Kylie Minogue

SlowGinFizzzz

SlowGinFizzzz

Wasn't it Robbie Williams whose album wasn't ready in time, and therefore they had to rush-release Body Language?

Either way, I think it's interesting that despite apparently not being 100 % finished when it was released, I still find Body Language better than 90 % of her discography. I guess sometimes music is better when it's not over-polished, and for me this is one of those cases. Obviously it's not always that way... Looking at you, X demos.
 
WhatKindOfKylie?

WhatKindOfKylie?

Looking at the UK (top 40) chart run for Body Language, it's quite shocking actually for her first album following Fever:
6, 15, 27, 36, 39
then a brief sole 1 week return inside the top 40 at 28 in late March 2004.

In the long run though, it did sale roughly the same amount as Light Years and X, plus more than Aphrodite her other Platinum Parlophone studio album.
 
IEngineered

IEngineered

WhatKindOfKylie? said:
Looking at the UK (top 40) chart run for Body Language, it's quite shocking actually for her first album following Fever:
6, 15, 27, 36, 39
then a brief sole 1 week return inside the top 40 at 28 in late March 2004.

In the long run though, it did sale roughly the same amount as Light Years and X, plus more than Aphrodite her other Platinum Parlophone studio album.
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I think the public didn’t quite appreciate the genius that Slow was till much later, myself included.
 
heartmightmelt

heartmightmelt

Mike said:
I wonder which act caused the hole in Parlophone's schedule - the dates don't make sense for Coldplay, who had only just finished touring their last album and didn't start on the next one until early 2004.
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I believe it was Robbie Williams who couldn't deliver a studio album for Q4 2003 which caused EMI to panic, as they'd clearly been comfortable with his yearly output for the previous three winters.
 
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Mike

heartmightmelt said:
I believe it was Robbie Williams who couldn't deliver a studio album for Q4 2003 which caused EMI to panic, as they'd clearly been comfortable with his yearly output for the previous three winters.
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According to its Wikipedia page, work on Intensive Care started in the summer of 2003 (although its eventual release would be more than two years later) so this checks out.

It also explains why they put out a Greatest Hits in 2004 (we already know Ultimate Kylie was prompted by Body Language's underperformance).
 
HEARTCORE

HEARTCORE

Yes, it was Robbie who was supposed to release an album. Kylie had recorded a bunch of tracks without any direction for the album and had recently recorded Slow, which gave her the idea that she wanted for the record. Sadly, Parlo "needed" an album for Q4 so they cut the sessions short and forced her to put out what she had already. I am a huge Bible Language fan, but I do think it would have been interesting if Kylie had been able to follow the style she was going for with Slow.
 
iveivan

iveivan

HEARTCORE said:
Yes, it was Robbie who was supposed to release an album. Kylie had recorded a bunch of tracks without any direction for the album and had recently recorded Slow, which gave her the idea that she wanted for the record. Sadly, Parlo "needed" an album for Q4 so they cut the sessions short and forced her to put out what she had already. I am a huge Bible Language fan, but I do think it would have been interesting if Kylie had been able to follow the style she was going for with Slow.
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That would have been a much more interesting album
 
heartmightmelt

heartmightmelt

I've began to come around to the thought that the release of Ultimate Kylie was what gave "Slow" its rocket boost into the top echelons of the Kylie cannon. After spending a year on the backfoot, you could have forgiven Team Kylie for burying "Slow" away in the latter half of the first disc if they had done so, but they didn't and it holds its own magnificantly with the big hitters around it. I think the general public really warmed to "Slow" because of this. All that "mixed-response" to "Slow" disappeared right around then.
 
Juango

Juango

heartmightmelt said:
I've began to come around to the thought that the release of Ultimate Kylie was what gave "Slow" its rocket boost into the top echelons of the Kylie cannon. After spending a year on the backfoot, you could have forgiven Team Kylie for burying "Slow" away in the latter half of the first disc if they had done so, but they didn't and it holds its own magnificantly with the big hitters around it. I think the general public really warmed to "Slow" because of this. All that "mixed-response" to "Slow" disappeared right around then.
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To be honest it was only about 3 years ago that Slow clicked with me and I think it’s one of the best pop songs ever.

I just think it’s a song that takes its time to click with people because it is so different.
 
Mikey1701

Mikey1701

Inspired by the Christmas Day Channel 5 documentary I’ve been listening to Word Is Out a lot over the past few days. It’s so criminally underrated even if I can understand the GP at the time were suffering with PWL/Kylie fatigue (cretins!). Love the Lets Get To It album artwork as well. Visually the entire era was a stone cold shoot.
 
bonnieetclyde

bonnieetclyde

P'NutButter said:
Original cover and tracklist -

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The demos have leaked, but never in HQ. Even the "lossless" rip we had the last couple of years is from lossy sources.
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What a waste of a lovely album cover.
 
Gasur

Gasur

I wonder if Parlophone roped in the Ludacris feature for Chocolate when it was being considered as a lead single. It really elevates the song, I wish it had been officially released.
 
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