I Love #1's - 2004

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Way back at the end of July, you voted Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers the pick of '56, with 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love' gathering 18 ticks. Fast forward 48 years to the death throes of Pop Idol and the birth of McFly. Ladies and gents: 2004!

[Poll #1042742]

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

is "who's david?" the great lost busted number one? i have 0 recollection of it...

nice run in the middle there from shapeshifters to tashbed

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No it is the great rub Busted number one - it is an emo ballad but not even as good as that suggests.

INSIDER INFO

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

...which everyone knows anyway. There was enormous hoo-haa at Island just before I left - they wanted to release a different single but caved in to Charlie's emo song about 'David' because he threatened to leave the band. Then he left anyway.

Re: INSIDER INFO

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really like 'Who's David!'

Then again, I am quite emo I suppose.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, i predict toxic to walk this.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I will actually untick it if so, it is so vastly overrated.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This was a great year!

- Britney's best single. Also her, like, 10th best single. For some odd reason most people confused these two
- 'Yeah!' "Take that - and rewinf it back; Ludacris got the flow to make your booty go *CLAP*"! Arguably one of the most IMPORTANT singles of the year as it gave us the endlessly brilliant crunk'n'b - Britney's collab with the Ying Yang Twins on her album was awesome but 'Yeah!' was the first big commercial hit, and Ciara took it to the next level a few months later - it's defined r&b ever since
- 'Baby Cakes', a strange and beautiful random throwback to the golden age of 2-step
- 'I Don't Wanna Know' (and the Shola Ama-led reply) are really heartbreakingly lovely ballads, both sung as if through fog, both parties pleading but knowing that the other has made their mind up and isn't listening

On the negative side

- 'Dry Your Eyes' was the song which finally convinced me that Mike Skinner was a total cunt who needed his face stamped on forever
- 'Just Lose It'...you couldn't even hate Eminem for it b/c it was so obviously meant to be shit (and then 'Ass Like That' was even worse!!!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No one else likes 'Yeah'??????

b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-buhhh?

Calm Down Dear

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I hadn't got round to filling out the poll yet!

Bizarrely I don't remember 'Burn' at all.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I do!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It starts RLY BADLY and then suddenly gets awesome. I am slightly disappointed at low scores all round so far apart from canonic Toxic. Also disappointed (but not surprised) that I am the only person who recognises the odd greatness of "Radio".

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Radio is one of the better Robbie singles, but unfortunately I saw the rubbish dude interview him just before his performance of this on TOTP (remember TOTP, kids?), and Robbie said he'd sacked Guy Chambers and had 'learned the keyboard' in an effort to have more control over his songwriting. As soon as the song started I could picture young Robert tapping away with his single fingered chords to some early Joy Division records he'd found in a bargain bin in Stoke. ARRRRRGH it seemed so shoddy and blatant! The melody is catchy and it would have been an interesting direction to take, but mental images can be very compelling....Sorry Robbie.

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

No, I love "Radio" - but it's so un-Robbie-ish, it feels weird ticking it. I don't want to, seeing his name, but I know the song and it's really quite good.

Andre H8torade

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Mysterious Girl is no better or worse than it was in 1994 (i.e. it is still GREBT!) Actually perhaps it is better this time round because we didn't have to look at his drawn-on 6-pack under the waterfall.

Re: Andre H8torade

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, it's not very good, but it's brainless summery pop. With an only slightly offensive reggae thing going on.

By contrast, Eamon, Frankie, and the Band Aid 20 are absolute stinkers of the highest order.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think this is a pretty poor year compared to 2003 and 2005. However I was for the most part off the Pop Radar this year: no longer working for Island (i.e. photocopying pictures of Busted all day), having no telly at all from Feb onwards, radio tuned solely to Xfm to keep tabs on the competition, no money to buy music. Apart from Toxic there are no huge life-altering songs here for me :(

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I really am the only person in the whole world who really really HATES Natasha Bedingfield, aren't I?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aw but this is a good song! It's the "dun-dun-DUN!" that I like best.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

It's a good song apart from the bits where Natasha a) sings, or b) shows off her lyrical "skillz". I actually LOVE the dun-dun-DUN bits but having her on the song ruins the whole thing.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Read some Byron, Shelley and Keats. Recited it over a Hip. Hop. Beat.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

This is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The way that "punchline" thuds into your brain still makes me cringe three years on.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i totally wasn't concentrating on the 'which is best' - as that's obvious. however. i love me some busted, and toxic would walk it anyways.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Really poor selection IMHO.

Good: Toxic obvs, Eminem, Eric Prydz, LMC (vastly underrated), Usher's 'Yeah'

Dreadful: Eamon and Frankee can go suck on a large one, The Streets (his worst single), U2, Robbie Williams

I reserve the right to not express an opinion about Girls Aloud's mandatory Xmas cover version.