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

[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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well clearly they never heard 'Masses Against The Classes'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Just listening to it for the first time now - cor that is a good bass noise he's got there! Dunno if it will displace any of my other ticks though (I had 12 on the first run through and the ones I've kept are all pretty solid)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the Dead Prez 'Hip Hop' bass is one of the best sounds that pop music has ever ever come up with :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yeah this is a good point - also w/r/t 'Hot Boyz' which I think of as '99 even more than those two.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

am letting 'Hot Boyz' off because i love it way more than then!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

way more NOW than then, i mean

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

tbh I love all three so much that I don't think I can untick any of them. only change I can see myself making is swapping D'Angelo for another of the Wu-Tangs. Mumba also vulnerable: that sort of pop tends to sound better in one's memory than when you actually go and listen to it again.

I am AMAZED that Dubstar were apparently still going in 2000 let alone releasing nomination-worthy songs :/

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

actually I think I'll go your way on this - 'Got Your Money' will go through regardless, but Nov 99 isn't too bad, and it did hit the UK properly in 2000, but Wikipedia says 'Hip Hop' was first released in March 99, so...it feels wrong to have that going forward. (I only heard it a few years later so don't really have a year-specific memory of it.)