POP MUZIK by M

Pop Musik was a 1979 hit by M which in turn was a supposed project from English musician Robin Scott.

Scott said, I was looking to make a fusion of various styles which somehow would summarise the last 25 years of pop music. It was a deliberate point I was trying to make. Whereas rock and roll had created a generation gap, disco was bringing people together on an enormous scale. That's why I really wanted to make a simple, bland statement, which was, 'All we're talking about basically (is) pop music.

The UK 12-inch single version was notable for the A-side having a double groove so that the two tracks ("Pop Muzik" and "M Factor") both started at the outer edge of the record and finished in the middle (with a long silence at the end of "M Factor" since the track was the shorter of the two). This resulted in a random selection of the two tracks, depending on which groove the needle landed in the lead-in.

Pop Muzik was a big hit, only being kept off the top slot in the UK charts by Art Garfunkel and his rabbit anthem (“Bright Eyes” from Watership Down).