Kylie Minogue

[Andy French]

The art direction and photography for Body Language is still unbeatable in Kylie's canon and one of my all-time favorite things any pop artist has done, before or since. The minimalist Bardot chic look was so great.

 

[WhatKindOfKylie?]

The Body Language era visuals, will take some beating I think.

 

[That Blonde Lad]

The Slow cover is basically an update of her (best) cover artwork (What Do I Have To Do).

 

[elektroxx]

Excluding some of the more questionable alternate covers and "All I See" and "The One," the artwork during X was a serve.

 

[SlowGinFizzzz]

While on the topic of X visuals, can we talk about how fucking cool those see-through CD singles were??

Ms. Minogue really gave me a reason to hunt down her CD singles years after their release, even aside from B-sides and remixes. It's a shame that when leaving Parlophone, she seems to also have left her design team behind. I mean, the physicals from the Fever, Body Language and X eras were all incredible. Honestly, even Boombox was a work of art!

 

[WhatKindOfKylie?]

I LOVED the X era of CD singles, we were spoilt all round, the B-sides in particular:
I Don't Know What It Is
King Or Queen
Cherry Bomb
Carried Away
Do It Again
Can't Get You Out Of My Head 2008

 

[elektroxx]

I was surprised to discover that "Slow" was Kylie's most recent UK No. 1 single.

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It's kind of wild that none of the subsequent singles from her time with Parlophone made it to No. 1.

 

[letuinmybackdoor]

The two that would have stood a chance, I believe in you and All the lovers would have if they'd been smarter around release dates. But hey.

 

[heartmightmelt]

The two that would have stood a chance, I believe in you and All the lovers would have if they'd been smarter around release dates. But hey.

And if they'd have just went "fuck it, here's Kylie's new single with brand new talent Calvin Harris" when "In My Arms" leaked, they might've got in there on one of "Umbrella"'s many, many weak weeks.

 

[WoW73]

I LOVED the X era of CD singles, we were spoilt all round, the B-sides in particular:
I Don't Know What It Is
King Or Queen
Cherry Bomb
Carried Away
Do It Again
Can't Get You Out Of My Head 2008

Cherry Bomb one of her best tracks of the 00s!

 

[UltimatColossus]

I was surprised to discover that "Slow" was Kylie's most recent UK No. 1 single.

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It's kind of wild that none of the subsequent singles from her time with Parlophone made it to No. 1.

I Believe In You could have been a number one if they released it more strategically. That one is the number 1 that got away.

 

[WhatKindOfKylie?]

I Believe In You could have been a number one if they released it more strategically. That one is the number 1 that got away.

Indeed, total wasted moment that. Especially as was out after Ultimate Kylie, instead of being the other way around like it should have been.

 

[V3RYP05H]

There was a CDR with about 5 remixes that circulated in late summer/autumn 2007. I think the DJ Rokk and Pixel82 was the first one to surface online. My memory of it places it around the same week or so that Mylo stuck his demos on his MySpace when he had his big cream puff with Kylie, but I could be wrong. It's been a while.

That promo had some bangers that when the original actually came out it was just an “oh, that’s cute”.

My favorite will always be the Revolte Official Remix

which I always felt inspired the version played during the KylieX2008 tour.

 

[heartmightmelt]

Indeed, total wasted moment that. Especially as was out after Ultimate Kylie, instead of being the other way around like it should have been.

If they had released "I Believe in You" as a single in the week that Ultimate Kylie did come out, they'd have just needed to sell 30,000 copies to beat Girls Aloud, whose CIN-charity single and #1 "I'll Stand By You" was crashing in sales and almost fell behind Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath" (which that week's issue of Music Week tells us was the longest time at that point a song had been stuck at #2 since "The Loco-motion", incidentally)

Two weeks after Ultimate Kylie hit retail, "I Believe In You", debuted at #2, behind Band Aid's second week at #1, with 39,000 sales. Absolutely robbed.

 

[m_dimitrov]

So how did Boombox get unearthed actually? Pretty random for a demo from the previous era to be used in conjunction with Can't Get You Out Of My Head for a tour performance.

 

[WhatKindOfKylie?]

If they had released "I Believe in You" as a single in the week that Ultimate Kylie did come out, they'd have just needed to sell 30,000 copies to beat Girls Aloud, whose CIN-charity single and #1 "I'll Stand By You" was crashing in sales and almost fell behind Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath" (which that week's issue of Music Week tells us was the longest time at that point a song had been stuck at #2 since "The Loco-motion", incidentally)

Two weeks after Ultimate Kylie hit retail, "I Believe In You", debuted at #2, behind Band Aid's second week at #1, with 39,000 sales. Absolutely robbed.

Love pop facts like these. Interesting that it really could have been #1 if moved earlier release date wise.

 

[heartmightmelt]

So how did Boombox get unearthed actually? Pretty random for a demo from the previous era to be used in conjunction with Can't Get You Out Of My Head for a tour performance.

Kylie DJ'd a club night at a place called Boombox, and dug out a demo she remembered, and Parlophone got some low-budget remixes done seemingly just to leak to the blogspot crowd.

 

[Juango]

Indeed, total wasted moment that. Especially as was out after Ultimate Kylie, instead of being the other way around like it should have been.

Parlophone were such a mess post Fever.

 

[elektroxx]

I Believe In You could have been a number one if they released it more strategically. That one is the number 1 that got away.

I guess that the logic was that it was more important to sell more copies of Ultimate Kylie than it was to have a hit single. If the biggest selling point of a Greatest Hits collection is its two new songs, keeping the two new songs exclusively on the album to shift more copies makes sense, imo.

 

[heartmightmelt]

I guess that the logic was that it was more important to sell more copies of Ultimate Kylie than it was to have a hit single. If the biggest selling point of a Greatest Hits collection is its two new songs, keeping the two new songs exclusively on the album to shift more copies makes sense, imo.

Then everyone else would have released their Greatest Hits singles afterwards as well. This one was probably the first time I'd seen that happening and I can't really think of any other examples, at least prior to the digital era, when GH's became obsolete for about 5 years and then the streaming era, when they bounced back and became the easisest way to rig the album chart for platinum discs.

I outlined this not long ago, but my theory is that Parlophone had seen "Slow" be a low-selling #1, Body Language had underperformed, and they thought that either Destiny's Child or Girls Aloud would beat them, so they could save face by releasing it afterwards and then claim that they knew they wouldn't be #1 anyway because of Band Aid. We all know that Ultimate Kylie was the answer to fix a pop emergency courtesy of the course-correction department of EMI.