Best of 2001: Heat #3

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Kylie, Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Mya and Alcazar are through - who's going to join them from round #3?

• 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 next Tuesday lunchtime to vote.



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

[Poll #1434363]

Comments

[koganbot]

Of the four or so of these I remember, I only picked one on my first pass through. Yikes.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

7 ticks so far, happy to be enlightened.

The Avalanches really annoy me, or this song does anyway. Might as well be Bentley Rhythm Ace.

A couple of "good band, not really keen on ticking this song" ones here - never thought much of Girls Girls Girls (that slurred chorus bugs me), and this isn't a specially great Streets track.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The Avalanches annoy me except for this song! Which I still don't love enough to tick.

As Streets tracks this is really great - however as much as I loved it at the time, I've been unable to go back to Original Pirate Material for years, so hideous is everything he's done subsequently.

'Girls Girls Girls' is pure summer bliss, tipsy slurring and all. Girls all around the world! "I got a French chick, she loves to French kiss"...

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Mary J Bilge, call her by her name.

Also did Alan Hawkshaw write/perform the Grange Hill theme? He played keyboards for the Shadows for a while.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

NOT PLEASED with the last heat's results AT ALL.

Ian Brown a joke nomination I presume.

'Fallin' is such a beautifully hypnotic ballad...love the way its cyclical structure and circular melody mirror its destructive emotions, returning again and again even though you know you shouldn't...

What do people think of Lucinda Williams, btw? Frank, Chuck, other country fans? I only have two of her albums, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road and Essence, and I love them both - Car Wheels probably better songwise, Essence better for the gorgeously evocative mood she creates. Sad I couldn't nominate more, 'Are You Down' (http://www.last.fm/music/Lucinda+Williams/_/Are+You+Down) and 'Out Of Touch' (http://www.last.fm/music/Lucinda+Williams/_/Out+of+Touch) are incredible too. 'Essence' (http://www.last.fm/music/Lucinda+Williams/_/Essence) is such an aching slow burn - I love the cracked rasp of her voice, it's like her world-weariness has heightened her sensuality and ability to feel rather than jaded it. I should really find out what she's done since... (those are last.fm links btw, where you can play the whole song - only live versions on youtube.)

'Flashback' is one of my favourite Kelis album tracks - as with Essence it was frustrating not to nominate more of Wanderland, her lost album, specifically the playful 'Daddy' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkrSdfwgrV8) ("Dolce! And Gabbana! And a bag made - of iguana!") and the furious 'Get Even' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HkDcF1mkn0) (imagine if 'Caught Out There' was EVEN ANGRIER)

'Flashback', though - so good she reused it a few years later on Tasty. "You make me come - oh yeah, alive [giggles]". ♥

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Mary J Bilge = really not funny. Yawn.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Aiiie, I just thought - did we forget to nominate Christina Milian's "AM to PM" for this year? I am :( if so.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I ticked 10, but I don't feel great about a few of the ticks and there's a lot I don't know. "Fallin" is great and needs to go through. I have three nominations this time:



This is "Firefly" by the A*Teens, a great jam.

The other two nominations are Guided by Voices and Beulah. Those were nostalgic noms that reflect what I actually listened to in 2001 (i.e. crappy indie).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Hawkshaw wrote it (it's a piece of library music originally dubbed Chicken Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Man)). It was recorded for the Themes International library label, so the performers would have been a bunch of session musicians.

His stint in The Shadows is a mere footnote in his illustrious career. He's probably the greatest composer-arranger of library music of the late 60s and 1970s, not to mention a brilliant organist.

One of these days I'll get around to writing that piece on library music I offered Tom yonks ago...

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I also nominated "Freaky Thangs":

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Why do you say Ian Brown is a joke nomination? From recollection, I wasn't the only one who nominated it. And it's already got more than one vote. It's his best solo song, by some distance.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Was that in 2001? Argh, would be awful if that had been missed out.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Jay Z, Mary J, Roots Manuva, Missy Elliot and Daniel Bedingfield were easy ticks here. I went for Marilyn Manson too, and I'm not ashamed to admit it!

Spotify Playlist

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I'm assembling it as we speak, but you cna start listening to the part completed thing here:

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/3TUkzzWM0ERfK9Nf5pVG7C

[vumgarda.livejournal.com]

I got 9 ticks and then really struggled for a tenth. Reading the comments it's because I somehow totally missed Fallin'!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Well, that was easy. 10 ticks exactly on first sweep, all of them consensus choices probably - except for Cosmic Gate. I'll post a YouTube link to that one later if I can find one.

Stuff like "Fire Wire" was pretty much all I was listening to in the winter of 2000-2001. Got into Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems big time at this time. Then I moved to Brussels (Feb '01) and sort of lost touch with current UK music for a bit*. I hadn't even realised "Fire Wire" made the Top 10 until researching for this poll series!

*until September '01 when Ned Raggett pointed me to ILX

[meserach.livejournal.com]

It was 2001 in the US for def. But everyHit says it was Jan 2002 in the UK charts! So we're saved, phew.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

whereas i think we might have actually missed SMASH SUMTHIN by redman and adam f which i was only reminded of by the LL Cool J track on this poll...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

ARGH SO MANY TICKS. This is the first time I've nearly ticked my full ten in the first set; I thought I was going to have to be a Train apologist, purely because I did actually buy that on CD single for some reason but actually this round is full of PURE GREBT. I'm sorry, Mazza, I can't even support you.

Oh btw, Planet Funk was in the previous round wasn't it?

finding everything and realising: for everything a reason

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Nah man, 'F.E.A.R.' is BRILLIANT. I sometimes have to listen to it on repeat for hours on end and I am not ashamed in the slightest to admit this.

STOP TICKING THE STROKES

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I was a teenager then and they still weren't any good. But this was and is and always will be SOLID GOLD AMAZING


and i'm thinking: who's house is this? this is my money, this is my pain; these are my drugs, this is my brain and it's never gunna be the same

Re: Spotify Playlist

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Is finished! Good turn-out this time, only six missing (plus I had to use a tribute version for Tim McGraw).

Don't Stop Movin'

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Best thing steps ever did? I think yes.

Also, the Beautiful SOuth did a cover which is oddly compelling - slowed the tempo right down, giving it a sort of easy-listening/blues feel:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beautiful+South/_/Don%27t+Stop+Moving

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

For a moment then I nearly ticked James but then I realised it is unconditionally not the Skin cover of 'Getting Away With It,' which was what Headradio was supplying.

Re: STOP TICKING THE STROKES

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

SECONDED.

Both the Roots love and the Strokes hate, wtf people.