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

[koganbot]

All right, let's re-evaluate. As I said, these are pretty good but... RATM's got a strong guitar riff grindin' away, but Zack's eruptions get ever more tedious. The S Club 7 doesn't sound forced, just insubstantial. N'n'g is half rescued by the silly-putty beats in the remix, but the dancehall toasting just gets in the way. Sasha and Emerson: "Come in," said Tom, entranced. (Joke from 9th grade.) This goes long without getting in, or out, or anywhere. Monster Magnet gives us good little dark circles from the bass, then turns into a standard plodder. Daphne & Celeste aren't even rapping particularly well on "School's Out," and the rock makes me think of how Coop and crew rocked it harder. Red Snapper's excellent chopping-block funk tries to galvanize a surface that's too disparate and tired.

Which leaves Pharoahe, Three 6 Mafia, Mary Mary, and Mystikal, all worthy, I've decided. I'll end up ticking whichever needs the vote most. The structure of "Shake Ya Ass" is brilliant in exactly the way that Lex described, fast man caught in slow loop; the fast man's creativity goes flat from time to time, however. On this playthrough "Shackles" sounds shimmeringly pretty and unshackled, even if I wish it had a little more force. Three 6 Mafia f. Project Pat are suspended in air and twisting around, quite appropriate, though the syrup tends to run dry over the length of the track. Pharoahe, comically ominous, big and edgy, plot has a few breakdowns.