21 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

Into the Blue feels quite overlooked these days but it's definitely the shining jewel of Kiss Me Once for me

Easily the shining jewel of the kiss me once era alongside crysalize.

Nice to see Breathe doing well but i would have it so much higher and a little meh with it just missing the top 20.

I really like all of those, 'Hand On Your Heart' perhaps less so than the other four but it's still a joyful little number.

2 hours ago, Padamic_Tension said:

oh wow thats interesting that its your fave of the 4 classics.

I think for me, Devil was a bit overplayed like Head, and the other two were good but gave me less ryhthm than Shocked.

1 hour ago, Padamic_Tension said:

Easily the shining jewel of the kiss me once era alongside crysalize.

Honestly, Into the Blue is easily the only bright spot during the entire KMO era.

37 minutes ago, Red Blooded Man said:

Honestly, Into the Blue is easily the only bright spot during the entire KMO era.

No swearing in this thread please xx

What i liked about the ROL singles was they were all so different but worked fanasticly as they felt they were the one family and also represented the album brilliantly, im never fully sure which set of 4 singles worked best, Fever or Rhythm of LOve i think i go through phases of both

I quite enjoy everything except Into The Blue from the 25-21 batch.

19

Wow

UK chart peak: #5

From: X

20

The One

UK chart peak: #36

From: X

Kicking off the top 20 with a double helping of X singles, and it's Wow and The One dropping out, meaning only one single from X remains in the countdown. It's intriguing that there seems to have been so much topsy-turvy behind the scenes with the singles strategies for X, because while the campaign was largely okay in the UK, it seemed they really wanted to crack the US with Kylie's comeback era. Given it failed with All I See, they ended up going with Wow the second time. Wow was wanted as the first single to launch the campaign too, but ultimately 2 Hearts was chosen (who knows how different things might have been had that happened?). Wow for me is a slice of pop perfection, and picks you up and transports you right into the stratosphere; undoubtedly a Kylie classic at this point.

The One, on the other hand, is one that for some time I've had a love/hate relationship with, but now it's pretty much all love given its high placing here. The fifth and final single from X, The One has always been one that the fans have gushed over. For me, around the time of X's release and for a while after it was overrated and I just couldn't love it the same way I loved most of the other songs on X (albeit an album full of experimentation among some perfect pop). It's wild knowing that it only just made the top 40 in the UK because you'd think it should have been a top 10 hit, but coming right at the end of the era... perhaps that was a misstep. Live performances of The One really elevate it for me too because you can see just how much Kylie loves the song and it's become a part of her timeless catalogue.

'The One' has always been a favourite from X, shame about how they botched the release of it but I think it's gone down as a classic.

'Wow' I loved at the time, but I find it hard to get any enjoyment from it nowadays. I don't know if that's from overplaying it, its use in sofa adverts or simply just outgrowing it.

‘Wow’ I never rated tbh! Would miss my top-75 I would think.

‘Tension’ on the other hand would definitely be in my top-10! I love this multi-layered structure, everything blends amazingly. And the video is amazing too.

Great to start to the top 20 i love both the one and wow and both are huge highlights from the X album but i still rate like a drug above both.

23 hours ago, Calum said:

No swearing in this thread please xx

What? Which word is the swearing word?

35 minutes ago, Red Blooded Man said:

What? Which word is the swearing word?

The whole sentence

17

Can't Get You Out of My Head

UK chart peak: #1

From: Fever

18

Dancing

UK chart peak: #38

From: Golden

One thing I'll always respect Can't Get You Out of My Head for is the sheer cultural impact the song has had. It's become a defining song of Kylie's career, with the iconic music video, the white jumpsuit, pretty much all aspects of it embedded in queer culture and being a real turning point for Kylie heralding in a brand new generation of fans. The music video was very much a part of my childhood, referring back to Ultimate Kylie and watching it on repeat. The song's come and gone in my affections over the years but I'll always love it really. After initially being offered to S Club 7 and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, it's difficult to imagine this being a song by any other artist now. What really sticks with me about this song is how the likes of The Abbey Road Sessions and some live performances can turn it into a much more powerful, atmospheric song too. One of the things that always stands out to me about this - particularly with its live performances - is how it can end up incorporating themes and sounds of Doctor Who so well, with the backing dancers on the Showgirl (and Homecoming) tour alluding to Cybermen, and Kylie then ending up starring in the show.

Kylie's first single with BMG and lead single from Golden, Dancing is such a wonderful country-pop-bop that introduced us to this brand new world that Kylie had cooked up for the era so perfectly. This was a delicious taste of what was to come on an album full of Kylie in storytelling mode and infusing country so wonderfully into her classic pop sound. What was brilliant to see is that critics raved about Dancing too, some being a tad hyperbolic saying it was the best/freshest thing she'd done since Impossible Princess (where were you for all the other eras?), so Kylie definitely hadn't lost her edge going into this era. I think we'll need to be eternally thankful for what those Nashville recording sessions did for Kylie as an artist and how she's brought it into every era since. Dancing was the perfect encore to the Golden tour too, so to see it performed live was great; the last time I saw her on tour.

Head is a classic whether you love or hate it.

Dancing I still enjoy, god that was another moment when it went top 40.

'Dancing' is a really special song to me.

I had a 15-year period where I couldn't listen to CGYOMH because of the level of overplay it had, but I'm very much back on it these days!

The concept of Kylie having 16 better SINGLES than 'Head' is wild.

23 hours ago, Sour Candy said:

The concept of Kylie having 16 better SINGLES than 'Head' is wild.

But understandable when you have such an incredible discography.