Best Song of 2001: Heat #4

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Missy Elliott gets the highest turnout of the decade so far, with a whopping 49 votes to win heat #3. Daft Punk, S Club 7 and Mary J Blige are safely through, but Alicia and DanBed tie for fifth - see below for the run-off.

Today's poll sees double J-Lo remix action, microgoth, mashups, possible incest and the Jackson Five (sort of). It's heat #4, everybody!

• 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.

[Poll #1436184]

Comments

Re: REPPIN' TIME: OSYMYSO

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure I still have a CD-R of "Intro-Introspection" that Scott Woods made for me around here somewhere. I've ticked it for now, but that may well change; unlike Alex, I do like jokes, but jokes that are funny more than one time (as usually happens with these sorts of mashups) tend to be preferable. (Though for all I know, this one would entertain me now again if I actually listened to it.) Anyway, I have a question about the other mashup up there -- was the Skeelo/Breeders mix actually the "single" from 2 Many DJs, or is it just a random track off As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2? On my (also burned) CD, it's about the 20th track out of 30 or so (and also has "My Gigolo" by Maurice Fulton Presents Stress whatever that is mixed in apparently), but I'm not going to play the first 19 just to get to it.

Re: REPPIN' TIME: OSYMYSO

[sm-woods.livejournal.com]

Few thoughts on "Intro-Introspection"

1) IIRC myself and Michael Daddino were the only two people to vote for it in Pazz & Jop that year, which for some reason genuinely surprised me at the time.

2) It's unavoidably part of the "mashup" moment, but the more significant thread to follow to get to it is the one that travels from Buchanan & Goodman's "Flying Saucer" to "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" to "Pump Up the Volume" to not a whole lot of other records I can think of right now though I'm sure there are tons. The technique of course is identical to mashupping, and to all sorts of other pop music melding of songs together (which has been happening more or less forever, even pre-pop), but the sprawling aspect makes these a different thing in my mind -- a more pretentious and ambitious sort of thing, but at the same time way more soundbitey and flash-in-the-pan than most mashups (if I didn't know better, I'd compare it to "The Waste Land"). As soon as you think you've caught the moment or the riff (or the joke) it's moved elsewhere (I can fully understand why this strikes some people -- including at least two people I've played it for in person -- as incredibly annoying).

3) The better part of my music listening and thinking and acting and reacting in the last 10 years has occurred on wedding and office party dance floors, so I can't help but hear it as a prolonged and shameless and loving paean to the sub-species I belong to, though because of its British bent I can't say I relate firsthand to each and every one of its particulars, probably just 75 or so of the 101 (my own version would have to include "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" and "You Shook Me All Night Long," and "What a Wonderful World" and "Lady in Red" and "Sweet Caroline" and and and...).

4) Some of the individual moments are just astonishingly good. Cobain getting down with the Bee Gees is a highlight and opened up something for me in "Teen Spirit" I didn't really hear before; INXS and Dexys is like the V8 moment to end all V8 moments; Lou Reed to Barry White to Spandau Ballet to Shangri-Las is super eerie sounding, not mere showoffy mixing, etc.