Best Song of 2001: Heat #1

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gents, it's time for 2001: A Poll Odyssey! Mumpop fans are wailing and gnashing their teeth at the news that two of the top three album artists of the year (David Gray and Robbie Williams) are nowhere to be found in these heats, and the third (Dido) just scraped in by the skin of her teeth (courtesy of justfanoe). Can teenpop, hiphop and chart bosh save the day? There's only one way to find out.

So let's get cracking with a high-charting heat - ten top 5 hits and three number ones. Happy ticking!

• 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! Youtube embeds very welcome.

[Poll #1430999]

You have until next Tuesday lunchtime to vote.

Comments

I've posted it before and I'll post it again

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Anyone not ticking 'Ante Up' = KIDNAP THAT FOOL

Re: I've posted it before and I'll post it again

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Ante Up' is great but I prefer 'Break Ya Neck' b/c it has Busta going at breakneck (DYS) speed rather than galumphing around. Thought 'Ante Up' was a dead cert for a tick but the last section really brought some disproportionate awesomeness.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey that actually is a Phil Collins cover Brandy is singing here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M96y4Iodfcw). That one totally passed me by - my own fault, I made a point of ignoring Brandy's musical career because Moesha was so rubbish.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

it was part of urban regeneration: the covers album. there were LOADZ of things. janet jackson did one with a boyband but i can't remember which.

barely touching each other

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

but the jean-jacques smoothie is GORGE. possible necessity for my poptimism set.



swoon, etc. am such a sucker for songs that sound like that and was at the time, despite being a hairy rocker.

Re: barely touching each other

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Lots of good unknowns here, and this one's good for a tick!

[koganbot]

I ticked seven in my first pass, but the majority of these I've yet to hear, so some of those ticks will change. (And I'll consider it a personal failure if I can't find ten I like more than "Because I Got High.")

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ten exactly on first pass. Plenty I haven't heard though, so persuade away.

I will note in passing that a world in which the Genius Cru gets half the votes of the Dandy Warhols is not a world I wish to raise my children in.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I will second that, and note as an addendum that Mis-Teeq seem to have half the votes of...can this be right...Super Furry Animals? And Gorillaz? My eyes are surely deceiving me.

[koganbot]

And I'll be personally affronted if people don't at least listen to "5 Deuce-4 Tre," which sums up the best of the early '00s Hip-Hop South: the slow lazy speech that's actually pressurized rather than lazy, and the pretty neoclassical melody that's actually menacing beneath the prettiness:


(But ignore the first 20 seconds of this, which is the YouTuber's addition, not part of the song.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I listened to it! This heat is too strong for a song I heard for the first time an hour ago though. I'm pleased it got represented though, esp as my Dungeon Family tracks never made it through the nomination process.

Frank do you know 'Before The Goodbye'? Is one of my fav Britney tracks EVER - heart-stopping electro-stutter caught-in-this-moment micro-details give way to a massive, gorgeous wash of electronics for the chorus, then back to the twitching intimacy, and then a FUCKING MASSIVE POUNDING HOUSE BEAT HALFWAY THROUGH. Produced by BT, really incredible stuff.



"all the little things that make me weak / your eyes / and the way you speak / without you baby, I'm not me"

[koganbot]

The Brooks & Dunn reminds Kat of Heart, and reminds me of Londonbeat.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

9 ticks on first sweep (although I may untick Daft Punk - how does Aerodynamic go?). I'll try to study the reps and the form carefully before making further decisions.

The Fennesz track is the pretty, non-glitchy one on Endless Summer that sounds like stammering vibraphones. I hope it gets a bit of love.

Can we all at least agree that 2001 was the best year of this decade?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aerodynamic is the one with the classical-style guitar riff wot Myleene Klass plays on the piano in the Pantene advert.

IT'S A UK THING, STYLE THAT WE BRING

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Uh...three ticks so far? Have we actually FORGOTTEN this song?



Best British girl group...ever? I think so! This is why Alesha Dixon's new career makes me a bit sad. She's so much better than churning out conservatively-minded MOR-pop, and (ugh) being a judge on (ugh) reality TV dancing contests.

"All I need to know is that the world is mine" is one of my favourite pop lyrics ever. All I need to know - as if it's totally nothing ♥

Re: IT'S A UK THING, STYLE THAT WE BRING

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhh it's *that* one. Hell yes, changing tick now.

feel the bad gyal bass, feel the bad gyal bass injection, yes indeed with the boom selection

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think memories might need refreshing on this one too. Ms Dynamite is so versatile on this, the way she switches almost imperceptibly between singing and MCing, from murmuring almost half to herself to addressing the crowd full on...



This STILL gets played out loads at garage nights, and STILL gets a huge reception every time...

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Some cracking tunes in this poll - easy votes for Mis-Teeq, So Solid Crew, Busta Rhymes, Destinys Child.

I can't access YouTube at werk, but everyone should go check out that Kosheen track - it was a big favourite of mine back in '01.

[credoimprobus]

Allow me to provide:



My history with Resist at the start of the decade is EPIC. Jesus, I loved that album (and still do!)

[credoimprobus]

Dudes, more love for Another Chance, pls! It is after all a thing made of PURE JOY AND KITTENS (and possibly also puppies and rainbows). And look at that video! <3 <3!



Also, for those who do not know/don't remember the Ulrich Schnauss, here it is in all its gorgeousness:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ANOTHER CHANCE ♥ ♥ ♥

the way it SWELLS.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Voted nine from the top of my head for now, at least three of which -- Ludacris ft Nate Dogg - Area Codes (25), Nelly & St Lunatics - Batter Up (28), Afroman - Because I Got High (1), The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (5) -- could easily go by the wayside if I have time to check out other songs I don't know. We'll see. (Included Blake Shelton's "Austin" on a hunch, and on the basis of me living in Austin now; vaguely remember liking it, but honestly can't recall anything else about it. So that could conceivably go, too.)

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

"at least FOUR of which," I meant

Now I'm a parapalegic and I know why

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Can someone who ticked Afroman explain to me why they did so?

Re: Now I'm a parapalegic and I know why

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Because I got high.

19/2000 is like what this song would get on a test.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

That shoeshine song...it just...sends me into a rage. And as much as I hated it at the time, it now sounds like "iPod commercial" crystallized into its purest original form, like they've been taking little drops from this for years. It must not make it through.

Re: 19/2000 is like what this song would get on a test.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

When it came out in the UK it was basically 'WHUH DAMON MAKE BLEEPY SONG' and everyone went gooey-eyed over it. I liked the second album better.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I'm going to need to actually YouTube all of these over the weekend because I just can't remember enough of them. Or maybe didn't know them in the first place.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

You could use the Spotify playlist, too:

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/1JGDSaIs6dsvK4wA0ZB2wG

Dying days of UK garage

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Were there actually any huge garage anthems after 2001? It seems such a long time ago that So Solid, Mis-teeq, Oxide & Neutrino, Artful Dodger, Genius Cru etc were bothering the top ten.

Re: Dying days of UK garage

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I posted last week on my other blog on precisely this subject (http://noughtieshits.blogspot.com/2009/07/95-sweet-female-attitude-flowers.html).

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Nine ticks on first pass, looking a lot better than 2000 did. Might change a couple of those though, since 1) I suspect there are a few here I know but don't know I know, 2) WTF "Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn" was 2001, that seems like cheating somehow, and 3) only the Soulchild remix of "19/2000" is good.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The best 5:
"Break Ya Neck"
"21 Seconds"
"Bootylicious"
"Ain't Nothin' About You"
"Area Codes"

I'm too lazy to look

[koganbot]

Has Destiny Child ever lost a heat in which one or more of its songs was contending?

Re: I'm too lazy to look

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Not that I recall: their 2000 singles were "Independent Women, Part 1", "Say My Name" and "Jumpin' Jumpin'", all of which made it through.

I vote for Stacey Q!

[koganbot]

I just ticked Bran Van 3000 and Jakatta, though that's no guarantee that they'll stay ticked. A YouTube commenter claims that the Jakatta samples the 12-inch version of Stacey Q's "Queen Of Hearts."

Radiant shine with full bodied vita-protein complex

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Jakatta track is much more maximal than I remember, but I think I might have to untick it because of its prevalence on cosmetics adverts.

Spotify playlist just for this heat

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Thirteen (!) tracks missing, but:

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/0QSoGbeC9LWJ5iflA3iegV

Rings Around the WUT?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Why is the Super Furry Animals track popular? It's sorta anthemic I guess, but only in the feeblest way imaginable. Anyone care to defend that choice?

Re: Rings Around the WUT?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I really liked SFA up until that album, which I bought & was v disappointed by :(

Fifth Place FITE

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I'm happy enough with a top four of Bootylicious, Ante Up, 21 Seconds, and the Daft Punk one.

But Mis-Teeq MUST overtake Gorillaz, dudes, not to mention the Super Dully Animals. MUST.

Re: Fifth Place FITE

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Dude I totally changed my tick and rocked the vote re: Gorillaz/Mis-teeq. Tactical voting FTW.