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I guess I overlooked you saying "To rhyme with brogue." cause I thought you were talking like a drunken Irishman.

c- c - c'mover herensaythat.....
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"The Marquis of Queensbury rules will be observed on all occasions." afterwards I'll buy you a pint. :beer:

nah. I thought Kylie was someone recent. But here she was born the same year as D'Arcy and Trish so that's why I brought them up. D'Arcy was cute but a a lot of bad decisions altered her look. Still back then she had looks and playing bass made look even hotter.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/84...7c62b9b7dc.jpg

Oh wow, she's just like Billy Corgan: a child actor before getting into the music biz.

She's way better-looking than Billy Corgan. And to my knowledge, she has never smashed a pumpkin in her life.

Well I found this and thought it was pertinent to The Album Club: "Rhythm of Love" by Kylie Minogue conversation. In it YT-vlogger Rick Adams says that he ranks the albums in order with the first album as the best. So that would make the two prior albums better than this album. So that means Kylie > Enjoy Yourself > Rhythm of Love > etc etc. Wow when I really think about what he said it means I was forced to listen to a third-rate Kylie album for The Album Club 2017, but I digress. I know MicShazam planned for us to dig this album, but by the looks of the poll it didn't go to his expectation. Sorry your plan for this album was foiled.

KYLIE MINOGUE: RHYTHM OF LOVE Deluxe Edition 2015 Remastered PWL CD UNBOXING /CD REVIEW | Rick Adams

Ok that's it, I can stay silent no more!

No, Nea, I did not plan for everyone to like this album. Starting with this album, my picks for the club will be based purely on what I feel like listening to, not what I expect anyone in the club to like. I learned that lesson with the world destroying choice that was Billy Child's Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. Naive as I was, I thought people was largely gonna like it. No more trying to please you guys!

I chose Rhythm of Love simply because, at the time, I'd bought all of Kylie's old albums recently and this one was the one I felt the most like listening to right then and there. (As an aside, that guy in the video above is totally wrong. Enjoy Yourself is the worst of the three first records as it's all over the place.)

I see a lot of you guys bring up how this album isn't anything special. I actually like that about it. Or rather, what I mean to say is that I like that it has this incredibly early 90's sound to it that dates the album to a very specific moment in pop. It might not be a super unique record, but I enjoy it as being Kylie's spin on a prominent pop sound of the time.

As for the quality of the songs themselves, I don't think this album is a revelation, but there's a few strong tracks and nothing that I outright dislike. It's just a bit of simple, fun dance pop music.

Some may question my method for choosing albums for the club, but this is how it's going to be. I'll chose albums that I personally like and feel like listening to - completely ignoring the tastes of other forum members (I miss every time when I try to please anyway) and completely ignoring factors like how genre defining an album is, how respected it is, etc. Just a completely subjective choice where all that's guaranteed is that my choices are my kind of thing.

I'm not actually trying to torture you people, I'm just not actively trying not to either. Not anymore.

I think a lot of you are gonna suffer with my next pick as well :laughing:

In conclusion, I think this album is good - not great - but worthwhile for how it has Kylie doing her take on that, at the time, everpresent 1990 style of pop.

NOTE: I forgot to mention what songs I like the most. I can't remember all titles, but I knof for sure that "Things Can Only Get Better" is my favorite track on the disc.

Three words: Stock, Aitken, Waterman.
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