Well, you knew this had to happen. They are British after all, but I don't think there's any excuse for this week's choice.The Spice Girls - Spice (1996)

The music business has been cynically creating and marketing acts since the days of the wax cylinder, but on nothing like the scale of the Spice phenomenon, which was applied to crisps, soft drinks, you name it. Musically, the Spice's Motown-lite was unoriginal, but 'Girl Power', despite being a male invention, touched a nerve and defined a generation of tweenies who took it to heart. Without this...five year olds would not have become a prime target for pop marketeers. Most of all, there'd be no Posh'n'Becks.

Ok, so what exactly was it about this record that "changed music"? It was nothing more than disposable pop garbage that catered to teeny-boppers who bought into the hype. Me? You couldn't provide a worse gag-factor, and this is a dreadful, pathetic choice.

Swish