STOP YOUR ENTIRE LIFE AND PUT THE NEEDLE ON IT.
Dannii Minogue is back. Sort of. Ish.
The legendary Minogue sibling is set to release an Australia-only greatest hits collection called This Is It: The Very Best Of on August 23, featuring just about every single of her career, beginning with her iconic 1990 debut, “Love & Kisses.”
The only problem? Unlike 2006’s The Hits & Beyond, it doesn’t actually include any new songs.
Well, it sort of does: This Is It includes her 2009 Kylie duet, a cover of ABBA‘s “The Winner Takes It All” (which will surely go down as one of the gayest things ever recorded in the history of time), as well as a track called “‘Cos You’re Beautiful.” Nope, not an Aloud cover — it’s a track that her X Factor mentee Ruth Lorenzo co-wrote. She actually filmed herself recording the track three years ago on her mini-documentary Style Queen, but it never surfaced in full — until now.
Words truly fail to describe my sincere love for Dannii Minogue’s back catalog. It’s utterly sublime — a brilliant blend of camptastic freestyle and R&B and cutting-edge disco pop. Everyone should know every single song she’s ever recorded — and that includes her 1997 experimental dolphin sex opus, “Everybody Changes Underwater.”
If you haven’t already immersed yourself in the almighty teachings of Disco D, grab this collection. And if you have them already — um, grab it anyway. (Lord knows, it’ll still be better than any album released in 2013.)
Plus, it benefits the Minogue family. Duh!
01 LOVE AND KISSES – 1990
02 SUCCESS – 1990
03 JUMP TO THE BEAT – 1991
04 BABY LOVE – 1991
05 I DON’T WANNA TAKE THIS PAIN – 1990
06 SHOW YOU THE WAY TO GO – 1992
07 THIS IS IT – 1993
08 THIS IS THE WAY (DOWNLOAD ONLY) – 1993
09 GET INTO YOU (DOWNLOAD ONLY) – 1994
10 ALL I WANNA DO – 1997
11 EVERYTHING I WANTED – 1997
12 DISREMEMBRANCE – 1998
13 COCONUT – 1998
14 WHO DO YOU LOVE NOW – 2001
15 PUT THE NEEDLE ON IT – 2002
16 I BEGIN TO WONDER – 2003
17 DON’T WANNA LOSE THIS GROOVE – 2003
18 YOU WON’T FORGET ABOUT ME – 2004
19 PERFECTION – 2005
20 SO UNDER PRESSURE – 2006
21 HE’S THE GREATEST DANCER – 2006
22 TOUCH ME LIKE THAT (DOWNLOAD ONLY) – 2007
23 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL (DUET WITH KYLIE MINOGUE) – 2009
24 ‘COS YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL – 2013