Originally released in September 1997 on Eternal Records, the newly-released Girl: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition includes writing and production work from Ian Masterson and David Green, Xenomania (Matt Gray, Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennan, Tim Powell), Metro (Paul Barry, Graham Stack, Mark Taylor, Steve Torch) and DNA (Nick Batt, Neal Slateford).

Featuring three massive #1 UK Dance Chart / Top 30 hits – ‘All I Wanna Do’ (#4), ‘Everything I Wanted’ (#15) and ‘Disrememberance’ (#21)!

This special deluxe Collector’s Edition CD box set expands the original 10 track release over four discs, totaling 46 tracks, packaged in a clamshell box with deluxe finish printing. [There is also a bundle version with “All I Wanna Do 2020” CD Single included].

This limited edition disc features all the remixes of Dannii’s re-recorded All I Wanna Do 2020 release, with all eight versions originally issued digitally finally made available physically for the very first time.

Indeed, this CD marks the first physical release of these remixes by Trouser Enthusiasts, Bright Light Bright Light and Until Dawn, plus two unreleased mixes complete the package.

After a brief burst of success in the early ’90s, the career of Dannii Minogue seemed to be over, the failure of her second album Get Into You signposting her as another flash in the pan clinging to the coattails of a more famous sibling. Or so it seemed.

After a three year absence, the younger Minogue returned with an updated sound and a striking new look. Where the cover of her debut album Love and Kisses depicted Dannii as a slightly plain girl next door, the Girl artwork is sleek and sexy, with Minogue sporting newly blonde hair and a tanned, toned body.

The music too was no longer so concerned with aping American trends; it was clearly influenced by the British dance club sounds of the mid-’90s. In short, Dannii was finally carving an identity for herself, and her decision to drop her famous surname from her records at this point was highly significant.

Lead single All I Wanna Do was a stunning and unexpected comeback. Written by Brian Higgins, who would later write Believe for Cher, and the majority of Girls Aloud’s hits, it arguably went further into club territory than any Kylie single that had preceded it, and a number of enormously popular remixes saw it topping the club charts and sailing into the Top Five, the biggest hit of her career at that point.

Elsewhere, Girl is impressive in its consistency, not just in quality but in direction. Where Love and Kisses was heavy on filler and Get Into You was a bit too varied to work as a collection, Girl remains true to the image and sounds established on that fantastic lead single.

So in Love with Yourself is a cold and contemptuous attack on a vain former lover with an impressively aloof vocal, and Everything I Wanted is a sophisticated and understated trance song which made a commercially disastrous, but extremely interesting second single.

Once again it was a bigger hit in the clubs than it was in the charts. The centerpiece of the album is third single Disremembrance. Clocking in at over eight minutes in its original form, it mixes trance beats with sweeping orchestral strings and soul searching lyrics you’d normally associate more with an artist like Björk than a fairly lightweight dance diva.

Released too long after the album had lost momentum, the track stalled outside the Top 20, but it was yet another club hit and remains by far one of Dannii’s best loved songs. A few strange choices interrupt the flow of the album in places, such as an extended dub mix of the track Movin’ Up (titled If It Moves...Dub It) placed halfway through the album, and the trippy, six-minute spoken word Everybody Changes Underwater, but all in all, Girl is an exciting and forward thinking return from a singer who most critics had long since written off.

Like Janet Jackson before her, Dannii had stepped out of her famous elder sibling’s shadow and emerged as an artist worth watching.

CD 1: Girl
1 All I Wanna Do 2 Heaven Can Wait 3 So In Love With Yourself 4 Am I Dreaming? 5 Everybody Changes Underwater 6 Everything I Wanted 7 If It Moves – Dub It 8 Disremembrance 9 It’s Amazing 10 Movin’ Up BONUS TRACKS 11 Someone New 12 Keep Up With The Good Times 13 Coconut 14 Movin’ Up [Gettin’ Harder Mix] 15 Movin’ Up [12” Master Mix] – Previously Unreleased

CD1 presents the original ‘Girl’ album plus five bonus tracks in a gatefold card wallet, a mini CD replica of the Special Edition LP format. The bonuses include ‘Someone New’, originally issued only in Japan, the out-take ‘Keep Up with the Good Times’, and the original hidden CD bonus track, ‘Coconut’, plus two 12” mixes of the album cut ‘Movin’ Up’, one of which is the previously unheard original 1996 mix.

Furthermore, the three bonus discs are each packaged in beautifully designed bespoke card wallets. Inspired by the original promotional and commercial single release artworks, each disc focuses on the album’s three main A-sides.

CD 2: All I Wanna Do Mixes
1 All I Wanna Do [12” Extended Mix] 6:58 2 All I Wanna Do [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Toys Of Desperation Mix] 11:05 3 All I Wanna Do [Xenomania Dream House Mix] 5:57 4 All I Wanna Do [D-Bop’s Innocent Girl Mix] 7:32 5 All I Wanna Do [Qattara’s Mix] 10:05 6 All I Wanna Do [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Ultra Sensitive Dub] 10:16 7 All I Wanna Do [Dizzy’s Mix] 7:39 8 All I Wanna Do [Sharp “System” Instrumental] 7:26 – First Time On CD 9 All I Wanna Do [Tiny Tim & The Mekon Dream Dub] 7:31 10 All I Wanna Do [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Radio Edit] 4:11

CD2 is dedicated to the ‘All I Wanna Do’ single and comes packed to capacity with a host of classic club remixes by Trouser Enthusiasts, Xenomania, D-Bop, Sharp, Qattara and Dizzy. One selection here appears on CD for the first time.

CD 3: Everything I Wanted / Heaven Can Wait Mixes
Everything I Wanted [Radio Edit] 3:44 2 Heaven Can Wait [7” Version] 4:06 3 Everything I Wanted [Xenomania 12″ Mix] 7:09 4 Everything I Wanted [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Golden Delicious Mix] 11:14 5 Heaven Can Wait [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Cloud Nine Mix] 12:13 6 Heaven Can Wait [Trouser Enthusiasts’ Hell Fire Club Dub] 9:20 – First Time On CD 7 Everything I Wanted [Jupiter 6 Soul Surround Mix] 6:54 8 Heaven Can Wait [D-Bop’s Heavenly Girl Mix] 7:47 – First Time On CD In The UK 9 Heaven Can Wait [D-Bop’s Melt And Sparkle Mix] 7:36 – First Time On CD 10 Everything I Wanted [Xenomania Radio Edit] 4:46 11 Everything I Wanted [Metro’s 7″ Mix] 3:54

CD3 brings together the remix packages for ‘Everything I Wanted’ and the promo-only single, ‘Heaven Can Wait’, with credits for D-Bop, Xenomania, Trouser Enthusiasts, Metro and Jupiter 6. Two ‘Heaven Can Wait’ mixes make their CD debut here, whilst a third appears on CD in the UK for the first time, having only featured previously on the rare Australian single release of ‘Coconut’ in 1998.

CD 4: Disremembrance Mixes
1. Schwermetal Fur Immer 2. Past The Point 3. Everybody Up 4. Crusader 5. Whippin’ Boy 6. Redline 7. Motorcycle Man 8. Denim And Leather 9. Dallas 1pm 10. Fetzen Fliegen V 11. Princess Of The Night 12. Rock N Roll Gypsy 13. Strong Arm Of The Law 14. And The Bands Played On.

1 Disremembrance [Trouser Enthusiast’s Brittlestar Requiem Mix] 12:15 2 Disremembrance [D-Bops “Lost In Space” Mix] 7:58 3 Disremembrance [Flexifinger’s 12″ Pop Mix] 6:17 4 Disremembrance [Xenomania 12″ Mix] 7:36 5 Disremembrance [Trouser Enthusiast’s Radio Edit] 4:27 6 Disremembrance [Flexifinger’s Full “Orchestral” Mix] 9:29 7 Disremembrance [Sharp Rocket Instrumental] 7:58 – First Time On CD 8 Disremembrance [Xenomania Edit] 4:25 – Commercially Unreleased On CD 9 Disremembrance [Trouser Enthusiast’s Diesel Plus Plus Dub] 9:59 – First Time On CD 10 Disremembrance [Twyce As Nyce 1:40 AM Mix] 6:05

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