Best Song of 2001: NOMINATIONS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

NEW NOMINATION RULE ALERT

This time there's going to be a 10 song per person limit on stuff that didn't chart in the UK top 40 that year. This means:
- we won't have 20+ heats per year
- we'll all still get to find out about those forgotten gems
- dudes won't feel bad using up their nomination quota on Kylie
- collusion will probably run rampant, oh well

Obviously you can nominate fewer than 10 non-charting songs but I have a feeling some of you will take full advantage of the quota :-)


YOU HAVE LOST ME TOTALLY.

Sorry! Here's some examples:

Person A nominates tracks 1-10 from Kompakt Total 3 (none of which charted in the UK), plus Bob The Builder and Afroman.

Person B nominates Westlife only.

Person C nominates the entire top 40 from May 21st 2001 because they loved it so much.

Person D nominates 'Sonne' by Rammstein only.



HOW ON EARTH DO I FIGURE OUT IF IT CHARTED IN THE UK THAT YEAR?

everyhit.co.uk is your friend here. If your song might be spelled weirdly and doesn't show up in the results, try searching by artist instead of title (or vice versa) or using 'contains the word' instead of 'first few letters'.


OK SO IT DIDN'T CHART IN THE UK BUT I STILL DUNNO WHAT YEAR IT WAS RELEASED?

Here's the general criteria for determining what year something falls under:

1. Everyhit
2. Discogs UK release date
3. Discogs US release date
4. My werk database
5. Wikipedia/other interweb source

So if Discogs says it was 2001 but Wikipedia says 2002 then we go with Discogs.


MY NOMINATION WAS RE-RELEASED IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT YEARS! HELP!

Go for the year that the song had its highest chart placing in the UK.


YOU TOTALLY MISSED ONE OF MY 2000 NOMINATIONS LAST TIME DUDE...

I recommend that you post your nominations in a new comment thread so they don't get lost in the threading (the first post of a thread always shows up). This isn't mandatory but it makes it much less likely that I'll miss them. Don't worry about repeating yourself - my spreadsheet will take care of that.


ARGH! ITS GOING TO TAKE ME AGES TO THINK OF MY NOMINATIONS!

Nominations won't close until the end of next week so you've got a while to think of some cracking tunes. I'll post reminders nearer the time.


I NOMINATED SOMETHING FOR 2000 THAT WAS ACTUALLY 2001...?

These are automatically through (so won't count for your ten nominations etc). In fact, here is a list of songs already nominated for your delectation:

Backstreet Boys - The Call
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Christina Aguilera / Lil' Kim / Mya / Pink - Lady Marmalade
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
D12 - Shit On U
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Destiny's Child - Survivor
DJ Pied Piper - Do You Really Like It
Fragma - Everytime You Need Me
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Jakatta - American Dream
Kosheen - Hide U
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
Lolita Storm - Suzy
Ludacris ft. Trina, Shawnna & Foxy Brown - What's Your Fantasy? (Remix)
Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl
Marilyn Manson - Fight Song
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Mis-Teeq - Why? (Matt 'Jam' LaMont & DJ Face Remix)
MOP ft Busta Rhymes - Ante Up
Múm - I'm 9 Today
Mya - Case Of The Ex
Mystikal ft. Nivea - Danger (Been So Long)
Nelly - Ride Wit Me
OutKast - Ms Jackson
Rui Da Silva ft Cassandra - Touch Me
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
Shaggy ft Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
Spoon - Anything You Want
St Etienne - Boy Is Crying
Sugababes - Run For Cover
Sugababes - Soul Sound
The Artful Dodger ft. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Wyclef - Perfect Gentleman

Got all that? Right then!

NOMINATIONS IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE!


(Reminder: the 2000 Second Chance Saloon is running until Thursday (thanks to meserach!) so there's still some poll action to tide you over.)

Comments

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Daft Punk - One More Time (purely since it wasn;t on the list already, somehow)

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Oh, because it was 2000 and we did it alreayd. Never mind me.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Garbage - Cherry Lips

[meserach.livejournal.com]

That's probably 2002, actually.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yep, 2002 - I'll shunt it on to next year's list.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

It's really difficult to search through this many comments to see if my songs have been nominated.

But in case they haven't already been, my very indie nominations go to:
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Lostprophets - Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja
Ash - Burn Baby Burn
Linkin Park - In The End
Roots Manuva - Witness (One Hope)
All the others I would have nominated are on your list of songs which were nominated but not released in 2000 (Kylie, Outkast, So Solid)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good call on SvsDN! I'd totally forgotten that Lostprophets were once good :)

[credoimprobus]

agh having 6 non-charter slots left seemed like plenty until I started going through my less well organized/tagged musics and checking up years. The agony!

couple of charting additions:
Kosheen - Catch (HOW HAD NO ONE DONE THIS ONE YET? Only reason I didn't nom it first time around myself was because I was certain someone else would, and it's not a top personal favourite.)
Oxide & Neutrino - Only Wanna Know U cos Ure Famous (I'm assuming double a-sides count, yes?)

non-charters:
Orbital - Illuminate
Hoku - Perfect Day
Ulrich Schnauss - Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn
Guru feat. Bilal - Certified

(I'd better leave the last ones open for now or I'll be desperately retracting picks in two days, hahaha. Although if anyone wants to take Gaelle or Curve or FC Kahuna off my hands, they're very welcome to it!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My sister nominated Hoku so that's one more slot you've got there :)

[credoimprobus]

I will give a discreet WHOO! to that. ;) (I had been sort of surprised no one else had jumped on that one, tbh!)

[tjanik.livejournal.com]

Riva featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now
Jaheim - Just In Case (Dub-A-Holics Roller's Revival)
K Warren featuring Lee O - Coming Home

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My last 3 noms:

Saïan Supa Crew - "Maladie"
Adult. - "Hand to Phone"
Low - "In Metal"

If any of these have already been nommed or if Kat sez they're proper to 2002, then substitute "Musique Automatique" by Stereo Total.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

All those are fine, Jeff :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

charted nominations -

Jennifer Lopez ft. Ja Rule - I'm Real (Murder Remix)*
Mary J Blige - No More Drama
Björk - Pagan Poetry
Foxy Brown ft. Spragga Benz - Oh Yeah
Ludacris ft. Nate Dogg - Area Codes
Jaheim - Just In Case (Dub-a-holics Roller's Revival 12" Mix)
Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene

uncharted nominations -

Lina - Playa No Mo
Tori Amos - '97 Bonnie & Clyde
Superpitcher - Heroin
Golden Boy with Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin
Foxy Brown ft. Baby Cham - Run Dem
Lucinda Williams - Essence
DMX - Trina Moe
Aaliyah - I Care 4 U
Kelis - Flash Back
Britney Spears - Before The Goodbye

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

*'I'm Real' appears to be nominated already but I wanna make sure it's the Murder Remix, which is completely different and approx 948433 times better

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I mean the one with Ja Rule. Forgot about that other one.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Shit. No. Take out 'Before The Goodbye' and replace with Jay-Z - Heart Of the City (Ain't No Love).

Gahhhhh

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OK have moved Mary J, Felix, Golden Boy to 2002, so Britney is back in if that's ok?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me!

Final noms:

[credoimprobus]

Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
FC Kahuna - Hayling
Curve - Hell Above Water

I had to sacrifice my beloved idm obscurities (WOE), but surely the strategically sounder choice is the smarter one, etc. And those last two so VERY deserve a place on the list.

(Q: wld there be interest in a 'things that didn't make yr restricted noms' thread? I'm considering one, and I know I'd love the chance to rep for some missing favourites, in whatever form!)

Re: Final noms:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I would be interested in such a thread! 2001 supplemental...

Re: Final noms:

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I would also contribute to such a thread :)

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

OK I got 4 left:

Ludacris - "Freaky Thangs"
Old 97s - "Designs on You"
Mandy Moore - "Crush"
Beulah - "Gravity's Bringing Us Down"

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Dido - "Hunter"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Noooooooo I thought we were going to get away with no Dido! :)