1990 was a watershed year in Kylie Minogue's career. She abandonned the image that was created for her by pop svengalis Stock/Aitken/Waterman and reinvented herself... for the first time! The album opens with the most brilliant track our little budgie ever laid vox on, "Better The Devil You Know". This track, to show its staying power, was recently recorded by Pete Waterman's newest project, Steps. Proceeding into the album even further, one encounters these other jewels- "Step Back In Time"(a tribute to the Philly Soul era of the early-mid 70s), "What Do I Have To Do?" (recently covered by Almighty Recording artist, Kia), and the blissful "Shocked". There is not a single track on this ablum that is not 100% inspired! Additional standout tracks include the non-PWL produced "One Boy Girl (f/Princessa)", "The World Still Turns", "Secrets" and "Things Can Only Get Better"- Which I implore you to check out in its remixed version which can be found on Kylie's Greatest Remixes CDs. This album is the purest of pop and one Kylie's finest hours in her early career. Also check out "Light Years" for her most recent hits!

Episode 3 in the continuing story of Kylie Minogue yields Rhythm Of Love, which shows her slowly reaching for new sounds after the booster

Stock-Aitken-Waterman produces the majority of Rhythm Of Love, with Minogue getting production help from Stephen Bray (q.v. Madonna) on "Count The Days" and the title track. On Rhythm Of Love, there are subtle steps towards something more substantial.

Kylie's still the hitmaker and the opening track, "Better The Devil You Know", which Steps covered on Step One, is bubblegum heaven. The next two songs, "Step Back In Time", which pays tribute to the O'Jays, and "What Do I Have To Do", continue a blitz of uptempo dance beats.

The wall of strings pop of "Secrets" and the 80's-Britpop of "Always Find The Time" are sheer delights, and then...

From "Shocked" onwards, the sounds drift away from the usual Stock-Aitken-Waterman sound of the first six songs, such as the pop/r&b fusion of "One Boy Girl" in which she trades rap with the Poetess, the subtle inclusion of soul-style keyboards in "Things Can Only Get Better" and "Count The Days", and the Madonnaesque title track.

This was the first album of hers that wasn't released over in the U.S., which is rather a shame since they missed a lot. Fortunately, I kept up my search for her until I found this and other albums.

This was Kylie's third album from her whole music career and the PWL Era and I have to say, it is the best one! It's a shame this album didn't sell as much as the first two did, because as other reviewers have said, this album has a different feel to the first two.

Now, here, instead of a 10-track full dose of fun-pop tunes in the 1980's album, you get a 11-track full dose of fun-dance tunes in the 1990's album! This is also where sex Kylie began. This album includes 4 great singles and more popular album tracks with all of the fans!

The album's first 3 songs are more singles, including the extremely popular Kylie classic Better The Devil You Know. You will find your parents singing along and kids, Kylie DID NOT copy this from Steps! The other 2 are Step Back In Time and one of my personal favourites, What Do I Have To Do. Better The Devil You Know was a #2 hit, Step Back In Time entered the UK Charts at #9 as the highest entry that week, but the following week us fans sent it spinning up the Charts 5 places up to #4! Finally, What Do I Have To Do broke Kylie's string of Top 5 hits as it only charted at #6 in it's debut...

The next 3 songs are all album tracks, sounds quite similar and are my favourite album tracks on the whole album! Secrets is an excellent tracks but then the album turns all absolutely fabulous with 'hits' Always Find The Time and The World Still Turns! They are so danceable and upbeat!

The seventh track is Shocked. This was another single that many fans wanted to hit the top 5 again. Unfortunately, it didn't and only went to #6 again, like the last single What Do I Have To Do... Many people became fond of the DNA 7" Mix which was included on the single but this is presented in its original album version which lasts for nearly 5 minutes! Both of them are good, this is my favourite single from the album. Get Kylie's Greatest Hits packages for the DNA Mix.

The next 4 tracks are album tracks and are yet again, more favourites from her fans! One Boy Girl and Things Can Only Get Better are the stand-outs from the last 4 tracks. While Count The Days and Rhythm Of Love talk about Love and they are also rather pleasant tracks, like the others from the album.

This album's highest Chart Position was #9... It spent 22 weeks on the UK Top 100 Albums Chart. Kylie's fourth and final PWL album Let's Get To It went to #15 and spent 12 weeks on the Chart.

Kylie hit the nail on the head with this one....tired of being a puppet for SAW Kylie put more imput on this album and it comes out a winner. More sexy and better songs, this cd is the ancestor of "Light Years" and "Fever". With one memorable fun song after the other, I highly recommend this one to people seeking her back-catalog cds. The best tracks(and Kylie classics) are "Step Back IN Time", "Better the Devil You Know" "What Do I Have To Do" and "Shocked"

This was the last cd that I could get my hands on from Kylie mainly cause of her 2nd album not being that big of a hit in the US so they stopped selling her here. This was a fantastic cd probably her most well put together album with PWL Label. Loved it then and still loving it now! Must Have!