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List Price: $26.49 | | Label: Mushroom Records
Salesrank: 305614
Released: June 30, 1998 |
| Our Price: $168.07 |
| Used Price: $48.88 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Let's Get to It Track Listing:
1. Word Is Out
2. Give Me Just a Little More Time
3. Too Much of a Good Thing
4. Finer Feelings
5. If You Were With Me Now - Kylie Minogue, Keith Washington
6. Let's Get to It
7. Right Here, Right Now
8. Live and Learn
9. No World Without You
10. I Guess I Like It Like That
Editorial Review:
Fourth album for the Aussie dance/pop diva, originally released in 1991. 10 tracks including the singles, 'Word Is Out' and 'If You Were With Me Now' (Duet with Keith Washington). Standard Jewelcase.
Let's Get to It Reviews:
Kylie Lets Get To IT 
2009-12-05 - This is an excellent CD to have in your collection,it sounds excellent and all the songs are really cool also.
"Sex Kylie": The Adventure Continues
2008-02-13 - The adventures of "Sex Kylie" continues with her follow up and last album with Mushroom Records. Different from her previous albums, this album blends with Pop and R&B.
Word Is Out:Best song of the album. With the two versions I like. The album Version and the Summer Breeze mix. I was dissapointed when I bought the album she put the summer breeze mix instead of the album version which she put on most of her greatest its. album version is a New Jack Swing mix.
Give Me Just A Little More Time: A cover of The Chairman Of The Board. Great and a very cheerful song that can help with a bad day.
Too Much Of A Good Thing: samples Janet Jackson's Control mixed with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Let The Beat Hit Em. It combines with Pop and R&B. sexual but a great song especially with the moans.
Finer Feelings:I like both versions of the song, but I prefer the Brothers and Rhythm remix.
If You Were With Me Now: What a romantic duet with Keith Washington, but the song needs to be a little bit longer.
Let's Get to It: Short, but its similar to Color Me Badd's I Wanna Sex You Up" but it has the mood to listen to on the NYC subway train.
Right Here, Right Now: What a very sweet song and very happy.
Live and Learn: I really like the song alot especially with the New Jack swing Mode which something James harris and Terry Lewis would produce
No World Without You: Sad but a very good love song.
Best track is I Guess I Like It Like That. You can say this a preview to rave music and similar to 2 Unlimited's Get Ready For This. overall it's not a bad New Jack Swing album.
Though a slow starter, this could end up my desert island CD
2008-01-25 - My suggestion would be to listen to this entire CD a minimum of 8-10 times before attempting to form a firm opinion about it, as there is a lot going on here; there's plenty of depth and dimension that did not reveal itself immediately to the at-first casual listener, (namely myself).
And it took me a while to get used to what began to seem like the underlying idea that Kylie was more (as if) the featured artist in a greater/group endeavor, rather than THE solo performer that the producers were building tracks for/around. I'd already thought the "old' Kylie was phenomenal, and so was having trouble fathoming what the shift meant exactly, and it was making me angry (how dare they!) - I was being sort of shaken to the core, if you can see what I mean. But after a couple of weeks hearing this over and over, this seemed to me in some ways even better than what came before.
It's as if Stock-Aitken-Waterman 'decided' to make another great album, but this time freed themselves from the paradigm of building it solely around Kylie - it ended up with a much more collective or even tribal flavor, like this was some phenomenal variety show/musical, wherein she seemed more like the main lead singer/actress, part of the extended cast, rather than being a mere soloist. Herein, the back-up singers are more prominent on several tracks than on previous Kylie CD's; and Kylie BLENDS into that sort of thing more than before. There are times that her voice is layered with the earthier tones of the main back-up singer (like was done with Michelle and Cass of the Mamas and the Papas way back in the day, or like how a shimmering string section and an acoustic piano sound are layered together in a multi-timbral synthesizer/sampler). And there really are times you can't even tell if it's Kylie that's singing, layered or not. Once I got over being disturbed about this, it made my listening experience very interesting, and the overall sonic experience very fertile.
As for the songs, there is a lot of variety - every track shines very well on its own - and the sequence of the tracks is phenomenal. (Once one gets accustomed to it, the thing stacks up very well next to what used to be called the concept album, especially given the fact that there are absolutely no filler tracks. I also like the idea of comparing it to a segment of the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre and Dance's annual Collage Concert in Hill Auditorium - all high quality, stunningly inspirational, emotionally engaging material, in a resonant acoustic space that shimmers like the Buddhist Nirvana.)
Here are a few thoughts/notes regarding THE SONGS:
1. "Word is Out": The influence of Stevie Wonder (writing and singing) is all over the verse section of this track. And the multiple recurring choruses will hook listeners until the end of time. There's great emotional color, and intense fervor all the way through. After I conquered the learning curve on this one - it became anthem-like! You can check out the video of this track on Kylie's 'Greatest Hits 87-97' DVD.
5++++ stars
2. "Give Me Just a Little More Time": this might actually be better than the original, at least on certain days. The video is to die for (on the either the 'Greatest Hits 87-97', or `Ultimate Kylie' DVD's): they're in a club scene, sunlight streaming in the large windows - though it seemed to me like it had to be New Orleans, the club is actually somewhere in London. Everybody's dancing - it's dreamy, really.
5+++ stars
3. "Too Much of a Good Thing": pays profuse homage, perhaps subconsciously, to the somewhat spare sound of [Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler, here of course without Caron Wheeler]. Stock-Aitken-Waterman keep things more florid (as only they are capable of), but the punchy accents, the vocal phrasing, and rhythm all seem to owe lots to Jazzy B and his team. All in all, it's so unbelievably soulful, that I hardly notice that it's somewhat repetitious towards the end.
5++++ stars.
4. "Finer Feelings": more Soul II Soul vamping, though it's subtler. Stock-Aitken-Waterman makes magic all over the place with this one - every detail of sound presents itself as if full of wonderment. It grows on you, then continues to grow on you, and then keeps growing on you some more. But upon reflection, that seems to be the nature of the entire album. You can check out the video of this track on Kylie's 'Greatest Hits 87-97' DVD.
5++++ stars
5. "If You Were With Me Now": Is a terrific duet with Keith Washington: the singers' voices both soar - they are astounding here - things couldn't be any better! You can check out the cool video on Kylie's 'Greatest Hits 87-97' DVD - it's also very moving.
5++++ stars
6. "Let's Get To It": is an original-sounding, easy going dance track, with a great warm organ groove and punchy percussion accents. Kylie's lead vocal is a featured plus during the sparer mix of the melody of the verse section, which is obliquely-related to that of the chorus, dovetailing to perfection with that chorus's hook. I hope I don't seem too partisan with my effusive efflorescence when I say that this is one of those supremely fine good-vibe songs.
5++++ stars
7. "Right Here, Right Now": is immediately recognizable for the congas and (later on) the re-triggered vocal samples in its intro. The song displays a telling major-minor mode interplay throughout its melodic/harmonic texture, and emphasizes intense chorus work - that wonderful, magical old gospel influence is going to jump you and knock your boots off - folks, this one is way gone!
5++++ stars
8. "Live and Learn": This has more very intense chorus work. Sixteenth-note groups in the verse melody and in the rhythm track (there and elsewhere) - and subsequent 16th-note based syncopations yield a relaxed, flowing funk rhythm that only somewhat belies the song's intensity. Iconographically speaking (if I may borrow from a visual arts term) the lyric and overall tone heads into similar territory as "Things Can Only Get Better" from the `Rhythm of Love' CD; and it's placed in a similar position in the sequence of tracks.
5++++ stars
9. "No World Without You": Is Kylie's intense and skillfully-sung solo ballad. The accompaniment is spare: clean guitar probably mixed with a warm clav, and what sounds like a stick bass on occasion - all triggered from a keyboard sampler (per the liner notes no `actual' instruments are used on this CD other than brass on a few numbers).
5++++ stars.
10. "I Guess I Like It Like That": is a very long tribal-club-dance tune that totally funks it up. And does Kylie ever go wild when she leans and soars into those long, improvised melismas near the beginning of the track - you just gotta hear this!
5++++ stars
We already know how almost unfailingly great Stock-Aitken-Waterman were as songwriters, arrangers, and style jockeys, and that their recording/mixing/mastering engineering team has vaulted into contention for being judged as one of the best ever on the planet!
In answer to the criticisms that SAW copied various styles of American R&B [without actually stealing melodies, of course] - Waterman answered (in an interview/article viewable on the unofficial SAW website) that they in fact did it much better than the Americans, whose music he said sounds watered down by comparison. Though this may seem arrogant and presumptuous on his part, I had already come to this conclusion before having read his statement/interview. SAW not only wrote great music - they managed to get their singers/artists to perform better than usual, and, seemingly, better than everyone else around at the time.
N.B. I haven't heard it stated anywhere that Kylie was angry at her producers, and that's why she changed labels. It may just have been she was ready for something different, to see what she could do outside the influence of the marveled machinations and ethos of SAW's 'Hit Factory'. One of the other reviewers stated that SAW spent 3 times as long in the studio for this record than their usual, which contradicts a couple of others' seemingly baseless assertions that it was a rush job. If those folks had taken more time to listen, it might have dawned on them how much painstaking and ultimately rewarding work went into the songs and the production of `Let's Get to It'. All this attention to detail, reminiscent of what was done with, for instance, the Mamas and the Papas' Dunhill sessions, and for Roy Orbison's greatest sides with Monument, certainly seems to have paid off for this, Kylie's swan song with the label.
If you are a Kylie fan you have to have this
2005-05-22 - Before I start sharing my opinions on this album, I would just like to say a quick get well message for Kylie. Many (certainly me) were shocked by Kylie's early-stage breast cancer and I hope she knows and understands how much we are thinking of her. I admire her work very much and hope she recovers extremely quickly, as she is most likely to. The showgirl tour was also amazing and I was saddened to hear about the cancelling of this and saddened to hear about Kylie's disaster itself. The album LET'S GET TO IT is a great buy, if you are a REAL Kylie fan. This is her fourth album, as she released the following albums before this: KYLIE, ENJOY YOURSELF and RHYTHM OF LOVE.
This album faired rather poor in the UK, only reaching #15 - in Kylie's home, Australia, the album peaked at #13. This album still had SOME hit singles, e.g Give Me Just A Little More Time and duet with Keith Washington, If You Were With Me Now.
The tracks from this album are:
01 Word Is Out
(Also available in Australia: Summer Breeze 7" Mix)
(Single charted at #16 in the UK and #10 in Australia)
02 Give Me Just A Little More Time
(Single was a huge hit in UK, charting at #2. In Australia, the single charted at #24)
03 Too Much Of A Good Thing
04 Finer Feelings (Album Version)
(Also available: Brothers In Rhythm 7" Mix)
(Single charted at #11 in the UK and #60 in Australia)
05 If You Were With Me Now (Duet With Keith Washington)
(Single charted at #4 in the UK and #23 in Australia)
06 Let's Get To It
07 Right Here, Right Now
08 Live And Learn
09 No World Without You
10 I Guess I Like It Like That
(Single charted at #49 in the UK)
Overall, this album is a great buy. Even though the album did not sell as much as the other PWL recordings, this album may be the finest of them. This album ranges from Techno (I Guess I Like It Like That) to R'n'B (Word Is Out) the most. It also includes some great and beautiful ballads like If You Were With Me Now and No World Without You. Along with this album, I would also reccommend: RHYTHM OF LOVE.
kylie's weakest album 
2005-05-02 - i am shocked to see so many high reviews for this album! it's not only her weakest album but it is so plainly obvious that this album was rush-recorded and rush-released. there really are only 8 songs on this cd's the other 2 were totally thrown together at the last minute(too much of a good thing and i guess i like it like that.)
The problem with this album is that there are no dance floor stompers like "Better The Devil You Know" and "What Do I Have To Do" and also no really catchy pop tunes like "Got To Be Certain" or "Hand On Your Heart.Some may say this album is more mature. No. what it is is boring. First of all, my biggest problem with this album is the OVERUSE OF BACKGROUND SINGERS!!! they appear on almost all the songs escept for 2! I got so annoyed by them. Kylie was reduced to singing backup along with them on a lot of this album. Those 2 songs i mentioned, Kylie BARELY sings at all, although i am almost convinced that she doesn't sing at all on I Guess I Like It Like That, which has no verses at all, it's just one big long chorus sung by background vocalists, almost the same with that other song. "Let's Get To It" sounds like a rip-off of Color Me Badd's "I wanna sex you Up", although it's one of the better songs on the album but that's not saying much. the only 2 standout songs are "Give Me Just A Little More Time" (which i didn't really like when i first heard it on Greatest Hits, but put it next to these otehr bland songs and it sounds like a work of art) and "Finer Feelings" BUT the Brothers and Rhythm remix of "FF" is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better. this album version is weird...it's not a dance song, and its not really a ballad, so it never really goes anywhere. the remix saved it by miles!
I love Kylie, but its obvious this album was rushed to get out of her contract. NEXT!
