Best Song of 2001: Heat #2

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Destiny's Child lead the way once again, with MOP, So Solid Crew, Mis-teeq and Daft Punk slipping in behind them to make the 2001 final.

More big hitters in round 2!

• 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.



• You have until Friday lunchtime to vote.



• Rep for your favourites in the comments! Youtube embeds very welcome.

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*Bob's 'Can We Fix It' was nominated, but technically only number one for a few days in 2001 so I've slotted in firm 2001 chart-topper Mambo No.5 in its place as requested. The fact that this is out of alphabetical order is symptomatic of my spreadsheet-organisation skills rather than any deep conspiracy.

Comments

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I have a suspicion that the reason I remember 2001 but not 2000 is because 2001 is when I really started downloading mp3s big-time.

"Crystal" was the first time I heard New Order. I remember this precisely: I was sitting in the computer lab at uni, looking for a download of the third Garbage album, the self-titled. The FTP site at which I found it had two others up: Get Ready and Sneaker Pimps' Bloodsport (which makes it 2002, which makes sense as I remember it being spring, just before semester end). I downloaded the first track of each and ended up getting the rest of one but not the other - to this day I'm not huge on Sneaker Pimps. But I remember "Crystal" because it was possibly the only time in my life I thought "I've never heard anything like this before" but was able to grok it immediately.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend at the time was a big New Order/Joy Division fan and he went mad for Crystal. I couldn't quite see it myself - nice enough but it didn't have that OMG factor.

(gosh I am being incredibly negative about lots of songs on this poll! I will rep for stuff tomorrow to balance it out!)