Good Pop / Bad Pop

This new Roisin Murphy track is surely the best bit of pop music out for a while yet.

This is quite a turn up from my perspective cause I thought her first solo album was utter nonsense. Pretentious rubbish produced by that berk Herbert. I'll probably discover that he's done this too and have to retract that statement (quick bit of web research - he didn't).

However this is great, total Goldfrapp rip off but its got Luke Vibert-esque acid lines, big words that allude to drugs and sex and a kind of early Depeche Mode synth hook that flicks my electro-pop switch.

I'm sure her new EMI A&R blokes have had their fingers in there, "C'mon Rosy, you had yer chance at that poncey stuff, now lets make a few quid - or you'll be dropped quicker than a hookers knickers and my coke fund takes a hit". Well, if thats what it takes for the masses to encounter groovy acid lines when they are out doing the shopping, its fine by me.

At the other end of the scale is the latest Manic Street Preachers 'song' which is similar in impact to a lump of wet cardboard put on a potters wheel set to slow. Dispose of immediately please, members of the general public.