The run of 'I Will Survive' - 'I'm Every Woman' - 'Strong Enough' - 'Your Disco Needs You' on the tracking list! *.*

 

Campest thing I've ever seen in my life! :D

Is this the first compilation your disco needs you will have appeared on outside a kylie release?

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I'm definitely team 'Your Disco Needs You'! I particularly agree with this part:

 

Amid everything else going on here, Your Disco Needs You also contains some of the most impressive vocals she has ever delivered, which are quite unlike those typically associated with her. The soaring – almost operatic – mid-section: “Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh” pushes Kylie Minogue into a higher range. And over the closing strains of the final chorus, she goes further again. On the studio recording, it’s easy to presume you’re listening to one of the (many) additional singers who are part of the production. But there’s no mistaking when Kylie Minogue performs Your Disco Needs You live; that is her voice going far beyond the perceived limitations of what she can do. And once you’ve seen her belt out those notes, you’ll never look at her in quite the same way again.

Totally agree about the live vocal she delivers on your disco needs you. I think there will always be people that say Kylie cant sing live but from going to actual concerts and watching many live performances i have always disagreed,

Always loved YDNY - still tragic that it was never released in the UK and the record company deemed it ‘too camp’ (Domething which most female artists build their career on being!)

In a way it worked out well not been a single as we still got the cd singles, it's a hugely popular fan base and concert song and also has great sales for a non single.

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I have such fond memories of working at @realworldstudios in particular the making of "Ocean Blue" which was written in the small programming room with @kylieminogue and featuring the wonderful Carl Mann on guitar.

 

We then transferred to the big room (in next picture) for her final vocals and mix by @alanbremner . It was the last song of the sessions so we were in a bit of a race to get it finished and ended up working through the night and watched the sun rise over the water as we did the final tweaks. I think the fact we were all so exhausted contributed hugely to how soft and warm this song turned out with its Mazzy Star inspired reverbs and washes of atmospherics. Her vocal is just exquisite , evoking so much emotion with such a haunting beauty.

 

Some songs are just written without purpose or intent to fit anywhere , they just arrive and find their own way so I'm always delighted when I hear people talk of this song and "Paper Dolls" so fondly.

Would love to hear those two unreleased songs!

Hopefully they will appear somewhere someday.

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It might feel odd to celebrate the anniversary of a b side but "Paper Dolls" had such a special journey into the world.

 

Post making "Impossible Princess" and mixing "Intimate And Live" at @realworldstudios I had really fallen in love with the place. So much so that from time to time I would pop some studio equipment in the car and head down there for a few weeks to work in a tiny room situated just behind the maintenance office where all the equipment got mended.

 

I would often invite people to pop down and on one of these occasions she did and we proceeded to write a few songs with no real plan or brief as this was before "Spinning Around" or a new label were even in the mix.

 

I think one of the very first songs was "Paper Dolls" as wereally wanted to make a "Dawsons Creek" kind of feel good song with major chords and just a really uplifting sunny happy feeling about it.

 

It went through a few versions but in the end the demo pretty much ended up being the final record. Recorded in this small studio then mixed in the big room there along with some of the other songs we wrote at that time including "So Now Goodbye" , "Bittersweet Goodbye" and "Ocean Blue".

 

That place , that time massively influenced the sound of this song and it was so wonderful to revisit it as part of the #AntiTour years later and hear people's memories of something that was written with such innocence and no real plan for it outside of wanting to do something we both adored.

 

As always her lyrics are just perfection and she delivers the vocal infused with pure sunshine and the warmest glow.

 

"Overwhelming

This feeling has taken over me

Thank God you feel it too

'cause words would fail me "

Those sessions worked out really well and paper dolls is fab, I loved it from the first time I heard it and have always preferred it to spinning around.

I didn't know some of the tracks were wrote before signing with Parlophone and understood they were wrote after signing.

I'm guessing this version of 'Butterfly' also came from those sessions:

 

 

'Paper Dolls' is a lovely song, potentially a better fit for the album in place of 'Bittersweet Goodbye' if they wanted a slower moment?

That butterfly demo sounds like it could have been a good fit on KM94, i much prefer the finished version on Light years as i really like that song.

The demo sounds very 1998, I don't know if it was concepted around that time.

Random but just been listening to ‘Kids’ with a friend and we’ve just thought “what is this song actually about?”. Any ideas? :lol:

A Light Years deluxe or vinyl with all the b-sides attached would be amazing. Some of my favourites come from Light Years.

Random but just been listening to ‘Kids’ with a friend and we’ve just thought “what is this song actually about?”. Any ideas? :lol:

 

Why would you put yourself through the pain of having to listen to it again :lol: (And no idea what it’s about either but I feel I need to find out now :lol: ).

It's obviously about sordid stuff and using loads of metaphors for it, but I never quite understood what or who the "kids" were meant to be.

Never thought about it too much bit now that it's mentioned its likely sordid related.

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Poor 'Bittersweet Goodbye'. :lol: