BABY’S GOT A TEMPER

Prodigy

It’s hard to believe that this is their first single in very nearly five years, but there you go. Is it worth the wait? Well, it’s going to scare the life out of anyone caught unawares, so on that score – yes. Imagine you’re at the fair and one of those nice, jolly little songs that only ever get heard in the vicinity of fairgrounds, circuses and possibly some of the more upmarket ice-cream vans starts up. Then a hard-sounding guitar riff comes in followed by the drum loop – if you remember Firestarter then imagine the beat from that slowed down a bit – and this is even before Keith Flint starts spitting out the words in his own inimitable style (one word in particular, namely Rohypnol, seems to have got a fair amount of attention already). If we’re being honest here, the whole thing’s a bit unsettling, but that’s a good thing. Every now and again it makes a nice change to hear something that makes you think. It may not be quite the big step forward that I was hoping for, but this is still quality merchandise.

THE LOGICAL SONG

Scooter

Those of you who regularly listen to drivetime radio may know this song as a fairly sensible tune originally performed by Supertramp way back in 1979. That’s a shame because it won’t help you here. Instead we have a song that goes through more beats per minute than a boxer’s face and the chorus (because that’s about all survives) that sounds like it’s been sung by Alan Ball imitating a smurf after inhaling helium. I’m sure all parties concerned went into this with the very best of intentions, but God alone knows what they were because this is rubbish.