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

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Once again, for the third straight heat, the song I was supporting was eliminated from a runoff thanks to a last second vote.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'm rooting here for Daphne & Celeste and Sisqo, so bad news for those songs.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Let me tell 'em what'll mean the world
Ludacris and a couple a girls
You find a brotha runnin up in the girls
I get 'em drunk, chugga-luggin the girls
Ding-a-ling face huggin the girls
I get late - think I'm up with the girls?
Skeet, skeet, gone; it's all about that party
Bacardi - motions, rub lotion, all over your body



I'm from the M-I-A, that's where I dwell, niggaz can't you tell?
I'm bad as hell, even my pussy smell...
...LIKE CHANEL

[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).

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Not that I think this stands a chance, but here's "U+Me=Us". It comes from a made for MTV boyband parody movie. This might have been a US only thing, I dunno.

[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.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Time To Burn is AMAZING and one of my fave dance tracks ever and if you don't vote for it I will ban yo a55es CRY BUCKETS so pls to be ticking.

[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.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Am considering rescinding PJ Harvey for Storm (or Neko) - I love love love 'This Is Love' but really don't think she should be rewarded for her worst album.

[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.

[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!

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[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.

[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.

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[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.

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[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 never thought I'd tick both Daphne & Celeste AND Lambchop in the same poll.

[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.

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Storm' by Storm is also great. i only recently ID'd it after knowing the tune for the ten years it's lived. RIP Mark Spoon!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Time for me to make my regular, vain, protest that Moloko were rubbish. Roisin Murphy = most critically overrated pop artist of the 00s, Annie has nothing on her.

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

And: I hoped Wonderful, probably as close to Everclear got to make a genuinely fine song, might do better. It is not going to touch Daphne & Celeste, but come on people, 2?

[koganbot]

The ones I care the most about, besides sure winners like "There You Go" and "Try Again," are Teddybears STHLM's "Yours To Keep" (couldn't find the original streamed anywhere, but I linked the remix, which I'm not so hot on but it's poptasticuk's favorite version, I think)(anyway, what was nominated features Paola, not the inferior remake that came out years later f. Neneh Cherry) and "Wishin' All These Old Things Were New," which I couldn't find a stream of, but maybe you'll have better luck.