Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

I love great pop albums. Unfortunately, "pop" is a much-maligned word in rock because it is too often used to describe crap. Great pop albums, though, are precious. Here is a short list of what I consider to be some great pop albums:

• A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles (1964)
• Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. - The Monkees (1967)
• In Color - Cheap Trick (1977)
• Get the Knack - The Knack (1979)
• Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's (1981)
• 11 - The Smithereens (1989)

Enough hooks to open a tackle shop, harmonies aplenty, and a beat you can dance to. You get the idea: great pop. That leads us to the Kaiser Chiefs. I'm not saying that their new album, Employment, is good enough to join the ranks of the above great albums. It's a very good album. I am saying that the Kaiser Chiefs have a great album in them. Check out the first single, I Predict a Riot, and Na Na Na Na Naa and just try and keep from moving to the beat.