Thirteen years ago this month, the music world lost one of its most magnetic performers, Michael Hutchence. On November 22, 1997, the INXS frontman was found dead in his Sydney hotel room, an apparent suicide.

How does a veteran band recover from losing their lead singer? After taking some time off, the remaining members of INXS performed with different guest vocalists, including Terence Trent D’Arby. In 2005, they took the search to reality TV with Rock Star: INXS and found Canadian singer J.D. Fortune, with whom they recorded an album, Switch, and toured.

In the years since, there has been some confusion as to whether Fortune was still in the INXS fold, with the singer even working on his own solo album. But this summer, it was confirmed that Fortune was indeed the band’s permanent lead singer, with INXS performing a few one-off dates this fall, and an Australian tour lined up for early 2011.

Somewhat puzzlingly though, the band is prepping a Michael Hutchence tribute album with guest vocalists covering songs from the INXS discography. Titled Original Sin and due out January 11, the concept makes total sense, something of a “duh” move, but the timing seems off. The album has Ben Harper doing “Never Tear Us Apart” (the set’s first single), Pat Monahan of Train taking on “Beautiful Girl” as a ballad, and Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 singing the title track. Tricky and Nikka Costa, among others, also contribute songs. As for Fortune, he’s featured on just one track, “The Stairs,” from 1990’s X, which has been released as a single on iTunes Canada.

No word on whether anyone is tackling one of my favorite INXS tunes, “Not Enough Time.” The song made its debut on Barcelona Gold, a tie-in album for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games which also sported Madonna’s “This Used To Be My Playground” (and the reason I picked up the disc at all, since the theme from A League Of Their Own was unavailable elsewhere). A month later, INXS released their eighth album, Welcome To Wherever You Are, on which “Not Enough Time” also appeared.

Released as the album’s second single, “Not Enough Time” quickly shot to #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart on August 29, 1992, spending five weeks in the slot. The song reached #13 on the Rock chart and #28 on the Hot 100. Pretty good showings for a song with the overtly sexual (but easily overlooked) lyric, “I wanna be inside you,” but what really does it for me are the drums and the backing vocals by Deni Hines:

Purchase INXS – “Not Enough Time” via iTunes, Amazon MP3.