Jark presents... ULTIMATE KYLIE: THE COUNTDOWN (#1 is...)

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.

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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.
 
You could have put I should be so lucky at Number 1 and I still would have agreed with you, that’s how brilliant your writing and this countdown have been. I’m not the biggest Kylie stan but I listen to these songs differently now!
 
Sometimes the obvious choice IS the best choice. Loved this countdown Jark.

And I get it, including Red Blooded Woman would've been too unfair. You made the right choice.
 

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