Light Years (studio album)
by Kylie
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Kylie bestography
Light Years is ranked 3rd best out of 29 albums by Kylie Minogue on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Kylie Minogue is Fever which is ranked number 2665 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 586.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Light Years track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 06/27/2025 09:43 | fabm0 | 6,506 | 59/100 |
| ! | 05/31/2025 12:37 |  DeusExMackia | 739 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2025 12:57 | TonySayers61 | 23,202 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/20/2024 03:27 | juanr1096 | 6,094 | 78/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2024 02:54 | stevengnz | 2,608 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.0/100, a mean average of 68.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.3.
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Pop excellence this is not. After the staggering, uncompromising "Impossible Princess", Kylie retreated artistically with "Light Years", her move back to mainstream blandness. Congratulations, it was a commercial success, but you just lost all of your artistic integrity which she would only embrace on "Body Language" again and nothing else.
"Light Years" marks a return to more mainstream pop after the commercial failure of her vastly superior album "Impossible Princess". There are some impressive tracks on here like lead single "Spinning Around", but mostly it sounds like Kylie and her producers played it far too safe and the record marks the beginning of a regression of what could have been a truly exciting career.
Nonetheless, "Light Years" has its moments and is filled to the brim with fun, humorous camp. It's just I can't help but feel disappointed when none of the tracks compare to ones from her 90s indie period like "Confide In Me" or "Did It Again". Ah well, it does its job.
Another clean pop record in the 2000's that wasn't an ear soar and had fun and was varied. Close to the same league as George Michael's Patience and Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor. Will venture into more Kylie. Good first impression.
Eastwood 12/16/2014 19:08 | #129487
Good dance-pop/europop/nu-disco album. Best 10 songs average is 86,3/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best songs are "Your disco needs you", "Kids" and "Light years" all 90/100, followed by "Spinning around" and "On a night like this" both 85/100 and next "So now goodbye", "Disco down" and "Please stay" all 80/100. All other songs average 75/100.
eclab 01/17/2013 12:46 | #61816
The hits are great, and the filler is not bad either.
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