It's the price that's putting me off as I think it's a bit expensive.

It's the price that's putting me off as I think it's a bit expensive.

 

Yep certainly a hefty price tag (Although not as bad as the eBay prices for older Kylie versions of Classic Pop that sell for £40! :huh: ).

Yep certainly a hefty price tag (Although not as bad as the eBay prices for older Kylie versions of Classic Pop that sell for £40! :huh: ).

My wife may not be happy to see me pay out that money and the mortgage is due!!

My wife may not be happy to see me pay out that money and the mortgage is due!!

 

 

I wouldnt blame her. <_<

26th May 2017: Fever vinyl release

25th May 2018: Light Years vinyl release

24th May 2019: ...

 

Can we expect another Sainsbury's exclusive vinyl release on the 24th? Body Language perhaps?

I will be all over the Light Years release.

26th May 2017: Fever vinyl release

25th May 2018: Light Years vinyl release

24th May 2019: ...

 

Can we expect another Sainsbury's exclusive vinyl release on the 24th? Body Language perhaps?

 

Desperate for Impossible Princess!

 

I will be all over the Light Years release.

 

Sainsbury’s already released LY last year.

I am always all over anything Light Years related ( but when i read this i thought the release may be different and have something different).

I would hugely welcome an Impossible Princess vinyl also.

I think the IP vinyl will come soon

 

^^ I really hope so, BMG own the rights to this so wouldn’t be difficult for them to release it.

 

I’ve noticed BMG seem to be still making the 2 CD set they reissued a few years back too.

If they have the right I'm sure the IP vinyl will finally come out way.

If they have the right I'm sure the IP vinyl will finally come out way.

 

As long as they don’t give us anymore ‘Greatest Hits’ rehashed albums from KM94 and IP then I’ll be happy :lol:

 

They could really make something of IP on vinyl if they put their minds to it (The KM94 release was a mess - we had a double vinyl album, then Sainsbury’s white vinyl and finally the European white vinyl).

Ya no more de con rehashed greatest hits I agree as there is too many.

Albumism:

PLAYLIST: Portrait of the Artist Volume 18 – Kylie Minogue

May 28, 2019 / Quentin Harrison

 

Editor’s Note: Our recurring “Portrait of the Artist” playlist series pays homage to the artists responsible for the most inspired and indispensable discographies of all time. We hope you enjoy these tributes, and stay tuned for many more to come.

 

Typical convention dictates that prefabricated pop has a limited shelf life. Even when eventual nostalgia takes hold to permit the product to swing back into (temporary) favor, it’s still viewed as disposable. Any talk of its redeemable qualities―yes, there are some―are only begrudgingly championed. Until three Americans and a Brit changed the game. They were called The Monkees.

 

Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones went from being studio singers over chart friendly tracks to a real band on their third album, Headquarters (1967). However, distance from their zeitgeist let people appreciate their actual efforts in hindsight. They were also men.

 

When a youthful Australian actress shot to fame by way of the 1980s soap opera Neighbors, she had the gumption to transition into music when the opportunity presented itself. How dare she?

 

What followed was a career that has stretched nearly 30 years (and counting). Furthermore, unlike The Monkees, Kylie Minogue didn’t wait for time tinged with sentimentality to write her story. She wrote it herself through her own musical means, brick by brick. It started simply enough with her as a student of the Stock-Aitken-Waterman sound. The songs were excellent late ’80s constructs, made for radio play with their “verse, chorus, hook, repeat” formula. But, when Minogue put her finger on the pulse of London and New York City club culture with her third studio LP Rhythm of Love (1990), it was the catalyst for her to wrest control away from others and call the shots.

 

But the SAW epoch was only a chrysalis, as Minogue emerged butterfly style with Kylie Minogue (1994), a declaration of her ability to collaborate and create with various adult contemporary shapes, R&B and grown-up dance music. This was nurtured by the deConstruction imprint. And she didn’t stop. Minogue dove headfirst into the sounds of trance music and Britpop on its follow-up, Impossible Princess (1997). She then transitioned to Parlophone Records to unveil her revivalist white disco pop coup of Light Years (2000). And she didn’t stop.

 

Minogue continued to needle at the boundaries of her sound. Fever (2001) cast a heady hex on the entire world, notably America, but Body Language (2003) recalled the experimental embrace of her deConstruction tenure with its use of city beats and light urban funk. Later, even with what could be arguably agreed upon as her first true misstep, Kiss Me Once (2014), there were gems present and accounted for.

 

Minogue’s creative director and friend William Baker remarked in the 2007 documentary White Diamond about the egregiously limited perception of his friend, “People see you as a result of Neighbors, “I Should Be So Lucky,” Michael Hutchence, gold hot pants, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” cancer = Kylie. Nobody really knows what makes you tick.” That “tick,” the ethos of this one-time pre-fab pop upstart, now an artistic force all her own, is all there, in the music.

 

With the release of Minogue’s fourteenth studio album Golden last year, the critically acclaimed collection confirmed the singer’s commitment to her craft and her irrefutable position as one of pop music’s most enduring—and beloved—icons. In celebration of this legacy and her 51st birthday today, I’ve curated an 80-track collection of hits and deep cuts from her canon for your enjoyment.

 

Editor’s Note: Read more about Quentin Harrison’s perspective on Kylie Minogue’s discography in his forthcoming book, ‘Record Redux: Kylie Minogue,’ available November 2019. His current books ‘Record Redux: Spice Girls,’ ‘Record Redux: Carly Simon,’ 'Record Redux: ‘Donna Summer’ and ‘Record Redux: Madonna’ are available physically and digitally now.

 

Excellent write up and a great summary of Kylie.

Excellent write up and a great summary of Kylie.

 

Very much agree and i like the acknowledgement of Kiss Me Once as a misstep which is something a large percentage of her fans would agree with.

 

Dannii featured on 'Anh's Brush With Fame' on ABC TV last night. Here's a small clip from the interview:

 

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Dannii featured on 'Anh's Brush With Fame' on ABC TV last night. Here's a small clip from the interview:

 

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Poor Dannii - she must be sick of that question! And I know she didn’t have a great deal of success in Australia but she really held her own in the UK, 19 Top 40 singles of which 9 went Top 10 is huge and nothing to do with Kylie.

The Kylie and Dannii comparison were riff for many years which i am sure they found frustrating.

At times, there were also many rumours that they had fallen out which was never true.

 

26th May 2017: Fever vinyl release

25th May 2018: Light Years vinyl release

24th May 2019: ...

 

Can we expect another Sainsbury's exclusive vinyl release on the 24th? Body Language perhaps?

 

Rumours have been swirling for a while now that BMG are planning something with Kylie’s back catalogue on vinyl so I’m hoping as nothing appeared that the Sainsbury’s exclusives are over.

 

BMG now own all her PWL work and Cherry Red who reissued her first 3 albums deal has expired - the rumour is the will throw out her PWL albums as mainstream vinyl etc., releases, BMG also own her Deconstruction recordings too. I really think once the GH is out of the way we will see a proper set of re-issues.