Kylie's 100 Most Amazing Moments Ever!
Kylie's 100 Most Amazing Moments Ever!
Posted by Kyle at 11/10/2007 2:49 PM and is filed under uncategorized
100. The white hooded jumpsuit from the 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' video that didn't let you see a knocker but made you think you might. Designed by Fiona Doran and inspired by Grace Jones, the six foot long creation was modified by Kylie herself who insisted the splits at the leg go waist high with cries of "Higher! Higher!" as the stylist made fashion history with a pair of scissors.
99. Singing a rude word in 'Shocked' even though she denies it. There's no way that word is "rocked"!
98. Letting Nick Cave smash her head in with a rock. Australia's two most important musical artistes united for the murder ballad 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', fabulously wrong footing everyone and giving the normally underground-lurking Cave his biggest hit single to date.
97. Shooting a big gun in the movie Street Fighter. Some consider this video game adaptation to be the worst movie ever made but how is that possible when it contains a scene where the Kylster, in her role as action heroine Cammy, wraps her legs round a bad man's neck? She's also handy with a bazooka and makes Jean-Claude van Damme look tall for the first time in his career.
96. Being in Bio-dome. Oh come on, it's really underrated.
95. Releasing one album called Kylie and two albums called Kylie Minogue.
94. Having at least 26 number one singles (though not all in the same country).
93. Dueting on 'If You Were With Me Now' with Keith Washington, a man no one heard of before or since.
92. Being in the actually really good The Henderson Kids playing a character who was prophetically named Char.
91. Being smaller in real life than you would expect, even after every single person who has met her has already told you that she's smaller in real life than you would expect.
90. Being Charlene in Neighbours and making men feel funny. The failing daytime Aussie soap brought in the virtually unknown Ms Minogue to play tomboyish rapscallion Charlene Mitchell and within a week children were bunking off school to watch it. The BBC was forced by law to show it twice a day.
89. Just as Jesus was a humble carpenter, Charlene was just a common mechanic.
88. Charlene's mother was not a virgin but she was Madge Bishop which is probably better.
87. The Delinquents. You get to see a knocker.
86. Making the 2000 Olympics even gayer than when the ancient Greeks used to wrestle in the nude by singing 'Dancing Queen' at the closing ceremony in Sydney. In front of four million viewers and the world's sporting elite, Kylie closed what is now considered to be the best Olympic Games ever, wearing pink feathers while being carried about on a giant flip-flop. And Britain still thinks it has a chance of hosting it!
85. The Kylie bottled water.
84. Speaking in a Dutch accent for her first TV role as Carla on The Sullivans.
83. Her waxwork in Madam Tussauds having smelly breath.
82. Making a Christian man cross when Madam Tussauds hung her waxwork from the ceiling dressed as the angel Gabriel.
81. Descending from the ceiling on an anchor for the 'On A Night Like This' tour.
80. Inadvertently turning down the chance to sing on the Manic Street Preachers' 'Little Baby Nothing' back when they weren't famous, then having them write 'Some Kind Of Bliss' for her when they were.
79. The 'Got To be Certain' shoes.
78. "Remember the old days, remember the O'Jays."
77. Being a Geisha in a Jacuzzi for Towa Tei's 'GBI' video
76. Having tiny ballerinas dance on her hat for the 'Chocolate' video.
75. Reciting 'I Should Be So Lucky' for the Poetry Olympics at the Albert Hall.
74. Dressing like Barbarella in the video for 'Put Yourself In My Place' and then undressing like Barbarella as well.
73. Earning the nickname Carpark Kylie while at school.
72. Appearing in The Vicar Of Dibley. "No, no, no, yes!"
71. Singing 'A Froggy Went A Courting' on Going Live with Trevor & Simon. "Kylie, swing your pants!"
70. Emerging from a giant CD player, strapped to a giant CD, for the Brits 2002.
69. Singing the bootleg version of 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' at the Brits 2002 before bootleg mixes became just a really annoying way to ruin two perfectly good records. New Order's 'Blue Monday' replaced the original track, based on an unofficial mix by super-cool indie DJ Erol Alkan.
68. Doing 'Especially For You' on the Showgirl tour and having the audience sing Jason's bits.
67. Filming the 'I Believe In You' video inside a giant neon jellyfish.
66. Digging up the reclusive pop genius Green Gartside to sing on 'Someday'.
65. Originally calling the LoveKylie lingerie range LuckyKnickers.
64. Being a green fairy in Moulin Rouge. Warning: drinking Absinthe does not make you see Kylies.
63. Singing 'Especially For You' with Kermit The Frog on An Audience With Kylie Minogue.
62. Multiplying multitudes of Kylies in Michel Gondry's 'Come Into My World' video. No, we don't know how it's done either. Unless they used computers, but we'd like to think it was all down to something better.
61. Singing the opening line on Band Aid II's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' - a record Chris Martin tried to erase from history with the inferior Band Aid 20.
60. Playing a secret gig in Melbourne under the pseudonym The Singing Budgies.
59. Placing her buttocks in the hands of Justin Timberlake at the Brit Awards 2003. Teaming up to duet on Blondie's 'Rapture', the world's most desired man got to grips with the world's most pert posterior. Timberlake's opinion of the arse? "On a scale of one to 10, it was like, a 58!" That's quite a good arse then.
58. Wearing a hair hat on the first album cover.
57. 'Better The Devil You Know'. Pop changed forever.
56. Being caught at Heathrow with handcuffs in her luggage. Already dubbing her 'Sex Kylie' after a drastic image change and love affair with the late Michael Hutchence of rock band INXS, the tabloid press exploded with delight when in 1991 customs officers at the airport confiscated the cuffs. The boring reality was that they were just the handle of a slightly kinky handbag. BOOO!
55. Becoming a giant in the 'Giving You Up' video but still, by giant standards, being quite small.
54. Dressing as a French whore for the 'Word Is Out' video.
53. Once throwing bread rolls at a paparazzi photographer.
52. The panther tattoo.
51. Cute Kylie, Sex Kylie, Dance Kylie and Indie Kylie fighting each other in the video for 'Did It Again'.
50. Doing her own stunts for arty film Hayride To Hell.
49. Dueting with a fishnet-wearing Elton on 'Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves' for Equality 85 at the Albert Hall.
48. The slogan for the 'Intimate & Live' tour being "If in doubt, apply more glitter".
47. Having her tongue hacked out in the Aussie slasher flick Cut.
46. Pretending to be Neil Tennant's daughter on the Pet Shop Boys song 'In Denial'.
45. Recreating the famous 70s 'tennis arse' shot for the cover of GQ magazine.
44. Being a sexy wet ghost in a pool for the video of 'On A Night Like This'.
43. 'Disco Down'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single.
42. 'Turn It Into Love'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single (except in Japan).
41. 'Your Disco Needs You'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single (except in Germany and Australia).
40. The greasy dungarees. Nnngggnngggh.
39. The 'Please Stay' video revealing that Kylie is so rich she can afford her own seedy pool joint with her own pinball machine and some gay cowboys to dance with whenever she pleases (which is probably quite often).
38. Hitting Jason Donovan during her first Neighbours scene, 'by accident'.
37. The kitten brandishing scene in the 'I Wouldn't Change A Thing' video.
36. Wearing a puffball skirt.
35. "I, I, I, I, I, I should be so lucky". Why does no one do that on records anymore?
34. "I, I, I, I wouldn't change..." Seriously, why not?
33. The "brrrr" noise she makes in 'Give Me Just A Little More Time'. They don't do that anymore either. Aren't records rubbish nowadays?
32. 'I Believe In You'. Apart from that one, that one was good.
31. "Quelle heure est-il?" Kylie shows off her French in the mini drama at the start of the 'Je Ne Sais Pas Pourqoi' video. Kylie likes the French.
30. Inadvertently inventing pole-dancing in the video for 'Hand On My Heart'. Well, she danced round a pole anyway. It was stripy.
29. Getting attacked by flying hearts in the video for 'Hand On My Heart'.
28. Flapper Kylie, Cowboy Kylie, Disco Kylie and Japanese Kylie in the 'Never Too Late' video.
27. Singing 'Tears On My Pillow' fourteen years before ITV invented Greasemania.
26. Reciting the lyrics to 'Better the Devil You Know' as part of Nick Cave's academic lecture The Secret Life Of The Love Song at the Royal Festival Hall. Cave describes the track as a "harrowing portrait of humanity not dissimilar to that of the Old Testament Psalms".
25. Wearing hotpants in the 'Step Back In Time' video.
24. 'Especially For You'. Were they? Weren't they? Yes, they were! Hurrah!
23. 'Confide In Me'. Pop changed forever. Again.
22. 'Spinning Around'. Like the prodigal son, she returned to pop. And pop rejoiced. Two years after scaring everyone by going indie and weird with 1998's 'Kylie Minogue' album, 'Spinning Around' (co-written by Paula Abdul) put her firmly back on the disco throne and at the top of the charts. There were some shiny pants involved too.
21. 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'. Pop changed forever - for the third time. Journalist Paul Morley wrote a whole book about how it sounded like a robot driving a fast car to the future.
20. The video for 'Slow' proving that it is possible to earn a living lying on your back surrounded by men in their pants. Who'd have thought?
19. The kinky bus conductor outfit.
18. Doing that 'defying gravity' trick with the shop window in the Eurostar advert.
17. The gold hotpants making men feel funny. 50p from the market. Bargain!
16. Performing 'Santa Baby' dressed as Santa (without the beard) on the 2000 Christmas Day TOTP.
15. Responding to the ludicrously awful sleeve of the cheap 'n' shoddy PWL Greatest Hits re-release a few years ago by giving away hundreds of thousands of 'arty' replacement sleeves as inserts in magazines.
14. Doing the ironing in the video for 'What Do I Have To Do?'.
13. The wedding. Blub!
12. Performing the remix of 'Come Into My World' on TOTP with Casey from Fischerspooner.
11. Riding a big ice lolly in her pants for the LoveKylie promotion.
10. Doing an impression of De Niro in Taxi Driver for Normski's BBC2 show Dance Energy. "You talking to me?"
9. The 'Let's Get To It' cover. Mmm, aquamarine lettering...
8. Being too short to reach the microphone.
7. Riding a bucking sofa in her pants for the Agent Provocateur advert.
6. Riding a rocket in her pants for the LoveKylie promotion.
5. Standing in a big shoe in her pants for another LoveKylie promotion.
4. Glastonbury 2005.
3. "Lucky, lucky, lucky."
2. "La, la, la."
1. May 28, 1968. "Congratulations Mr and Mrs Minogue, it's a Kylie."
Source: Channel4.com
Posted by Kyle at 11/10/2007 2:49 PM and is filed under uncategorized
100. The white hooded jumpsuit from the 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' video that didn't let you see a knocker but made you think you might. Designed by Fiona Doran and inspired by Grace Jones, the six foot long creation was modified by Kylie herself who insisted the splits at the leg go waist high with cries of "Higher! Higher!" as the stylist made fashion history with a pair of scissors.
99. Singing a rude word in 'Shocked' even though she denies it. There's no way that word is "rocked"!
98. Letting Nick Cave smash her head in with a rock. Australia's two most important musical artistes united for the murder ballad 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', fabulously wrong footing everyone and giving the normally underground-lurking Cave his biggest hit single to date.
97. Shooting a big gun in the movie Street Fighter. Some consider this video game adaptation to be the worst movie ever made but how is that possible when it contains a scene where the Kylster, in her role as action heroine Cammy, wraps her legs round a bad man's neck? She's also handy with a bazooka and makes Jean-Claude van Damme look tall for the first time in his career.
96. Being in Bio-dome. Oh come on, it's really underrated.
95. Releasing one album called Kylie and two albums called Kylie Minogue.
94. Having at least 26 number one singles (though not all in the same country).
93. Dueting on 'If You Were With Me Now' with Keith Washington, a man no one heard of before or since.
92. Being in the actually really good The Henderson Kids playing a character who was prophetically named Char.
91. Being smaller in real life than you would expect, even after every single person who has met her has already told you that she's smaller in real life than you would expect.
90. Being Charlene in Neighbours and making men feel funny. The failing daytime Aussie soap brought in the virtually unknown Ms Minogue to play tomboyish rapscallion Charlene Mitchell and within a week children were bunking off school to watch it. The BBC was forced by law to show it twice a day.
89. Just as Jesus was a humble carpenter, Charlene was just a common mechanic.
88. Charlene's mother was not a virgin but she was Madge Bishop which is probably better.
87. The Delinquents. You get to see a knocker.
86. Making the 2000 Olympics even gayer than when the ancient Greeks used to wrestle in the nude by singing 'Dancing Queen' at the closing ceremony in Sydney. In front of four million viewers and the world's sporting elite, Kylie closed what is now considered to be the best Olympic Games ever, wearing pink feathers while being carried about on a giant flip-flop. And Britain still thinks it has a chance of hosting it!
85. The Kylie bottled water.
84. Speaking in a Dutch accent for her first TV role as Carla on The Sullivans.
83. Her waxwork in Madam Tussauds having smelly breath.
82. Making a Christian man cross when Madam Tussauds hung her waxwork from the ceiling dressed as the angel Gabriel.
81. Descending from the ceiling on an anchor for the 'On A Night Like This' tour.
80. Inadvertently turning down the chance to sing on the Manic Street Preachers' 'Little Baby Nothing' back when they weren't famous, then having them write 'Some Kind Of Bliss' for her when they were.
79. The 'Got To be Certain' shoes.
78. "Remember the old days, remember the O'Jays."
77. Being a Geisha in a Jacuzzi for Towa Tei's 'GBI' video
76. Having tiny ballerinas dance on her hat for the 'Chocolate' video.
75. Reciting 'I Should Be So Lucky' for the Poetry Olympics at the Albert Hall.
74. Dressing like Barbarella in the video for 'Put Yourself In My Place' and then undressing like Barbarella as well.
73. Earning the nickname Carpark Kylie while at school.
72. Appearing in The Vicar Of Dibley. "No, no, no, yes!"
71. Singing 'A Froggy Went A Courting' on Going Live with Trevor & Simon. "Kylie, swing your pants!"
70. Emerging from a giant CD player, strapped to a giant CD, for the Brits 2002.
69. Singing the bootleg version of 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' at the Brits 2002 before bootleg mixes became just a really annoying way to ruin two perfectly good records. New Order's 'Blue Monday' replaced the original track, based on an unofficial mix by super-cool indie DJ Erol Alkan.
68. Doing 'Especially For You' on the Showgirl tour and having the audience sing Jason's bits.
67. Filming the 'I Believe In You' video inside a giant neon jellyfish.
66. Digging up the reclusive pop genius Green Gartside to sing on 'Someday'.
65. Originally calling the LoveKylie lingerie range LuckyKnickers.
64. Being a green fairy in Moulin Rouge. Warning: drinking Absinthe does not make you see Kylies.
63. Singing 'Especially For You' with Kermit The Frog on An Audience With Kylie Minogue.
62. Multiplying multitudes of Kylies in Michel Gondry's 'Come Into My World' video. No, we don't know how it's done either. Unless they used computers, but we'd like to think it was all down to something better.
61. Singing the opening line on Band Aid II's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' - a record Chris Martin tried to erase from history with the inferior Band Aid 20.
60. Playing a secret gig in Melbourne under the pseudonym The Singing Budgies.
59. Placing her buttocks in the hands of Justin Timberlake at the Brit Awards 2003. Teaming up to duet on Blondie's 'Rapture', the world's most desired man got to grips with the world's most pert posterior. Timberlake's opinion of the arse? "On a scale of one to 10, it was like, a 58!" That's quite a good arse then.
58. Wearing a hair hat on the first album cover.
57. 'Better The Devil You Know'. Pop changed forever.
56. Being caught at Heathrow with handcuffs in her luggage. Already dubbing her 'Sex Kylie' after a drastic image change and love affair with the late Michael Hutchence of rock band INXS, the tabloid press exploded with delight when in 1991 customs officers at the airport confiscated the cuffs. The boring reality was that they were just the handle of a slightly kinky handbag. BOOO!
55. Becoming a giant in the 'Giving You Up' video but still, by giant standards, being quite small.
54. Dressing as a French whore for the 'Word Is Out' video.
53. Once throwing bread rolls at a paparazzi photographer.
52. The panther tattoo.
51. Cute Kylie, Sex Kylie, Dance Kylie and Indie Kylie fighting each other in the video for 'Did It Again'.
50. Doing her own stunts for arty film Hayride To Hell.
49. Dueting with a fishnet-wearing Elton on 'Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves' for Equality 85 at the Albert Hall.
48. The slogan for the 'Intimate & Live' tour being "If in doubt, apply more glitter".
47. Having her tongue hacked out in the Aussie slasher flick Cut.
46. Pretending to be Neil Tennant's daughter on the Pet Shop Boys song 'In Denial'.
45. Recreating the famous 70s 'tennis arse' shot for the cover of GQ magazine.
44. Being a sexy wet ghost in a pool for the video of 'On A Night Like This'.
43. 'Disco Down'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single.
42. 'Turn It Into Love'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single (except in Japan).
41. 'Your Disco Needs You'. Probably the greatest Kylie track never to be released as a single (except in Germany and Australia).
40. The greasy dungarees. Nnngggnngggh.
39. The 'Please Stay' video revealing that Kylie is so rich she can afford her own seedy pool joint with her own pinball machine and some gay cowboys to dance with whenever she pleases (which is probably quite often).
38. Hitting Jason Donovan during her first Neighbours scene, 'by accident'.
37. The kitten brandishing scene in the 'I Wouldn't Change A Thing' video.
36. Wearing a puffball skirt.
35. "I, I, I, I, I, I should be so lucky". Why does no one do that on records anymore?
34. "I, I, I, I wouldn't change..." Seriously, why not?
33. The "brrrr" noise she makes in 'Give Me Just A Little More Time'. They don't do that anymore either. Aren't records rubbish nowadays?
32. 'I Believe In You'. Apart from that one, that one was good.
31. "Quelle heure est-il?" Kylie shows off her French in the mini drama at the start of the 'Je Ne Sais Pas Pourqoi' video. Kylie likes the French.
30. Inadvertently inventing pole-dancing in the video for 'Hand On My Heart'. Well, she danced round a pole anyway. It was stripy.
29. Getting attacked by flying hearts in the video for 'Hand On My Heart'.
28. Flapper Kylie, Cowboy Kylie, Disco Kylie and Japanese Kylie in the 'Never Too Late' video.
27. Singing 'Tears On My Pillow' fourteen years before ITV invented Greasemania.
26. Reciting the lyrics to 'Better the Devil You Know' as part of Nick Cave's academic lecture The Secret Life Of The Love Song at the Royal Festival Hall. Cave describes the track as a "harrowing portrait of humanity not dissimilar to that of the Old Testament Psalms".
25. Wearing hotpants in the 'Step Back In Time' video.
24. 'Especially For You'. Were they? Weren't they? Yes, they were! Hurrah!
23. 'Confide In Me'. Pop changed forever. Again.
22. 'Spinning Around'. Like the prodigal son, she returned to pop. And pop rejoiced. Two years after scaring everyone by going indie and weird with 1998's 'Kylie Minogue' album, 'Spinning Around' (co-written by Paula Abdul) put her firmly back on the disco throne and at the top of the charts. There were some shiny pants involved too.
21. 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'. Pop changed forever - for the third time. Journalist Paul Morley wrote a whole book about how it sounded like a robot driving a fast car to the future.
20. The video for 'Slow' proving that it is possible to earn a living lying on your back surrounded by men in their pants. Who'd have thought?
19. The kinky bus conductor outfit.
18. Doing that 'defying gravity' trick with the shop window in the Eurostar advert.
17. The gold hotpants making men feel funny. 50p from the market. Bargain!
16. Performing 'Santa Baby' dressed as Santa (without the beard) on the 2000 Christmas Day TOTP.
15. Responding to the ludicrously awful sleeve of the cheap 'n' shoddy PWL Greatest Hits re-release a few years ago by giving away hundreds of thousands of 'arty' replacement sleeves as inserts in magazines.
14. Doing the ironing in the video for 'What Do I Have To Do?'.
13. The wedding. Blub!
12. Performing the remix of 'Come Into My World' on TOTP with Casey from Fischerspooner.
11. Riding a big ice lolly in her pants for the LoveKylie promotion.
10. Doing an impression of De Niro in Taxi Driver for Normski's BBC2 show Dance Energy. "You talking to me?"
9. The 'Let's Get To It' cover. Mmm, aquamarine lettering...
8. Being too short to reach the microphone.
7. Riding a bucking sofa in her pants for the Agent Provocateur advert.
6. Riding a rocket in her pants for the LoveKylie promotion.
5. Standing in a big shoe in her pants for another LoveKylie promotion.
4. Glastonbury 2005.
3. "Lucky, lucky, lucky."
2. "La, la, la."
1. May 28, 1968. "Congratulations Mr and Mrs Minogue, it's a Kylie."
Source: Channel4.com