Friday Ripple 27.7.2007

In between playing the best new tunes in alternative rock, hip hop and electro, Craig Duncan and Tomas Turek discuss the week's most ridiculous news stories...

Politics is rarely this much fun. First off this week, there's President Vladimir Voronin of Moldavia, who addressed a baffled conference of Moldavian bishops and priests on the topic: "Jesus Christ was the first communist". Then there's Belgium's Prime Minister elect, Yves Leterme, who revealed he doesn't know the Belgian national anthem. Leterme then went on to assure journalists that he had "much more important things to do than this crap", and warned that his political enemies will "pay for it sooner or later". It's great to see such honesty in the political arena...

Hip hop hubris: music mogul and alleged rapper P Diddy launched his new brand of perfume, called "Unforgivable Woman". And we should buy it because, in Diddy's words, "I think we all have an emotional connection to pina colada." Sorry, what?

"Having researched 700 most popular heavy metal songs revealed that half of them is about murder, 7 percent is positive about suicide, and 35 percent preaches a variety of Satanist ideologies," announced Professor Fyodor Kondratyev of Russia's Serbsky State Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry. Now you know.