I BELONG TO YOU

Lenny Kravitz

Sorry Lenny, but nothing you do now will ever top the sight of that screamingly funny perm that adorned the drummer in the Are You Gonna Go My Way video. Its amazing gravity-defying abilities were worth watching on its own. I ask my huge army of readers (Mr and Mrs Phillimore) to ring up MTV and request its reshowing immediately. It would certainly make a change from this slab of seventies soul that he's unleashing on us now. It's the sort of thing you'd write if you'd been deprived of caffeine for your entire life, it's that mellow.

POR AMOR

Placido Domingo (album)

My goodness. I was expecting the usual operatic big-voice-and-even-bigger-body jiggery-pokery and got it, but I wasn't expecting somebody to lend him Julio Iglesias's backing music as well. Alarming on a first listen and worryingly soothing on subsequent listens, it's nice for him to try something different anyway. If the message he's aiming for is "Top This Pavarotti" then he's delivered it in style.

SUNMACHINE

Dario G

First there was Sunchyme which borrowed from Life In A Northern Town and did very nicely thank you. Then there was Carnaval De Paris, also known as Occasional Terrace Chant At Kenilworth Road, which also exceeded expectations. Not content with these two legends of popular culture however, David Bowie's Memory Of A Free Festival has been reworked into a beaty, boppy and happy number that kids will actually buy instead of their parents. For that we must be thankful. By the way, Dario G named themselves after the Crewe Alexandra manager. Good job his name wasn't Kenny Gradi as two Kenny Gs would be a horror the likes of which we do not deserve.