Best Song of 2000: Heat #4

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Heat #3 was even closer than Heat #2! Kelis gets two more songs through with the help of ODB; the rest of the Wu Tang Clan join Spiller & Sophie E-B in the final. But it's a six-way stalemate for 5th place! Look for the tie-breaker at the end of this poll...

• You get a maximum of 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 Friday lunchtime to vote.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments!

[Poll #1416502]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Huzzah I ticked exactly 10. Good ol' Elastica.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Argh however I forgot to abstain and it won't let me unselect a radio button, wah. I have put (or perhaps kept) my vote at the first option so you can pretend PJ is minus 1 for the moment.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

This is the first heat where I've ticked 10.

Anyone not ticking Sonique is clearly WRONG.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

People not ticking Hot Boyz are wrong.

Slim pickings for me here but feel need to rep for Deltron-


one of those 'played it till it broke' ones.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I thought about that, since I only ticked four and one of them was b0n j0v1 but honestly I think I dislike that song. :(

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Then you should listen to it again and again until you learn to appreciate its brilliance!! I hadn't heard it for ages either, and then yesterday it came up on a random ipod playlist and I was reminded of just how brilliant it is - a true floorfiller.

KIRSTY KIRSTY KIRSTY!!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

the kirsty song is excellent latin pop, with ace lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvaqVAFuLI

(non-vid)

it is BETTER THAN RADIOHEAD, that's all i'm saying...

know the job aint getting done until the body getting drug out

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

FAO: PEOPLE NOT TICKING HOT BOYZ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LcXL0rO5zk)

In the top 13 songs ever.

Re: KIRSTY KIRSTY KIRSTY!!!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

nooo idioteque is GREBT, unfortunately.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I hated it at the time (her voice, mainly) but it showed up the other night on TMF and I decided a reappraisal was in order. Still find the voice a bit awful, tune's great though.

It was also the first heat where I've ticked 10, but most of them were 'go on then...' ticks.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

When I went back to Sonique it was SO MUCH BETTER than I'd remembered! At the time I thought it was OK but it really is glorious.

She was diagnosed w/breast cancer this week :(

Re: know the job aint getting done until the body getting drug out

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's a fantastic track but I didn't tick 'Hot Boyz' because it's just so 1999 to me that it feels wrong sending it through...it was the last single off a 1999 album, the footnote of the album campaign which just happened to be in 2000.

Ditto 'Hip Hop', originally released in MARCH 1999. We won't have this issue in future heats but neither of those tracks are really part of the decade we're polling.

I like 'How Many Licks?' better than any of them anyway.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

First heat that I couldn't tick 10 off the bat...got two spare ticks if anyone feels like pimping songs out. Intend to check out the Alecia Elliott for sure, and will go back to Kirsty MacColl/Mandy Moore/Phoenix/Modjo which I remember hearing & liking at the time but not to the extent that I cared about them particularly.

Cheerleading LIL' KIM in he tiebreaker! Even if I didn't have reservations about the release dates of the Missy and Dead Prez, it's still my favourite by some way, and we have to send SOME ho-rap through...

Talking of ho-rap, I encourage everyone to tick Trina's 'I Need' here. The internet is not providing so here it is (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ky322b). I love those shiny turn-of-the-century Slip'n'Slide hip-house beats and her first verse is AMAZING:

Nigga, I'm a first class ho, money in the stash hoe
Fast ho, love it when you lick tha asshole
And if you wanna pass go
I need 20 grand or better
Real go-getter out for the flo' getter

Love it when it goes into that "I FUCK!" "YOU FUCK!" call-and-response too.

This is also the first heat where I actively hate a lot of the nominees...Radiohead, as ever, need to fuck off and die, BOREDS of Canada more like, how the hell did Primal Scream even get nominated are you SERIOUS, and the Kid606 title alone makes me break out in hives.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I really quite like the bit where her voice goes all nasal and high at the end of the chorus.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ayyyy! Primal Scream with the same number of ticks as Jay-Z (which I assumed would be way out in front due to it being an all-timer) and Sonique (ditto), and no one else ticking Kristine Blonde?????? Ayyyyyy Poptimists don't do this to me.

Re: know the job aint getting done until the body getting drug out

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

being twelve in 2000 i think Hot Boyz was the first Missy I heard. unless All N My Grill was earlier. but yeah, for me it's defo a 2000s track; i see yr point tho.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

i have youtubed... there are some pleasing womnwomnwomnwomn bits underneath i never noticed before but overall it is at best a marginal for me; i think my grump tendencies reject its mild euphoric air.

Got to got to get together, be strong, cuz I know our love will be coming...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

...and I won't be love shy ANY MORE!

Re: know the job aint getting done until the body getting drug out

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'All N My Grill' was the lead single I think so would've been 1999 - might be my favourite Missy track ever, that. Da Real World is def my favourite Missy album.

Have a v soft spot for 'Hot Boyz' anyway - them Benz jeeps and them LEXUS jeeps innit.

Re: KIRSTY KIRSTY KIRSTY!!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Is there anything in this or any other heat that ISN'T "better than Radiohead"!

The fact that 'Idioteque' actually has a half-decent beat (only half: why bother with Radiohead's idea of 2-step when there's ACTUAL 2-step to tick) is totally negated by the very worst, whiniest vocal I've ever heard from Thom Yorke, which is quite something given that his default is an awful whine.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

sorry, the prml scrm was my fault, but i nommed it because i did listen to it a lot in 2000, and it's the best track off of xtrmntr...

Bonus fun Elastica fact

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The video to Mad Dog (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvwwg_elastica-mad-dog_music) was directed by MIA!

Re: KIRSTY KIRSTY KIRSTY!!!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dude the Radiohead track is such a massive time machine to that first term at college when we were all crowded round the stereo in Mayer's tiny room...

...then again so is drinking Absolut vodka.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

MBV Arkestra is better cos no Bobby ;]

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that's why i picked KAH over sw4st1k4 4rse though, less bobby...