I Love #1's - 2000

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week Marvellous Marvin and his Gayers topped the ticks of '69 with 29 smackers for Heard It Through The Grapevine. Marmalade trailed in last with just 3. That's what you get for covering the rubbishest Beatles song! This week it's a new millennium and we have an ENORMOUS amount of songs for you to choose from, largely thanks to the major labels cottoning on to the fact that they could buy up a bunch of 99p singles themselves and propel their latest act straight to the top. But corporate spending power is no match for the legion of Manics fans...

[Poll #876983]

Comments

Points of order

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Spice Girls minus Geri! I was talking about this video the other day, each Spicer is an ELEMENT: Mel C writhing around on some astroturf with a snake is EARTH, Mel B is looking angry in a mirror = FIRE, Emma is standing infront of a blue curtain = WATER and POSH IS IN A WIND TUNNEL DYS. Of course Geri is the Mila Jojovich and not just because of her auburn locks etc.
- cis played Oxide & Neutrino at Popular the other week and it was STILL AMAZING! So Solid Crew, all is forgiven.
- A1: right idea, poor execution. But their follow-up was great!
- PUT IT AWAY MADGE

Re: Points of order

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Bound 4 Da Reload' is another track I HATED at the time but eventually came round to. it seems strange that they have been chart-absent for however many years it is now (5?)

Re: Points of order

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Both these Madge No 1s are GREAT. My theory - that she never ever went shit not even for one single - still holds true.

Spice Paradox - never made a good single sans Geri, but Geri is the only Spice to have made no good solo singles.

LeAnn and Billie - hurrah for the Golden Age of Baby One More Time copyists

'Black Coffee' - DEVASTATING EXISTENTIAL PINNACLE of All Saints' career

Gabrielle - at this stage has still never released a bad single. 'Rise' is THOROUGHLY INSPIRING & UPLIFTING

Can evvvveerrrrryyyyoooonnnne sssstttttoooppppp geettttttiiiiinnggg shhootttt?????

WORST PARTY EVAH

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok first we watched the RUB DE LA RUB RIVER O'FIRE then we wandered in the rain tryin to find a party T had an invite to -- we knocked on the wrong door and were invited into a nice roofparty of ppl we DIDN'T KNOW AT ALL ft.sossidge BarBQ, but felt awkward after an hour or so even tho they were v.friendly, so we perservered and eventually found the party by climbin over some railings into a GATED COMMUNITY

except once there:
a. the drink was AWFUL -- really nasty cheap wine and lame beer
b. the music was WORSE!!
c. it was very COLD
d. round about five they started serving breakfast -- you cannot go wrong w.bacon scrambled eggs and a roll B-B-BUT THEY COULD
e. T wanted to dancer all night -- i wz flakin so first of all tried to snooze but was kept awake by STIFF FREEZING DRAFT
f. so i toddled off home...
g. ... T told me later that abt 30 mins after i left, the person whose BF wz throwin the party turned up in a rage -- she had not been invited -- at exactly the moment her BF chose to cause a massive grumpy queue outside the bathroom by havin sex and coke with SOMEONE WHO WASN'T HIS UNIVITED GF hurrah er er!!!
h. obv if i had stayed another 30 mins this would have been FUNNIEST PARTY EVAH

Re: WORST PARTY EVAH

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'99 was the year i graduated but all i could do was return home and hang out with old schoolfriends for the 'big night' itself which was always a disappointment in my mind (i was hoping 'new millennium new people/friends' i suppose). the party itself was actually good and involved karaoke and loads of booze but it still felt anticlimactic.

Re: WORST PARTY EVAH

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was victim of GOVERNMENT orga-fun, viz a tiny bottle of Tesco champers was all the booze I received (to be fair I was only 17, tho had already developed a moderate booze problem). Plus my parents came with me! I also received a phone call at 10.45pm from my then boyfriend* saying that he'd been in a fight at the Scruffy Murphys in Uxbridge and his 'mate' G had punched some girl or something & half the pub had been arrested. Luckily I had spent most of the day having teh sechs just in case the apocalypse happened at midnight etc so I was in a good mood.

*I had a DREAM about said boyfriend last night, that we were still going out and he came up to me and said "you know, we haven't spent much time together in the last six years have we?" and I was like er no we haven't have we, sorry, but NOT REALLY SORRY mwahahahah.

Re: WORST PARTY EVAH

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ok, champers to start (8ish?), off to FARM in middle of nowhere with loads of punX0r kids* to see band play in farmyard. polish off bottle of red. manage to scab lift back into cheltenham (thank god). go to party where everyone on e, make inroads into second bottle of red, hear bongs, go to third party up road, finish second bottle of red, start minesweeping, make terrible fool of myself involving cow-orker who randomly happens to be at party, dragged home by meg, have three day hangover...

*NB the sort of punkX0r kids whose parents own farms ;)

Re: WORST PARTY EVAH

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was privileged on that new year to be present at the announcement of the COOLEST MAN OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM.

Said man's progress towards world recognition of his claim has been slow, however revellers at THIS new year's hottttest party may well be witness to some significant advances.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Oppotunity for 'can we tick it' sadly missed!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Doh!

LeAnn Rimes and you know it rhymes Marge

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

so was 'Can't Fight The Moonlight' rly produced by Clever Trevor Horn?

Re: LeAnn Rimes and you know it rhymes Marge

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

PRS database sa: yes!

This girl's gonna drive me crazy...

[juror8.livejournal.com]

"The Trouble With Me"- how perfect?

Re: This girl's gonna drive me crazy...

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

VERY. Though so far only 39.4% people think it is any good at all, which is an injustice.

What was the Barry White impersonator they had to use for the proper release called - Elroy 'Spoonface' Powell or something like that?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

This makes an even more fascinating contrast than usual with the P&J 2000 poll (which I've only recently caught up with).

This was Rose'sBillie's third number one! Who knew? Well, not me obv.

In America

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Santana featuring Rob Thomas - "Smooth"
Christina Aguilera - "What A Girl Wants"
Savage Garden - "I Knew I Loved You"
Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees - "Thank God I Found You"
Lonestar - "Amazed"
Destiny's Child - "Say My Name"
Santana featuring The Product G&B - "Maria Maria"
Aaliyah - "Try Again"
Enrique Iglesias - "Be With You"
Vertical Horizon - "Everything You Want"
matchbox twenty - "Bent"
'N Sync - "It's Gonna Be Me"
Sisqó - "Incomplete"
Janet Jackson - "Doesn't Really Matter"
Madonna - "Music"
Christina Aguilera - "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)"
Creed - "With Arms Wide Open"
Destiny's Child - "Independent Women, Part I"

Re: In America

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I think the UK wins this year.

AGAAs

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Santana featuring Rob Thomas - "Smooth"
Destiny's Child - "Say My Name"
Aaliyah - "Try Again"
Janet Jackson - "Doesn't Really Matter"
Madonna - "Music"
Destiny's Child - "Independent Women, Part I"

Yup, UK wins, though 'Try Again' is the best song from either list.

Same Old Brand New You

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Love it.

Re: Same Old Brand New You

[juror8.livejournal.com]

It's got a really good US boyband style "Here comes a song omg omg OMG OMG BOOM!" intro.

hardy har

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i am the only one to like geri solo

in da wor-ee-urld. and not just this single.

Re: hardy har

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

No, I actually liked some of it, I just found this one vaguely offensive in its low-browed-ness, somehow.

I just wanted to answer the millenium question

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

because I spent most of the evening surrounded by about a million intoxicated Germans watching Mike Oldfield, of all people. Almost as embarrassing as, say, Nazareth or something. Later on I discovered that Modern Talking were elsewhere and wandered over there (and that was equally surreal, albeit more poptimistic).

Re: I just wanted to answer the millenium question

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It was fairly surreal being sat three rows infront of Tony Blair, Cherie and THE QUEEN, and thinking "oh dear if the apocalypse all kicks off we are QUITE LITERALLY in the firing line".

Mel C

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The best solo spice? Discuss.

(pls note absence of OUT OF YR MIND from this list! Oho)

Re: Mel C

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Only two good songs though, and you can barely hear her on one of those.

Best solo Spice song thus far is VICTORIA YR OUT OF YR MIND.

Best solo Spice is none other than LOVELY EMMA who has actually made two good ALBUMS! and who is also the only solo Spice to have made a good song truly on her own.