Music and other important stuff...

Is it just me, or is there a lot of good pop music around at the moment? I mean, pure, fluffy, catchy pop? I can't get Annie's "Chewing Gum" out of my head at the moment - and if you know the song, chances are it's in your head too now! Bwah ha ha! And this is the second great pop song Richard X has written/produced this year, after Rachel Stevens's (no relation) "Some Girls" (and now you're humming that one too!)

And that's without mentioning Girls Aloud's "The Show", if only for the line: "Should have known/Should have cared/Should have hung around the kitchen in my underwear, acting like a lady". Pure bloody poetry.

On a similar note, Jean Michel Jarre's Aero comes out on Monday - pity I haven't got a 5.1 surround sound set up yet, so I'll just have to make do with 1.1 stereo. Bah! (BTW, did anyone else see him on BBC's Breakfast the other day? Didn't look well to me - maybe it was just the dead Womble he had on his head...!) If it wasn't clear from the previous post, this is the first album composed from the ground up in surround sound (there have been other surround sound albums, but they were just tweaked stereo), so it should be pretty bizarre to listen to (if you can!)