Best Song of 2000: Heat #3

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Heat #2 was a close battle, but ultimately Madison Avenue pipped Madge to the post to join Kelis, Dr Dre & Eminem, Sweet Female Attitude and Mint Royale in the 2000 final. So who's up next? Surely not more Kelis?

• You get TEN TICKS over the three bits of the poll. The top five will go through to the next stage.



• If you want to change your vote (or tick too many by mistake), you can edit your votes by clicking on 'Poll #12345' then 'Fill Out Poll'.



• UK chart placings given in brackets.



• You have until next Tuesday lunchtime to vote.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments!

[Poll #1414759]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I fully admit that Madison Avenue's success was my fault - I had been planning to change my Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy tick to it for some time, and after listening through them both it was no competition. However if any tie-breaks do turn up in future, I'll just tag them onto the end of the next heat's poll.

Wu Hu

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Three-way Wu vote split but don't overlook the absolutely epic freakout of "I Can't Go To Sleep"

Re: Wu Hu

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

That and Gravel Pit - I think their only real pop crossover as a group - are amazing.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

finding this surprisingly easy again - but reserving a tenth tick for if a track i like needs it to go thru

i think i'm eschewing 'Got Your Money' and 'Hip Hop' as i just class them as '99 - both great tho

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Ah, Dead Prez is my pick of that bunch: ONE THING ABOUT MUSIC WHEN IT HIT YOU FEEL NO PAIN

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I found nine to tick on a first run-through, and when I struggled to find another I really cared for, left it at that. I believe four were my nominations, and I have a feeling none of them will make it through.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think Lolita Storm might have been a long-shot (though a very awesome one)!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

All the Wu tracks are off Iron Flag? I'd kind of drifted off by that point (despite Enter the 36 Chambers being one of my favourite albums EVAR)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, the W. Iron Flag is in 2001 - it has their amazing 9/11 track "Rules" on it ("WHO THE FUCK KNOCKED OUR BUILDINGS DOWN?")

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

wow, not many i know and like there at all, oh well plenty of spare ticks for lost masterpieces should i be persuaded ;)

K-Gee

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I suspect many haven't heard the K-Gee and indeed i only heard it within the last year but it's great imo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE3-BzPS84g

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is a damn tough heat! Went with 10 on instinct but leaving out Beenie Man and the other two Wu-Tangs HURTS, none of the ones I didn't tick in the previous two heats hurt. (Wu-Tang so unlucky to have three tracks in one heat...still I guess 'Gravel Pit' is a favourite to go through.)

Don't feel as bad leaving out PJ Harvey and Spiller: both great tracks, but PJ's 'This Is Love' is much better from this year (and both are from her worst album anyway); 'Groovejet' is somewhat overrated I feel, it wasn't even the best track released THAT WEEK (Vicky B's 'Out Of Your Mind') let alone in the whole decade.

BIG PIMPIN':

Lil' Kim - How Many Licks? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBqOFMaIpHc) (embedding disabled)
I think this might be my favourite track of the decade which isn't 'Flowers'. The apotheosis of ho-rap, anyway - that first verse is just unbeatable, Kim at her most cheerfully, scandalously nasty, and the acid squelch of the beat is just so much fun. This was one of the first hip-hop tracks I ever memorised the lyrics to - still got 'em off by heart - and I still play it out whenever I DJ. How great an opening line is "I been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces - aw hell, I even fucked with different races". And then she basically tops that with every succeeding line right up to the climax of "he had a BIG-ASS DICK and a HURRICANE TOOONGGGUUEEEE!"

Toni Braxton - 'He Wasn't Man Enough' - I think I'd actually forgotten about this for a while, but in LA a few months ago I suddenly got it caught in my head out of nowhere, and it just would not leave even though I played it maybe 934034 times in a row? The chorus is just AMAZING - "do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend? I'm not thinkin' 'bout him, but you married him..." I love love love the deep husk of her voice. Really encourage you to give this a try if you can't remember/never heard it.



Dead Prez, Missy's 'Hot Boyz' and both these Kelises are standards which everyone knows and loves, right?

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Agree with you 100% on Toni here, getting screwed. Not as good as "Unbreak My Heart", but then again little is.

I have never heard Dead Prez, Hot Boyz, or Kelis here, so this will be a fun one to listen to and tick this weekend. Keep in mind though, I paid no attention to pop music from 2000-2004 and even less attention to hip hop/R&B, so my knowledge here is v weak.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Was I actually just asleep for all of 2000? This really is a learning experience for me. I don't even recognise the Spice Girls or Missy ones. Keep it up, &c. Valuable stuff.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'Holler' was pretty much panned at the time IIRC? But I really like it - the video is kinda 'expensive' as well, the 4 of them (minus Geri obv) each represent different ELEMENTS, with Posh as WIND hahahaha:



Mel C = super h0tt here.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Here's 1 that I ticked which are doing very poorly and some people may not know.

Hoku - "How Do I Feel (The Burrito Song)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlnKveedx-I (no embedding)

I can't find "How Do You Like Me Now" on youtube. Oh well.

More votes for B15 Project pls!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Smashing bit of UK garage with an awesome sign language video:

Re: More votes for B15 Project pls!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome video!!! I never saw it at the time. Cosine obv, everyone must tick this excellent track.

Moar garage

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Frances James & DJ Face - Girls Play Too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8cfQUMzM4)

WAO this is actually immense - at about 2 mins in this industrial pipe clang noise comes in and BLIMES. I might give up DJ Deekline for this...

Re: Moar garage

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

never heard this before! pretty good. seeing as it looks to be a battle between PJ, Stripes and stuff i already ticked for 5th place i might just give tick 10 to this.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Ticked 9 off the bat, including a few I doubt will get much luv -- an excellent M2M track that (I imagine) has less of a chance than "Don't Say You Love Me" did (had no idea this was actually a single!); the Toby Keith tune; yet another awesome Hoku song. Nostalgia isn't enough to bring me to tick Graduation Song (which I nominated :/) or LFO.

Absolute must tick: Missy, Lil' Kim, D'angelo, ODB f. Kelis. Last one's going to go to one of the Wu's or Dead Prez, haven't decided.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot to mention DIXIE CHICKS up top: A MUST-TICK.

2000 B.T. (Before Taylor)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Highly encourage people who are even slightly likely to tick any country to check out two options here, Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" and Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now":

"Well uh, I don't think we'll ever get tired of killin' this guy..."



No embed for Toby Keith: How Do You Like Me Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkhqxaKqVs).

[koganbot]

"Girl OF My Dreams" is actually "Girl IN My Dreams," but the guy who nominated it got the title wrong.

Can't stay online. but I recommend that you do whatever Dave Tells you.

[koganbot]

Um, the guy what nominated them can't even remember not to confuse his possessive pronouns. YOUR dreams, Frank.

Spotify!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Loads of them - now added to the main list too (http://open.spotify.com/user/afarrell/playlist/5gQ4ltSyKfNEmkeq2tX5Hg)

Re: Spotify!

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Excellent, was just coming in to do this myself, you've saved me a job.

Eleven tracks aren't on there, then... hrm. The missing ones:

M2M - Girl Of Your Dreams
B15 Project ft. Chrissy D & Lady G - Girls Like Us (7)
Frances James & DJ Face - Girls Play Too
Kid 606 - GQ on the EQ
Poe - Haunted
Lolita Storm - Hot Lips Wet Pants
Hoku - How Do I Feel (The Burrito Song)
D'angelo - How Does It Feel
Slum Village ft. Jazzy Jeff - I Don't Know
DJ Dee Kline - I Don't Smoke (11)
Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You (9)

[credoimprobus]

Because I reckon few if any people have heard it (the alb, Make It Better, apparently sunk into immediate obscurity, which is an honest crime what with it being EXCELLENT), THE DUBSTAR:



(Excuse the totally random photoslide, only other version on youtube was a 30 sec clip of the official video, heh.)

[credoimprobus]

Dear lord, though, is it ever obvious how zero attention I was paying to pop music round the turn of the millennium. Another heat where I only know a handful of tracks off the bat, and most of those retrospectively, at that. (It's so very true: thank god for youtube!)

(Luckily 2001 was Year of Getting HOAM INTARNETZ, which put a radical end to my Being Clueless abt Current Music era. Phew! More than one year's noms worth of youtubery this intensive could not be healthy!)

4th and 5th FITE

[meserach.livejournal.com]

As is only just, Gravel Pit, Got YOur Money and Groovejet are all locks to qualify now.

However 4th and 5th could get BRUTAL. Currently it's a three-way between Lil' Kim, Kelis and Dead Prez (AND IN THE POLL), but there's a HYOOJ chasing pack.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Because dudes without an excessive (some might say morbid, ho ho ho) interest in literary gothpop, this is Haunted by Poe-

It is GREBT.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Pretty good! But I already have so much ticked.

Girls Dem Sugar

[meserach.livejournal.com]

How is this doing so indifferently? It is GRAET.

Politicks

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

If things stay this way, I might consider moving my Missy vote to go into a Dead Prez/Missy/Lil' Kim run-off -- though I'd strongly urge some kind person to vote Toni into said run-off too! (I already voted for it.) Anyway, will check back Monday PM.

Re: Politicks

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

WOO! GO TONI!

Ties and runoffs

[meserach.livejournal.com]

My suspiscion is that a chunk of us WANT a runoff, between as many tracks as they can engineer given the state of the poll, and have been voting strategically in order to ensure it. (I know I have).

What that says about the process as a whle I'm not sure. But I am kind of lookign forward to that runoff a whle lot. Especially so now that Toni is in it. :)

Re: Ties and runoffs

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Also, if just one Wu-Tang clan fan wants, they can shift their Gravel Pit vote (since that's easily safe) over to "I Can't Go To Sleep" and get IT to be tied for fifth on 15 as well.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Phew, nearly missed this vote. Delighted to see ODB occupying both the top two spots!

I didn't read the comments about close ties for 5th place, and I appear to have inadvertently put another song into joint 5th. Whoops.