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Kylie Minogue

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Just to set the record straight, this disc was originally titled "Impossible Princess" but due to the death of Princess Diana it was changed to "Kylie Minogue". Even though her previous effort was ALSO titled "Kylie Minogue". So to make a long story short, the 1993 release has a white cover and this one has a black cover. You may still be able to obtain a copy with the original title. Tracks like "some kind of bliss" and "cowboy style" are unbelievably catchy and unlike anything Kylie Minogue has ever recorded. At first listen you would swear this wasnt a Kylie disc. This disc is so much fun because you'd never think her to have recorded something like this and to have done it so well. Its a little rock, a bit techno and alot of Kylie. When i heard she took a break from pop music on this one i flinched not realizing that change is part of the growth process. If you like this one, also pick up her previous disc also called "Kylie Minogue".

This album is definitely the best of Kylie's bests. Everybody must have a copy of this one, this truly is the bomb.

Impossible Princess is by far Kylie's best album, overshadowing most candy-pop stuff she's ever done (even today) with some clever, often meaningful and sensible pop. Very creative and varied with rock, dance, jazz and trip-hop influences, and finally a proof that the australian is not just a mindless singer.

I think that this is an excellent album to own all the songs are really cool,I'm a very big fan of her music from the beginning.it's worth having in your collection.

By the time I had purchased this disc, it was already called 'Impossible Princess', but now is just called 'Kylie Minogue', one of the many just bearing her full name.
When i bought this, the last bit of material i bought by her was on vinyl ("What Kind Of Fool" 12").
I was blown away by her maturity, and her voice. She has indeed grown as an artist.
As a former dj during the late 80's-early 90's, Kylie at the time was just another voice to the SAW factory, so i became a little anxious for her to do something a little different.
Now, quite a few years later, this cd changed my point of view. She can virtually sing anything, and like many others, I will buy.
5 stars for such a great collection of tracks!

By 1997, much of the pop music landscape had changed. The music papers were declaring the "Techno Revolution" was on, Oasis and Manic Street Preachers were ruling the charts, and simple dance-pop seemed to be the domain of teenage girls. So what does the dance-pop diva of the '90s do? She recruits Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore, and Nicky Wire, starts writing unaided, and completely changes musical direction. Enter Kylie Minogue's Impossible Princess (the title was changed to Kylie Minogue after the death of Princess Diana). From the trippy cover art to the abundance of guitars and experimental vocal tracks, this was her "great leap forward."

This is a unique and over all excellent record. Unlike her early work, this album sounds stronger and has a more natural feel. Her songwriting abilities have come a long way, and Impossible Princess actually flows together as an album. Worth another look.

This album is possibly Kylie's best album. Kylie's voice and music have matured in this album

I don't know why this is often hyped as "Kylie's best album", maybe to her famously often over-worshipping diehards, but for the casual listener it is a pretentious piece of drivel.
No where does she demonstrate the ingeniousness of intelligent songwriters and performers like Bjork Madonna and Tori Amos.
Kylie comes off sounding like someone desperately aiming to get taken seriously.
It just doesn't work.
And by the success of the album it confirms this totally.
The songwriting is cringeworthy, at it's worst it's truly embarrasing.
She sounds like a teenage girl stuck in her bedroom longing to be Courtney Love, well the best place to start would be Courtney, because she does it to a so much better degree and she's a professional who has been writing for many years, but this sounds like Kylie's first scribblings into her songbook that she will later stumble across and will want to burn for the fear of embarrasment of someone discovering them.
No wonder Ms Minogue plays this album down she really was out of her depth here, how could she possibly hope to be anything else?
It's best for her to stick to what she does best and put her tiny sparkly hot pants back on and create bubbly featherlight disco songs for the lisping Queens wo like to dance around their handbags.
Kylie doesn't fit in the songwriter, producer mold because she hasn't enough integrity.
The sounds on this album that are often cited as "innovative" and "timeless" are actually ten years out of date.
Music producers and songwriters were dabbling in this kind of stuff well before the time Kylie jumped on the bandwagon, and it's really disco fluff underneath it all passing itself off as something more. But you know Kylie: No depth, no soul, blank canvas, no one will buy it. And too right! they didn't! so she's back to doing what she does best, and she's doing MUCH better.