Love at First Sight

Kylie's first album starts with two ever green "I Should Be So Lucky" and "The Loco-Motion". The next songs are not bad either. "Je Ne Sais Pourquoi" (peaceful love song), "It's No Secret", and "Got to Be Certain"...there's videos all of the 5 first songs. four of them were singles "I Should..." (number 1 in UK), "Loco-Motion" (number 2 in UK), "Got to Be Certain" (number 2 in UK), and "Je Ne Sais Pourquoi" (number 2 in UK). "Turn It Into Love" has great pop sound. It is a shame that it hasn't been released as a single. The four last ones aren't so good. "I Miss You", "Look My Way", "Love at First Sight" (not the one that was released as a single...that was in Fever -album) are too basic pop. "I'll Still Be Loving You" has great lyrics and Kylie has a lovely voice but it isn't my big favourites either.

Stars: Turn It Into Love, Got to Be Certain, I Should Be So Lucky

This is where it all started...

When Kylie released her first album back in 1988, (Kylie) many were quick to say she was just another 'flash in the pan.' What they did not know, was her career would still be going to this day...



This 10-track fun pop album is the lime-light. They are great and fun upbeat tunes and very memorable. The kids that know this album may find their parents singing to the songs in the car and the window is open and, it's highly embarrassing!



Anyway, this is pure-pop Kylie at her younger states, when she was in Neighbours. This album includes the first single here in the UK, I Should Be So Lucky and the first #1 in Australia, The Loco-motion, which stayed at the top for 7 weeks!



I Should Be So Lucky was a #1 for Kylie here in the UK and more favourites Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi, The Locomotion and Got To Be Certain were #2's for Kylie. Turn It Into Love and It's No Secret, however, were very popular singles in Japan! Turn It Into Love immediately went to #1 and It's No Secret hit #4!



So all the first 6 songs from this album were singles some where in the world. The last 4 are also very good. The stand-outs for the last 4 songs are definately I Miss You and Look My Way. There are slightly more mature than other 'hits' on the album. As is I'll Still Be Loving You, a beautiful ballad that made me cry for the first time in any song when I listened to it.



This leaves just one more song, Love At First Sight. It is definately the weakest song on the album and is certainly not the hit that appeared on her Fever album, later on in her career. It's not as good as that or the other songs on the album, nevertheless, still an excellent song.



Futhermore, this album went straight to #1 on the UK Charts, it also spent an amazing 67 weeks on the UK Top 100 Albums Chart! This was aslo just 3 weeks off her extremely popular album Fever, which spent 70 weeks on the UK Top 100 Albums Chart! This just shows how great Kylie really is!

Very fun debut from Kylie

I still love Kylie's first album. Although it got attention because of her remake of Little Eva's '60s hit, The Locomotion (people just LOVE those remakes, that "Oh My God, I remember that song!" reaction), the rest of the album is more exciting and fun. I have played It's No Secret, Turn It Into Love, Look My Way (which sounds like the Whispers' Rock Steady), I Miss You, I Should Be So Lucky and others. The one weak song of this album is Love At First Sight. It sounds too kid-like for her.

As fun, catchy and addictive as it is, it is a Stock-Aitken-Waterman production. Those three produced entire albums for Rick Astley, Bananarama, Donna Summer, and some songs for others. The music has a tendency to be repetitive, and some songs here from '88 are similar to the ones they did for Astley and Summer. Their clash of keyboard heavy melody, shades of late '70s disco and '80 dance in their sound made for a unique formula. One must ask how nonstop it was for them to make 40, 50 or 60 different songs for these artists in that successful period. But you wouldn't know it from dancing to all of it. Kylie's first album was really the setup for more complex songs like her '90s albums and her most recent successful albums of Kylie and Body Language.