they need for a serious & real comeback.

At this point I am really starting to believe that JD might be the one INXS picks. I thought he was their choice for awhile. And then I started having my doubts. But lately I have been looking at the editing and watching things from a distance. And it just seems right. I am starting to follow the theory that INXS realized they wanted JD quite awhile ago. But they couldn't just let the audience know that. So with MB's editing they have thrown a few curves and made the audience doubt that INXS would ever want to take this guy on. They made him seem like a bad boy when often the editing didn't make sense. They seem to be hiding things about JD and creating drama. And nobody can deny they have made this the JD show. Every week something revolves around JD. And we are always shown his reaction to things. Or the other Rockers' reactions to him. JD is the story. Everyone that leaves gets asked about JD. If INXS doesn't pick him now they could lose alot of their publicity coverage they have wanted for their big comeback. The media just might follow JD rather than INXS when this is over. So it is a win/win for INXS and JD to stick together. INXS gets their Rocker. And JD gets his dream. There will be alot of press. And MB has edited another reality story arc to suit his purposes.

I agree, and not just because I love him. When you look at their comments to JD - they've never said "you're fighting too hard for your song" or "you should be nicer to others." THEY have never expressed any problem with his attitude.

They've never said, "I can't see your style fitting us." It's all been critiques about a particular part of a performance, until the not learning the song. I still don't understand why he didn't learn it. Hard to believe he blew it off. Hard to believe he thought he was supposed to come in cold, but that is plausible, I guess, that he thought it was a working session.

Anyway, it seemed they were always critiquing him more than criticizing.

I'm not so sure they made up their mind, though. Certainly a front-runner. And I can see MB still doing his editing regardless and telling INXS they can cut anyone but him until the final 3.

I seem to have finally found a group of people who are not for lack of a better word, . . . crazy.

Most of the other boards I have been on all rip or don't even mention J.D. while giving unapologetic praise to the likes of Jordis (now gone), Marty and Mig.

Marty is great, but frankly, he is not a fit for any form of INXS that has ever existed. Marty is like this mix between Curt Cobain and Tom Petty with a bit of Cheap Trick thrown in for good measure. I don't see INXS changing too much from what they have always done (as evident by some of their comments to singers saying "I can't see INXS ever doing that song"). As such, Marty is a big NO. However, I like Marty and liked his bubble gum grunge rock pretty chorus song "Trees". In fact I can see him and Navarro starting a band.

Mig. Way too much British Rock Star for me. Nice guy, o.k. voice and o.k. stage performer. Just can't see him as the lead singer of INXS. While his performaces on stage are entertaining - he does more than some who simply stand there and sing - I don't find him, for lack of a better word, "cool". Its more theatrical, which is what he has been doing. However, there are rumors that he is a plant and has already been given the job. God I hope not, because INXS is doomed if that is the case.

Suzie. I think she has a great voice and actually like the way she sings some of the INXS songs. However, the only way I can picture her in INXS is for them to abandon the back catalog and go a completely new and different direction. I think that woudl be a huge risk and I don't see it happeing.

J.D. Isn't it obvious? I mean really; and I am assuming here that INXS intends to stay close to home with what they have done in the past. The boards explode with he is cocky, arrogant, self centered, childish, a baby, a lone wolf, etc . . . . Yes, he is all of these, but also very driven and determined, very innovative, better at performing than he is at singing and of course the thing that Mig lacks, he is pretty damn "cool". So what does that make him, . . . oh yeah, the lead singer for a rock band. Exactly. I can not see anyone other than J.D. realistically winning, and unless the Mig is a plant rumors are true, Pretty Vegas will be the first single from the new INXS album.

Welcome!

Yeah, I've checked out other sites and found them pretty lame, immature, inarticulate.

MiG plant rumors are soooooooo not true. Look for that thread around here and it gets debunked pretty well.

Oh, and we ARE crazy - just in a different way.

>"J.D. Isn't it obvious?"

Some of us have thought this, since the beginning.

>"The boards explode with he is cocky, arrogant, self centered,
childish, a baby, a lone wolf, etc"

There are a select few of us that didn't buy into the editing. He may be cocky at times (don't we love that in our rock stars?) But as some of us have noted, there has never been any clips showing J.D. bashing another contestant (other than his generalization early on that he knows/loves/lives INXS while others are learning the songs -- and, as far as I have seen, a few of the contestants did forget words, verses or sang the wrong words, so it was obviously a true statement).

>"Yes, he is all of these, but also very driven and determined, very innovative, better at performing than he is at singing and
of course the thing that Mig lacks, he is pretty damn "cool". So what does that make him, . . . oh yeah, the lead singer for a rock band. Exactly."

We J.D. fans sure as heck think so!!

"Pretty Vegas will be the first single from the new INXS album."

May this premonition be true, because this is what I have been thinking since the collaboration clinic.

Welcome to the boards, JPL!!!!

Future J.D. groupie