Best Song of 2000: Heat #6

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Britney, Sugababes, Daft Punk and Daphne & Celeste are all safely through, with DMX just scraping in to join them at the last minute.

You know the drill by now - you have until Friday to vote on this lovely lot...

• 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.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments!

[Poll #1419918]

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I have a Pantera t-shirt my friend John got me at Download; I nearly wore it to work this morning before I remembered it has FVCKING HOSTILE written in big letters across the back...

Weird pickings this time.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the unacceptable face of the year 2000. Struggled to 10, almost all my ticks (aside from Destiny's Child who will get through anyway) are persuadable onto other tracks.

On the positive side I never thought that A1's excellent boyband hit would stand a real actual chance of qualifying.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

WTF? There are a ton of amazing tracks here! I had about 13 I wanted to tick and in the end had to untick All Saints, Jill Scott, N&G and Moloko...but there are some all-time classic joints here. Trina! The LOX! MJ Cole! Darude! Three 6 Mafia!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And oh shit I missed 'Sandwiches'. AGH. Need to find something else to untick.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

tick Red Snapper! such good use of David Essex!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Huh? This is one of the strongest heats so far. Mary Mary, All Saints, Delerium, Darude, Cypress Hill and Ladytron all deserve to go through (given some of the tripe that has made it through previous heats), but sadly only 5 of these 6 can, and since Destinys Child are running away with the heat, it seems likely that only a couple of them will.

S Club 7 may well miss out, despite this being one of their two most recognisable songs and biggest hits.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

My initial ticking revealed 6 definites, I'll go back through and refresh my memory on some of these at lunch. I'm really pulling for "Sandstorm" and "Pull Over" this time.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Voted for Sandwiches.

It's 12.07.

Wonder if there's a connection!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

"common - sixth sense"???

The revolution will not be televised...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(I don't rate this particularly)

Most overrated pop hit ever

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Fucking 'Reach'. Always hated it, always hated when it came on at student nights in the middle of actually great pop hits and completely harshed my buzz. Just unnecessarily Blue Peter-like and jaunty. POP SHOULD NOT BE KIDS' TV, PEOPLE.

Re: Most overrated pop hit ever

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Agreed; did like monging around in front of the TV series whilst toasted tho.

new york city gritty committee

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

re: pharoahe monch i have no idea; do people not remember it? i shall refresh their branes:



that bassline!

cus i've been down for so long that i thought hope had gone

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I bought this on historic music format unlikely to receive a retro-fashionable revival CASETTE TAPE for £1.49 in historical high street store whose empty husks are being preserved to remember what happens when you get rid of the cups for Pick'n'Mix WOOLWORTHS. That'll be one to confuse the kids one day.

Anyway, it is bl00dy amazing; as Trevor Nelson said at the time, no one even clocked it was a gospel song and from that flirty little bassline that's clearly going to buy you a drank to the lilty summeriness of the whole thing it is 1x AWESOME JAM.

I think I thought it was about S&M at the time. o_0

Re: cus i've been down for so long that i thought hope had gone

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Agreed - if this doesn't go through I will be sad.

sigh, poptimists, tick more hip-hop, these are classix

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Trina covered upthread, and by koganbot yesterday, and is on Spotify. Terrific Miami hip-house beat, Trina delivering one of the all-time finest ho-rap swagger performances, she's just unstoppable on it. DUMPS IN THE TRUCK, THIGHS LIKE WHAT, AIN'T NANN HO GOT MO BOOTY IN THE BUTT! Possibly the best song of the round.

The LOX and Eve. Terrific menacing Timbaland beat, "I rock the icy-ass chain with the earring in my tongue"; this probably didn't start the whole "ride or die" ethos but it's one of the first I remember, and I'm a sucker for that combination of romance and danger.

The Lox feat. Eve - Ryde Or Die Bitch (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23rbp_the-lox-feat-eve-ryde-or-die-bitch_music)
Uploaded by Mustafu (http://www.dailymotion.com/Mustafu). - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more. (http://www.dailymotion.com/us/channel/music)

Three 6 Mafia - DIRTY SOUTH REPRESENT. One of my favourite Three 6 cuts ever and come on you have to tick it b/c it gave our good friends at So Many Shrimp their name!!



Mystikal - just CRAZY, that rigid, disciplined beat and acres of space acting as a straitjacket for lunatic Mystikal threatening to bust out of it at any time. Ahhh, when Pharrell wasn't annoying...

Re: sigh, poptimists, tick more hip-hop, these are classix

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Would sacrifice my Pantera tick (since altho song is worthy, I doubt it's a contender) for Ryde Or Die, which is very good but was listening to the former this morning and remembered how much fancied Phil Anselmo at this point.

People not ticking 'Shake Ya Ass' are WRONG.

The sky is falling?

[koganbot]

I've only ticked nine so far, but Kat, Tjanik nominated Sonique's "Sky". Are you counting that as 2001? (Wiki calls it 2000.)

Re: The sky is falling?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Arse - it's definitely 2000 according to everyhit. I knew there would be one that fell through the net. I'll tag it on to the next heat.

[koganbot]

with DMX just scraping in to join them at the last minute

Ah! I had gone to bed with the crushing feeling that it was my refusal to untick Alizée that had eliminated DMX's last chance.

Re: Why are you dancing when you could be alone?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Destroy Everything You Touch' maybe, just for its force. i think i still prefer non-single 'Discotrax' to both tho.

[koganbot]

I've still got one vote left.

Kicking myself for forgetting to nominate Mystikal's "Jump," but "Shake Ya Ass" doesn't hold up for me at the moment, sounds like James Brown reduced to a cartoon. (Maybe I've got a mental block against Mystikal, which'd explain why I forgot "Jump." Wiki: "On January 16, 2004, Mystikal was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to forcing his hairstylist to perform sex acts. He also admitted to extortion. The rapper and two bodyguards forced the woman to perform oral sex, have sex with them, and accused her of stealing $80,000 in checks. Mystikal initially denied the assault, but confessed after a videotape of the crime was found at his home.")

I'm not sure how or even whether I'll use my final vote. I was vaguely contemplating voting for some of the following (as being any good at all):

Rage Against The Machine "Sleep Now In The Future"
Pharoahe Monch "Simon Says"
Mystikal "Shake Ya Ass" (see above)
Daphne & Celeste "School's Out" (is fun 'n' all, but the original crushes it completely)
S Club 7 "Reach"
Three 6 Mafia "Sippin' On Some Syrup" (maybe I've simply heard it too much, but on this go 'round it seems pale)
N'n'g "Right Before My Eyes"
Common "Sixth Sense" (he flows OK over beats that'd trip up many people, but the delivery is pedantic and the words platitudes)
Mary Mary "Shackles" (sorry, don't see what the big deal is here; a likable but second-level TLC or Destiny's Child track with some gospel shouts thrown in)
Monster Magnet "Silver Future"
Sasha & Emerson "Scorchio"
Red Snapper "Some Kind Of Kink"

I may relisten to a few of these, but I'll have to convince myself I like something more than the RATM to vote for it. (I'll vote for the RATM if I convince myself I like it more than the RATM.)

Couldn't find Losoul, only found a 30-second clip of the Sonic Youth (which sounded disparate in a noncompelling way), could only find live versions with shitty sound of the Pantera. Only found live versions of the Eleni Mandell, as well, but to my surprise was totally taken by it, since from the little I'd heard of her I'd dismissed her as a ho-hum subdeb with a good voice. On this one she moos and lacerates like Polly Jean.

[lisa-go-blind.livejournal.com]

While 2000 was around the height of my love for Sonic Youth, it was also the height of their tuneless noodling. Even I opted to spin EVOL a few extra times rather than pick up NYC Ghosts & Flowers or any of the SYR stuff.

Eleni Mandell has been on nearly every relevant radio show/podcast I listen to over the past year (Sound Opinions, The Sound of Young America, multiple times on NPR) to the point where I got irritated with having to hear her mediocre poetry and dull melodies. "Pauline" isn't half bad though. It's not quite tickworthy for me yet, but that may change by Friday.

Juvenile couldn't even back this ass up

[koganbot]

Here's "Pull Over." Clobbers everything else on the list.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Didn't DMX tie Alizee in the last heat?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes but I counted up the results a bit before posting the next heat because I had a meeting to go to. No disrespeck to Alizee...

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

You don't have to pick 10, do you? I only tick 'em if I remember liking them, seems more natural that way.

[koganbot]

No, but you are required to tick Trina.

Top 6 so far:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1. Say My Name
2. Pure Shores
=3. Shackles
=3. Shake Ya Ass
=5. Playgirl
=5. Sandstorm

I would much rather both Playgirl and Sandstorm go through instead of Shackles, but WAH Simon Says is getting *robbed* here :(

Re: Top 6 so far:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah as things stand...DC deserve it and can't be caught. 'Pure Shores' not as good as 'Black Coffee' but still great and can't be caught. 'Shake Ya Ass' - whew, glad one of the hip-hop standards made it through. Gonna cheerlead for 'Sandstorm' over 'Playgirl'! Quite possibly the most visceral dance track ever.

Would rather Trina miraculously overtakes everyone :((((((

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Shocked that Delerium track is doing well - um it's just kinda standard commercial trancey bobbins, right? Like, sub-sub-sub-sub-Sonique. Who even remembers it.

And surprised that Detroit Grand Pubahs are doing badly - this is surely a house classic that everyone knows!

Wish people not ticking 'Pull Over' or 'Ryde Or Die Bitch' would give reasons why...silent majority needs to speak up.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am not ticking Pull Over because it sounds really incoherent and squawking. Though I'll have to invoke Frank's Boney-Joan rule here because usually I love incoherent squawking! Trina just doesn't pull it off here.

Weird cross-genre consensus

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Everyone who voted for Erykah Badu also voted for Eleni Mandell.

Re: Weird cross-genre consensus

[koganbot]

But not vice versa.

Spotify'd

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Better late that never

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/427pbyy1TX5lrE4fHyeqq7