Robbed hit of the week 8/3/15 - INXS and Jimmy Barnes' "Good Times"...

"Good Times" - INXS and Jimmy Barnes
from the album Lost Boys (Original Soundtrack) (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #47

This week's "robbed hit" comes from a classic teen movie from the 80's, The Lost Boys, which featured not only the breakout star Kiefer Sutherland (son of the Donald) as well as both Coreys (Feldman and Haim) in a vampire-thriller that preceded Twilight by decades for enthralling the young ladies, and featured rock artists including Echo & The Bunnymen, Foreigner's Lou Gramm, and the Who's Roger Daltrey. The single released from the soundtrack was from Australian modern rock heroes INXS, who had landed their first top-10 American pop hit the year before with "What You Need". They collaborated with former Cold Chisel leader Jimmy Barnes, who was one of the biggest acts Down Under, already with a pair of #1 albums, and even scraped the U.S. chart at #74 in 1985 with "Working Class Man". They covered a song made popular by Australian rock pioneers the Easybeats in 1968...

INXS and Barnes punched up the blues-rock thump of the song and the combo of Barnes' growl and Michael Hutchence's frenetic energy fit the track well...

While the INXS/Barnes version of "Good Times" raced up to #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, it stopped a little over the halfway mark on their Hot 100 pop chart in August of 1987. In their native Australia, the record went to #2, while over in England it was a pretty decent hit at #18. Of course Hutchence and the band would go to even bigger highs on their following album Kick, while Barnes capitalized on the success at rock radio, sending another single "Too Much Ain't Enough Love" to #3 again (and #91 pop) the following year.

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...and here's INXS with Barnes live in 1987 with the song...