Average: 2.75 Controversy: 3.37
KG: Sounds really old-fashioned – poor Channel 4 documentary lyrics. 2
PB: The social commentary is ten years out of date. Literally in-credible. 0
TE: What if the Stereophonics discovered synthpop? Mercy! 0
JM: […]

Average: 2.91 Controversy: 2.63
AE: Also extremely good fun. Could have done with more BEAT. BASS FOR YOUR FACE. Starts off with excellent rant by obvious mental case about ‘blue world’. THERE IS NOBODY TO LISTEN screams insane man as he […]

Average: 3 Controversy: 2.39
IOD: This is more like it. That’s the sweat of the teenage riot! 6
TE: There’s a good bit in the middle where all their machines break down and they just keep shouting feebly over the top. Otherwise business a[…]

Average: 3.33 Controversy: 3.11
GF: Excellent, informed retro pop. 9
KA: All surface no feeling. 6
NW: But Earth doesn’t love you, Cliff! Even Menswear have done it better. 4
TE: I’d be surprised if anyone who bought this has the gall to […]

Average: 3.53 Controversy: 2.28
NW:You could slag Puffy for having the nerve to sample PE, but that’s a bit like getting on Mel C’s case for covering the Sex Pistols. Nothing should really be sacred, and I’d much rather hear a PE sa[…]

Average: 3.88 Controversy: 2.85
JM: Come and have a go if you think you’re bad enough. 9
KG: Rap at its most gloriously funny. 7
MD: Nas says he can’t stop now, but really, where can one go from this kind of baroque megalomania? Nowhere b[…]

Average: 4.08 Controversy: 2.36
Nobody felt particularly eloquent about poor Jen. Which possibly speaks for itself[…]

Average: 4.26 Controversy: 3.17
IS: She is great. It is great. 10
AE: Devilishly catchy number, showing maturing of Spice Value System into ultimate form of Hedonistic Me-Child. EXCELLENT. Hasn’t done anything even remotely good since. 9
MA: It[…]

Average: 4.27 Controversy: 2.83
KA: Not as good as Britney but those Yanks sure know how to POP! 8
TE: Nice vacuum-packed beats which sound like someone’s sampled the sound of bubble-wrap being squeezed. And that’s about all you can say f[…]

Average: 4.31 Controversy: 2.75
MA: Nothing wrong with a weak song that a pretty voice can’t revive. 7
GE: Can you destroy a record by faint praise? 7
KA: Isn’t that by the Corrs? 4
NW: It simply tries too hard to be adorable. 1[…]