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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 249094" data-attributes="member: 68">Amazing, I would have loved to have seen Fever and Aphrodite live! They were two times in my life where it was impossible financially for me to have made it work. Since Aphrodite I have always made a Kylie tour a 100% VITAL part of my budget and allow for that overspill now. Love how detailed your favs selection is.100% Agree. I swear I have said this on this forum before but the song is just a natural antidepressant. Whenever I feel defeated or awful, or just really down. Kylie has been my go to pick me up. Since 1988! It&#039;s basically my whole life and I am forever grateful to my aunt who bought me those Kylie and Jason cassettes when everyone said she shouldn&#039;t and I was too young! All these years later and Kylie&#039;s first greatest hits, pulls me out of dark times. I remember years ago hearing Kylie doing a reading of the lyrics as a poem and it really validated the song to me. It&#039;s bubblegum! Yes, but it&#039;s also more. Abbey Road shows that all her SAW songs are more than what they initially seemed. Happiness distilled! Absolute joy!Yes! Where I grew up it wasn&#039;t at all cool to be a Kylie fan, My aunt however kept on buying me the albums and I can remember rewinding the tape over and over and trying to sound exactly like her... Something I also did with Madonna&#039;s Immaculate Collection that my older brother bought me because my mum wouldn&#039;t buy me because we were a good Catholic family! Honestly! This shit is real.It&#039;s a stunning ballad. a bit &#039;90s power pop thing that really showcases Kylies massively underrated vocals. (at that time!) PWL or Deconstruction never made her sound like that, and yet there she is on tour showing us that she&#039;s got them pipes! I don&#039;t know why but I don&#039;t hold the same Christmas association, i wasn&#039;t buying my own music then! But now you mention it, it may become a new Christmas ballad fave, and join the ranks of Heartbeat by Steps.... Which just is a Christmas song to me.I was working at this time and was able to but my own music, and I had heard the song. However, when she blasted it out at Showgirl in Dublin in that feather gown.... On a podium. MY MIND EXPLODED. It all clicked into place and I had never heard a song so perfectly tailored to an artist... It was the beginning of her, for&nbsp; me, being recognised as an icon! That and the Pet Shop Boys&nbsp; In Denial bit blew my mind!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 249094, member: 68"] Amazing, I would have loved to have seen Fever and Aphrodite live! They were two times in my life where it was impossible financially for me to have made it work. Since Aphrodite I have always made a Kylie tour a 100% VITAL part of my budget and allow for that overspill now. Love how detailed your favs selection is. 100% Agree. I swear I have said this on this forum before but the song is just a natural antidepressant. Whenever I feel defeated or awful, or just really down. Kylie has been my go to pick me up. Since 1988! It's basically my whole life and I am forever grateful to my aunt who bought me those Kylie and Jason cassettes when everyone said she shouldn't and I was too young! All these years later and Kylie's first greatest hits, pulls me out of dark times. I remember years ago hearing Kylie doing a reading of the lyrics as a poem and it really validated the song to me. It's bubblegum! Yes, but it's also more. Abbey Road shows that all her SAW songs are more than what they initially seemed. Happiness distilled! Absolute joy! Yes! Where I grew up it wasn't at all cool to be a Kylie fan, My aunt however kept on buying me the albums and I can remember rewinding the tape over and over and trying to sound exactly like her... Something I also did with Madonna's Immaculate Collection that my older brother bought me because my mum wouldn't buy me because we were a good Catholic family! Honestly! This shit is real. It's a stunning ballad. a bit '90s power pop thing that really showcases Kylies massively underrated vocals. (at that time!) PWL or Deconstruction never made her sound like that, and yet there she is on tour showing us that she's got them pipes! I don't know why but I don' t hold the same Christmas association, i wasn't buying my own music then! But now you mention it, it may become a new Christmas ballad fave, and join the ranks of Heartbeat by Steps.... Which just is a Christmas song to me. I was working at this time and was able to but my own music, and I had heard the song. However, when she blasted it out at Showgirl in Dublin in that feather gown.... On a podium. MY MIND EXPLODED. It all clicked into place and I had never heard a song so perfectly tailored to an artist... It was the beginning of her, for me, being recognised as an icon! That and the Pet Shop Boys In Denial bit blew my mind! [/QUOTE]

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