Shabooh Shoobah
by INXS
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Shabooh Shoobah is ranked 5th best out of 17 albums by INXS on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by INXS is Kick which is ranked number 626 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,707.
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Shabooh Shoobah track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/25/2026 01:57 | xhitmanx | 1,493 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2026 03:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,325 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/10/2026 09:14 | VeVt | 95 | 51/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 09:17 | Leginlists | 3,750 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 22:29 | culwin | 1,541 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.
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Massively under rated at No.6
This was the first Inxs album i bought as i had to hear the song the "the one thing" this is a great album and it was that good it got me into all the other albums they have, this is a great strong sound and lives up to "underneath the colours" which i also highly recommend both those albums have a very similar sound so if you like "Shabooh shoobah " you will love "underneath the colours" the early 80s are the best of Inxs in my opinion.
I got into INXS circa Listen Like Thieves, Kick followed and I played that non stop at the time, it got me to get all their albums and now, this is the one I come back to more than any other, although having listened to them all again I just prefer LLT. Love it, 9/10 - it doesn't seem to date at all.
Brandon8 05/29/2015 00:13 | #142613 | TOP COMMENT
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The band sounds edgy and mysterious here with promise of what was to come. A very consistent album as well.
Don't Change is perhaps the best song they have ever wrote!
They start to figure it out but aren't quite there yet. Don't Change is epic.
timtooky 04/03/2014 19:24 | #108410
this record gives an idea of what was to follow ...
At the age of 14 INXS were my life. Kick was the album that drew me in but this one became my favourite. For me it's their most consistent album and in Don't Change it has their first and finest anthem.
Along with it's successor album The Swing, Shabooh Shoobah is the best work of their pre-American market days. Like The Swing it is a genuinely Australian work as one will notice when listening closely to the instruments. Before Listen Like Thieves INXS had an exoticism about them which was tempered as they made headway in the States. If you want INXS in their own element, start here and The Swing.
lightmyway 05/18/2012 23:56 | #42666
This is darker than Kick and stuff. Kinda neat but they got a lot better.
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