Monday's Long Song

In the wake of my Kylie ICA for The Vinyl Villain reader Tom W suggested that I should have included the Brothers In Rhythm remix of Where Is The Feeling?, a 1994 single that flopped (it was at the time her least successful charting single, in the days when these things mattered). Reader Khayem then got int touch to send me this...

Where Is The Feeling? (BIR Soundtrack Mix)

Brothers In Rhythm were a London based DJ/ production team who worked on much of the 1994 album including Confide In Me. On Where Is The Feeling? they abandoned all restraint and went for a thirteen minute epic. Opening with hi- hat and atmospherics and acoustic guitar the song builds slowly, strings added to the mix, some synths and eventually Kylie's whispered voice after four minutes. The bassline throbs away and Kylie sings 'any time you want me to/ I can make you happy', over and over, the strings sweeping in and out. Things reach a peak at seven minutes with a dramatic breakdown, Kylie's voice and thunder, and then the breakbeat re- enters and the second half gets under way. It's a long trip and worth every minute, all the way through to the end, the fade out of the music and there's just Kylie saying 'Just tell me everything's gonna be alright'.

We All Get Hurt By Love

In 1994 Kylie went for some credibility- not that she needed it, everyone loved Kylie anyway- but she was fed up with feeling like a puppet in the SAW production line. Brothers In Rhythm were on board to provide some dance productions skills and she had signed to DeConstruction (then a pretty hip dance label). Confide In Me is a slow burner, opening with violin and piano. Sweeping Arabian strings and a didgeridoo join in with the indie-dance drums. Kylie does her thing. 

Confide In Me (Master Mix)

I've posted this before but it's worth a repost while I'm in Kylie territory, a Go Home Productions mash up of Kylie's Slow and The Stone Roses' Beggin' You. Slow is a great, sultry pop song and was co-written by Emiliana Torrini, an Icelandic singer who has graced these pages before. It looks like The Stone Roses have called it a day again- the poor reception given to the two singles and Ian's frustration with the others not wanting to do much work is one reason that has been whispered about. Another is the ever present tension between Ian and Reni. To be frank, after the Etihad shows it looked done to me anyway. This mash up is good fun.

Beggin' Kylie 

While I'm here, I always thought this 2010 single was a really good, classy piece of electro-pop too.