The History Of Jop Part 26 aka You leave me broken shattered I lie

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

2004 is now THREE YEARS AGO (sort of) - our possibly penultimate pazz and jop ponderations will let you relive that golden or otherwise era. You get THIRTEEN from thirty-eight picks: Alicia Keys "You Don't Know My Name" and the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" turned up last time so are omitted this.


[Poll #902705]


Poptimism Of Times Past - 2003 Edition

1. Crazy In Love (43 votes)
2. Milkshake (37)
3. Cry Me A River (35)
4=. Ignition (Remix) (31)
4=. Hey Ya! (31)
6. Move Your Feet (30)
7=. Hurt (27)
7=. I Luv U (27)
9=. In Da Club (24)
9=. Danger High Voltage (24)
9=. Rock Your Body (24)
9=. Pass That Dutch (24)

This scientifically confirms my empirical findings at the work Xmas party viz that "Crazy In Love" is much loved again but that people are bored of "Hey Ya". This one will run and run.

Comments

Re: My Pazz & Jop singles ballot 2004

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Surprised to see you rank "Crank It Up" over "Cadillac on 22s" which I definitely prefer. This is a weird year (and poll) in that it's weak at the very top, but very strong at the near top. So that there are about 2 or 3 songs that feel like they should be top 5 in most years, but about 30 or 40 songs that feel like they should be top 20 in most year. 2006 was like that as well, incidentally, to me at least.

Re: My Pazz & Jop singles ballot 2004

[koganbot]

"Cadillac On 22s" was 2003, and made my ballot; though I may well prefer "Crank It Up" (and "Fuck 'Em" is my favorite, though it was never a single, for some reason).

Compared to 2003 I agree with you; 2003 had a whole bunch of OMG amazing tracks but 2004 seems to have way more depth. For me, it was a lot of not-so-famous hip-hop performers and tracks being excellent, expanding on crunk, though sputtering commercially. And if I'd had my eye on teenpop, I'd have found myself great riches.