A thread to discuss everything about 1989's Enjoy Yourself.
1. Hand On Your Heart
2. Wouldn't Change a Thing
3. Never Too Late
4. Nothing to Lose
5. Tell Tale Signs
6. My Secret Heart
7. I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)
8. Tears On My Pillow
9. Heaven and Earth
10. Enjoy Yourself
Great idea having all the links to the albums and having threads for each album, il always enjoy an enjoy yourself thread as I just love the album. I was young when it was released and kinda wish I was older when it was so I could enjoy its huge success. I have great memories of the success of the singles but access to info in other countries was impossible to get back then.
Big standsouts from the album, i really wish there was better quality of these available, why why why didnt they make an official release of the anti tour so we could have good quality live versions of these songs.
Love the behind stuff from never to late,NTL is still my fave enjoy yourself single.
Part of my actually prefers this to the debut except for Hand on your heart which I skip, I prefer I wouldn’t change a thing and Never too late. I over dreaming over you and Enjoy Yourself should have been the other singles
It's a great performance if only we could get better quality video. I think so many kylie songs need to be seen and heard live as its changed my opinion on a few songs. I'm over dreaming over you I have always loved but this live version made me even love it more and same with the title track.
I really expected pete waterman to name drop im over dreaming over you when picking out songs.
Love the track by track reviews, always great to see other people’s perspective of albums I love
Agree with all your opinions here. Heaven and earth is the weakest on the album but still not a bad song either. There def is hints of her future music on some of the tracks. Nothing to lose is a great album track and I prob over look it sometimes.
Ah I love everything about this album and era - Kylie mania was fever pitch and this album was the sound of the year.
I remember back then always wanting ‘Enjoy Yourself’ to be released as a single - such a great song.
I wonder who won the meet Kylie competition that you got an entry form with on the poster that came with the first batch of the album.
I always wanted enjoy yourself to be a single, back then kylie was on the front cover of every teen pop magazine, had badges, patches you name it, it was a great time to a fan.
Enjoy Yourself would have made a perfect 3rd single following Wouldn't Change A Thing
That said, the album offered a large range of single options that some great songs always had to lose out.
Enjoy Yourself and Light Years both had this issue with choices for singles for which, has made them such wonderful albums to listen to.
Enjoy yourself is the type of album that fits into today's climate when 5 or 6 singles can work from an album and there is plenty to fit the bill here.
It had the standard of songs to serve up to 6 singles and in today's climate the album would have needed at least 4 more tracks on the album to allow for this.
Different times for music, but, those key songs many fans adored, but did not make it as a single remain just as loved today as the singles themselves.
Ya songs like enjoy yourself and I'm over dreaming remain very popular and their reception on the anti tour seemed to be really really good.
The style choice of the hat Kylie wears on the cover is questionable.
It was a bad styling choice.
Ya its not the best, they had a thing for hats on the first 2 album covers, as much as i love the album im not keen on the cover. I prefer the cover of kylie to enjoy yourself.
Kylie is the better of the two album covers.
In parts, Enjoy Yourself shows small traces of what was to come on Rhythm of Love which is represented through I'm Over Dreaming (Over You).
This is literally an album of two halves for me - I like all the upbeat songs, but dislike all of the ballads!
As a package though the whole album works for me. I always enjoyed this album but love it even more now as I've listened to it alot in the last while. After years of preferring rhythm of love I def prefer enjoy yourself more now but still love ROL aswell.
On Enjoy Yourself, the ballads are the weaker elements of the album but, remain likeable.
The ballads however, make the uptempo songs really shine.
The ballads mix through the album nicely, its standard that kylie has a ballad or 2 on her albums. The ballads in the later years though are far far better than the SAW ballads.
I like the ballads on offer and they get more critique than they deserve.
Many of kylies ballads get a hard time and for most they seem to be love or hate songs.
So I am listening to this album for the first time.
It’s not great is it lol
What came first Sonia’s INSLY or I’m Over Dreaming ? They are the same 😉
TOMP which I haven’t played in years I really enjoyed. This should be the last track on the album.
Heaven and Earth is listenable
Enjoy Yourself should open the album. I think I enjoyed this over the other singles!
If i didn’t mention a track it’s because it’s not worth mentioning.
I welcome your praise of the title track but largely have the opposite opinion on the album overall.
It is one of my most highly regarded Kylie albums.
Geat songs aplenty, and big hits.
I’ll never stop loving you, did she have any others 😉
Ah i was getting confused as i thought it might be that but its called You'll Never stop from loving you it was the I that was throwing me, sonia had a few hits to be fair and i think her debut album is really good, not as good as enjoy yourself but still very good, i think sonia track came first but there wouldnt have been a huge gap between them either.
Sorry for the error lol
No probs as I said I couldn't work it out was thought it was that song.
From this and her debut which does Kylie appear to prefer.
Based on so as she performs I'd say they are equal.
Listening to this today It's really not a favourite of mine Even the best song on the album for me is FAR from being magic. I find it lacks the charm of the debut and the memorable hooks. It's cute enough, and a nice listen but not going to be a favourite of mine.
1. Hand On Your Heart
2. Never Too Late
3. Wouldn't Change a Thing
4. I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)
5. Nothing to Lose
6. Tears On My Pillow
7. Heaven and Earth
8. Enjoy Yourself
9. My Secret Heart
10. Tell Tale Signs
Im so the opposite i think its full of memorable hooks and has equally if not more charm than her debut, our tastes are obviously so dif as im over dreaming over you and enjoy yourself are 2 of my ultimate kylie songs and rank far higher than many of her singles.
I'm the same as Feel the Fever, I think the high points of the album feel stronger than her debut and definitely has more charm. The ballads do drag it down slightly but they're passable and do allow Kylie use her voice a bit more. 'Never Too Late' is my favourite Kylie song of the 80s and 'I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)' is one of her best album tracks of her PWL years.
I think you'll like 'Rhythm of Love' though, it's generally regarded as her best album with PWL! The strength of the songs takes another step up and resembles the more dance-influenced sound we associate with Kylie in later years, plus there's lots of personality to it.
It's so interesting reading that this is generally better received than the debut. Even just looking at the tracklists of the two, the debut seems to consistently decent (with some good and great moments) whereas this is decent with some good. I have listened to the debut a fair bit more than this, so I'll keep listening to this and see if it grows in my affections!
I can certainly see why her debut would be perceived as stronger, it just comes back to the way I feel about Madonna's 'Like a Virgin'. Also, much like that album, I think some of the post-production spoils it, like her voice has been pitched higher and some of the tracks don't feel as polished as they should be.
There are many similarities with enjoy yourself and her debut and i can honestly say i still love both, but there was progress made from her debut to enjoy yourself and it gives the album the edge. Rhythm of love to follow really kept that great momentum going with solid great albums.
Been listening on REPEAT today and it is definitely growing on me. 'Heaven and Earth' in particular. I like the album a lot more now, but still a distant second from the debut but I'll accept that I'm alone with that thought
Enjoy Yourself is the better against her debut but 50% of the fans would disagree.
I see Enjoy Yourself as Kylie's second best album of her career with Light Years first.
I've always loved her first 3 album but for years rhythm of love was my fave album until light years came along but over the last 10 -15 years enjoy yourself is level with ROL.
Ya im glad they misread it aswell as i much prefer enjoy yourself as a title, nice story to read as i hadnt heard that before.
I agree! Not all songs include the title in the lyrics anyway. It also shows what a machine SAW was with album packaging being produced before the records were even finished, or maybe that's the way most album process went, especially if they wanted to release in time for the Christmas period.
‘Hand On Your Heart’ was released 34 years ago today and became Kylie’s 3rd UK #1 with a chart run of 2-1-2-2-4-11-18-29-35-53-62.
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Such a great kylie time, great memories although hand on your heart due to a mix up was robbed of making a number 1 debut which was a big thing back then.
^^ I would have been more frustrated if the barcode issue had robbed it totally of being #1 - would have been nice for it to achieve 2 weeks at the top but at least it managed it the following week.
The retail price for the cassette was lower than chart rules allowed so some sales were disqualified - it would have debuted at #1 otherwise and Kylie would have been the first female to have a single debut at #1.
'Hand On Your Heart' isn't one I really return to but it is very feel-good, the epitome of the 'smiley Kylie' 80s PWL era.
I can't believe how they hashed that up! Fools
Still, at least it did sneak a week in.
Great Classic Pop article
“ The second album from Kylie Minogue, Enjoy Yourself, may have been a magnet for critical sneers, but written solely with the fans in mind, it still sold by the truckload…”
https://www.classicpopmag.com/2023/12/album-insight-kylie-minogue-enjoy-yourself/?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20non-subs%20-%2015%2F12%2F23&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_content=&utm_medium=email
^^ So desperately wanted that as a single at the time!
I'd have loved it as a single and would have even loved a double a single including I'm over dreaming over you.
The album in general is undervalued in her discography which is a shame as I've always been a big fan of the album.
Enjoy Yourself is a brilliant album but hugely underrated.
I wonder if we can look forward to a 35th anniversary vinyl in 2024? Hope so!
Hopefully they do as its an album il always fully support
Cape Verde and their population of 590,000 showing love for EY
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#55 Cape Verde
I know sales wise its probably only about 5 at most but i do wonder what causes such random interest but random in a good way
If it was a greatest hits I'd understand it more but any bonus sales for enjoy yourself il take as I've often said I always feel it's an overlooked kylie album.
Love this
Dwayne Minard vs. Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself 2024
https://m.soundcloud.com/dwaynem/dwayne-minard-enjoy-yourself-jrmax001?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=6E5148C3BCE346BF90C0B159FF62E13C&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Oh this is a nice surprise, i really like this alot, not as good as the original but as i adore it it was never going to be beaten but this is a good remix.
Discovering album track I’m Over Dreaming (Over You) was a blight of my album listen throughs earlier in the year.
It's a great song, it's an album I love revisiting as it's hugely enjoyable and equally nostalgic for me.
How nice it is to see Kylie's old material getting some remix attention to such a high standard.
I wonder how it came about, I'm not complaining as if the remix gets a few new fans of the song I'm all for it.
It's very fever sounding especially love at first sight.
Ya and I think at the time it was said it was a release kylie herself wasn't supporting.
^^ Yes, at the time the Kylie website had a download and print alternative cover featuring a ‘real’ Kylie - then Heat magazine have away an alternative sleeve too (Vintage Kylie) - they are quite collectible now.
It did well without her support as it went platinum a good while back.
That 2002 GH was my gateway to discovering her pre-Light Years music! Such a weird choice to put a random model on the front cover though.
One of my most memorable albums ever. Charlene was EVERYWHERE in 1989, wasn't she?!
This album solidified her legit entry as an honorary Brit - she was on all the UK talk shows, she had about 9-10 months of Neighbours (in the UK) left.... listening to this album overall takes me back to those amazing days. I'd play this and Jason's "10 good reasons" back to back.... SAW were peaking. Lovely times.
As an album, I think it's dated better than the 1st. The first 3 singles, "over dreaming" and the title track are still favourites.
I do prefer enjoy yourself to her debut but I love that aswell, I think both albums have dated well and as I have said before I'm glad to be old enough to have enjoyed the kylie mania back then as it was something else. At the time I was a big fan of Jason's music aswell.
Does anyone remember the poster you got with it where you could send it off somewhere for a chance to meet kylie? I still have it from my vinyl at the time. Wonder if she'd honour it now?
Yes i remember this, i sent mine off but never heard anything back although i was reliant on my mother actually sending it for me so i like to believe she did
It's almost been one year since 'Kylie' (debut) reissue on vinyl was announced (16th August 2023). I wonder if we're going to get 'Enjoy Yourself' for its 35th anniversary or not?
I really hope it does but not sure it will happen as there aren't even any rumours.
I imagine there will be a vinyl release, they must have been pleased with how the debut sold - wasn’t it #3 on the Monday midweeks?
Ya it was 3 in the first update which was a huge surprise.
Really hope we get an EY re-issue - we’ve had multiple CD reissues over the years and the Cherry Red picture disc Boxset but would love to see it get a proper vinyl reissue.
I’m sure BMG will wheel it out at some point as they own the rights to Kylie’s PWL albums (as well as the Deconstruction ones).
The album starts really well but I'm finding the ballads to drag the album down a fair bit, much more than they have done in the past. Kylie sings them well, but they're out of place on here. I'd replace them with the two B-sides and add 'Especially for You' in there as well. 'Tears On My Pillow' stays for being a #1.
1. Hand On Your Heart
2. Wouldn't Change a Thing
3. Never Too Late
4. Nothing to Lose
5. I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)
6. Especially for You
7. Just Wanna Love You
8. Tears On My Pillow
9. We Know the Meaning of Love
10. Enjoy Yourself
Some other territories got EFY as part of the album, guessing PWL wanted to steer people towards Jason’s album in the UK as it was his debut?
Yeah the North American edition has 'Especially for You' as track 6 between 'Tell-Tale Signs' and 'My Secret Heart'.
Id love bmg to eventually get them base don kylies stays with them, at the moment i dont see why she shouldnt as i think if one labels owns all the right etc it gives more options for possible rarities releases etc which is something i have really wanted from Kylie for a long time.
For now thought im just hoping we will get an announcement on Enjoy yourself getting an anniversary release.
Enjoy Yourself could achieve the same success as the anniversary release for her debut.
I'm really hoping we will hear something about this soon, and hopefully it actually happens.
BMG seem pretty good at re-issuing the Kylie catalogue they control for anniversaries etc., and K88 was a decent success for a low key release so hopefully they are working away on EY.
My hopes are they saw how did the debut did and will follow the same formula.
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