Track Listing

1. Hand on Your Heart
2. Wouldn't Change a Thing
3. Never Too Late
4. Nothing to Lose
5. Tell Tale Signs
6. Especially for You - Jason Donovan, Kylie Minogue
7. My Secret Heart
8. I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)
9. Tears on My Pillow
10. Heaven and Earth
11. Enjoy Yourself

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76394 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks

Customer Reviews

Beautiful pop music from Kylie's early years...
This is Kylie's second album produced and written by the production and writing team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. This album sounds as fresh today as when I first heard it in 1989. Every track is a carefully composed pop song what will have you up and dancing around the lounge room! Contains the hits 'Hand on your heart' and 'Wouldn't change a thing', my favourite song would have to be 'My secret heart', a wonderfully composed ballad that has lyrics that I can very much relate to. A wonderful album and a great showcase of Kylie's early years.

It's got a good beat and you can dance to it
This has long been one of my favorite albums. It is unfortunate that this album's lukewarm reception here in the U.S. contributed to Kylie's exile from our radio stations. It is true that Kylie's second release isn't a groundbreaking, breakthrough achievement, and indeed it does reflect the pop music so popular in the late 1980s. It is only natural that today's listeners would view this album as a product of its times, but to criticize it for being what it is seems silly to me. Some might call this bubble gum pop, but I am not ashamed to say I have always loved that kind of music. These songs are all fun to listen to and never grow old. Had I an ounce of rhythm in my body, I would be compelled to dance to these songs; "Hand On Your Heart" and "Wouldn't Change a Thing" in particular have a great beat. As a young person contemplating the wonders of the fairer sex, upbeat tunes such as "Never Too Late" and "Nothing to Lose" often lifted my spirits. "Heaven and Earth," "Tell Tale Signs," and "Especially For You" are wonderful ballads, and Kylie's cover of "Tears On My Pillow" is enjoyable. "Enjoy Yourself" basically sums up the whole album--this is an upbeat album filled with tunes encouraging you to forget your troubles and just enjoy life. There are no bad songs to be found here; I cannot listen to one or two songs without listening to the entire album. Some may think the lyrics are sappy and shallow, but one must keep in mind that Kylie was only about 20 years old when "Enjoy Yourself" was released. I think this CD is much better than Kylie's debut, and I would hope that fans just now discovering this wonderful singer will seek out this early material and give it a chance.

Simple message, simple album
There is nothing remotely groundbreaking about Enjoy Yourself, the second album of Kylie's career and to me is just a follow-on from the previous year's Kylie album. The album came out in late 1989, around the time that Kylie was beginning to change and wanting to take charge of her own career. This must have been a difficult album for her to make with all the restrictions that were placed on her in the Hit Factory, but, like the true star she is she didn't let any of this show.
The first track recorded especially for the album was Hand On Your Heart and became the second song to be lifted from the album. It quickly became one of those annoyingly catchy songs that people loved to hate after a while although in 2003 it now sounds brilliant. The second track on the album and the third single, Wouldn't Change A Thing is much more polished pop and has a much less annoying feel to it. The video for this was the first to be filmed in the UK and sees her having bags of fun messing about in a large garden on a sunny summer afternoon. Never Too Late, the fourth single picks up where Hand On Your Heart left off and then hands the baton over to Nothing To Lose. It isn't until Tell Tale Signs that we notice a remarkable change in the album - a song that doesn't sound like one we've already heard. A cool ballad, it begins to show the true potential in her voice and makes you feel she is destined to do something much better than what she currently is. Especially For You is the soppiest point on the album. Who can forget the cheesiest video in pop hostory, filmed with Jason Donovan at her every beck and call. The fact that it was all over the charts at Christmas 1988 meant it had been played to death and could surely have been left off the album. I'm sure an extra track by just Kylie herself in place of this song would have been much more well received, but hey, it's unlikely she had a say anyway. My Secret Heart borders on stupidity as it seems to have no melody or purpose but you quickly forgive her when the next track I'm Over Dreaming (Over You) starts up. Disco Kylie is back and is even becoming less cheesy. Tears On My Pillow became her fourth number one single in the UK and was the theme to the (quite) good film she made, The Delinquents. This was actually a cover but the original was only really a hit in the USA so not instantly recognizable as a cover to Kylie fans. Heaven And Earth begins to wind things up on the album and then we suddenly hear Enjoy Yourself, the title track, and possibly the best message to people that any album has ever given. It's an upbeat track, a fun track with a simple message - just enjoy life. What could be any better than that. Not a brilliant early Kylie album but you get a feeling from this album that something better is just around the corner. This album waves goodbye to girl-next-door Kylie with the first single from the next album, Better The Devil You Know, changing everything...