Best Kylie Album

This is the best Kylie album out of the 9 she has. Almost every song is good and catchy. My favorite is the main title song. The stand-outs are: Spinning Around / On A Night Like This / Disco Down / Your Disco Needs You / Please Stay

Kylie's comeback album

If "Fever" was Kylie's comeback album in North America, "Light Years" was her comeback album in the rest of the world.



A lighter, more European-feeling, and more whimsical outing, this CD was my re-introduction to the Aussie ingenue. Sure, I had heard that she was still making music, and I think rumors of the "Impossible Princess" album's existence had reached my ears a time or two, but for all practical purposes Kylie had been absent from my mind (and the Canadian charts) since the glory days of 1988, when "The Locomotion" received heavy rotational airplay. When I noticed the striking cover of Light Years at the record store, I decided on the spur of the moment to pick the CD up.



Needless to say, I was not disappointed. "Light Years" is a great album. In fact, after listening to its tracks several times, I found myself mentally wondering why Kylie wasn't popular anymore. The songs on "Light Years" sounded like hits (and, in fact, there were several huge international chart-toppers on the disc, including "On A Night Like This" and "Spinning Around"). When "Fever" appeared two years later and caught on in the USA and Canada, it was a validation of the stylistic directions Kylie had moved in on Light Years.



Basically, if you enjoy light, disco-suffused dance and pop, "Light Years" is right up your alley. There's only one truly bad song on the CD, the ill-advised duet with Robbie Williams, "Kids".



This CD will impress you - take it to the bank. Five stars!

The bonus disc

Every Kylie fan who has the original album of "Light Years" should know what that disc is like, so I will just focus on the bonus disc of remixes.



There are two remixes of the #1 hit single "Spinning Around". One of them is by the very talented 7th District, who also remix "Please Stay" on this disc and the other is by Sharp Vocal. I personally prefer the 7th District Remix but they are both great. Next come two remixes of the #2 hit single "On A Night Like This". These remixes are even better. The first, remixed by Rob Searle, is a heavy-trance remix and is it actually very danceable and great. The second is by Bini and Martini, just out of interest, who also remixed Gabrielle's "When A Woman", it sounded similar. Kylie's mix is better, but check that remix out too. The best from "On A Night Like This" is the Rob Searle Remix. Missing is the Motiv8 Nocteral Remix which is also great, so get that if you can too. Even though it was not the biggest hit, "Please Stay" is up next and features three remixes! I must admit that the remixes of "Please Stay" are the best on the disc! The Hatiras remix is very random but it has a very unique sound. The next two are remixed by 7th District. The first, a radio remix, is very good if you like your remixes bite-sized. The second is a six-and a half-minute club mix which is the best on the whole disc. It has a very grasping 'ping-pong' beat which sounds great! The eighth track is a remix of "Butterfly". The is the weakest on the disc for me, as it does not sound as club-based as some other remixes, despite being nine minutes long, it still only sounds like a day-time remix. The remix of "Your Disco Needs You" is my second favourite remix on the disc. (The radio and hatiras mixes of "Please Stay" come in close after this.) It was used for the single when it was released in Germany.



Get this 2-CD set or you are really missing out! There is a hidden track called "Password" on the original album, very good, as the other fourteen tracks. The aussie tour-edition features two extras tracks on the bonus tour disc. "Physical" and "On A Night Like This (Motiv8 Nocteral Remix)". Kylie performed "Physical" on her On A Night Like This tour, also entitled Live In Sdyney. It is a Oliva-Newton-John cover song.