I have no clue why they named the actual instrumental that.
Kylie Minogue
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I have no clue why they named the actual instrumental that.
In-Joke. I think England were playing Australia at cricket at the time. Lots of Mix names were in-jokes.
The titles for their demos were even more daft. The one for ‘It’s No Secret’ was called ‘Spring Onions’ (?!).
Yes, the Hit Factory did use some random titles for their remixes shall we say at times!
Some were inventive! Made In Heaven (Maid In England Mix) and Hand On Your Heart (Great Aorta Mix)
My favourite, is probably this:
I presume that was a reference to her Alice band that she wore the hell out of at the time?
Ha, who knows?!
Or the Hi-NRG of the track, Mad as a March Hare normally means excitable and/or energetic.
Plus, I think it was released around Easter time?
Ah oh yes, that could be it too. Guess only SAW themselves no for sure though!
Truly her finest ballad. Bring it back live please Kylie.
Still love this song. Deserved much better than it's #11 chart placing. Even it's midweek #8 seems like a massive injustice!
Never knew it had an midweek top 10 placing! Should have been top 5 at the very least-#11 is such a cruel chart peak. Finer Feelings and Where The Wild Roses Grow as well suffered the same fate.
Debuting at #17 the week before it rose to #11 can't have helped. Even allowing for Q4 sales figures being higher than summer that's still a bit of a marketing failure for DeCon/BMG, who must've spent all their promo money on launching M People's new album that month. That said, looking back at the release week and the week that it went to #11 both weeks are strong Top 10s with almost every song being genuinely massive - aside from the Pearl Jam single which was clearly a fanbase purchase. "Place" was the highest climber, so there is that.
The week after that Mariah, Celine and Boyzone stormed into the Top 10, and Kylie fell behind Cliff Richard's mad fanbase and Whigfield. Bad timing I guess, they shoulda held it back for January and took advantage of the post-Xmas lull.
I didn't buy singles until 1995, but I think if I had back then, I'd have looked at the four formats (well, three in Woolworths, who'd stopped selling 12" by then) and saw remix after remix and no b-sides I'd have probably gave it a miss, at least until it turned up in the bargain bin in February.
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Incidentally, after lookign for those old Music Week charts, I had a look at the issue that would have been on sale thirty years ago today and guess who's in the news that week:
I do indeed wonder if an January release would have helped Put Yourself In My Place. Like to think so anyway.
A couple of new b sides and some decent remixes would have helped more! It's not like there was nothing else available to go!