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I think we know the winner by now 
Jark presents... ULTIMATE KYLIE: THE COUNTDOWN (#1 is...)
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1. Can't Get You Out of My Head
from Fever
what else?
I did grapple with the song that would top this countdown. all four of my top four were in consideration right up until a couple of days ago. but when it came down to it, it's Head. no other song in Kylie's discography does what Head does — the kind of once-in-a-career song that most artists will never experience, beamed in from some other dimension where the song on the radio is engineered to lull you into a perfect trance.
Head is sexy, mysterious, ethereal, a bit meta, almost creepy, and crucially sounds like nothing that came before or since. with just a verse, a bridge and that la la la hook it's not the most complicated of songs. but the way the melody of the set me freeeeee... bridge falls into the abyss like a lost cosmonaut floating through space is as hypnotic as anything you'll hear in a pop song, and the chorus lyrics perfectly describing the listener's relationship with the song is a touch of genius.
it takes real brilliance to survive the massive amounts of overplay this song has had over the years, and maybe a few casually clever reinventions too (see the Blue Monday mash-up and every tour version since — KMO is a favourite). and if every truly classic pop song needs an iconic video, Head's is the living tits. Kylie driving a yellow Mangusta (sexy) through a deserted dystopia, switching gears with her red leather glove... pity the other girls. the hooded dress, the robodancers adorned with industrial headphones... a dream of some distant future too sexy for mere mortals to access. god bless Kylie Minogue.
from Fever
what else?
I did grapple with the song that would top this countdown. all four of my top four were in consideration right up until a couple of days ago. but when it came down to it, it's Head. no other song in Kylie's discography does what Head does — the kind of once-in-a-career song that most artists will never experience, beamed in from some other dimension where the song on the radio is engineered to lull you into a perfect trance.
Head is sexy, mysterious, ethereal, a bit meta, almost creepy, and crucially sounds like nothing that came before or since. with just a verse, a bridge and that la la la hook it's not the most complicated of songs. but the way the melody of the set me freeeeee... bridge falls into the abyss like a lost cosmonaut floating through space is as hypnotic as anything you'll hear in a pop song, and the chorus lyrics perfectly describing the listener's relationship with the song is a touch of genius.
it takes real brilliance to survive the massive amounts of overplay this song has had over the years, and maybe a few casually clever reinventions too (see the Blue Monday mash-up and every tour version since — KMO is a favourite). and if every truly classic pop song needs an iconic video, Head's is the living tits. Kylie driving a yellow Mangusta (sexy) through a deserted dystopia, switching gears with her red leather glove... pity the other girls. the hooded dress, the robodancers adorned with industrial headphones... a dream of some distant future too sexy for mere mortals to access. god bless Kylie Minogue.
Inner Smile
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22 YEARS AGO! Still a banger and everyone loves it 
Inner Smile
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It certainly is
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AGinAg (37)
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Jark finished a countdown and it wasn't an alleged banger, which I normally see as watered down plain water?
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AGinAg (37)
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CHYOOMYH is over played and over discussed. But that is correct. It changed history. It smoothed over 9/11 and aligned Karen's and gays during the culture wars.
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COB
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And what if we thought the opposite 
(Only joking, this has been amazing)
(Only joking, this has been amazing
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