Listen Like Thieves came out in 1985, and it solidified the band’s move from soft-edged post-punk to danceable pop-rock — which they’d perfect on their next album, 1987’s KICK. It was their Stateside breakthrough, hitting #11 on the Billboard 200 chart. “What You Need” kicks off the album with false starts before its ecstatic, horn-filled eruption, and it became their first top 5 hit in the U.S., confirming that Farriss and Hutchence were the band’s principal songwriters.

Their “Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)” and “Shine Like It Does” give the album an anthemic heart, before it returns to the band’s roots in the Kirk Pengilly- and Hutchence–written “Biting Bullets,” a pure rock song in the vein of their first three albums. Farriss’ “This Time” has the vibe of a more filled-out Shabooh Shoobah track, seemingly made in the “Don’t Change” mold.

It’s clear throughout that there’s a tension they’re working through, a striving toward evolution as they grasped for fame outside of Australia, and they were doing so right in the middle of the ’80s. It wouldn’t be the last time they’d have to adjust their sound, but it was their most successful switch-up.