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

[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.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Another call out for Toni Braxton. Needs some love!