Best song of 2000 - nominations so far

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimes on a stick, this is a big list! 271 songs so far, which means roughly eight heats coming up over the next few weeks. If your nomination isn't on this list, don't panic - I've probably shunted it over to 2001 or decided it was pushing it a bit to include it at all (see newly evolved guidelines below).

2Gether - U + Me = Us (Calculas)
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
3LW - More Than Friends (That's Right)
A*Teens - Bouncing Off the Ceiling (Upside Down)
A1 - Same Old Brand New You
Aaliyah - Try Again
Aaron Carter - Aaron's Party (Come and Get It)
AKA - Warning (Sunship remix)
Alecia Elliott - I'm Diggin It
Alizee - Moi...Lolita
All Saints - Black Coffee
All Saints - Pure Shores
Amil ft. Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek & Jay-Z - 4 Da Fam
Amon Tobin - 4 Ton Mantis
Architechs - Body Groove
At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor
ATC - Around the world
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas remix)
B15 Project ft. Chrissy D & Lady G - Girls Like Us
Backstreet Boys - The Call
Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out
Baxendale - Music For Girls
Beanie Sigel - Mac Man
Beenie Man ft Mya - Girls Dem Sugar
Belle And Sebastian - There's Too Much Love
Bent - Cylons In Love
Bertrand Burgalat - Sunshine Yellow
Billy Bragg & Wilco - All You Fascists
Black Box Recorder - Weekend
Blonde Redhead - This Is Not
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You
Bombfunk MCs - Freestyler
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Britney - Oops! I Did It Again
Britney Spears - Stronger
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
Cam'ron ft. Ludacris, Trina & UGK - What Means The World To You (Remix)
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Chris Morris - Club News
Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
Christina Aguilera - What A Girl Wants
Clinic - Distortions
Common - Sixth Sense
Common - The Light
Common ft. Mos Def - The Questions
Cosmetique - Lady Di Why Did You Have To Die?
Craig David - 7 Days
Craig David - Fill Me In
Cypress Hill - Rock Superstar
D.A.D - A Kiss Between The Legs
Daft Punk - One More Time
D'angelo - How Does It Feel
Daphne & Celeste - Never Been To Memphis
Daphne & Celeste - Ooh Stick You
Daphne & Celeste - School's Out
Daphne & Celeste - U.G.L.Y
Darude - Sandstorm
David Holmes - 69 Police
De La Soul ft Redman - Oooh
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Delerium ft Sarah McLachlan - Silence
Deltron 3030 - Madness
Destiny's Child - Independent Woman Part 1
Destiny's Child - Say My Name
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Sandwiches
DJ Assault - Technofreak
DJ Dee Kline - I Don't Smoke
DJ Luck & MC Neat - Masterblaster 2000
DMX - Party Up
Doves - Here It Comes
Doves - The Cedar Room
Dr Dre ft Snoop - Still D.R.E.
Dr Dre ft Eminem - Forgot About Dre
Dubstar - I (Friday Night)
Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
Elastica - Mad Dog
Elbow - Newborn
Eleni Mandell - Pauline
Eminem - Stan
Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
Eminem - The Way I Am
Enrique Iglesias - Be With You
Erykah Badu - Booty
Erykah Badu - Penitentiary Philosophy
Everclear - Wonderful
Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird Of Prey)
Foo Fighters - Generator
Frances James & DJ Face - Girls Play Too
Ghostface Killah - Cherchez La Ghost
Girl Thing - Last One Standing
Goldfrapp - Pilots (On A Star)
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Gonzales - Let's Groove Again
Goran Bregovic - Kalasnijkov
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Fresher Than The Sweetness in Water
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Green Day - Minority
Hairy Diamond - Giving Up
Herbert - Suddenly
Hoku - Another Dumb Blonde
Hoku - How Do I Feel (The Burrito Song)
Idlewild - Roseability
Iron Maiden - Wicker Man
Jamelia ft Beenie Man - Money
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin'
Jill Scott - Slowly Surely
Jo Dee Messina - That's The Way
Johnny Cash - One
Kandi - Don't Think I'm Not
Kelis - Caught Out There
Kelis - Get Along With You
Kelis - Good Stuff
Kelis - Mars
K-Gee - I Don't Really Care
Kid 606 - GQ on the EQ
Kid 606 - Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie Punk Whiteboy Ass
Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
King Biscuit Time - I Walk The Earth
Kirsty MacColl - In These Shoes?
Kristine Blonde - Love Shy
Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This
Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You
Ladytron - Commodore Rock
Ladytron - Playgirl
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face
Lexxus - Monkeys Out
LFO - Girl On TV
Lil' Kim - Suck My Dick
Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Shanice - Aunt Dot
Lil' Kim ft. Sisqó - How Many Licks?
Linkin Park - One Step Closer
Lolita Storm - Hot Lips Wet Pants
Lonyo - Summer Of Love
Losoul - Remember Your History
Louise - 2 Faced
Low ft Spring Heel Jack - Bombscare
Lucy Pearl - Dance Tonight
Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man
Ludacris ft. Pharrell - Southern Hospitality
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole - Swing Lite, Alright
Luomo - Tessio
M2M - Don't Say You Love Me
M2M - Girl Of Your Dreams
Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
Madonna - Don't Tell Me
Madonna - Music
Madonna - Time Stood Still
Mandy Moore - Candy
Mandy Moore - I Wanna Be with You
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Martina McBride - Love's The Only House
Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You)
Matchbox 20 - If You're Gone
M-Dubs ft. Lady Saw - Bump N' Grind
Mel C ft. Lisa Left-Eye Lopes - Never Be The Same Again
Merle Haggard - Wishing All These Old Things Were New
Mint Royale - Don't Falter
Mirwais - Disco Science
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - Hot Boyz
Mis-Teeq - Why? (Matt 'Jam' LaMont & DJ Face Remix)
MJ Cole - Crazy Love
MJ Cole - Sincere
Modjo - Lady
Moloko - Pure Pleasure Seeker
Moloko - The Time Is Now
Monster Magnet - Silver Future
Mya ft Jadakiss - The Best Of Me
Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass
N Sync - Bye Bye Bye
N Sync - It's Gotta Be Me
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Twist The Knife
Nelly - (Hot Shit) Country Grammar
New Found Glory - Dressed To Kill
No Doubt - Bathwater
NOFX - Dinosaurs Will Die
Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
OutKast - Bombs Over Baghdad
OutKast - Gasoline Dreams
Overseer - Stompbox
Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload
Pantera - Revolution Is My Name
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Phaze One - Nicole's Groove
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
Photek ft. Robert Owens - Mine To Give
Pink - Most Girls
Pink - There You Go
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
Poe - Haunted
Powderfinger - My Happiness
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Primal Scream - Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Queens Of The Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
R Kelly - Feelin' On Yo Booty
Radiohead - Idioteque
Rage Against The Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
Red Snapper - Some Kind Of Kink
Robbie Williams - Supreme
Roni Size - Who Told U
Ruff Endz - No more
S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True
S Club 7 - Reach
Sade - By Your Side
Samantha Mumba - Body II Body
Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
Sara Evans - Born To Fly
Sasha & Darren Emerson - Scorchio!
Señor Coconut - Showroom Dummies
Señor Coconut - Tour de France
SheDaisy - Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)
Shellac - Prayer To God
Shellac - Squirrel Song
Sia - Taken For Granted
Sigur Rós - Svefn G Englar
Sisquo - Thong Song
Slim Cutta Calhoun - It's OK
Slum Village ft. Jazzy Jeff - I Don't Know
So Solid Crew - Oh No (Sentimental Things)
Sonic Youth - side2side
Sonique - It Feels So Good
SoulDecision - Faded
Spice Girls - Holler
Spiller - Groovejet
St Etienne - Just A Little Overcome
St Etienne - Heart Failed In The Back Of A Taxi
Steps - Deeper Shade of Blue
Steps - Stomp
Stereolab - I Feel The Air (of another planet)
Storm - Time To Burn
Sugababes - Overload
Sunship - Cheque One Two
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers
Sylver - Turn The Tide
Taleb Kweli & Hi Tek ft. Vinia Mojica - The Blast
Teddybears STHLM - Yours To Keep
Tegan & Sara - Hype
Tekitha - Walking Through The Darkness
The Artful Dodger - Woman Trouble
The Artful Dodger ft. Romina Johnson - Movin' Too Fast
The Beta Band - Jumpin' Jumpin'
The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
The Clientele - 6 A.M. Morningside
The Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl
The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines
The Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway
The LOX ft. Eve - Ride Or Die Bitch
The White Stripes - Hello Operator
Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon - Together
Thomas Newman - Two Wrong Feet (Erin Brokovich)
Three 6 Mafia ft. UGK & Project Pat - Sippin' On Some Syrup
Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now?
Toktok ft Soffy O - Missy Queen's Gonna Die
Toni Braxton - He Wasn't man Enough
Tori Amos - Carnival
Trina - Pull Over
Trina ft. Tre+6 - I Need
Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy - Freak Like Me
True Steppers feat. Brian Harvey & Donell Jones - True Step Tonight
Victoria Beckham ft Dane & Truesteppers - Out of Your Mind
Vitamin C - Graduation Song
Wookie ft Lain - Battle
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit
Wu-Tang Clan - Hollow Bones
Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go To Sleep
Wyclef ft Mary J Blige - 911
Wyclef ft The Rock - It Doesn't Matter
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

The following nominations I have deemed to have been released in 1999 or earlier:

Apollo 440 - Stop The Rock
Static X - Push It
A3 - Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)
Snake River Conspiracy - Vulcan
Razor-N-Guido - Do It Again
Phil Vassar - Carlene
DJ Godfather - Whatchoolookinat?
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
Baxendale - American Friend
Baxendale - Switzerland
Baxendale - Heat Activated
Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim remix)
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
Aimee Mann - Save Me
Isolée - Beau Mot Plage

To prevent our indecision taking us from behind (and my spreadsheet from melting), I have decided on the following method to determine the release year:

1. It made the UK top ten according to everyhit.co.uk
2. It made the UK top 40 according to everyhit (i.e. if it got re-released and made the top ten, we'd go for the year it was a bigger hit, cf Sonique)
3. Discogs UK release date
4. Discogs US release date
5. My werk database
6. Wikipedia/other interweb source

I know this is very UK-centric but it should all balance out by the end of the decade and prevent us having any Miley Cyrus difficulties later on :)

You've still got a few hours left to nominate! We're still missing A1's cover of 'Take On Me' and Bob The Builder...

Comments

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Dr. Dre feat Eminem - Forgot About Dre (I prefer it to Still D.R.E.) - everyhit says it was June 2000.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good call - I think I meant to include both but my spreadsheet got confused :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

i.e. I put ft Eminem instead of ft Snoop Dogg. Both now in there.

My top 30 of that lot

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

...in alphabetical order. God knows how I'm going to snip it down to one.

Aaliyah - Try Again
Alizee - Moi...Lolita
At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor
Backstreet Boys - The Call
Baxendale - Music For Girls
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Britney Spears - Stronger
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
Daft Punk - One More Time
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Destiny's Child - Say My Name
Dr Dre ft Eminem - Still Dre
Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin'
Kelis - Good Stuff
Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
Ladytron - Playgirl
Moloko - The Time Is Now
Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
OutKast - Bombs Over Baghdad
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Pink - Most Girls
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
Queens Of The Stone Age - The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
Sisquo - Thong Song
Sugababes - Overload
The Go-Betweens - Surfing Magazines
The White Stripes - Hello Operator
Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit

Re: My top 30 of that lot

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I can def. see 'I got your money' winning this; it's the sort of thing with completely universal appeal. Also completely fkn ace, of course.

Re: My top 30 of that lot

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I'd best start hitting up Spotify then, because I sadly do not know this song (or many of the others, though I concede I may recognise them when I hear them...). Pls not to ban me from poptimists.

Re: My top 30 of that lot

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Dude, if we banned people for not knowing what songs were then I would definitely be out.

I think it's one of those 'you'd know it if you heard it' ones; it has Kelis on.

Re: My top 30 of that lot

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Barry Sarll played it at the last Don't Stop Movin... ah but you were on the other side of the world at the time. Here you go (http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/ol+dirty+bastard+kelis/video/x1vw18_ol-dirty-bastard-got-your-money_music).

Re: My top 30 of that lot

[koganbot]

It's the one that goes "I don't have no trouble with you fuckin' me/But I have a problem with you not fuckin' me."

[wholepint.livejournal.com]

Just reading that list placed me firmly back working weekends in Pizza Hut and doing my A Levels. (Gravel Pit! Simon Says! Thong Song! eeek...)

[dzilinebisa.livejournal.com]

Argh yes. I worked in a trendy townie clothes shop at the time, and the music we played in the shop was a loop of about five songs, one of which was Thong Song, which drove me batty.

Actually, one of the other tracks in the loop was Pure Morning by Placebo, which is an absolute tune whatever your feelings about Placebo on. Any chance of getting it on the list?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Too late for Placebo now I'm afraid. Also wasn't that out in like 1998? :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Many, many contenders for second place, but I still think my no 1 on that list is 'Flowers'.

(Pedantry watch: that LOX song is spelled 'Ryde Or Die Bitch' - my fault, I misspelled it originally!)

[koganbot]

("It's Gotta Be Me" = "It's Gonna Be Me")

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Kat - can you post below the list of tracks that have been carried over to 2001? Thanks. Not that I'm gonna question anything, just curious.

A very incomplete 2001

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No probs, though there's possibly stuff on there that no-one mentioned but I wanted to remind myself to nominate later...

Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Sugababes - Run For Cover
Marilyn Manson - Fight Song
Wyclef - Perfect Gentleman
Shaggy ft Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
D12 - Shit On U
Fragma - Everytime You Need Me
Sugababes - Soul Sound
Lolita Storm - Suzy
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Jakatta - American Dream
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
Kosheen - Hide U
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna & Foxy Brown - What's Your Fantasy? (Remix)
MOP ft Busta Rhymes - Ante Up
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Mystikal ft. Nivea - Danger (Been So Long)
OutKast - Ms Jackson
Rui Da Silva - Touch Me
St Etienne - Boy Is Crying
The Artful Dodger ft. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also for some reason this list doesn't have Toca's Miracle on it, even though my spreadsheet does. Whoops!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of doing really small groups, so we can actually hear each song before deciding what to vote for?

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

WAIT there is a MAJOR HOLE in the nominations!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWKGOJ

But all of these songs appear later... Miley controversy?

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Also kid 606 - straight outta compton rmx

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

I aready nommed this!!

And some other things, eg THE MODEL

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

well, if you will bury your nominees in a reply post on the second page of an already threading thread...

Kat, here:
http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/691070.html?thread=13763966#t13763966

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, they still all count :)

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Also can I nominate Cat Power - I found a reason?

[dzilinebisa.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn Try Again came out in '99. Epic list though!

It was a leap year!

[koganbot]

February 29, 2000 in U.S., April 24, 2000 in Britain.

Re: It was a leap year!

[dzilinebisa.livejournal.com]

Soz, I stand corrected. :)

But I swear, if anything that isn't Groovejet wins this, I will be MOST UPSET.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Aw, no Eiffel 65 ? :( ... was included on NOW! 4, from 2000, but technically has a release date of 1999 -- but I believe it was released in the UK in 2000?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

US Billboard placement (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?JSESSIONID=TJvYLS8GQmxQ5pf7b1pvy3Q9QmTY2R0Rp2jy76TyW5pn9hQ9k250!-1750412067&model.vnuArtistId=363451&model.vnuAlbumId=578600) but BLAST! it was '99 on the UK charts after all!!! Damn this country being behind the curve. I have indelibly linked this song to my 2000 Self.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ooh you won't have to think about this for a while yet, but your otherwise-excellent methodology will need to take into account never-released leaks...

[koganbot]

Year it placed highest on the Poptimists poll?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OK how about 7. Date iTunes says it was added to my library :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(Though actually, on the original post I said it had to be released at some point, so unreleased stuff is probably a no-go area.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The Cassie Fan Club is preparing its protests, demonstrations, chaining selves to railings &c.

[koganbot]

Yeah, this is a poptimists poll, and standard poptimists practice is to count leaked tracks on its year-end polls.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Razor-N-Guido - Do It Again
Phil Vassar - Carlene

These were both on 2000 albums -- Razor N' Guido Present Dancefloor and Phil Vassar respectively; I'm holding them in my hands and looking at the copywrite dates right now -- though apparently they were released as singles earlier. But since this is a poll of best songs, not best singles, I'm not sure why that would matter. Also, AMG says that, though "Carlene" hit the US Country chart in (presumably late) 1999, it didn't hit the Billboard Hot 100 until 2000. I think it belongs in the poll.

("Do It Again," according to AMG, hit the US Dance chart in 1998, so I won't quibble as much on that one.)

[koganbot]

Well, "Carlene" only reached 45 on the Hot 100.

Kat, your number four should actually read:

"4. Discogs US release date (except when someone else points out when the song hit the U.S. charts, but I can't be bothered to do this myself)"

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Though what the heck, if it's not too late, I will also nominate these two other singles from Phil Vassar's 2000 album, even though the second one wasn't actually a single until 2001 (which is where I would have nominated it before the rules started to confuse me so much.) (But actually, it's probably too late anyway, right?)

Phil Vassar -- Another Day In Paradise
Phil Vassar - Six-Pack Summer

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

btw if it's not too late i'd like to add a couple::

Aztec Mystic - Jaguar
#43 in Oct 2000, over a year after original release

Kraftwerk - Expo 2000 (KK2001 mix, Orbital mix and DJ Rolando mixes all great...should I specify a mix?)
#27 in March 2000

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!! We missed Trick Daddy f. Trina - "Shut Up"!

[koganbot]

Kat - Destiny's Child's "Jumpin' Jumpin'" doesn't seem to be on any of your lists here (as opposed to the Beta Band's "Jumpin' Jumpin'") but it was quite definitely nominated, by at least two people.

[koganbot]

In fact, the Beta Band song that was nominated was "To You Alone," and the Destiny's Child song came right after it on the list. I assume you've long since sorted this, but I just wanted to alert you in case you hadn't.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was a copy+paste spreadsheet error. Both are definitely on the list.