Movie DVD Store (UK) - Showgirl: Homecoming Live in Sydney
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List Price: £16.99
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Manufacturer: Parlophone
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094638533122
Format: Live
Label: Parlophone
Manufacturer: Parlophone
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Parlophone
Release Date: 2007-01-08
Studio: Parlophone
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Editorial Reviews:
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Taken from the opening night of Kylie Minogue's rescheduled 'Showgirl' tour, Showgirl Homecoming is, to all intents and purposes, a live (and slightly updated version) of 2004's Great Hits collection, Ultimate Kylie. This being her first show since successfully battling cancer, Kylie of course pulls out all the stops to make the Sydney date – and the rest of the tour of course - a formidable comeback statement. The 25 tracks here pretty much cover all the key points in Kylie's career - good as well as bad: "Better The Devil You Know", "Spinning Around", "I Believe In You", "Locomotion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Hand On Your Heart", "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", "Kids" (with a guest appearance from Bono), are just some of the many gems included. It's true that the earlier material (especially from the Stock Aitken & Waterman days) sounds horribly dated even when performed live, but Kylie manages to glide through it all with the kind of sass and style you'd expect from a reborn 21st Century Queen Of Pop. Welcome back Kylie... --Danny McKenna
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Summary: Awesome Live CD
Comment: I first bought this CD just after seeing Kylie Live in January 2007. My first live concert ever. I'd seen parts of the original showgirl concert before, but never expected the show to be as good as what it actually was. The sheer excitement in the arena was amazing, and you can actually feel that on this live album. The thunderous applaud at the beginning is just like the standing ovation Kylie recieved at the actual show I attended, before bursting into Better The Devil You Know. Never since have I seen a standing ovation in a concert. Her voice is crisp and strong on this tour, miles better than the Showgirl Tour, infact it's sort of like on the Fever Tour, for anybody reading this who has bought that DVD. The music is awesome, and the setlist is superb. Dreams being the absolute stand-out on the album, along with the new track White Diamond. Kylie at her best. Amazing raw-sounding live album.
5 Stars
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Summary: Showgirl
Comment: Showgirl is just a live greatest hits the only good thing about this album is that it has one new track white diamond it is a good song i give this track a 7/10 cos it's live this album got #7 in the uk charts! 5/10 buy it for white diamond.
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Summary: a perfect microcosm of the pop ethos
Comment: Kylie, the elusive pop princess, is both everything and nothing. Nobody seems to know what she stands for, her interviews are rare and rather bland, her private life - despite the intrusive telephoto lens of the Scum Papparazzi - mostly a mystery. In many ways, the perfect pop product, mute, timeless and synonomous with memorable snatches of melody, Kylie's third live album (after "Intimate And Live" and "Fever") is perhaps a perfect microcosm of the pop ethos.
On one level, the purely musical element of this show is a concise, two hour recreation of Kylie's greatest hits : UltimateKylie made flesh. The set leaps between the various incarnations of her work without missing a beat - placing the anodyne, but bitterly effective "Better The Devil You Know" next to the modern, slinky "In Your Eyes", and the two, despite the massive gap in styles, are both, in essence, Kylie.
What is Kylie? Kylie is a cipher. Whatever you want to project on her, that's what she is. See nothing but vaccous pop? That's all there is. See a intruiging artist managing both popular and profound? Kylie can be anything you want her to be. In the world of your imagination she is either everything that is great, or grates, about pop.
If you take away everything but the music, "Showgirl" is both essential and utterly superfluous : the music is much like the medium itself. Every song is both a concise pop thrill and a tragedy : a kitchen-sink radio-1 pop soap opera of love, less, redemption and dancing. "It's just a fantasy, the way it should be, you kiss me, I'm falling..." she sings in "On A Night Like This", the wild sense of abandon, the transcendant that populates truly great music - taking people to the Other Place that Bono eulogizes in "Beautiful Day".
Talking of Bono, The Pope Of Pop himself materialises like a vision of the Weeping Madonna for a truly bizarre rendition of Robbie's "Kids" halfway through. Sadly, Bono's croaky performance demonstrates that whilst the Irish Jesus is game for anything, good lad, he is also rarely capable of acquitting himself with aplomb. (He's also outclassed by several galaxies in his recent duet of `Tower of Song' with Leonard Cohen), and here he can do little but fail to match the memory of Robbie's far superior original. Not that this matters one jot : in five minutes time, faster that the lifespan of a Big Mac, here's another disposable pop thrill ; "Shocked". Or "Spinning Around". Or the compelling, brilliant "Confide In Me". All executed with a tongue-in-cheek knowing about how awful, and awesome, this bubblegum is : let us, for now, forget the pompous semi-West-End trappings of the breakdancing men in thongs and the 6ft peacock trails, and concentrate on the canon of work Kylie has produced. Unlike Madonna, there are no allusions as to what Kylie is, a woman trapped inside the artifice of pop, and revelling in this. Suspending disbelief, an audience in the theatre of this strange movie called Pop.
If nothing else, "Showgirl" is the very apex of pop music, a concise summary of a sometimes uneven career turned into two hours of nothing but highlights : from the thrill of "In Your Eyes", the daft joy of the disco nursery rhyme that is "Can't Get You Out of My Head" to the utter camp parody of "Hand On My Heart" and the simplistic wonder of "I Should be So Lucky", "Showgirl" is a reminder, as if we needed, that this determined soap star has that rarest of qualities that all great pop music needs to rise above the droll and bland mass of aural pollution : brilliant, brilliant songs.
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Summary: The Madonna wannabe fails to impress!
Comment: It's great to have Kylie back and i know she has her market. However for me her performances leave me cold, she has a much gltiz as Liberace and Barbara Cartland combined but just as they failed to live up to their glitzy persona's in my view so does Kylie. No amount of glitter can hide Kylie's weak performance and vocal ability in this show.
Musically Kylie and her songs contain as much oomph as 70's kiddies tv show entertainers.
Sorry it just does not work for me, she is capable of strong moments but this concert is not one of them in my view.
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Summary: Average
Comment: I went to see the original showgirl tour back in 2005, i wasnt that impressed then and the slight alterations to Homecoming (unecessary in my opinion) dont change my train of thought. You see its all a bit to Madonna for my liking, she sings well, looks great considering what shes been through but musically, with this tour and cd shes treading far to deeply into the Madonna school of how to put on a real show! Some great dance sections aside i feel the unecessary and awful additions of Madonnas' Vogue and the Temple section were just to boring or only really necessary for Die Hard fans, Too Far anyone??? Im not sure where Kylies future lies in music but hopefully she wont continue to regurgitate stuff like this, especially when Madonna does it far superior, check out the Confessions Tour or Im Going To Tell You A Secret, originality from the original queen!
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