Sleeve: Hello boys. Kylie in close-up, lip gloss as inviting as a pillow.

Sleevenotes: Three-page love letter to Kylie's golden career, "from lucky, lucky, lucky, to la, la, la". For excitement, four montages of Kylie dressing up and undressing; for pedants, publishing paraphernalia.

Content: Kylie gets her hits out for the lads, 33 in all, 26 top tens, seven number ones. CDs divided into little-soap-girl Stock, Aitken & Waterman years and renaissance as Aussie Madonna.

High points: Shocked (naughty girl), Confide In Me (those strings), Spinning Around (that video), Slow (Donna Summer for 21st century)

Low point: Jason Donovan.

Glaring omissions? Faltering indie princess years on Deconstruction label mean no Where Is The Feeling or Some Kind Of Bliss

Anything new? I Believe In You, Giving You Up, more Madonna meets Donna Summer

Excuse for release? Ultimate Kylie title says it all.

Where might this end up at Christmas? Under the pillow.

Updated: 09:23 Thursday, December 09, 2004