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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Punk Rock Princess by American Hi-Fi, wot is like their only properly good song
Weezer- Hashpipe
Missy Elliot- 4 My People (Basement Jaxx Remix)
Eve ft. Gwen Stefani- Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Darren Hayes- Strange Relationship
Chante Moore- Straight Up

Will be back with obscure rubbish later probs. Pretty sure there's some Rasputina from this year.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This year I think I mostly listened to Staind for about six months.

Get the immediate bosh out of the way first

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Vitalic - La Rock 01 <---- actually probably the best song of the decade

Re: Get the immediate bosh out of the way first

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Seconded! God I have had so many excellent raving experiences to Vitalic.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Natalie Imbruglia - That Day
Guided by Voices - Glad Girls
Guided by Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy
Afroman - Because I Got High

[gingermint.livejournal.com]

glad girls!! totally 2001 jam!

(tho, my favorite isolation drills track is probs "the brides have hit glass")

10? ... 10?... :O

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

How I am I going to whittle down my shortlist of 800 to 10?

(Partial ans: by nominating at the very last moment)

What is the deadline?

Re: 10? ... 10?... :O

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

End of next week (probably Friday).

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Daft Punk - Digital Love
Martina McBride - When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues

That's 4 countable nominations. I will think more about this when I get home.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I swear I completely stopped listening to anything vaguely pop in 2001. I blame going to uni, and indie music societies and their clubnights in particular. Oh well. Here's some...

Daft Punk - Digital Love
Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With U
Supermen Lovers - Starlight
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
Pulp - Sunrise / The Trees
Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
Muse - Plug In Baby

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Another Chance has an awesome video which I think I will blog later.

I can still play the riff to Plug In Baby! Just about!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I had lots of ideas for this year and now I've forgotten them! Gorillaz - 19-2000 is the only one I remember.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right I am actually going to nominate Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It?

"Bob and the gang make a really good sound"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think that just scrapes through seeing as it was technically number 1 on 1st Jan 2001...

[martinv.livejournal.com]

New Order - Crystal
Royksopp - Eple
SEB - Murder on the Dancefloor
REM - Imitation of Life
NERD - Lapdance
Weezer - Island in the Sun
Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
Fischerspooner - Emerge
AWK! - Party Hard!
Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses at Night
Ladytron - The Way That I Found You

[martinv.livejournal.com]

It seems that most of the electro that I thought I was cool listening to in 2002 was actually out in 2001 so there you go.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

woo yay

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I made some notes on things I wanted on the list at home, so will sort mine out this evening. Some have already been nominated, so I don't think the restrictions will give me any problems.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh, and The Beta Band - Broke.

American Country that I don't think the Anglos got.

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This--Toby Keith
I Wanna Talk About Me--Toby Keith
Don't Happen Twice--Kenny Chesney
Grown Men Don't Cry--Tim McGraw
Austin--Blake Shelton (who has an amazing twitter feed btw)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Kat what was decided about....MASH UPS?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Anything on here (http://www.discogs.com/2-Many-DJs-As-Heard-On-Radio-Soulwax-Pt-2/master/11811) counts as 2002. The other parts got non-UK releases in various years according to Discogs.

If a mashup wasn't actually released anywhere then I don't think we can really include it.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought of some more!

Pink - Get The Party Started
Jimmy Eat World - Salt Sweat Sugar (or whatever it's called)
No Doubt - Hey Baby

That's probably enough from me.

[koganbot]

Everyhit says that "Get The Party Started" didn't peak in Britain until January 2002.

Chart stuff (so doesn't count towards my 10 phew)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Britney - I'm A Slave 4 U
Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing
Usher - Pop Ya Collar
Usher U Remind Me
Jay-Z - Izzo (Hova)
Sticky ft Ms Dynamite - Booo
Aaliyah ft Timbaland - We Need A Resolution
Kelis - Young Fresh N' New
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
Nelly Furtado - I'm Like A Bird
Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade
M & S presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget
Schiller - Das Glockenspiel
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
Ian Van Dahl - Will I?
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque
Janet Jackson - All For You
Eve - Who's That Girl
The Streets - Has It Come To This?
The Strokes - Hard To Explain
The Beta Band - Won
Train - Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
Bjork - Hidden Place
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Missy Elliott - Get UR Freak On
Missy Elliott ft Ludacris - One Minute Man
Bubba Sparxx - Ugly
DMX - Who We Be

La la-la-la, la la-la-la

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Who's That Girl is BRILLIANT.

First batch

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Petey Pablo - Raise Up
Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck
System of a Down - Chop Suey!
Michelle Branch - Everywhere
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Britney - I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
Weezer - Island in the Sun

Re: First batch

[koganbot]

Believe it or not, everyhit claims that "Everywhere" didn't peak in Britain until April 2002!

Second batch

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Leslie Carter - Like Wow!
Scooter - The Logical Song
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Britney - Overprotected
112 - Peaches and Cream
A*Teens - Sugar Rush
Aaron Carter - That's How I Beat Shaq

Re: Second batch

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Britney, Scooter & Jimmy Eat World = 2002.

Bec's Noms

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Survivor - Destiny's Child
Bootylicious - Destiny's Child
In Too Deep - Sum 41
Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes
Fell in Love With a Girl - The White Stripes
Jolene - The White Stripes
Bang - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Last Nite - The Strokes
Tribute - Tenacious D
Wonderboy - Tenacious D
Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue

Re: Bec's Noms

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

arse - FILWAG was released in 2002.

[koganbot]

Here's one from the Top 40:

Linkin Park "In The End"

Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs?

[koganbot]

Here are nine that didn't chart in boring Britain.

Manu Chao "La Primavera"
Montgomery Gentry "Cold One Comin' On"
Montgomery Gentry "She Couldn't Change Me"
Backbone "5 Deuce-4 Tre"
Trace Adkins "I'm Tryin'"
Brooks & Dunn "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You"
Gore Gore Girls "Hunt You Down"
Jay-Z "Takeover"
Pink "Dear Diary"

I'VE STILL GOT ONE MORE!

Re: Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs?

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

I'VE STILL GOT ONE MORE!

Perhaps you should nominate "Satellite" by Bosco (since I wish I did, and now I don't have any left.)

Batch #1

[credoimprobus]

Telepopmusik - Breathe
Lasgo - Something*
Kosheen <3 <3 - (Slip & Slide) Suicide
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Put Your Hood Up
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push the Air
Oxide & Neutrino - Up Middle Finger
Muse - Bliss

(I heartily second Emerge, Another Chance and Rapture, which were also on my must-nom list!)

*) may get shunted into 2002, I guess?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Good work so far everyone - 142 nominations in total now (not counting stuff I've postponed for 2002).

Let's have a glimpse at my 19-year-old self:

Dr Dre & Snoop - The Next Episode
Crazy Town - Butterfly (ha ha ha)
Turin Brakes - Mind Over Money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMw5R43dbjs&feature=related) (HA HA HA HA I LOVED this at the time)
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Groove Armada - Superstylin'
The Ones - Flawless
Steps - I Know Him So Well (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELAirQvQfak) (YA RLY)

So tempted to include 'Last Resort' by Papa Roach / 'Crawling' by Linkin Park / 'Heaven Is A Halfpipe' by OPM for nu-metal sk8r lols - this was the year I was so stoned at Reading that everything in this vein seemed extremely amusing. But no.

Other things I am DEFINITELY not nominating:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Moldy Peaches - Who's Got The Crack
Regular Fries - Africa Take Me Back
Mogwai - My Father My King
Arab Strap - Love Detective

Even though I bought the last two on SINGLE gawd help me

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Lots of songs above I would have nominated, for which I can be thankful and nominate this ten instead:

Thomas Ribeiro -- Rideonastar
Trick Daddy -- Take It To Da House
Koffee Brown -- Weekend Thing
Junie-B -- The Luau
Phil Vassar -- Six-Pack Summer
Brooks & Dunn -- Only In America
City High -- What Would You Do
Drive-By Truckers -- Zip City
Gary Allan -- Alright Guy
Daddy DJ -- Daddy DJ

And if any of those count as 2000 and thus are disqualified miss the boat, then however many of these instead, in this order (though if somebody wants to nominate one or more of them anyway, feel free):

Kai Tracid -- Too Many Times
Safri Duo -- Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)
Rednex -- Spirit Of The Hawk
Gore Gore Girls -- I'm Gonna Get You Yet
Ann Lee - 2 Times
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
DJ P And Z- Trip - The Way It Is/It's Like That/Jam On It

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Also, please use however many of my alternative choices are allowed if any of my non-alternates (say Koffee Brown or Trick Daddy or Daddy DJ or City High maybe) did chart in the UK, thus freeing up yet more space on my list. Thanks!

Argh!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope)

How on earth did this not chart?

Re: Argh!

[credoimprobus]

Ha, you save me one non-charter vote slot! (I had it in my 2nd pile currently under consideration.)