Best Song of 2000: Heat #8

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Still D.R.E., Spinning Around and The Real Slim Shady led the pack in Heat #7, while Stronger and Stan fought off a last minute surge by The Bad Touch to join them in the 2000 final.

Last heat today! And there are some proper bangers below the cut...

• 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 #1423267]

You have until Friday lunchtime to vote, at which point I'll post a full list of the qualifiers for the 2000 final. HOWEVER we're not going to be voting on that straight away (to try and avoid tick-fatigue on the same songs). Instead, next week we're going to start nominations for 2001. There will be a slight change in nomination procedure (more details to follow) but there'll still be plenty of time to get your thinking caps on.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I guess the poor showings for Ludacris, Trina and Kim thus far don't bode well for Cam'ron but prove me wrong, poptimists.

One of the tougher heats, this - Neko Case and Storm just missed out.

I really really really hate 'Your Disco Needs You' and 'Who Let The Dogs Out?'

'Woman Trouble'!!! Classic 4eva. I feel fantastic, bombastic, ecstatically astounded...surrounded, confounded, emotionally dumbfounded - such satisfying phonetics there.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

presumably that Camron track was a hit in the States but expecting tracks that didn't chart here to do well in these polls is mad unrealistic (unless well known album tracks by big names maybe).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yep, the best known stuff will win out. In the 00s heats that's meant a bunch of famous R&B and Hip-Hop has got through: a bunch of less famous stuff has had no chance.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Not that it isn't worth nominating the obscure stuff of course - the point of these heats really IS the taking part more than the winning: the real fights (however Kat chooses to run 'em!) will be in the second rounds.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

several tracks that didn't chart here have done very well and even gone through. I never really expected this to but I'm still smarting from 'Southern Hospitality's loss - I assumed that was a lock - and all the Trina tracks so far doing really terribly. 'Southern Hospitality' and 'Pull Over' are Southern hip-hop standards that I frankly expect anyone w/a passing interest in popular music to know.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I actually expect Southern hip hop to fare pretty poorly in this competition, at least relative to more poppy, mainstream hip hop like Outkast, Nelly, Eminem, etc.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well dude I expect everyone to know about 'Rock DJ' as well, but that wasn't even nominated. Some dudes aren't really fans of Southern hip-hop!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i think the only songs to get thru that didn't go top 40 are, somewhat surprisingly (i really thought the more populist Sandstorm would beat it), 'Playgirl' and, less surprisingly, 'Bombs Over Baghdad'.

i'd suggest the former is closer to poptimists home culturally and literally which i guess counts for a lot. 'BOB' benefits from the subsequent success of Outkast via Miss Jackson and general approval of Outkast from indie-centric press (BOB will be in many channels decade top 10s). plus it's simply too seismic to reject.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

re. Sandstorm - I wasn't surprised, there has never been a great groundswell here for turn-of-the-00s commercial dance music. Though its time for revival will surely come.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i dunno this tune has always got what feels like inordinately big love on places like ILM in the 'big stupid trance pop it's OK to like' sense, i thought.

it's 'Scorchio' i feel sorry for.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not my cultural home! Bah.

'Kernkraft 400' went through fairly easily, which is why I was surprised about 'Sandstorm' failing. Quite a few other non-charting songs did well in terms of numbers, too.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Kernkraft was lucky in terms of its heat I think (nb I haven't checked this)

[koganbot]

I doubt that someone with a "passing interest" in pop music has ever heard of Trina. Even some people who pay lots of attention to pop pay no attention to her. Iirc, "Nann" got only three votes in Pazz & Jop '99. Most of her appeal was regional, she only once crossed over to the U.S. Top 40 ("Here We Go"), much less the Brit, and I'll bet prior to this month three quarters of the poptimists voters had never heard "I Need" and "Pull Over," and you can't expect those who did then make an effort to listen to en masse give up a vote for something they know well and love for something they've just heard that won't have time to sink in. I mean, if they're not even going to extend themselves to the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl"...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OMG yes, forgot to tick Artful Dodge.

Agreed with Baha Men - only good if actual dogs are singing it via clever editing.

how a girl can really lose her brain

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Heheh, you've youtubed the two tracks I was about to go and hunt down and rep for. SRSLY THO; WOMAN TROUBLE IS BLVDDY AMAZING.

Re: how a girl can really lose her brain

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if anyone nominated 'Please Don't Turn Me On' (or whether it fits into another year) but that's AMAZING as well - Lifford sounds so tortured on it, and it's a really unique perspective for a pop song (ie do we sympathise with him b/c he obviously feels guilty and wants to be a good guy, or not b/c he's so weak and is going to end up cheating despite himself?)

God, Artful Dodger were on a roll around this time...can't believe 'Moving Too Fast' didn't progress. 'Think About Me' is my favourite of all their singles, I believe that's coming next year.

Re: how a girl can really lose her brain

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I forgot all about Please Don't Turn Me On. Artful Dodger are basically the reason I like pop music, I suspect; nearly all the aesthetic touches I like (syncopation, aggressive strings, minor key, smooth sinistry, etc.) are right there in their songs and ARGH I love 'Woman Trouble' so much. I used to listen to Spoony on Saturday mornings about this time and obvs he was on the track and and and and it is ALL AWESOME.

Re: how a girl can really lose her brain

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i like Please Don't Turn Me On maybe more than anything else they did but it really does remind me of Robert Palmer (good and bad).

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

I had actually forgotten Woman Trouble, but it's all coming back to me. Yes, that's a very good song. Unfortunately, it fell outside my 10 ticks. Arse. Double-arse that Moving Too Fast didn't get through, though.