This album was playing in my HMV today <3 it was nice to walk in and hear ATL, especially when they had a display right at the front with the album

 

I should be going to HMV this week, so I hope they have Kylie-fever too!

The sexy tattooed man who works there spoke to me and asked if I was enjoying the tunes :lol: i buy alot of Kylie and always end up going to his checkout.

The sexy tattooed man who works there spoke to me and asked if I was enjoying the tunes :lol:

 

I bet you started giggling like a little school girl! :lol:

He wasn't as sexy as the friend I was with :smoke: I said yeah and wondered off.

Number 2 is great, id love to know her sales, it would be great if she cleared 50,000 this week.

Apparantly Kylie has closed the 5,000 lead Calvin had on her yesterday to 2,500 plus she is 8,000 ahead of the number 3 album. Number 2 is guaranteed now, question is could she steal the number 1 at the last minute, if only she had promo this week she would stand a strong chance of doing so.

BBC Review of Abbey Road Sessions:

 

Minogue's vocals show more range and technique here than she's usually credited with.

Nick Levine 2012-10-31

 

Kylie Minogue is a game bird, but thankfully The Abbey Road Sessions isn't her track-by-track remake of the Beatles LP. Instead, it's a collection of reworked versions of the singer's own hits, all recorded at London's famous Abbey Road Studios, where Minogue was backed by a full orchestra.

 

The idea is to take some of the most popular songs from her 25-year recording career and re-imagine them without the disco glitz and vocal effects. From an artist like Minogue, that's a pretty brave undertaking. Disco glitz is her stock-in-trade, and though she's now acknowledged as a pop icon, it's generally accepted that she's not much of a singer.

 

So it's impressive and perhaps surprising that she actually pulls it off. Wisely, Minogue and producers Steve Anderson and Colin Elliot offer some variety; they don't just slow things down and slap on strings every time. Many songs do get the full orchestral treatment, but others are turned into piano ballads, and a couple become pretty folk-pop numbers.

 

The most startling makeover goes to Slow, which is transformed from pulsing electro-pop into a slinky jazz shuffle, complete with vampish vocal performance. But, expectedly perhaps, there are a couple of missteps.

 

I Believe In You gets smothered with floaty backing vocals and ends up sounding like something from a British Airways advert. Meanwhile, Minogue's 1980s favourite The Locomotion is turned into a bouncy Brill Building pop song, which might be more interesting if it hadn't already been a bouncy Brill Building pop song when Goffin and King wrote it in 1962.

 

But more often than not, these reinventions are successful. They won't usurp the originals, but they're not really supposed to, and some shed new light on the well-known version. Who knew Stock Aitken Waterman tunes like Never Too Late and Hand On Your Heart had such melancholy lurking under the production chintz?

 

And by the end, The Abbey Road Sessions has shamed the generally accepted view of Minogue's singing skills. Of course, there's nothing here to scare Adele into rushing her maternity leave, but Minogue's untreated vocals show more range and technique than she's credited with. As a pop vocalist, the woman once dubbed "The Singing Budgie" seems pretty underrated these days.

Edited November 1, 201212 yr by liamk97

I've been listening to it all week, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't enitely sold on the concept of this release but it's fantastic. I appreciate that it does show what Kylie is capable of vocally. I think this can tide me over until a proper next studio album arises, also continued regular plays of 'Timebomb'. :D

My top five reworkings;

 

1. Wow (wish this had been on the main tracklist!)

2. Love At First Sight (works so well as a country-esque song)

3. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (love the strings!)

4. I Should Be So Lucky (I've always adored hearing this as a ballad)

5. Never Too Late (ditto, gorgeous!)

 

Definitely not my top five favourite Kylie songs but those are the five where the reimaginations most made me sit up and pay attention. With other songs that I like more (All The Lovers, Better The Devil You Know, Confide In Me), I'm less fussed with the way they've been altered.

I detest the slow version of i should be so lucky, out of all the tracks it is the one that works the very least for me.

New Entry at Number 10 in Ireland this week, Neil Young was just 1 place ahead at number 9.

Pretty obsessed with this album, its what I expected and so much more. Really glad it looks like it will go Top 3. I was worried it might be a low top 10 affair.

though she's now acknowledged as a pop icon, it's generally accepted that she's not much of a singer.

 

THIS! :angry: :angry:

I would most certainly disagree with that statement, while there are many better singers around than Kylie there is no doubt whatsoever that she can sing, her concert performances prove that and her recent abbey roads sessions simply confirm it. That said, i am sure there are many many extremely talented singers up and down the country who would out sing any superstar but are not signed or did not take their career further for various reasons. Kylie is an icon, she has more than survived the test of time and that only happens when there is genuine talent.

I would most certainly disagree with that statement, while there are many better singers around than Kylie there is no doubt whatsoever that she can sing, her concert performances prove that and her recent abbey roads sessions simply confirm it. That said, i am sure there are many many extremely talented singers up and down the country who would out sing any superstar but are not signed or did not take their career further for various reasons. Kylie is an icon, she has more than survived the test of time and that only happens when there is genuine talent.

They clearly have no purchased her KM94 album :smoke:

"Kylie is not much of a singer". It's not the 80s anymore! :lol: I think by now she has proved that she can sing, even before Abbey Road Sessions - did they not hear her vocals on the Aphrodite tour!? :o

 

Bought this today in HMV, and it really is amazing! :wub: All the Lovers, On a Night Like This, Finer Feelings, Confide in Me, The Loco-motion and Flower are my favourites.

 

They clearly have no purchased her KM94 album :smoke:

 

Indeed! Or anything after that in the 90s, especially Where the Wild Roses Grow.

Edited November 2, 201212 yr by liamk97

There is always someone in the wings that says Kylie cant sing, all i say is do your research properly as most of us have seen and heard differently with our own eyes and ears.

Just gone and played the album in full, without interruptions, I love Confide In Me, On A Night Like This, Come Into My World, I'll Beleive In You, Finer Feelings, Flower are probably the stand out tracks, but I can't fault the album, I love the interpretations of the tracks, so different from the originals.

Its amazing how different they sound and how they come across so different they are almost like getting brand new songs as you wouldnt recognize them from the original at all.