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: 2009-05-27 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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Date: 2009-05-28 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 11:09 am (UTC)Belle & Sebastian - The Model
what the hell else was i listening to in 2000 (that no one seems to have nommed yet (i think))?
Manic Street Preachers - Masses Against the Classes
All Saints - Pure Shores
Sisqo - Thong Song
Spiller - Groovejet
Music - Madonna
PRML SCRM - kill all hippies
lambchop - up with people
badly drawn boy - the shining (avalanches remix)
Kid 606 - Straight Outta Compton
(haha, YES i have been looking at the NME poll WHAT OF IT?)