Product Description

'Showgirl - Homecoming Live' is a live album taken from thefirst concert of Kylie Minogue's rescheduled 'Showgirl' greatest hits tour, and her first show since successfully battling cancer. Packed with all of the hits that you know and love, this record succeeds in capturing a concert that will live long in the memory of those lucky enough to atttend. Includes the hits 'Slow' and 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Showgirl Theme
2. Better The Devil You Know
3. In Your Eyes
4. White Diamond
5. On A Night Like This
6. Everything Taboo
7. Temple Prequel
8. Confide In Me
9. Cowboy Style
10. Finer Feelings
11. Too Far
12. Where The Wild Roses Grow/Red Blooded Woman
13. Slow
14. Kids - Minogue, Kylie & Bono

Disc 2:

1. Rainbow Prequel
2. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
3. Come Into My World/The Flight
4. Chocolate
5. I Believe In You
6. Dreams/When You Wish Upon A Star
7. Vogue/Burning Up
8. Locomotion
9. I Should Be So Lucky/The Only Way Is Up
10. Hand On Your Heart
11. Space Prequel
12. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
13. Turn It Into Love/Light Years
14. Especially For You/Love's In Need Of Love Today
15. Love At First Sight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6882 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Showgirl
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.

a perfect microcosm of the pop ethos
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.

The Madonna wannabe fails to impress!
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.