Kylie Minogue: Classic or Dud?

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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-three 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-three years ago)

one year passes...

I just picked up Light Years today and I'm really digging it. Of course every time I go to buy a Kylie Minogue CD I feel like I have to compensate in some way, so I also grabbed Ace of Spades.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 31 May 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, me too. I always pack a Kylie CD in with something credible, so people don't look down on me.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 31 May 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and to prove I'm not taking the piss, Light Years is fantastic. Body Language sounds awful initially, but on repeated listening it really improves.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 31 May 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been looking for this for awhile, and I find myself unconsciously shifting slightly to the left if people come near to look as if I'm scoping out what Ministry has to offer.

agree on that last point too.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 31 May 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

tom was the gybe of ilm

http://www.cstrecords.com/img/godspeed/mapofevilinvert.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 31 May 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(i listened to can't get you out of my head today)

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 31 May 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Even if its dated, Bomp had a better map.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 31 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I'm really enjoying body language right now.
It's weird to me that all you pop crazy daftpunkbasementjaxxmissyelliott loving types don't cotton to Kylie.
Same thing, isn't it?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I love Kylie, I've got her last four CDs.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I dig it; upthread there's a lot of venom being spewed about her corporate plasticity.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Fever enough to say classic without having heard much other stuff.
I like the "Slow" single, too.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Impossible Princess, Light Years, Fever, Body Language....all excellent.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Slow nominated for ILM best single? If not shoulda coulda woulda.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 August 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's weird to me that all you pop crazy daftpunkbasementjaxxmissyelliott loving types don't cotton to Kylie.

To tell you the truth I put on Fever a ot more than say, Rooty or Under Construction.

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

"a lot more"

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

I like Kylie's rapping on "Secret".

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

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

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

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

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

'Did It Again' deserves a revival

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

The title not being AKA Charlene is a Popinjustice

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

'Come Into My World', which is alright.

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

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

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

new video :

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

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

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French guy = Oliver Martinez who I think is maybe namechecked once? And she’s dated or been connected w at least other 4 dudes since then.

Honestly I’m down with the show’s “no one of note since Michael tbh” edit

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 May 2026 02:56 (two weeks ago)

All of the recent dudes are v handsome so she def still has good taste seemingly

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 May 2026 02:56 (two weeks ago)

Yeah given the one comment about how she's still searching for someone like Michael to some kind of degree I like the idea that they just simply failed to meet the necessary level, whatever their other qualities. Which, why wouldn't that be the case, she's Kylie, they are not.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 May 2026 03:40 (two weeks ago)

Exactly!

I kind of like how she has that Madonna-esque quality in that regard

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 May 2026 04:16 (two weeks ago)

it was curious how they barely touched on the Light Years/Fever one-two punch, and didn't give any mention whatsoever to Body Language through Disco, aside from hearing bits of several songs here and there. They really did a yada yada yada all the way from CGYOOMH to Padam Padam.

Yes, this is what I mean - these were all HUGE and enduring hits so a bit of music nerdery might have been good - but perhaps that's been done before and I just haven't seen it...

― kinder, Friday, 29 May 2026 08:58 (two weeks ago)

i do think overall this was good but it does suffer a bit from being a documentary which has clearly been made by folks raised on reality TV. there's not much that's allowed to breathe or linger, except for when Kylie pauses for a moment at her house to listen to the quiet.

i would also have really enjoyed hearing a bit more about the music over the last twenty plus years, considering the sheer quality of the work if nothing else. X being a big comeback, Aphrodite maybe being her best, Disco being a pandemic album she had a big hand in producing herself at home, let alone Tension.

― omar little, Friday, 29 May 2026 21:45 (two weeks ago)

Yeah I’d def love a more music-focused, nerdier documentary too

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 May 2026 01:20 (one week ago)

A perfect little bonus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAerJav0xQw

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 May 2026 05:35 (one week ago)

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