Seeing a few reports of the vinyl skipping so I checked mine - had a mare during CGYOOMH but I cleaned the vinyl, and the nib… put the needle (back) on it - and it worked!

 

Edit: It also skipped on LAFS and Fragile. A wipe over the entire vinyl sorted it all though.

Edited October 18, 20213 yr by Jamesy

Nice tweets thanks for compiling.

I've had a couple of listens and it's a better album than I remember it being.

 

I don't particularly like the opening and closing tracks (Burning Up is actually rather irritating :( ) but everything between is passable to great. I've found myself particularly enjoying Fragile and Your Love much more than I did when they were released.

Midweeks

9 (RE) Fever

2,925 copies sold

Seeing a few reports of the vinyl skipping so I checked mine - had a mare during CGYOOMH but I cleaned the vinyl, and the nib… put the needle (back) on it - and it worked!

 

Edit: It also skipped on LAFS and Fragile. A wipe over the entire vinyl sorted it all though.

I am listening to the vinyl now and... it started skipping on track 1 :manson: I have since cleaned it and it hasn't skipped again so hopefully it was just that one off. Ugh, i'll be so annoyed if it's faulty.

 

But the positive - 'Fragile' sounds even more lucious and perfect on vinyl, omg. It is truly becoming not just my favourite album track by her but possibly favourite track by her PERIOD. What a vulnerable beauty.

I have always adored fragile since I first heard it, I wish kylie would perform it on tour.

I adore fragile as well my hun

 

Just Carol Honey :heart:

Huns when do we get the midweeks?

 

Just Carol Honey :heart:

We usually get them Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs but some weeks we might only get info on 2 of the days.

I have properly done the math here but I'd say it stands a reasonable chance of staying top 15 this week. Depends upon how many official store sales have yet to be dispatched I guess as I can't imagine many more sales coming from anywhere else this week.

She revealed that 'Your Love' was almost a single ( :blink: ) and if she could have done one more single, she'd have loved 'Fever' and wishes she could have made a video for it.

I wonder if she was getting confused with 'Burning Up'? I've never heard anything regarding 'Your Love' being a single before whereas I have heard rumours about 'Burning Up'. 'Your Love' wasn't even performed on tour. I guess it would make sense that they'd go for a slower tempo song in time for Q4 as one last push of the album (presuming this would have been released in place of 'Come Into My World'), although I'm glad plans turned out the way they did. I love 'Your Love' but it doesn't scream single at all to me.

 

I could have definitely have seen 'Fever' released as a single if they had space for it. Perhaps if the first three singles hadn't been so dominant on radio, their releases would have been closer together and it would have seen 'Fever' released as single #5 before the end of 2002.

I dont think your love would have been a great choice at all for a single and am happy it never happened, Fever on the other hand i would have loved as single, i wonder would a 5th single had it gone ahead, went top 10 for her.

I think they could have maybe gotten a January top 10 out of 'Fever', although at that point I'm pretty sure she must have been working on the next album quite heavily.

I wonder if she was getting confused with 'Burning Up'? I've never heard anything regarding 'Your Love' being a single before whereas I have heard rumours about 'Burning Up'. 'Your Love' wasn't even performed on tour. I guess it would make sense that they'd go for a slower tempo song in time for Q4 as one last push of the album (presuming this would have been released in place of 'Come Into My World'), although I'm glad plans turned out the way they did. I love 'Your Love' but it doesn't scream single at all to me.

 

I could have definitely have seen 'Fever' released as a single if they had space for it. Perhaps if the first three singles hadn't been so dominant on radio, their releases would have been closer together and it would have seen 'Fever' released as single #5 before the end of 2002.

 

Or release at the beginning of 2003... I can guarantee it would've gone to Top 5, at least.

I think they could have maybe gotten a January top 10 out of 'Fever', although at that point I'm pretty sure she must have been working on the next album quite heavily.

A large part of me thinks the same, i think it would have snook its way into the Top 10 if it was Fever. I also think Kylie should have really capitalized on a Fever deluxe at the time and went with a brand new song to launch it, she was so popular back then it would have really boosted the sales of Fever further.

A large part of me thinks the same, i think it would have snook its way into the Top 10 if it was Fever. I also think Kylie should have really capitalized on a Fever deluxe at the time and went with a brand new song to launch it, she was so popular back then it would have really boosted the sales of Fever further.

Re-releases weren't really a thing back then unless albums under-performed on initial release.

 

I guess Kylie could have gotten away with an easy Top 10 in January 2003 but I guess that would have come with a music video and promotion and Kylie had a pretty exhausting two years already; she was due a break before getting started on the next album. Plus it wouldn't have added that many sales in the New Year so it probably wasn't considered that worth it.

You can see why it didnt happen, i always felt a song like i believe in you to lead a deluxe would have been brilliant at the time but hindsight is great plus as you said deluxe werent as big back then. I loved the handling of the fever singles, 2 cd sets, 12inch and for some dvd singles, there was just loads to keep everyone happy in those days plus it was the days of getting some great b sides.

I ended up ordering the cassette on eBay - I was too impatient to wait for Amazon unfortunately. It arrived yesterday! :D

 

It cost £20.99 (£2 of that being postage) which is actually less than the £22.99 HMV were charging for it (but more than Amazon's £17.99). Part of me feels daft to spend £20 on a basic cardboard slipcase cassette, but having said that it does look nice... I just felt like I had to have it :lol: I think it's essentially only Kylie and Spice Girls who could make me spend so much money on cassettes. :kink:

 

My small Fever collection now consists of the original UK CD from 2001, the Sainsbury's vinyl from 2017, and now this new cassette. :heart:

The cassette has little appeal outside it been nice to have in the collection.with all the recent cassette releases i wonder are even 5% ever even played once as I doubt many people even have a cassette player. It was a format that never added anything sound quality wise where vinyl does, cds also have a better sound but are much more convenient to get to the tracks you want. I dont miss the forwarding/reminding days of cassettes and especially dont miss when they would tangle.

The cassette has little appeal outside it been nice to have in the collection.with all the recent cassette releases i wonder are even 5% ever even played once as I doubt many people even have a cassette player. It was a format that never added anything sound quality wise where vinyl does, cds also have a better sound but are much more convenient to get to the tracks you want. I dont miss the forwarding/reminding days of cassettes and especially dont miss when they would tangle.

 

I have all Kylie’s cassettes and all the recent ones are not even opened let alone played (not that I have a cassette player!), I even have sealed copies of Kylie 88 and Enjoy Yourself that I’ve acquired over the years.