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| The Official Kylie "Aphrodite" Era Thread! | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 20 2010, 01:51 PM (24,655 Views) | |
| Riverwide | Jun 24 2010, 10:58 PM Post #781 |
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Is it too early for a RATE APHRODITE post yet?? |
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| bulgar | Jun 24 2010, 11:00 PM Post #782 |
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NO. it's never too late for a rate-a-shitty-album-which-everyone-will-end-up-loving post
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| Riverwide | Jun 24 2010, 11:04 PM Post #783 |
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YAY!1. All The Lovers 7/10 2. Get Outta My Way 7/10 3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 6/10 4. Closer 7/10 5. Everything Is Beautiful 5/10 6. Aphrodite 8/10 7. Illusion 6/10 8. Better Than Today 8/10 9. Too Much 5/10 10. Cupid Boy 5/10 11. Looking For An Angel 5/10 12. Can’t Beat The Feeling 6/10 After one listen anyway. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 24 2010, 11:36 PM Post #784 |
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It's already "omg album of 2010" for many of the I like Kylie and some of her music, but boy do I DESPISE her loon fans. They really are the pits. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 01:03 AM Post #785 |
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We still have two songs to get soon: Mighty Rivers, from iTunes and Heartstring from the Japanese CD! |
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| bulgar | Jun 25 2010, 01:05 AM Post #786 |
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after a few listens 1. All The Lovers 9/10 2. Get Outta My Way 9/10 3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 6/10 4. Closer 9/10 5. Everything Is Beautiful 5/10 6. Aphrodite 8/10 7. Illusion 9/10 8. Better Than Today 5/10 9. Too Much 7/10 10. Cupid Boy 7/10 11. Looking For An Angel 7/10 12. Can’t Beat The Feeling 7/10 |
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| quoideneuf | Jun 25 2010, 05:47 AM Post #787 |
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1. All The Lovers 8/10 2. Get Outta My Way 9/10 3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 9/10 4. Closer 8/10 5. Everything Is Beautiful 5/10 6. Aphrodite 8/10 7. Illusion 9/10 8. Better Than Today 6/10 9. Too Much 8/10 10. Cupid Boy 8/10 11. Looking For An Angel 5/10 12. Can’t Beat The Feeling 6/10 |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jun 25 2010, 06:35 AM Post #788 |
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Its very uneven I'm afraid. We heard all the good stuff on the megamix and the rest is complete filler. After one listen anyway. Maybe I had high expectations given Stuarts involvement and all the talk of this being her PROPER COMEBACK OMG but I'm dissapointed
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| TickTock | Jun 25 2010, 08:22 AM Post #789 |
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I Fckt Riverwide N Da Azz Real Hard Again
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 09:44 AM Post #790 |
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How many times can she keep disappointing people?? This must be some kind of record! |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 10:03 AM Post #791 |
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Reassuring to read a growing number of reviews from disappointed people over at Popjustice. Many of them are of the opinion that at best it's a "very good Lisa Scott Lee or S Club Juniors album", but hardly the great Kylie album we were all promised. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 10:13 AM Post #792 |
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Some details of her Jonathan Ross interview tonight: Kylie Minogue joins Jonathan Ross for this week's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One. In a remarkably frank interview Kylie revisits the worst days of her illness: "You're facing darkness. If you want to go away from that you have to reach out and find positive things." "Whatever hope or help I can give to people in similar circumstances, I want to spread that message." She explains how her family and fans sustained her: "The goodness I felt coming in my direction, I almost felt overwhelmed by it." "I felt so bad for my mum and dad because they felt so helpless, the pressure on them was incredible." Going back on tour was her salvation: "It's how I connect with people, that's what I really wanted to do, get back on-stage." She also tells Jonathan how she fell for boyfriend Andres Velencoso immediately: "I couldn't help but notice – yes, he's gorgeous"; and how she has to help him with his English: "I have to help him with texting, I'm his secretary." She says she's not threatened by Lady GaGa: "I'm a fan of hers... I've got my own thing going on." Finally, she reveals she'll appear with Scissor Sisters at Glastonbury this weekend and confirms new UK tour next year. Kylie also performs All The Lovers & Love At First Sight. Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, 10.35pm, Friday 25 June 2010, BBC One. |
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| scrowfan | Jun 25 2010, 01:09 PM Post #793 |
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Are you guys even listening to the same album? I think it's her best album since Light Years. It's very nearly perfect! I'm not one of those gushy fans that cums all over everything she sings, but this shits all over X and BL and maybe even Fever. I can't wait to hear it live. Aphrodite the song is probably the best song she's ever recorded! I'm told that the final product on release will have all the tracks mixed together. Not as much as COADF, but much more than it currently is. |
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| Jimmy Mack | Jun 25 2010, 01:27 PM Post #794 |
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I've given it a few spins and I think it's a "nice sounding" album. But the songs just aren't there. If you're doing to do a dance-influenced album, you commit either way and make it a tune-stuffed dance pop wonder, or a four-to-the-floor beat monster. This is neither, really. The production is by far the best thing about it. The title track sums up what is missing from it for me. When it starts it sounds AMAZING and I get excited but then it goes nowhere. It is definitely the kind of the album that I will play a lot, however, as it unobtrusive and inoffensive to have on when I am working, reading the paper, having people round for dinner etc. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 02:41 PM Post #795 |
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Oh I just can't agree I'm afraid. But then it seems that you hold "Fever" in high esteem, whereas I think it's an awful album(with the exception of 2 or 3 songs)! I also couldn't get excited about hearing most of these live. Stuff like Everything Is Beautiful, Illusion and Looking For An Angel will be deadly dull in a concert. As Jimmy says, this is perfectly fine background music, but there's very little on there to make me sit up and take notice. It's all too mediocre. Where are the HUGE tunes that her best stuff has? Also, I don't think the "final product" will be mixed together. The leak IS the final product. It has come from actual retail CDs. I don't see why they can't make a continuous mix available as an iTunes exclusive or something like that. I'd prefer a continous mix. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 03:02 PM Post #796 |
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ATL falls from #6 to #12 in Ireland in its second week. The physical copies are released today. |
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| Deleted User | Jun 25 2010, 04:51 PM Post #797 |
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Track my track ratings: 1. All The Lovers 8/10 Warmed to me a lot. It's not amazing, it's just fun and summery. 2. Get Outta My Way 8/10 My fave on the album - fun, very pop. Reminscent of Wow/Stars from X 3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 6/10 Sounds quite tacky and dated. It wouldn't feel out of place as a Fever album track 4. Closer 5/10 Reminds me of the demo I'm In The Mood For Love from the X era... ergo not brill 5. Everything Is Beautiful 5/10 Horrid.... dull, uninteresting, flat. Cheap sounding r'n'b beat. Vocals during the chorus grate on me 6. Aphrodite 6/10 Dated, sounds very early 2000s. Tacky lyrics really turn me off. I can imagine Samantha Mumba singing this 7. Illusion 5/10 Again, another very demo sounding song. Filler 8. Better Than Today 5/10 Worse than illusion. Same old lyrics. Really nothing grabs me at all in flat, filler tracks 9. Too Much 7/10 Getting better again - heavier beats, more attention grabbing. Fun 10. Cupid Boy 6/10 The sound echoes the b-sides Baby/Heart of Glass - doesn't particularly inspire me, but still an improvement to the midsection 11. Looking For An Angel 5/10 Again, I have to say it sounds like one of the X rejects. Absolutely nothing to inspire me 12. Can’t Beat The Feeling 4/10 Kill me Overall 6/10 Great start! It sounds fun, it sounds fresh.... then it descends into mediocraty... stale and flat sounds and lyrics.... picks up a tiny bit towards the end, then stalls with the final track. I would listen to 'X' and Body 'Language' over this new offering any day. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 07:25 PM Post #798 |
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I've listened to it twice last night and a few times today. For me, it's one of those albums that actually gets slightly worse with each listen, as the initial excitement fades and the actual reality of the songs sets in. 1. All The Lovers 7/10 Still don't think this is anything special. It's an above average, semi-sophisticated pop song. Enjoyable though. 2. Get Outta My Way 8/10 Very "Wow" in a good way. A perfectly decent slice of cheesepop. Hardly stratospheric, just good fun. 3. Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 6/10 Pretty flimsy and 'cheapo' sounding. Most of the tracks on X(and some of the leftovers) are far better than this. 4. Closer 7/10 Nice production, but never really gets going. It just doesn't go anywhere. Far too sedate and unimaginative. 5. Everything Is Beautiful 5/10 Dull lyrics. Dull vocals. Dull melody. Dull production. And it has that slight naff R&B vibe to it like "All I See". Haven't they copped on yet? 6. Aphrodite 7/10 Nowhere near as epic as it thinks it is. Good chorus, but the verses are pretty weak. The slightly naff, dated production lets it down. 7. Illusion 5/10 Another song that sounds like it would've been an X reject. Very weak melody and generic production. Awfully thin, unpleasant nasal vocals. 8. Better Than Today 7/10 Finally a strong, clear melody and a cute recurring synth line. Never really goes anywhere though. You've heard the whole thing in the first 30 seconds. It plods along sounding like it needs a major kick up the arse. 9. Too Much 5/10 A lot punchier than the previous stuff, but the melody is once again pretty flimsy. The chorus is catchy, but in an annoying way. I won't be enjoying this one after a few more spins. 10. Cupid Boy 5/10 Nice verses, but the chorus is a bit of a drag. More nasal, chimpunk vocals. Again, it just sounds like a leftover from X or a b-side. Just very, very dull. Goes nowhere and seems to go on and on and on. 11. Looking For An Angel 7/10 Quite "No More Rain", only not as good. A decent melody after the weak ones that preceeded, but ultimately more forgettable mediocrity. 12. Can’t Beat The Feeling 4/10 A dreadful album closer. So, so generic and weak. Overall 6/10 Slightly promising start which rapidly descends into shockingly average-to-weak stuff. I've pretty much lost any faith I had in Kylie and her people to deliver high quality songs. Even the flawed X is a vastly superior album to this. Her weakest album in many, many years. |
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| bulgar | Jun 25 2010, 07:30 PM Post #799 |
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a bit too harsh but true |
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| Riverwide | Jun 25 2010, 07:33 PM Post #800 |
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I think this really says it all: Bionic > Aphrodite I really mean that! |
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