Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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Well? Vertically-challenged talentless Aussie slapper or better than a good date with Britney Spears?

― Ally, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I can still remember that "I Should Be So Lucky" song better than I can the "Loco-Motion" remake. And I like what I remember of it as well. And, unlike her ex-beau Mr. Hutchence, she's never been found dead as a result of a bizarre solo sex game, though I can understand how that would elevate her in some eyes.

Hmm...maybe not a classic, but no dud. I mean, when it comes to vertically challenged Australians, better her than those Silverchair rugrats. Although maybe they're tall now.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm gonna say Classic because of how much better she is than all the recent Classic or Dud choices. (Thanks, Ally, for saving us from another difficult Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music or Eggnoodley Commie Anti-Music question.) I've only heard five Kylie songs - "I Should Be So Lucky", the cover of "Loco-Motion" which I also can't really remember, the murder-by-the-river duet with Nick Cave, "Spinning Around" and "Your Disco Needs You" - but I'll take them over all the Royal Trux albums I just sold.

She's definitely too small though.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Although totally dud for me, she was clever enough to churn out commercial poop again. I hope her clothes are sold on the basis of how much they weigh. It'll only cost her a few pennies to dress like a successful Traci Lords.

― my fool name, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Dud. Not really for the songs which are just okayish pop songs, but more for the endless obssesion of the British music and lifestyle press with her. She isn't *that* interesting.

― Omar, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I would say Dud because she reminds me of lasses with perms, Danniii,'Especially for You', Streetfighter and 'The Hitman + Her'.

I would say NOTADUD for 'Confide in me' and that video where she gets naked in a Barberella stylee.

But not classic

― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Not absolutely a dud, but overrated. Really really overrated, the pop equivalent of GYBE or someone in terms of overratedness. Her various reinventions have been plodding, generally, and "I Should Be So Lucky" isn't even much good. 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. That said once she became the biggest thing in the SAW stable she got some of their choicer songs - "Better The Devil You Know" for instance - so it's not all bad.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I think some of the SAW singles are classic, especially "I Should be so Lucky" and "Shocked". But everything else is extremely iffy. Not bad, but just not lovable. Her latest singles try to recapture the spirit of the SAW era, but there's none of the enthusiasm there. I thought "Spinning Around" was lifeless. I really couldn't categorize Classic or Dud. There should be a middle ground of "Eh" in there somewhere...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'll answer my own question now (and yes, Otis, I'm always good to ruin the indie bent of this board): classic, but I think if I was coming from the other 8 billion countries where Kylie is considered famous it'd be a different story. As it is, she's absolutely nothing in America, so it makes her feel underrated for me. Your Disco Needs You is one my favorite singles going right now.

Here's a question: a lot of people I know who classify themselves as pop fans don't particularly care for Kylie, while a lot of indie fans I know overrate her. Did her Nick Cave/Manics collabs ruin her for the pop set with her annoying "realness"?

Next up has got to the Traci Lords: Classic or Dud, except I fear I'm the only person round here with her album ;)

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

tom, you really love throwing around that "(genre) version of gybe!" comparison. ;)

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I know, it's crap, isn't it. I'm feeling really groggy and ill today so I wasn't up to thinking of another overrated band except for GYBE ;) Beck maybe.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I heard she's gonna do an episode of Neighbours! Probably Madge's funeral...Her songs were okay. Now, she is like one of those Chris Evan's guest people...so pretty dud.

― james edmund L, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Ooh, your mention of Madge reminds me that Mike from Neighbours is actually kicking Charlene's ass popularity-wise in the States.

And deservedly so, since Memento is much more fun than anything Kylie has done lately.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

It's got to be a question of perspective (geographically, anyway). In the UK, I can see how she'd be an "eh," as you guys get more than your fill of her songs and her appearances and her social life...but here in the U.S.? ZILCH. We got to see "Loco-motion" on MTV a few times way (I mean WAY) back when, had to hunt down a domestic release of "Confide in Me" before it disappeared forever, and have been desperately slapping every single from "Breathe" (fantastic) to "Your Disco Needs You" (genius) on homemade mix CDs so that we can get the word out that she's still alive and still making music and still at least somewhat deserving of an audience in the States. So count your lucky stars if you're sick of Kylie--I'd love to be sick of her. Classic all the way--in the U.S.A.

― Max Jones, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Is there a law that all Australians must be in Neighbours at some point in their lives?

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Yep! Neighbours has produced so many popstars...Steffan Dennis, Craig McSomething (Henry), Jason Donavon, even the twins released a single (I think). Who will be next?

― james edmund L, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Even arch-smuggo Clive James appeared in it once.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Kylie Kylie Kylie: DUD! DUD! DUD! She is so shit. completely awful apart from two moments of brilliance: "I should be so lucky" and "Where the Wild Roses Grow". Everything else is sooooo bad. And this rebranding of her as some kind of sex symbol is laughable - does anyone find her attractive? She's like a porcelein doll, not a human being. She'd probably shatter. Gah.

― PihkalBoy, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Oh, I think "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is easily one of the most overrated songs of all time. It's the 2nd worst song on Murder Ballads. It was just a stunt duet -- gimmicky and tacky. As far as Kylie duets go, even Kids is better. And I say this as more of a Nick Cave fan than a Kylie fan.

― Nicole, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Ah yes, the singing budgie. Classic because who knew budgie's could sing? The longevity of her career is more perplexing than Madonna's. Her early hits are all shite, albeit catchy shite, recent hits unremarkably bland. Redeeming features: (a) "Better the Devil You Know" - excellent single, even better video, (b) on-going propensity to fall out of her clothes, though I can't say I fancy her, but I appreciate the gesture, and (c) giving Nick Cave ONE redeeming feature by singing with him. Plus I liked how said duet's video had the (unwitting?) appearance of a Timotei shampoo commercial, Kylie walking wistfully through the grass with the sun in her hair, etc.

― AP, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I must be the only person who actually liked the Impossible Princess album she did before she decided to go full-fledged pop again. As mature artistic makeovers go it beat the living shit out of Ray Of Light. Now Kylie's bigger here than she's ever been really, but everything I've heard off Light Years has left me cold, like it's all a dispassionate attempt to make the SAW/handbag equivalent of "classic pop".

― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

No, Tim, I like that album too, unfortunate I can't get a copy of it anywhere.

On the attractiveness front: I've always found her terribly UNattractive, actually. I never understood that. I like her for her music and NOWT ELSE. She just looks a bit...I don't know, nostrilly and she's very, very tiny.

― Ally, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Would concur with Tom on her being overrated, but what's interesting to me is why she's overrated and how that came about. It always seems to me that she's liked by people who value "timelessness" in chartpop, the opposite of my / Tom's approach, so for us the fact that "I Should Be So Lucky" et al could have been written in 1969 or now just as much as in the late 80s is a reason to be wary of her (the early 90s were, as Tom hints, her best period). There's a tendency to praise that aspect of chartpop while denouncing the genuinely ephemeral stuff as "trash", while for me the more of-the- moment chartpop is, the more points there are in its favour; hence why the greatest SAW singles for me are Mel and Kim's Yuppie Trilogy and, of course, "I'd Rather Jack". By comparison Kylie's stuff of the time is "classic" in the worst sense.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

seven months pass...

I think her new video is nearly perfect, the dancing on it is really good. It's like dancing is being constantly alluded to! What kind of a triumph is that? I like the men dressed like Kraftwerk, and the background which is like Metropolis. I like the 'nostalgia for the future.' I like the car, I had a toy car exactly like that, it was my favourite because the doors opened upwards. I like the way her body is all perfect and symmetrical, as if it were computer generated. I like to think that she was airbrushed neatly in photoshop. I like the white dress that doesn't matter if it gapes open, because her body is completely false. Now that I reread this, I feel I'm giving too much credit to Kylie herself. I don't respect her more because of this video and song.

― maryann, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

While I try not to delude myself into believing me to be an oracle of popular culture,I do know for certain one thing.If someone claims to be an artist,they should be capable of producing evidence of thatclaim.If I say I'm a painter,you'd want to see my..paintings.If I'm a singer you'd wnt to hear me sing etc etc.Now here's where the Pro-Anti Kylie thing comes in.As most Pop music is now produced through "Production",Smoke and Mirrors, one doesn't need to have artistic merit to be successful.Just an unshakeable belief in yourself and an unquenchable desire to be noticed.It seems most of the "artists" who appear in todays glossies seem to fall into this category.I always try to make the distinction between Artist and Celebrity.To be fair to Kylie she a classic CELEBRITY.But as an Artist she doesn't of course register on the scale.

― Garry, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

Well I used to like Kylie - when I was about 10. Now I cant stand her. I too think she is completely overrated. All she can do is flash her bum, which has recently became a lot more pert. Mmmmm..... And her lips and her boobs and her personality, I reckon are one thing and one thing only - FALSE!!!

Years ago she did not have big lips. Her right eyebrow did not touch her hairline like it does now, it was actually lower than the left one if you look at pics! Her boobs miraculously grew when she was seeing Micheal Hutchence, and her bum doesn't have a crease on it!!! Every bum has creases when you stand up. I dont rate her music either. I agree Better than the Devil you Know was OK, but her recent efforts such as at the Brit awards when she had her ar*e hanging out again, she wanted to be 'cool' by mixing her song with Blue Monday. SOoooo wasn't good.

She is an overrated, plastic, old tart who wants to get some clothes on and give women dignity, not make them look like they are gagging for it. Hopefully she'll go BACK out of fashion, AND SOON!!!!!!!

― Felicity, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She has a wonderful body but sadly only her mouth makes music.
If Im actually supposed to like her singing then shes a dud, if your comparing her to Spears shes classic.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Put Yourself In My Place is absolute classic. as is the title track to Light Years..

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think she looks beautiful, like a sculpture. I was a bit disappointed when I found out some was plastic surgery but then the plastic surgery-d parts are the dumbest - she could have done okay without the lips and breasts, I mean, it's the shiny smooth skin I think. She has also made her music kind of 'match' herself; I mean, it's superficial and shiny and surfacy. She is like a perfect package. However, I don't actually understand how it's possible to be like that. It's quite disappointing seeing her on Top of the Pops, when strands of hair come loose and she's wearing leather and you can see the grain.

― maryann, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kylie's great singles that have already been mentioned: confide in me, put yourself in my place, shocked, better the devil you know

kylie's GREAT, CONSTANTLY OVERLOOKED single: what do i have to do?!

kylie overall: classic. since when has it been about 'artistry' and 'singing'? i'm shocked that this stuff has come up.

― minna, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More proof of how much criticism can be disarmed by becoming a Gay Icon. Every lapse of taste can be explained as ironic, self- consciously cheesy or deliberately camp. Critics who would normally be contemptuous of such mediocre talent are frozen by fear of appearing unhip or looking like they "don't get it".

― Naomi, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine.

― Honda, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm convinced Kylie isn't a real person, she looks like a hologram.

that's what i want - hologram pop stars.

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jem to thread!

― geeta, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I didn't know anything about Kylie until early this year and I think she's scary and fabulous. There's this part where she shrieks in "More more more" that sends chills down my spine."

YES!

It's amazing how Kylie jumped from my bad books into my good books with such a minute shift in style from the last album.

― Tim, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

late Kylie is like late Bolan ergo CLASSIC

she's even become the cover of Siren

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

late Kylie is like late Bolan

not referring to the music
rather the persona

though some of the music (both's) is rather fine...

"..move on up, ya move on back
ya laser luv is like a ..heaartATTAACK!"

― Paul, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

People seem to be comparing The Minogue with Britney Spears. Personally, I think there's no comparison.

Both of their music style's is of course not their own, but Britney has this 'thing' about her that makes you want to watch her. She does actually look like what she does in the photos. And when people go on and on, criticising her about wearing skimpy stuff - we have to remember she is only 20 and has to entertain. However, Kylie is nearly 34 and is still prancing around like an old slut with her plastic, pinned up arse and nobody says a word!!! When are the papers gonna see sense and slate her for the old tart she is!!! She is revelling in all of this attention she is getting, and its about time it stopped! OK, Spears is rumoured to have had a boob-job (and propbably has), but when do you see them hanging out of her top, like the goofy- toothed dwarfs??? Those pics from her Fever tour are ridiculous. Her boobs are pushed up sooooooo much, you can see the plastic popping out of the flesh!!! And have you noticed that there's not a smile from the pop- pixie? She is just looking down on herself, revelling in her plasticness. I dont know, I think the country has been brainwashed. It was that song 'Cant get you out of my head' that done it. It must have had some kind of subliminal message saying "MEN: You will all adore Kylie - she is the perfect image of woman; and WOMEN: You will all not care that your men fantasise about Kylie every night in her hotpants, you must love her and want to be her".

Well, I think I must have been one of the few that escaped her propaganda tactics!

Is there anybody else out there??????????????????

― Felicity Collinson, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

calling kylie minogue's breasts "goofy- toothed dwarfs" = best post ever

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm worried about the idea that breasts have teeth.

― Ally, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ilx like totally sux0r now!!!

― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't Get You Out Of My Head is classic, and one or two others have been goodies too. I don't have much idea how much credit Kylie deserves for these or how much blame for the awful, awful ones. She generally looks cute, though that hardly makes her stand out from several hundred other pop stars.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm really obsessed with the title track to Light Years all of a sudden. Hello, my name...is Kylie. I will be...your person - what the hell does it even mean? It's great.

― Ally, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i bought the 'rhythm of love' cd recently, because of 'what do i have to do'... but it's only driven home how great 'better the devil you know' is. i love the synthesiser male back up singer bits:

kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesiser 'oh' noise: "oh oh oh oh oh"
kylie: "i'll take you back again"
male synthesister 'oh' noise: "oo-oo-oh...oo-oo-oh"

i wonder what he's trying to say?

― minna, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'oh'

― Josh, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's also not often-mentioned that Kylie is also CLASSIC for that rapping diva in "Shocked". And also CLASSIC for the poncey dance-in-beret that Kylie does while said diva is in command of the song.

― Tim, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's getting very credible if the Kid Kreme and Erick Morillo remixes of her new single are a sign of credibility and since Subliminal Records are so good then I think they are.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being also vertically challenged, gotta go for classic, though "I Should Be So Lucky" should be shredded as a definite cringe-maker.

Thank god she got rid of the bad perm and reinvented herself....

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Put it this way;like her or love her,would you have her sing at your Wedding?

― Garry Coe, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A little POO! (in honor of Keiko) --> "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" [Blue Monday Remix] - That one's a classic. Dud: Didn't she do that "brand new dance" the "Locomotion" ... ? I could do without that song.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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I was also that kid who (enthusiastically) got that year's Kylie album on cassette for every xmas from 1988 to 1991. Clearly Rhythm of Love and the four immaculate associated singles stand as the high watermark these days, but I was hugely excited for Let's Get to It in 91 and, at the time, didn't really discern any major drop-off - it feels much flimsier overall now but I really adored 'Too Much of a Good Thing' and 'Finer Feelings' and 'Live and Learn'. No smile and the presence of Three Lurking Men on the sleeve blew my mind a bit. Echo the praise for the b-sides from this era which outclass most of the album.

― technopolis, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 15:39 (one month ago)

I really love Melissa Tkautz "Sexy Is The Word" and I'm always surprised it seems she never got a UK push with it

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 16:39 (one month ago)

Off ROL, I really like Always Find the Time, as a relative deep cut. It’s not on par with the singles but it’s v good.

― omar little, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 16:53 (one month ago)

The fact that Melissa followed “Read My Lips” with “Sexy Is the Word” caused me to vaguely assume that she was planning a concept album that would double as an elaborate phonics class

― Tim F, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 17:20 (one month ago)

haha

a long-game psyop to teach ppl how to pronounce her name correctly

― uploading this content requires perseveration (sic), Wednesday, 12 August 2026 17:27 (one month ago)

Younger fans of Chappell Roan might have their minds blown to know that when I was a kid there were pop stars with unusual names who might have a number one single even and still there was no way you could find out what the correct pronunciation was unless you just happened to see them being interviewed on network TV for some reason

aka this is why she didn’t get a UK push

― Tim F, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 20:58 (one month ago)

I struggled with how to pronounce "Steve Winwood" too.

― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 August 2026 20:59 (one month ago)

Seeing an old local LA newscaster struggle to pronounce 'Depeche Mode' in 1990 after the sorta-riot there was a moment.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 21:17 (one month ago)

Was he trying to describe the looting of a department store?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 21:39 (one month ago)

Hardly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKPtQojA8ws

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 August 2026 21:41 (one month ago)

"things can only get better" is another highlight from it, and if they replaced the guitar solo with a bass solo it'd fit right on technique

I can hear it, now that you mention it. (The ludicrous thing is that I may have nominated New Order as a favourite band at that age. But I'd become wary of chart pop by the time I marched into K-mart for the aforementioned Kylie gift. Such an observation may have hurt at the time lol.)

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 August 2026 02:44 (one month ago)

they really phoned it in on enjoy yourself though, that doesn't have anything going for it at all, it's very bland

Outside the singles EY is incredibly underwritten (I adored it aged 8, obviously), but! 'Hand on Your Heart' b-side 'Just Wanna Love You' is rather more charming and distinctive than most of her 1989 output

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqim12Fhzc0

― technopolis, Thursday, 13 August 2026 04:20 (one month ago)

even the singles are really underwritten imo and it's just pretty flat overall

― ufo, Thursday, 13 August 2026 11:06 (one month ago)

I would like to pretend that I will listen to Enjoy Yourself before assembling my ballot, but I feel like that pretence would be insulting to all of you and also to myself.

― Tim F, Thursday, 13 August 2026 13:30 (one month ago)

I can't remember anything from Enjoy Yourself except Hand on Your Heart and the title track. they're both pretty good, but on a whole it's a repetitive step down from the debut. And then after the leap forward with Rhythm of Love, Let's Get To It feels like a major regression (and she herself didn't really jibe with it either, iirc.)

― omar little, Thursday, 13 August 2026 20:36 (one month ago)

Enjoy Yourself also has Never Too Late! wouldn’t Change a Thing! Tears on my Pillow!

I loved these when I was 13 and deep into my SAW bag .. I dunno if they hit as well now but the pre-chorus/chorus hooks still are p enjoyable

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 August 2026 20:44 (one month ago)

let's get to it at least has some half-baked attempts at new jack swing etc., they're at least trying stuff on it even if the results are very underwhelming

― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2026 00:10 (one month ago)

This is going to be the best poll. I’m listening to her discography on shuffle. So many bangers among the deep cuts.

― omar little, Friday, 14 August 2026 17:01 (one month ago)

Was just reminded of perhaps the most wholesome/corniest thing in her live catalog: the “especially for you” duet with Kermit the frog. it cracks me up every time.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 14 August 2026 20:39 (one month ago)

it's really impressive how she's easily able to vacillate between being an incredibly astute, controlled popstar and a charmingly corny normie.

also wanted to add, listening to Light Years again and I agree w/kitchenperson on I'm So High - it's a really outstanding track and that chorus really hits.

― omar little, Friday, 14 August 2026 21:20 (one month ago)

I'm so happy to read that omar. I sometimes think I'm So High might her most underrated song. I'm so glad I picked up the Light Years reissue, it has made me appreciate the album so much more.

I'm interested to see how people rate X these days and which songs will make the list. I've played it a few times since I picked up the reissue and it has a handful of my favourite Kylie songs. Cosmic always hits me hard. The vulnerability is so beautiful and I honestly don't think her voice has sounded better. A lot of her albums have killer closing tracks. Burning Up, Can't Beat The Feeling, Story, Celebrate You, Light Years etc. Cosmic might be my favourite of the bunch.

― kitchen person, Saturday, 15 August 2026 01:57 (one month ago)

light years has some of her very best songs but also some real duds. i really love "please stay" which was only a minor hit and seems largely forgotten these days

― ufo, Saturday, 15 August 2026 10:20 (one month ago)

Bit surprised at the lack of love for Hand On Your Heart, especially with its gorgeous descending chords in the chorus. Also to observe Kylie has two entirely unrelated songs called Love At First Sight - the undeniable banger from 2002, but also this none-more-PWL effort from 1989.

― furtho, Saturday, 15 August 2026 14:06 (one month ago)

there's probably a good song in "hand on your heart" but the recording is so flat & over-compressed, it's horrible. the whole album's like that and it just leaves no impression as a result

― ufo, Saturday, 15 August 2026 14:46 (one month ago)

The extended fllter disco version of hand on your heart from the 2004 showgirl tour is ingrained in my head as the definitive version. Can’t get enough of it. That whole show had great arrangements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bwpzjF8kG0

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 15 August 2026 18:34 (one month ago)

light years has some of her very best songs but also some real duds. i really love "please stay" which was only a minor hit and seems largely forgotten these days

― ufo

I used to think there were lots of duds on it, but recently I've been enjoying almost everything on there, even the ballad. I don't need to hear Kids ever again though.

― kitchen person, Saturday, 15 August 2026 18:57 (one month ago)

does anyone rate Kids nowadays? It seems so out of place

tbf I often feel like I am like one remix or live rearrangement away from loving a Kylie track I wasn’t originally into

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 15 August 2026 19:17 (one month ago)

I never really rated it and I will happily stand up for a handful of Robbie Williams singles from back in the day. It does seem out of place on the album. I'm guessing the label insisted it was on there as they weren't expecting the whole campaign to go as well as it did and figured the album needed an extra push as he was still in his imperial phase. The album campaign would have gone on for even longer if they'd put out Your Disco Needs You at Christmas instead of Please Stay.

― kitchen person, Saturday, 15 August 2026 20:23 (one month ago)

that version of "hand on your heart" is much better yeah. i don't think the original arrangement is even bad it's just terribly produced and doesn't hit at all in the way that it should.

"kids" is a dud and completely out of place yeah. i don't like "your disco needs you" much either, i prefer my disco lighter & breezier

― ufo, Saturday, 15 August 2026 23:38 (one month ago)

Your Disco Needs You does seem to divide people. I still think it would have been absolutely massive if released as a single.

― kitchen person, Sunday, 16 August 2026 00:51 (one month ago)

Light Years seems a lot more agreeable to me than it did at the time, when it felt extremely calculating and a bit of a PR-mandated repudiation of the previous album - Kylie’s equivalent of “woke 1.0 was crazy” I guess.

Straight out the gate the Fever run just felt both more confident and comfortable, she no longer needed to prove that she could still top the charts so instead could focus on making the best chartbound dance-pop possible.

But in light of the various iterations around that basic blueprint since then, I don’t hear the same degree of calculation in Light Years that I did at the time.

focus on

― Tim F, Sunday, 16 August 2026 00:52 (one month ago)

Fever is one of the best examples I can think of where an artist capitalized on the momentum they'd built up and turned it into something special and career defining. The whole era including the quality of the music, the single choices, the videos and even the B-sides was such a triumph.

― kitchen person, Sunday, 16 August 2026 01:04 (one month ago)

I liked the singles from Body Language at the time. Didn't know until now that Emiliana Torrini had a writing credit on Slow.

When I was a kid I don't think I realised the Kylie 'Better the Devil you know" was a different song from the Sonia / Eurovision one with the same name - I was more familiar with that, but have no idea how?!

― kinder, Sunday, 16 August 2026 10:34 (one month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VTQ9hqMu5M here ya go

― kinder, Sunday, 16 August 2026 10:36 (one month ago)

at the time I thought "Your Disco Needs You" felt very cynical and pandering, but in a world where "Firework" and "Born This Way" exist now it feels much more quaint and charming

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 16 August 2026 11:57 (one month ago)

I was dying at that Kermit duet btw, it’s classic variety show cornball and vv charming.

― omar little, Sunday, 16 August 2026 15:26 (one month ago)

^ 100%

― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 16 August 2026 15:47 (one month ago)

there's probably a good song in "hand on your heart" but the recording is so flat & over-compressed, it's horrible. the whole album's like that and it just leaves no impression as a result

I always hear José Gonzales’ cover in my head when I see the title.

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 16 August 2026 20:29 (one month ago)

i think it was a vv revelatory time, especially for Americans like myself who forgot about her after her brief US success in the late '80s. i didn't get the full scope of it til years later seeing other videos, live performances, photo shoots etc.

also - Bally Total Fitness licensed her music video to Can't Get You Out of My Head for their commercials over here, in line with their tradition of using popstars to sell their services, going back years to Sheena Easton being their featured spokesperson in ads. anyway, i saw this ad and they had the music video chyron crediting her and i was completely taken aback that this was Kylie Minogue, of "Locomotion" fame. i associated her fully with the era of peak hair metal, terrible power ballads, novelty cover songs (obv), Steve Winwood having a huge #1 album, etc.

― omar little, Thursday, 20 August 2026 17:05 (four weeks ago)

I wasn't fully happy with the "complete" Kylie playists on Spotify, so I've done two of my own:

Complete Chronological (ordered by date of release, includes remixes, excludes live recordings - 710 tracks)

Songs Chronological (no remixes or re-recordings - 306 tracks)

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 25 August 2026 13:48 (three weeks ago)

I aspire one day to make a playlist of the best/alternate live versions of all her songs, especially the older material.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 26 August 2026 13:48 (three weeks ago)

Saved that playlist though, thanks Mike!

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 26 August 2026 13:52 (three weeks ago)

two weeks pass...

Cool list. Made Of Glass is such an amazing song that really deserved more than being just a B-side.

https://thequietus.com/culture/books/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-in-search-of-kylie-michael-cragg/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUS625wZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMU4ycGROSVM4RUZhVTlvaW1zcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeUJ7bpIp9myNdkM_K8l9qH-S3DlaUbKRLq6ypCptLDljJk3-gDPoeIt_RFtU_aem__swvHSjrEb7T1CC5jA8CwQ

― kitchen person, Sunday, 13 September 2026 02:40 (four days ago)

vv good

Somebody to Love is top ten Kylie for me

― omar little, Sunday, 13 September 2026 03:18 (four days ago)

i'll start the poll sometime in the next few weeks, first week of september at the latest
― ufo, Monday, August 10, 2026 3:06 PM (one month ago)

― Bee OK, Sunday, 13 September 2026 04:37 (four days ago)

work deadlines got pushed back and i've been real busy but i'm 100% done with that project for real this week so it'll start by the end of the week

― ufo, Sunday, 13 September 2026 05:16 (four days ago)

reminds me i was supposed to start the action movies poll redux about a week ago but i got caught up in some things, i'll get to it eventually but might wait til after this gets going.

― omar little, Sunday, 13 September 2026 19:19 (four days ago)

work deadlines got pushed back and i've been real busy but i'm 100% done with that project for real this week so it'll start by the end of the week

― ufo

Finally some good news. Thanks for offering to do this.

― kitchen person, Sunday, 13 September 2026 19:51 (four days ago)

It seems that Bally Total Fitness did a series of, or at least two, comma, adverts with Kylie Minogue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAnFsrZmerQ

Sadly the only trace of the "Can't Get You Out of My Etc" ad is a video of a TV screen. A while back I worked out that of those two songs I prefer "Come Into My World", and I'm not just saying that in order to have a more interesting opinion than the next person. It has a thicker production and there's something dreamy, breathless about the chorus.

Also the video is incredibly nostalgic. It has that whole "early digital video" quality. The whole "Adobe After Effects V0.98 Beta running on a Power Macintosh G4" quality to it. And the clothes remind me of being young. Everybody had across-the-body DJ bags back then.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 15 September 2026 18:15 (two days ago)

I'm checking out Rhythm of Love today and really am very impressed, I liked the singles at the time, but there's a lot more, One Boy Girl is a favourite, and the "original mix" of Things Can Only Get Better on the bonus CD is up there with the singles.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 16 September 2026 10:35 (yesterday)

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