POLL Into My World - ILM Artist Poll #121 - Kylie Minogue - RESULTS

thanks to everyone who participated, we had 19 track ballots, 12 album ballots, 9 remix ballots and 7 music video ballots

i'll start with some of the top 10 remixes soon

10. Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head
Released on "Love at First Sight" single, 2002
Mash-up by Stuart Crichton combining "Can't Get You Out of My Head" with "Blue Monday" by New Order
22 points, 3 voters
Recording

hell yeah

it's a fun mashup, does exactly what the name says and does it pretty well

but it turns out that was a tie

10. Padam Padam (HAAi Remix)
Released on "Padam Padam (HAAi Remix)" single, 2023
Remixed by HAAi
22 points, 2 voters
Recording

a three-way tie

10. Real Groove (feat. Dua Lipa) [Studio 2054 Initial Talk Remix]
Released on "Real Groove (feat. Dua Lipa) [Studio 2054 Initial Talk Remix]" single, 2021
Remixed by Initial Talk
22 points, 2 voters
Recording

this one's an uncanny simulacrum of the 80s but it's pretty good at that, it worked much better than most of the other fake-80s remixes initial talk did that blew up on social media like a decade ago

8. Get Outta My Way (7th Heaven Club Mix)
Released on "Get Outta My Way" single, 2010
Remixed by 7th Heaven
24 points, 2 voters
Recording

this one's great, it's richer than the original and slightly softens it? really elevates it

8. Breathe (Sash! Club Mix)
Released on "Breathe" single, 1998
Remixed by Sash!
24 points, 2 voters
Recording

7. Put Yourself in My Place (Driza-Bone Mix)
Released on "Put Yourself in My Place" single, 1994
Remixed by Driza Bone
27 points, 2 voters
Recording

last one for now

2 of mine placed so far, Padam Padam and Put Yourself In My Place. Surprised it’s as many that as there’s so many remixes to choose from.

None of mine placed so far!

46 different remixes were voted for, these are just where we had the tiniest amount of consensus

Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head was played during spinning class last night and it's been spinning in my head since

All these remixes are good so far

there are lots of good remixes to choose from

As I mentioned in the voting thread, I hadn't paid much attention to her remixes throughout the years so I had to do a lot of research before voting. She has a lot of really excellent ones.

I voted for the remix of Get Outta My Way which is so wonderful, the Dua Lipa mix and the Blue Monday remix. I assumed the latter would be a contender to win.

Weirdly, I didn’t think of ‘Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head’ as a remix, but I guess it is. Would probably have voted for it.

I let time get away from me and only submitted a main ballot which is irritating cos I made a Remixes of Kylie playlist last year and it was there waiting for me to get round to it. I doubt this is a spoiler but if I'd managed to put one together I'd have had the Tom Middleton remix of Chocolate at number 1

6. Confide in Me (Big Brothers Mix)
Released on "Confide in Me" single, 1994
Remixed by Brothers in Rhythm
45 points, 4 voters
Recording

5. Where is the Feeling? (BIR Soundtrack)
Released on "Where is the Feeling" single, 1994
Remixed by Brothers in Rhythm
63 points, 4 voters, 1 #1 vote
Recording

both of these are fantastic, so much better than the album versions

4. Come Into My World (Fischerspooner Mix)
Released on "Come Into My World" single, 2002
Remixed by Fischerspooner
66 points, 5 voters, 2 #1 votes
Recording

I sent out this portion of the voting just because I hadn’t done enough of a deep listen to the remixes and I was less interested in getting my votes in for these, and more interested in the consensus from everybody else. Some good ones here!

3. The One (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix)
Released on "The One" single, 2008
Remixed by Freemasons
68 points, 5 voters
Recording

The first of mine to place (my #10) - kind of a shame as I was hoping to be Very Special And Unique

2. 2 Hearts (Version by Studio)
Released on "2 Hearts" single, 2007
Remixed by Studio
81 points, 6 voters, 1 #1 vote
Recording

1. Slow (Chemical Brothers Remix)
Released on "Red Blooded Woman" single, 2004
Remixed by The Chemical Brothers
96 points, 7 voters, 1 #1 vote
Recording

In my haste I forgot to vote for the Fischerspooner remix, but that is an extremely deserving top 5.

I wish I heard the Chemical Brothers remix of "Slow" out in the wild more, every time I have people on the dancefloor have gone absolutely crazy.

full results:

1. Slow (Chemical Brothers Remix) - 96 points, 7 voters, 1 #1 vote
2. 2 Hearts (Version by Studio) - 81 points, 6 voters, 1 #1 vote
3. The One (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix) - 68 points, 5 voters
4. Come Into My World (Fischerspooner Mix) - 66 points, 5 voters, 2 #1 votes
5. Where is the Feeling? (BIR Soundtrack) - 63 points, 4 voters, 1 #1 vote
6. Confide in Me (Big Brothers Mix) - 45 points, 4 voters
7. Put Yourself In My Place (Driza-Bone Mix) - 27 points, 2 voters
8. Get Outta My Way (7th Heaven Club Mix) - 24 points, 2 voters
8. Breathe (Sash! Club Mix) - 24 points, 2 voters
10. Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head - 22 points, 3 voters
10. Padam Padam (HAAi Remix) - 22 points, 2 voters
10. Real Groove (Studio 2054 Initial Talk Remix) - 22 points, 2 voters
13. Timebomb (Peter Rauhofer Remix) - 20 points, 1 voter, 1 #1 vote
13. Stop Me from Falling (Joe Stone Remix) - 20 points, 1 voter, 1 #1 vote
13. On A Night Like This (Rob Searle Mix) - 20 points, 1 voter, 1 #1 vote
16. Giving You Up (Alter Ego Remix) - 18 points, 1 voter
16. Wow (MSTKRFT remix) - 18 points, 1 voter
16. Wow (Fuck Me I'm Famous Remix by David Guetta & Joachim Garraud) - 18 points, 1 voter
19. Please Stay (Hatiras Dreamy Dub Mix) - 16 points, 1 voter
19. Chocolate (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix) - 16 points, 2 voters
21. GBI (German Bold Italic) (Ebony Boogie Down Mix) - 14 points, 1 voter
21. Falling Hands [Michael Mayer] - 14 points, 1 voter
21. Shocked (DNA mix) - 14 points, 1 voter
24. In My Arms (Chris Lake vocal mix) - 12 points, 1 voter
25. Where Is the Feeling? (BIR Dolphin Mix) - 11 points, 1 voter
25. Surrender (Talking Soul Mix) - 11 points, 1 voter
25. Right Here, Right Now (7th Heaven Club Mix) - 11 points, 1 voter
25. Slow (Synth City Remix) - 11 points, 1 voter
25. In My Arms (Sebastian Leger Vocal Mix) - 11 points, 1 voter
25. I Was Gonna Cancel (The Presets Remix) - 11 points, 1 voter
31. Confide in Me (Justin Warfield remix) - 10 points, 1 voter
31. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Deluxe's Dirty Dub) - 10 points, 1 voter
31. Did It Again (Did It Four Times Mix) - 10 points, 1 voter
34. Shocked (Harding Curnow 12”) - 8 points, 1 voter
34. Too Far (Brothers In Rhythm Mix) - 8 points, 1 voter
34. Real Groove (Studio 2054 Remix) - 8 points, 1 voter
34. I Believe In You (Mylo vocal mix) - 8 points, 1 voter
38. Breathe (Tee’s Dub of Life) - 6 points, 1 voter
38. In Your Eyes (Mr. Bishi Mix) - 6 points, 1 voter
38. Finer Feelings (Brothers In Rhythm 12" Mix) - 6 points, 1 voter
40. Some Kind of Bliss (Quivver Mix) - 4 points, 1 voter
40. Too Far (Inner Door Mix) - 4 points, 1 voter
40. Magic (Purple Disco Machine Extended Mix) - 4 points, 1 voter
40. Love at First Sight (Ruff & Jam US Radio Mix) - 4 points, 1 voter
45. Breathe (Tee's Glimmer Mix) - 2 points, 1 voter
45. Tension (Shadow Child Remix) - 2 points, 1 voter

Cool. "Slow" got really stale for me through workplace radio exposure (I'm tempted to blame Triple J, but it would been have a different workplace from the one where I last implicated Triple J in an unrelated thread, so maybe not) but this mix freshens it up sufficiently today.

i doubt triple j would have played kylie back when "slow" came out

Yeah, I have doubts too, but I don't recall being force fed any other station during that period. There were definitely playing, say, St Etienne a little earlier, so it doesn't *quite* seem impossible. Maybe some commercial station and I've simply suppressed further memories.

Both the Slow and 2 Hearts remixes turn the relevant songs into their opposites.

The Chemical Bros take a minimalist and deliberately restrained song and produce an overblown epic.

Studio take a song which is winkingly (perhaps eyerollingly) camp and theatrical, and isolate something innocent and intimate at its core (the key to its magic is the decision to exclude the “I’m in love - wooh” refrain).

That's a fine choice for number one. I didn't know it before voting, but after a few recommendations on the voting thread it ended up being high on my list.

I was one of the number one voters for the Fischerspooner remix. I remember being blown away by the Top Of The Pops performance at the time.

YSI?

Any BIR mixes I heard in the ‘90s bounced off as too mershy*, but from this rollout I might slsk together a Minogue In Rhythm supercomp

*prob no Kylie remix landed with me until Fever, ie top 2 otm

ok let's do videos, we have a top 9

9. Better the Devil You Know
Released 1990
Directed by Paul Goldman
26 points, 2 voters
Video

Nice!

She’s got a lot of classic videos in my opinion, I’m sure not all of them will make it.

8. In Your Eyes
Released 2002
Directed by Dawn Shadforth
28 points, 2 voters
Video

didn't vote for videos as there were too many I hadn't seen, but she quite the catalogue

6. Spinning Around
Released 2000
Directed by Dawn Shadforth
42 points, 3 voters
Video

The Kylie reinvention really started with this video I think… definitely iconic shit.

spinning around video >>>>> spinning around the song

another tie of sorts

6. Slow
Released 2003
Directed by Baillie Walsh
42 points, 4 voters, 1 #1 vote
Video

5. Did It Again
Released 1997
Directed by Pedro Romhanyi
48 points, 3 voters
Video

@sarcap878
1 year ago
I was 7 years old when I first saw this on mtv and I thought Kylie Minogue was a girl group lol

4. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Released 2001
Directed by Dawn Shadforth
60 points, 5 voters
Video

ok albums time

https://i.ibb.co/bMq5HSYF/lightyears.png
10. Light Years
Released 2000
56 points, 7 voters

light years is 1/3 top tier, 1/3 decent, 1/3 terrible. the inconsistency is frustrating and it feels quite a bit like a rough draft of fever but i really really like the good part of this album

https://i.ibb.co/sp2Q661V/kylieminogue.png
8. Kylie Minogue
Released 1994
72 points, 8 voters

https://i.ibb.co/1tzs6cmR/rhythmoflove.png
8. Rhythm of Love
Released 1990
72 points, 7 voters

my #4 and #5 - hoping my #1 isn't outside the top 10

https://i.ibb.co/xSjcFHhy/disco.png
7. DISCO
Released 2020
88 points, 8 voters

all solid albums

i especially like the s/t , it's a fairly transparent attempt to capture the sounds that janet & madonna had recently been exploring but it does that fairly well

i voted for the first three though i decided to strategically vote and go with Infinite Disco as my Disco-era album of choice. But if we're talking studio releases it's hard to argue too hard against this placement.

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6. Aphrodite
Released 2010
116 points, 10 voters

i think this album is almost perfect tbh, it's front to back bangers, i still landed on her having five better albums, this is where i placed it.

I had more Aphrodite tracks in my poll than I expected.

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5. X
Released 2007
118 points, 11 voters, 1 #1 votes

i was surprised at how well this did, i didn't even consider it for my own ballot. there's a few gems but it makes light years seem cohesive and consistent

So top four is Fever for sure, but apart from that we have

Kylie
Enjoy Yourself
Let's Get To It
Impossible Princess
Body Language
Kiss Me Once
Golden
Tension
Tension II

had to give this my #1 in the end, it's just such a fun listen. fever was the one that made me notice her after basically forgetting she existed since middle school, body language kept my attention, this made me a huge fan.

https://i.ibb.co/Pvp1GD8G/impossibleprincess.png
4. Impossible Princess
Released 1997
140 points, 9 voters, 1 #1 votes

phew!

this is so close to being an all-time classic, i wish she'd had the chance to try something like this again. the world in which she gets to thread the needle like janet did and get to make big swings like this while still having hits would have been great

her biggest swing since then was maybe Golden? that was unfortunately not the best fit for her, but i think this was a remarkably good fit. we're long past the stage where she'd try this kind of thing again but even now occasionally she'll drop a track which is really incredibly forward thinking. just not a whole album.

it's hard to really complain though, she's just about the best there is within her specific wheelhouse.

i mean a big swing in terms of ambition and at least slightly left-field sounds in the way of impossible princess, the velvet rope etc., not just a minor stylistic diversion like golden. but she seems understandably pretty happy with her career and has continued to produce excellent pop over the years so i can't really blame her

https://i.ibb.co/pjL9bSwB/tension.png
3. Tension
Released 2023
148 points, 11 voters, 1 #1 votes

i hadn't heard Tension before this poll and was really impressed, it's a lot more than just Padam Padam

& I would say also a big swing

it was better than i remembered, it's pretty solid the whole way through, but i still prefer disco, i didn't have it this high

i know what you mean about Golden, though i think it's enough of a swing to count.

Tension was my #2, another year it might be my #1. Really incredibly impressive throughout, and i think it has her best single...

Golden is a swing and a miss imo

as expected...

https://i.ibb.co/jPzhCFgw/fullywrapped.jpg
2. Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)
Released 2025
154 points, 12 voters, 1 #1 votes

https://i.ibb.co/rGbqqcNR/christmas.jpg
1. Kylie Christmas
Released 2015
228 points, 12 voters, 8 #1 votes

Lol I did not even consider listening to these and I suffered through the Abbey Road Sessions.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

these are fun, never a chance i'd vote for them.

but seriously

https://i.ibb.co/LhqgxngG/bodylanguage.png
2. Body Language
Released 2003
154 points, 12 voters, 1 #1 votes

https://i.ibb.co/XrXBmJZr/fever.png
1. Fever
Released 2001
228 points, 12 voters, 8 #1 votes

a no doubter for this poll

full results:

17. Kylie + Garibay - Sleepwalker EP - 2 points, 1 voter
15. Golden - 2 points, 1 voter
15. Let's Get to It - 2 points, 1 voter
14. Kiss Me Once - 8 points, 2 voters
13. Infinite DISCO - 14 points, 2 voters
12. Kylie - 16 points, 3 voters
11. Tension II - 20 points, 2 voters
10. Light Years - 56 points, 7 voters
8. Rhythm of Love - 72 points, 7 voters
8. Kylie Minogue - 72 points, 8 voters
7. DISCO - 88 points, 8 voters
6. Aphrodite - 116 points, 10 voters
5. X - 118 points, 11 voters, 1 #1 vote
4. Impossible Princess - 140 points, 9 voters, 1 #1 vote
3. Tension - 148 points, 11 voters, 1 #1 vote
2. Body Language - 154 points, 12 voters, 1 #1 vote
1. Fever - 228 points, 12 voters, 8 #1 votes

Nice. Thanks ufo. Impressed that that Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) cover is a legit retail artefact. :)

I feel like I got back on the wagon somewhat circa Disco and Tension* -- it's probably obvious from my tracks ballot -- but I wasn't really sure how they might have rated, as longplayers, amongst hardcore scholars.

* possibly mostly a technology thing -- the barrier to casual listening being pretty much zero for pretty much everything by then.

there is also a snow queen edition of kylie christmas and a deluxe edition

Christmas albums are eternal!

The top ten here was pretty clear cut

Eight number ones for Fever is about what I was expecting. It's not just my favourite Kylie album, it's one of my favourite albums of the 21st century at this point. I wouldn't change a second of it. It was such a victory lap after Light Years did so well.

I'm pleased Disco has its supporters. I remember being disappointed it missed our end of year poll that year. I still revisit that one a lot.

Aphrodite was my number two. It felt like an apology record after X which got a lot of criticism at the time. As much as I love X, I can see why some people don't rate it. You can tell she overthought it a bit and it doesn't flow quite as well as some of her best albums. With Aphrodite, you know that Kylie and Stuart Price knew they had to get it right and I think they did. There isn't a weak song on there and despite it being very early 2010s in sound, I think it has held up remarkably well. It's a shame they didn't quite nail it with the singles choices. Better In Time was a weird pick for the third single when they had a whole bunch of better choices.

Tension at three is a big surprise. I revisited it last week and enjoyed it a lot. Padam is great and was a big moment for her, but there's better songs on there.

Delighted to see X in the top five. I think it's the album that really made me as a proper fan. I bought it around the same time I got albums like Britney's Blackout, Tangled Up by Girls Aloud and Overpowered (obviously soured on that one now) and it just felt like their was so many exciting things going on in pop music. So many of my favourite Kylie songs are on that one even though other releases of hers work better as full albums.

Body Language is the biggest grower in her back catalogue. I think I only liked the singles when I first heard it. Now I feel like I just wasn't ready for it. The whole album has aged like a dream and I love that she made such a leftfield album after the huge success of Fever. Decisions like that are why she'll always deserve more credit. She doesn't always do the predictable thing.

I agree with the above.

Much of my fondness for X (above and beyond its strict quality) is premised on it being a big album amongst a lot of my friends, I heard it at house parties a lot.

Fever was an enormous album for me not merely as a redemption of Kylie-as-pop-artist after I was frustrated by Light Years, but as a redemption of (post-French) disco-pop generally. I remember feeling so tired of the chart-friendly end of that sound by 2001 (Daft Punk's second album notwithstanding) that, before the album was released, I would have laughed at the proposition that a song like "Love At First Sight" would turn out to be one of my favourite songs of all time.

I didn’t put any albums on my ballot because despite my (patchy) fandom, I’ve not really been an album girly w Kylie? Mainly singles for me, especially later period. But I really should go back & dig in.

Just thinking that she had a UK number one single less than a year ago, and I'd be surprised if it got a single vote. Has anyone even heard it?

It’s ok but I don’t really have much desire to re-listen to it. Christmas #1s are also kind of a gimmick.

her highest uk singles chart placement since "slow"! it's inane and inoffensive, it's no "all i want for christmas is you" but there are far worse attempts at festive pop out there

the christmas album and it's various reissues are kinda worth a listen or at least a skim just because there's some odd decisions, like a fairly faithful cover of "christmas wrapping" with iggy pop inexplicably yelling in the background, a duet with james corden of all people covering "only you" (does that even have any connection to christmas?) and a cover of "everybody's free (to feel good)" (which definitely doesn't have anything to do with christmas) that turns it into a very short disco-power-ballad?

The Flying Pickets’ cover of ‘Only You’ was the UK Christmas number one in 1983. So guess it has some slight Christmas connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJB8ObOe1k

beat me to it!

I really liked the Christmas single and felt a bit emotional when she got the number one. It was everywhere when we were back in the UK last Christmas. I didn't consider voting for it or anything, but I thought it was definitely one of the strongest Christmas singles I'd heard in a long time. The latest version of the Christmas album was much improved as she added some songs that were actually good like Hot In December and the James Cordon duet was removed which made the whole thing more enjoyable.

In a world of multiple bonus track editions for different territories and retailers, and new versions of an album to rort the fans released weeks apart, I kind of love the idea of a Christmas album that just gets updated every few years. Tenth anniversary update of the Snow Queen edition next month, c’mon!

Are we starting the singles roll-out tonight?

It's going to begin Monday iirc

yeah singles starting next week