Poptimists Tracks Of 08 PART THREE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nos. 30-21 of your tracks of the year.

And a special bonus round of applause to two tracks from last year's Top 10 which qualified again this year: Miley Cyrus' "See You Again" would have come between #25 and #26, and M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" between #24 and #25.

30. ELBOW - "One Day Like This"

This got a grand total of two votes when it came up in the weekly polls. Obviously they both liked it a great deal. Or its Mercury nomination (and omnipresence on sports and TV highlights reels) has swung others behind it!

29. ASHLEE SIMPSON - "Little Miss Obsessive"

No official video of this seems to exist! Here are some pictures of Ashlee.

28. LEONA LEWIS - "Bleeding Love"/"Bleeding Love (Moto Blanco Remix)"

The two mixes got equal votes from you, so I went with the MB one here because it's a bit less familiar.

27. CASSIE - "Thirsty"

Another unreleased R&B gem - big up the Cassie Hype Kru.

26. LIL MAMA - "Shawty Get Loose"

This is the lowest-placed track to be named by four different people! It's also not embeddable, which is a shame as the video is very entertaining.

25. NE-YO - "Miss Independent"

Halfway through! The Prince of Polite outlines what he looks for in a wumman.

24. ASHLEE SIMPSON - "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)"

Second appearance for Ashlee. Audio in this vid might be a bit crummy.

23. THE TING TINGS - "That's Not My Name"

This year's big indie crossover (and divider of poptimist opinion) - don't call them embeddable.

22. H2O ft PLATNUM - "What's It Gonna Be"

Bassline's biggest hit of 2008 gets its reward.

21. KANYE WEST - "Say You Will"

Six-minute cyber-weepie album track storms Poptimist poll shocker! This is not actually a video, obviously.

Tomorrow, things get see-ree-us as we enter the Top 20.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's featureless musical tundra but I love it! It goes on just long enough, it's particularly good trudging through the Arctic night music, I'm finding.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Weirdest 808s factlet that I've just discovered: the terrible live Pinocchio thing was included on the album at Beyoncé's insistence (http://www.thehiphopchronicle.com/2008/11/12/kanye-west-808-hearbreak-album-review/).

(I was trying to find out if a third single had been decided, and if so wtf it would be - there isn't one yet, though apparently 'See You In My Nightmares' has already charted in the US and Canada.)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Yes, important to actually walk and listen to the second half of that song. It's like the opposite of music to blog by! Which I appreciate on a conceptual level while sitting in front of a computer and on a non-conceptual level when I'm walking through the Arctic tundra that is where I usually walk.