Disco de Kylie Minogue: “Let's Get to It”

Word Is Out is great. (Single: #16)

Give Me Just A Little More Time is great. (Single: #2)

Too Much Of A Good Thing is brilliant.

Finer Feelings is great. Original album version. (Single: #11)

If You Were With Me Now is great. (Single: #4)

Let's Get To It is brilliant.

Right Here Right Now is brilliant.

Live And Learn is brilliant.

No World Without You is brilliant.

She sings "without you" like another viewer suggested, instead of "witou-choo" like others would sing.

I Guess I Like It Like That is a brilliant dance track. (Un-noticed single: #49)

This dance track goes on for 6 minutes and also features Tony King and the Visionmasters.

Tony King has remixed such hits as Let's Get To It and Step Back In Time.

Out of interest Step Back In Time was a single and charted at #4.

Let's Get To It charted at #15 in the UK and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100 UK Albums Chart.

It's as simple as that. (Or not so simple!)

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.

The team of Stock-Aitken-Waterman is replaced more in part by Stock-Waterman-Minogue on Let's Get To It. The same snappy pop is there, but there's an emphasis on single-oriented material that doesn't sound have that "hurriedly cranked out of the singles sausage-factory sound". No, for her final go-around with the production team who put her on the map of fame, she breaks through even more than she did with Rhythm Of Love.

"Word Is Out" has her using a Full Force style chorus without going into Sam Fox's foray of hip-hop. Brassy horns, bouncy synth percussions, and other instruments bounce this nice little number along.

Then comes one of three really big crown jewels. Her cover of Chairman of the Board's "Give Me Just A Little More Time" with its brassy horn section is just what's needed to take the taste out of sour grapes from anyone's mouth. Given the material of her last four albums, there's something to be said for saving

The lovely "If You Were With Me Now", a duet with Keith Washington, is the best ballad she's ever done, and will stand in history as a perfect song for dear ones separated through great distances. If the lush string section doesn't pull your heartstrings, it's time to get a new violin.

The other big ballad here, "No World Without You", is more on the simplistic side, the only instrument being a guitar while Kylie does her thing. The theme is identical to "If You Were With Me Now"

And now, best for last. Old school techno fans will be on fire with "I Guess I Like It Like That". Sure, there were the rocket-paced songs on her first album, but this song leaves those in the dust. "Gotta keep it pumpin' it up cos I like it". Programming "Give Me Just A Little More Time" and this song is a perfect tonic for boring office work short of blowing the workplace altogether.

All the other songs are worthy without being filler. "Right Here Right Now", "Too Much Of A Good Thing", and "Live And Learn" serve as better-than-average transitions to the real gems on this album.

After this, Kylie would go into a transitional period before going back to her roots with Light Years.

Kylie grows up and mellows down on her fourth album, which has less of the high energy grooves and more mid-tempo, r&b-lite slices of pop. "The Word Is Out" is a lightweight new jack swing number that sounds way different from everything Kylie has done before. Also good are the Chic-like "Too Much of a Good Thing" and the underrated "Finer Things." Interestingly, Kylie's worst singles are her covers, but she finally pulls it off on "Give Me Just a Little More Time." But fear not; the disc's closer, "I Like it Like That," is the high energy romp we've come to expect from this singer. "Let's Get to It" is a departure for not only Minogue, but for Stock Aitken Waterman, who are known to write very similiar neo-disco songs. But here, they show a little range and take chances. Looks like those chances paid off pretty well.

Let's Get To It was the album that Kylie Minogue really began to show her artistic and creative side on. The overall sound of this album explores elements of pop, dance, R&B and new jack swing.

the genre New Jack Swing is a blend of pop, dance and especially R&B.

The tracks on this album are great:

#1 WORD IS OUT - the first single released in 1991. This song is probably the best on the album because it contains a heavy New jack swing sound and really shapes the rest of the album.

#2 GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME - Kylie's cover of this song is fantastic. Basically just a pop song, but catchy to sing to and it definately stands out on the album. This was released as the third single. Kylie's vocals in this song have been subjected to critiquing however. I can understand why but honestly I think she's just belting out the words because she really feels them.

#3 TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING - This track also has a strong new jack swing and dance feel to it. Another standout track and Kylie also wrote it.

#4 FINER FEELINGS - a down-tempo pop track that was released as the fourth single. This song is good but I never seem to get into it as much as i want to. Nevertheless, lyrically I think it's very mature for Kylie at the time.

#5 IF YOU WERE WITH ME NOW - This song is beautiful. A duet with american R&B singer Keith Washington, Kylie and Keith wrote this song but apparently not together. There's a good chance the two never actually met because they wrote the song separately and their parts in the video aren't ever together so you never know. This is a R&B/pop ballad and was released as the second single.

#6 LET'S GET TO IT - the title track has a strong new jack swing/R&B sound and is another great song on the album.

#7 RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW - Kylie wrote this song and it combines elements of new jack swing and dance. Another great song.

#8 LIVE & LEARN - Kylie wrote it, It has a strong new jack swing sound, but for some reason I just don't get that interested in it when I hear it. Most of the time I skip it. Still a worthy song but.

#9 NO WORLD WITHOUT YOU - a lovely pop-ballad that Kylie wrote. Honestly, as nice as this song is, it would probably have to be my least favourite track. I really prefer the tracks that have that new jack swing/R&B/dance sound better.

#10 I GUESS I LIKE IT LIKE THAT - this song is a dance/house track. It doesn't have much (or any for that matter) new jack swing or R&B sound to it but it is still effective and Kylie also wrote it. A good energetic way to end an otherwise smooth, sexy album.

Let's Get To It is definately a benchmark in Kylie's career. I've always considered this album and her previous one "Rhythm of Love" to really be the start of the great Kylie we all love.