Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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"a lot more"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:22 (twenty years ago)

she was probably sort of a dud when this thread got started, but she's not anymore. fever is pretty damned perfect, though i listen to "love at first sight" a lot more than "can't get you out of my head" (which i still like).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago)

I like Kylie's rapping on "Secret".

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Body Language is perversely addictive. I hate enjoying it but I can't help myself.

Fever is inconsistent. Light Years is all bliss, except that horrid ballad thing in the middle. You skip that obv.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Has KM gone out of style, in a sense?

I mean, is her explosive commercial success of 2 years ago now eclipsed?

― the bellefox, Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago)

i think it may have turned the corner yes, into what tho?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 22 August 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago)

ID FUCK HER FROM BEHIND REALLY FUCKING HARD SO SHE SCREAMS AND SHIT

― DANTE-SQUARED, Sunday, 22 August 2004 12:09 (twenty years ago)

that's quite a corner to turn into, yes.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I like the "Slow" single, too.
-- AaronHz, August 22nd

I finally downloaded it yesterday and I'm obsessed with it now.
It's even better than I remembered - that synth part, that bassline, the whispered backing vocals in the chorus...holy shit, it's the best song ever.

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

The new song is quite, quite lovely, if a little short.

Any thoughts on 'Ultimate Kylie'? Mine are that the first disc is best used as a frisbee, but that the second is really pretty great. I'm surprised by how many of these I like. I can even cope with the Robbie duet and 'Spinning Around' in retrospect.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

'Did It Again' deserves a revival

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)

the FUCKERS have fucked around with the chronology of YET ANOTHER best-of! IT MAKES ME SO MAD WHEN LABELS DO THAT.

Otherwise, quite good.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

They haven't with the DVD.

The only Kylie thing I bought was "Some kind of bliss" the nice 7" single. It's not on this.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago)

The title not being AKA Charlene is a Popinjustice

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember that single...must have been during my Kylie Denial years - when did it come out?

I am thinking 'I believe in you' might be my favourite single of the year. This is odd, really.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Her best singles were undoubtably I Wouldn't Change A Thing and her cover of Chairmen of the Board's Give Me Just A Little More Time, which I prefer to the original. of her recent stuff I like the one with the synth bit which sounds like Thieves Like Us which has several Kylies walking down a French street in the video. Can't remember the title, I'm having a "senior moment", sorry!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:2X7lEWYNvfIJ:home.tiscali.se/agnetha/images/singlar/impossible%2520princess/some%2520kind%2520of%2520bliss%25207.jpg
Some kind of bliss seven inch, recently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

'Come Into My World', which is alright.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

"I Believe In You" is like the singles off Body Language but even better. My favourite Kylie is sadly v obvious, "Confide In Me".

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I love "I Believe In You" - it reminds me of Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle's "Your Love"!

Her vocals sound great on it, and it's got that icy siren quality that made Fever so brilliant.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I like just about everything she's done except the "Loco-motion."

― Hot Pants, Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Have you all heard 'Made Of Glass' - a Xenomania production that Kylie recorded but decided against making an A-side and has thus been passed to Rachel Stevens instead? It's leaked and is really good! I think it might suit RS better though.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

'Made of Glass' is fantastic! Although I second the opinion that Kylie's vocals aren't that great. Does anybody know if it will still be included in the forthcoming Rachel Stevens album?

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 3 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

'I Believe In You' is killing me. It reminds me (lyrically) so much of some early/mid 90s minor hit with similar lyrics. So similar in fact, I could swear Kylie lifted them wholesale, especially 'I don't believe I'd love somebody / just to pass the time'. I think it was some industrialish thing with monotone vocals. I initially thought male vocals, but the more I listen to 'I Believe In You' the more my memory of the song that's torturing me warps to resemble Kylie.

― minolta (minolta), Thursday, 3 March 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

'Made In Glass' is the b-side to next Kylie single (Giving You Up) so unfortunately it seems a bit improbable that Rachel's people will want/get it now.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Thursday, 3 March 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

anyone heard the new remixes of Giving you up ?

alter ego and riton .. i am somewhat excited. especially as the normal version is just soooooo .. good.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

'Made of Glass' makes me think of a Moroderized Altered Images. It would be much better if Clare Grogan sang it.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

new video :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/extras.html

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 3 March 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Tom still stands by this:

The recent return-to-pop stuff has been weak, on a level with Geri and Emma Bunton, not even as good as Louise's comeback singles.

Or has Kylie listened to Tom's criticisms and returned with Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Come Into My World, Slow, I Believe In You, Lovin' You, Made Of Glass, etc?

Well done, Tom. GYBE never listened though, did they?

― davidsim (davidsim), Thursday, 3 March 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

dueds, she was in bio-dome so get wit it...

'chek out that tasty dactyl'

― squirly, Friday, 4 March 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

The only classic stuff she has done is to recent to be classic yet...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

As to the alter Ego and Riton remixes, well, depends what you want from a remix. If you want a bleepy, bloopy track which has little to do with the original song apart from the occasional vocal line, go for the Riton Re Rub. If, however, you want the song played over a Daft Punk Discovery-era album track with added gay-disco fills and handclaps, go for the Alter ego.

I'll take the latter. Till the Almighty.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

The most pop act thread has made me speak up to say that Light Years may be the gayest thing i've ever heard. if there is a gayer album, please inform me because i will have to download pronto.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Specifically, 'Your Disco Needs You'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/frankcri/sylvester.jpg

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.80s.pl/zdjecia/divine.jpg

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

naturally

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah, Your Disco Needs You is probably the gayest song on there, but the album as a whole is pretty uniformly gay otherwise.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Some friends and I watched a smuggled-out-of-the-UK video of her Showgirl show, recorded just before she stopped due to her health problems.

Good show, esp. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", "Your Disco Needs You", er one or two others. The best bit was this Back to 1990 italo house and rave rivalism sequence! Smily faces and "Step Back In Time" and "What Do I Have To Do", but best of all, a rollicking piano vamp early house version of "Spinning Around"! Which was awesome! Now keep in mind that I usually loathe "Spinning Around" as being only one rung above the absolute nadir of bad millenial disco-pop ("Make Luv") (obv. there is loads of great millenial disco pop) and you'll get a sense of how stunning this transformation is.

Needs to be recorded and released properly!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

"Chocolate" is a really great song
is it true it was prod. by kurtis mantronik??

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

im googling around now, apparently cathy dennis did some writing on this

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

i guess 'obsession' was the mantronik joint

― deej, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

no homo but i was about to do a kylie singles poll

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

"What Do I Have to Do?" FTW

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

new single rules

― groovemaaan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

The name of the album is a reference to a book of poetry written by Billy Childish titled Poems to Break the Hearts of Impossible Princesses. The book was given to Minogue as a gift by Nick Cave, and she has said that the poems summarized where she was at that time in her life.

― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.gamehotties.com/images/kylie-minogue/kylie-minogue.jpg

― W4LTER, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago)

Love the new single, it really improves on the demo version with the added piano track. Kylie fans aren't really into it though.

― musically, Friday, 19 October 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

why are her latest videos so damn bad? what has happened?

― o-ess, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

She is Brave and Plucky and Tragic (c. every British tabloid ever), and therefore will sell shiteloads no matter what cack she throws out because she's the People's Pop Princess. emperor's new clothes, and that.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

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