Enjoy Yourself [Australian Import] [Extra tracks]

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.

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...

Very much was delighted when received your disk. Took great pleasure. Should recognize that the best songs, it is a track No. 1 and a track No. 2. They very much remind the first disk of the singer. The best disks of the singer, I consider the very first three disks.