Kylie Minogue [Import]

Kylie Minogue | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mushroom Records
• ASIN: B000007UA3
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,875 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Confide in Me

2. Surrender

3. If I Was Your Lover

4. Where Is the Feeling?

5. Put Yourself in My Place

6. Dangerous Game

7. Automatic Love

8. Where Has the Love Gone?

9. Falling

10. Time Will Pass You By

Editorial Reviews

Kylie's 5th solo album from 1994 was definitely the start of the second phase of her career. From the first notes of the opener 'Confide in Me,' you know this is not the teen pop queen of old. 10 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Confide in Kylie!, March 24, 2000

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Eric Lewis "pop music lover" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kylie Minogue (Audio CD)

This was to be the start of something big. It was Kylie's first album after leaving the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory and it is almost the album that it should have been.

It definitely displays a new side to Kylie and perfectly showcases her voice, which over the years has grown stronger and more confident. The production is top notch, but some of the tunes are rather lackluster like Surrender and If I Was Your Lover. The songs are fine but it would have been nice to have a couple of dancier numbers in keeping with the Kylie that we fans have grown to love.

Highlights, that more than make up for the duds, are Confide In Me, Put Yourself in My Place and Dangerous Game. Of the dancier tunes, Where Has the Love Gone goes on for about 1 minute too long but has a great piano and Time Will Pass You By is a good one for lifting the spirits.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classy pop, February 2, 2004

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H. R. Trigg "howietUK" (Swindon, Wilts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kylie Minogue (Audio CD)

Kylies move to the Deconstruction label proved to be a good move as this cd proves.
She moved away from throwaway pop, to classy pop tunes (there is a difference!).

The gorgeous Confide In Me - which is without a doubt one of her best ever singles, starts with those remarkable strings.
The beautiful Put Yourself In My place, her best ballad to date (and still in my opinion!), Where is The Feeling, Falling (written by the Pet Shop Boys) and the M-People penned track Time Will Pass You By.

My only criticism is some of the tracks are over long, and would have been best in edit form.

Classy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A new Kylie and a new sound, December 9, 2003

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Daniel J. Hamlow (Narita, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kylie Minogue (Audio CD)

Well, her first four albums with Stock-Aitken-Waterman represented one phase of her career. With her self-titled album, Kylie Minogue found herself in a transition period that included this and her next album, Impossible Princess. It's not at all bad, showing her trying new sounds and pop other than the bubblegum she felt had lost its flavour and had thus spat out, and some of Kylie's sensitive and nurturing side comes out as well.

The mid-paced "Confide In Me", the first single, sports a mournful violin, later strings, which then gains a backbeat of an industrial-type drum machine. As a prelude to the title, she sings, "We all get hurt by love, and we all have a cross to bear, and in the name of understanding now, a problem should be shared."

"Surrender" and "If I Was Your Lover" have the similar sound but without the strings. The latter incorporates a more funky soul sound and backup singers. Given the rest of the songs, these are filler.

Stylistically, the near-7 minute happy "Where Is The Feeling" is the closest to the disco Kylie cut her teeth on, but the fresh style of Brothers In Rhythm's production, the bass rhythms, and some of the keyboards puts it above the S-A-W's bag of tricks. "Everytime you want me too, I can make you happy" she avers.

The soulful "Put Yourself In My Place" is another great ballad sporting airy keyboards and thumping drums, and asks for some kind of empathy "before saying you won't be mine." Another standout cut.

Another standout cut, the contemplative, melancholy and dominant strings ballad "Dangerous Game," and the name of the game is love, of course. Only Mariah Carey and Kylie Minogue can make the lonely waiting game so poignant, as well as falling under "the power to make or break my day." The emotion in her voice has improved since "If You Were With me Now": "I'm so alone/I feel so lonely/here on my own/I've lost my way" she sings in the chorus.

The lush "Automatic Love" is proof enough that drum machine ballads were done way before Dido hit big with "Here With Me."

"Where Has The Love Gone" asks Kylie in a near eight-minute dance opus with a steady drum machine and piano-synths. Her voice nears Madonna's and as for its similarity to "Deeper And Deeper" by the latter, well, Kylie scores head over heels by having better instrumentation, the soulful backing vocals, and to keep the energy going with that piano.

"Falling" was written by Tennant/Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys and it's another filler track, bad considering the talent involved in the songwriting.

Kylie always was a present-oriented gal and that's proved here in the affirmative thumping disco of "Time Will Pass You By," which seems a template of the material she would in her second disco era, starting with Light Years. She offers people to take her hand, showing them how to live, to give themselves a better chance. A great track to end the album. Despite the obvious filler, Kylie Minogue is a brave step in moving away from the S-A-W playroom.