It’s my beloved wife’s birthday today…and she shares it with the fragrant La Minogue. I have a tradition of sending out a Facebook greeting to her with a Kylie tune attached; this year I selected the fabulously cool mash-up of ‘Slow’ with ‘Being Boiled’, as witnessed on last year’s poptastic ‘Golden’ Tour, and thought some of you good people would enjoy it, and perhaps share the love by posting your own faves from a surprisingly eclectic and adventurous career.
C’mon, you know you can confide in me…
I’m almost married to Kylie
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Not normally a fan of these kind of treatments, but in this case I prefer it to the record:
(Confide In Me BBC Acoustic Live Sessions)
Wow, that’s terrific.
Wonderful.
Her version of Monkey Man with the Wiggles can be heard here:
But this is peak Kylie:
Hang on “Monkey Man”? I had no idea she and the Wiggles were Stones fans
I only have to look at the picture to feel funny.
By that logic, I’m almost married to Emily Lloyd or the Goss twins.
Unlucky!
By the same logic I’m married to Rory Gallagher.
And, much more worringly, to me.
I’m almost married to Angelina Jolie. She hasn’t recorded that many decent songs, I don’t think.
My affection for Kylie was clearly laid out in my post last summer. ♥️
Never been a fan of her music so I thought I’d be clever and post a cover and there really are quite a few. Coldplay- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, Tame Impala doing the above posted Confide etc. But this caught my attention – Kylie doing Islands In The Stream in a BBC studio. Dunno who the announcer at the panel is but he looks profoundly uninterested.
Oh, Johnny Marr, either force a smile or get out of the studio. He’s 55 you know, surely he can’t keep up the pretence of still being an indie rebel. He can’t even clap in time.
so it is too
That’s fab too isn’t it. She’s such a good sport, and there goes the theory that she can’t sing. Who are the beardy blokes?
Once I start to browse, I am rather impressed by all the enjoyable, catchy hits she has produced.
Is there anyone who can rival her as Australia’s Princess of Pop?
International success – female? Probably have to go back to Helen Reddy from the 70s.Chrissie Amphlett from the Divinyls perhaps. Sexy, raunchy rock. Pretty different to Kylie- apart from the first adjective.
Olivia Newton-John, surely?
I was waiting for someone in a bar recently and they had her on the TV – I would place the footage from the early 2010s perhaps. She was singing Hopelessly Devoted to You live and, honestly, it was really impressive.
Of course Olivia wins on all counts, beauty, worldwide popularity and (by a mile) singing talent. Kylie is just a manufactured product that can’t really sing that well. Pretty much unknown outside UK and (presumably) her home land. She was good on Neighbours though.
Anyway they both have Welsh ancestry so I claim them for Wales!
Does Judith Durham count? My father was a big fan of hers.
Well not solo but neither was Chrissie Amphlett.
Courtney Barnett current best nomination then daylight to
Iggy Azalea and Kate Miller Heidke
This is my total fave.
Manics assisted, great vid featuring the soon to be ubiquitous Dexter Fletcher.
Paralysed by being released the week Diana died.
What’s not to love?
I don’t want to start a whole new thread and I apologize for barging in like this but, this.
Top ‘Bond’ song in a parallel universe.
I loved Indie Kylie, too, although I’m no great Manics fan. It’s his voice, I think, although I do own Everything Must Go.
My fave MSP song is probably Your Love Alone Is Not Enough, where the heavy lifting is done by Nina Persson of the Cardigans. The apparently wanted Kylie to do Little Baby Nothing.
Here’s a mellow Jazz Funk remix of Slow that I made a few years back.
The good is the stylistic promiscuity, at least a dozen absolute pop classics and the fact that she’s gorgeous and sexy and clearly a very good egg. Oh, and I love the new album.
The bad is the voice, which can grate after a while, and the fact that most of her albums seem to be called either ‘Kylie’ or ‘Kylie Minogue’.
Obviously there is no ugly, although the third track on the new album contains its own Morricone tribute with Kylie doing her own version of the woo-woo-woos.
I think she actually has rather a thin voice which gets a lot of help. On the whole I’d rather look at her than listen to her. Does that make me a bad person?
I feel I must be alone in thinking she has a rather angular, expressionless, cold face and is “not all that”, as they used to say round my parts. Certainly her voice has a slightly irritating quality to it that is hard to define but exists nonetheless.
Angular, expressionless cold face? Get tae the back of the queue, Kylie!
This is fun. Kylie does The Clash
I never considered before the need to be in the mosh pit at a Kylie gig. If she ever plays the Portland Arms, I’ll make sure I’m against the crash barrier.
Dull point: whoever mixed that got the channels swapped or didn’t have access to the visuals. Left-hand guitarist appears in my right ear, and vice-versa.
I think she’s mixed like that too often. On some records she sounds far warmer and more natural.
Posting this for no other reason than I think this is brilliant.
Not in a cheesy ironic way, just that I love it.
I always thought, at the bit where Nick intones “All Beauty must die” that he’d bring the rock down on his own noggin.