Tonight we're gonna party like it's 2009
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poptimistsIt's been a while since we've had a big knockout poll competition, and I think I've got the perfect idea. As you may or may not be aware, the end of the decade is nigh. What better way to celebrate than to do a massive poll and spin it out for 6 months?
Let's find out what the best song of the decade is!
We'll do this one year at a time at first (obviously we've only had half of 2009 yet so that can wait until last) and spend a few weeks on each one to make sure we get plenty of nominees to discuss.
- Each year poll will have a nominations post and a poll post.
- Once the year polls are done, I can work out a suitably complicated way of selecting high-scoring nominees for the grand final in December.
- You can nominate as many songs as you like - if there's too many to fit in one poll I shall do HEATS mwahahahahah *rubs hands together*.
- Vociferous defense/attack of all nominees very welcome!
- A nominated song needn't have charted anywhere, as long as it was released somewhere that year.
- Obviously 'year of release' is subject to re-releases, different countries, being the 4th single off an album etc. If in doubt as to the year of release, nominate it in the earliest sensible year and if anyone makes a fuss we'll move it to the next poll. Anyone nominating a Robyn track can probably pluck a year out of thin air and it'll be fine.
- Terms and conditions subject to change if I've forgotten something important!
So what are we waiting for? Let's get started!
NOMINATIONS IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE: What are/were your favourite songs of 2000?
Let's find out what the best song of the decade is!
We'll do this one year at a time at first (obviously we've only had half of 2009 yet so that can wait until last) and spend a few weeks on each one to make sure we get plenty of nominees to discuss.
- Each year poll will have a nominations post and a poll post.
- Once the year polls are done, I can work out a suitably complicated way of selecting high-scoring nominees for the grand final in December.
- You can nominate as many songs as you like - if there's too many to fit in one poll I shall do HEATS mwahahahahah *rubs hands together*.
- Vociferous defense/attack of all nominees very welcome!
- A nominated song needn't have charted anywhere, as long as it was released somewhere that year.
- Obviously 'year of release' is subject to re-releases, different countries, being the 4th single off an album etc. If in doubt as to the year of release, nominate it in the earliest sensible year and if anyone makes a fuss we'll move it to the next poll. Anyone nominating a Robyn track can probably pluck a year out of thin air and it'll be fine.
- Terms and conditions subject to change if I've forgotten something important!
So what are we waiting for? Let's get started!
NOMINATIONS IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE: What are/were your favourite songs of 2000?
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Date: 2009-05-26 09:26 pm (UTC)I NOMINATE:
Date: 2009-05-26 10:21 pm (UTC)All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die
The White Stripes - Hello Operator
Johnny Cash - One
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
OutKast - Ms Jackson
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:49 am (UTC)Some MOAR noms
Date: 2009-05-27 11:18 am (UTC)Jakatta - American Dream
Thomas Newman - Two Wrong Feet (from 'Erin Brockovitch' OST)
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit
Taleb Kweli & Hi Tek ft. Vinia Mojica - The Blast
Slum Village ft. Jazzy Jeff - I Don't Know
Common ft. Mos Def - The Questions
Common - The Light
Beanie Sigel - Mac Man
Amil ft. Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek & Jay-Z - 4 Da Fam
Bertrand Burgalat - Sunshine Yellow
Stereolab - I Feel The Air (of another planet)
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Date: 2009-05-27 12:11 pm (UTC)Pantera- Revolution Is My Name (altho obvs. they all hated each other a bit too much by this point)
Eels- Daisies Of The Galaxy
Doves- Here It Comes
Deltron 3030- Madness (fvck I just remembered how amazing this song is -youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foyE-hPOaQ))
QOTSA- The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
Tegan & Sara- Hype
Shellac- Squirrel Song
Powderfinger- My Happiness
New Found Glory- Dressed To Kill
Linkin Park- One Step Closer
Samantha Mumba- Gotta Tell You (remix) (I haven't seen anyone mention this yet?)
Poe- Haunted (there's also 'Almost Human' by Voltaire, goth-pop fans but I am never sure how I feel about him)
Maz Manson- The Nobodies
Which is a surprisingly respectable sample I s'pose. There're a lot more that people've already nommed that I agree with but regrettably I apparently have to do some werk. D:
If anyone wants to comment on the Kerrang! compilation content of the above then this only means you also had that CD...
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Date: 2009-05-27 04:59 pm (UTC)Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Shanice - Aunt Dot
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Trina ft. Tre+6 - I Need
True Steppers ft. Dane Bowers & Victoria Beckham - Out Of Your Mind
Gabrielle - Sunshine (Wookie Remix)
Phaze One - Nicole's Groove
Sunship - Cheque One Two
Tori Amos - Carnival
Britney Spears - Stronger
Craig David - 7 Days
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
Saint Etienne - Boy Is Crying
R Kelly - Feelin' On Yo Booty
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Date: 2009-05-28 09:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-05-27 06:50 pm (UTC)Razor-N-Guido - Do It Again
2Gether - U + Me = Us (Calculas)
Phil Vassar - Carlene
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Shaggy Feat. Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent - It Wasn't Me
Matchbox Twenty - If You're Gone
Joe Dee Messina - That's The Way
DJ Godfather - Whatchoolookinat?
DJ Assault - Technofreak
The White Stripes - Jolene
The Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway
Everclear - Wonderful
Monster Magnet - Silver Future
Overseer - Stompbox
The Clientele - 6 A.M. Morningside
A3 - Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)
Steps - Tragedy
Apollo Four Forty - Stop The Rock
Static X - Push It
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Date: 2009-05-28 08:54 am (UTC)I am very glad that looking up song info is actually part of my job. All this looks like I'm doing work :)
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Date: 2009-05-27 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-27 09:23 pm (UTC)VITAMIN C - GRADUATION SONG
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:15 pm (UTC)My additional nominations are
antony and the johnsons - hitler in my heart
shellac - prayer to god
samantha mumba - body II body
low and spring heel jack - bombscare
wyclef and mary j blige - 911
wyclef - perfect gentleman
bent - cylons in love
steps - after the love has gone
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Date: 2009-05-28 03:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:56 pm (UTC)3LW - More Than Friends (That's Right)
Beenie Man ft Mya - Girls Dem Sugar (surely Lex has nommed this)
Belle And Sebastian - There's Too Much Love (WHAT OF IT, also look how well they do in Poptimists Last FM EVERY WEEK)
Black Box Recorder - Weekend
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin' (tho memory is saying this was 99)
Kelis - Good Stuff
Kelis - Mars
Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes?
Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Madonna - Music
Mel C and Left-Eye - Never Be The Same Again
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Madonna - Time Stood Still
Slim Cutta Calhoun - It's OK
Goran Bregovic - Kalasnijkov
Lexxus - Monkeys Out
Wu Tang Clan - I Can't Go To Sleep
& lots of those already mentioned
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Date: 2009-05-28 03:55 am (UTC)Glad that you too like "K. City X"... er, "Case Of The Ex" (I actually made that mistake on its title for a month before I saw it written down; thought it was about someone from Kansas City).
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From:Spotify Playlist
Date: 2009-05-27 11:50 pm (UTC)http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/4JT7cnSI4HvoK7dA7blAwi
Re: Spotify Playlist
Date: 2009-05-28 12:29 am (UTC)BOO to Spotify for only having clean versions of the Lil' Kim tracks, wtf is even the point of "clean" Kim.
Re: Spotify Playlist
From:Re: Spotify Playlist
From:Re: Spotify Playlist
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Date: 2009-05-28 12:38 am (UTC)(only the og is on Spotify BAH)
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Date: 2009-05-28 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-29 01:11 pm (UTC)Fragma - Everytime you need me
Baxendale - Music For Girls, American Friend, Heat Activated (this is probably more like 1999 tbh), Switzerland
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Date: 2009-05-30 10:28 pm (UTC)B15 Project - Girls Like Us
Architechs - Bodygroove
Lonyo - Summer of Love
Frances James & DJ Face - Girls Play Too
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Date: 2009-05-31 08:23 pm (UTC)True Steppers feat. Brian Harvey & Donell Jones - True Step Tonight
Amon Tobin - 4 Ton Mantis
Dubstar - I (Friday Night) (LOST CLASSIC, FOR SRS GUYS)
(I won't bother nominating any Finnish singles because no one else would vote for them anyway, hahaha. Possibly a thematic Hitz from Finland revival may be in order, though!)
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Date: 2009-06-01 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-31 10:20 pm (UTC)Artful Dodger - Woman Trouble
AKA - Warning (Sunship remix)
Last lot from me (yes, I was trawling my CD collection last night WHATOFIT?)
Date: 2009-06-01 09:43 am (UTC)Señor Coconut y su conjunto - Tour de France
Losoul - Remember you history
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Saint Etienne - Just A Little Overcome
Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim remix)
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole - Swing Lite, Alright
Kid 606 - luke vibert can kiss my indie-punk whiteboy ass
Kid 606 - GQ on the EQ
Sugababes - Soul Sound
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Gorky's Zygotic Munci - Fresher Than The Sweetness in Water
David Holmes - 69 Police
PRML SCRM - Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Sonic Youth - side2side
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Eleni Mandell - Pauline
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
Aimee Mann - Save Me
Isolée - Bot mot plage
Sigur Rós - Svefn G Englar
erm, one more
Date: 2009-06-01 09:49 am (UTC)(I don't know if 604 counts as 2000 or 2001 - it says 2001 on my copy - but the above was definitely on a 2000 EP so I'll add it now just in case)
You're about to SMELL what the Rock is COOKING
Date: 2009-06-01 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-01 06:28 pm (UTC)Sisqo - Thong Song
N'n'G feat. Kallaghan - Right Before My Eyes
Ed Case - Something in your eyes
Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man
Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
Sonique - It Feels So Good
Sonique - Sky
Matt Darey - Beautiful
ODB ft Kelis - Got Your Money
Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop
hopefully not duplicating anything here
Date: 2009-06-02 02:19 am (UTC)Air - "Playground Love"
Amon Tobin - "Get Your Snack On"
Apples in Stereo - "The Bird That You Can't See"
The Ark - "It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane"
Beck - "Mixed Bizness" [the album was '99, but this was an '00 single f/ many brilliant rmxs...]
Future Bible Heroes - "I'm Lonely (And I Love It)"
Hrvatski/vs. Kid606 - "Vatstep DSP"
Madonna - "What It Feels Like For A Girl"
Múm - "I'm 9 Today"
*N Sync - "Digital Get Down"
The New Pornographers - "Letter From An Occupant" and "The Body Says No"
Spoon - "Anything You Want"
Supergrass - "Moving"
Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All"
Re: hopefully not duplicating anything here
Date: 2009-06-02 02:21 am (UTC)Re: hopefully not duplicating anything here
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