For our fifth Broken Records (originally aired on Riot Act #88 10th April 2020), Steve and Remfry delve into the confusingly titled One, the second album by British House music trio Dirty Vegas. One garnered generally negative reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 35, based on 8 reviews, making it the worst-reviewed album of 2004.

Steve Lowe of Blender heavily criticized the group's AOR tracks filled with earnest lyrics and Richard Marx-like production, concluding that “If this exhaustingly awful album repeats its predecessor’s success, the world will seem more confusing than ever.” The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey also panned the overall work of the album, “At best, it suggests Duran Duran indulging their U2 fantasies. At worst, the brain scrabbles for comparisons. The post-millennial Bruce Hornsby? Mike & The Mechanics go to Ibiza? Frontman Steve Smith delivers lyrics that he presumably made up on the spot in the voice of a man who rolls up the sleeves of his sports jacket. One's sole redeeming feature is that its title helpfully informs reviewers how many stars to give it.”

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