Best Song of 2001: Heat #6

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cheers erupt from the J-Lo fanclub as she squeezes into the final behind Outkast, Eve & Gwen, Missy and Mis-teeq. Sophie E-B on the other hand is wiping her tears on Dude from The Feeling's velvet jacket sleeve.

On to heat #6, which is absolutely banging in my opinion, but who will make it through?

• 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 #1439533]

Comments

if this doesn't win this heat i am going to seriously kick off

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I do not like a lot of what Nelly's done since but SERIOUSLY.

Did we miss the opportunity to nom 'Girlfriend,' incidentally, or is that yet to come?

Re: if this doesn't win this heat i am going to seriously kick off

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

MUST BE THE MONEEEEEEY!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

13 ticks on the first pass, argh!

If Vitalic doesn't go through I may have to call off the entire poll series as null and void, JSL.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh alright, my Lostprophets tick was a throwaway anyway.

Salt Sweat Sugar

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

not very poptimist, but one of my favourite JEW tracks.

Re: Salt Sweat Sugar

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd thought to nominate 'Get It Faster' -this one is also acetastic tho. JEW = another one of those bands that's getting better as I age and stop thinking the lyrics are omgsorelevanttominelief.

Edit: Also, I think it is quite poptimist! It's got a dancefloor in the lyrics!

My indie past pt 24872052

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja
- Pyramid Song
- Party Hard
- Plug In Baby
- Rollin'

Those are HALF OF MY TICKS, PEOPLE. And if I had enough ticks for Salt Sweat Sugar as well then the above list (minus Radiohead) would basically sum up the sort of nightclubs I regularly attended in 2001.

Re: My indie past pt 24872052

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

SvDN is the best thing the Lostprophets have done BY ABSOLUTE MILES: pop hooks, vocal harmonies, big riffs, doesn't sound like it was recorded in a car park round the back of a shopping centre in Newport... even if the video *was* filmed in said car park:

you see my dear i have had enough

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This was when Basement Jaxx were ALL GOOD ALL THE TIME and the video is also fantastic. It isn't as good as Lucky Star but it is stopping me want to kill my boss for offering the work experience a biscuit and not me (yes, I am a performing seal) so it must be doing something right.

Re: you see my dear i have had enough

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is in my top 3 Basement Jaxx0r songs (the other two will sadly not appear in this decade).

Oh come ON

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Am I really the first person to tick "Oochie Wally"?

Look, let's all go and tick it now and then I can delete this post and you won't have to have the Lex shouting at you all thread.

(Same goes for Peaches N Cream actually)

Re: Oh come ON

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Peaches N Cream makes me feel a bit sick. :( Not on a food-based level I just actually really dislike the song.

"Pop"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I thought then - and I think now - that this single was a confused ugly mess.

Re: "Pop"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Great video though.

(Not great enough to get a tick)

Wu Tang Clan - Rules

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is the best record about 9/11!

Who the fuck knocked our buildings down?
Who the man behind the World Trade massacres, step up now
Where the four planes at huh is you insane bitch?
Fly that shit over my hood and get blown to bits!
No disrespect, that's where I rest my head
I understand you gotta rest yours true, nigga my people's dead
America, together we stand, divided we fall
Mr. Bush sit down, I'm in charge of the war!

Re: Wu Tang Clan - Rules

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hard like a criminal, love like a tennis shoe :D

THIS ROOM MAKES ME HALLUCINATE

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

How the hell did I miss the fact PURPLE PILLS IS IN THIS HEAT?!

Embedding disabled by IDIOTS but the cactus man in this video is one of my favourite things ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSWvveLi14)

Yeah fvck you, Muse tick.

Re: THIS ROOM MAKES ME HALLUCINATE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Purple Pills just reminds me of Eminem's dreadful Reading set that year where he didn't play anything at all off the Marshall Mathers LP in favour of lots of D12 rubbage and I was VERY UPSET :(

Most. Romantic. Song. Ever.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i will not reveal which poptimist drunkenly made the above comment about the video below:



just cuz she dances g0-g0
it don't make her a h0 no

Re: Most. Romantic. Song. Ever.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

it is the fastest song to clear a dancefloor at 2am in Aberystwyth.

(proving of course that Aberystwyth is WRONG, although it still gets no ticks from me)

She wanted her a real cowboy, it was a phase she was goin' through

[koganbot]

Montgomery Gentry:



They are probably my favorite band of the decade. What I wrote about this track on my own livejournal: Pride that's fueled by resentment and insecurity and comes off in-your-face obnoxious but exhilaratingly so, and kind of funny at that. After years of admiring country and loving some of its products now and then, this was the song that made me fall in love with the genre, fucked up or not, and not least when it scares and angers me.

Rocket Summer

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK, nobody else is going to tick this but it's a lovely slice of laptop generated dance/electronica. Chipmunk-voice-sample heavy, which is unusual for Marumari.

No video for "Rocket Summer", but there seems to be one for another track off the same album on his website here (http://www.marumari.com/web_video.html) (Quicktime required).

He was quite prolific for a while and then suddenly stopped around 2005. Of all the artists working in the 'laptop instrumental pop' genre, I thought he was the most interesting.

NORTH CAROLINA! RAISE UP!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I suppose not everyone has memories of everyone at the school dance taking off their nice shirts and spinning them around their heads like a helicopter.

Anyway, embedding disabled on this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-26bRZEedZg), but here's some nice footage of the UNC Tarheels.

Re: NORTH CAROLINA! RAISE UP!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

God it's so massive and amazing and I have no idea why people aren't ticking it.

Pity there was no room for 'I' in the 2001 rounds :(

THEY ONLY HATE U CUZ UR A GO-GETTA

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

AAARGH such a banging heat and I wasn't in all day to point people towards the songs to be ticked!

Lina - Playa No Mo' (http://www.sendspace.com/file/atmiuh)

Did ANY of you on my flist d/l this when I uploaded it last week? Sigh. Here is the mp3 again because it's otherwise entirely disappeared off the internet. Completely insane jazz/r&b/opera collision.

Foxy Brown - Run Dem

More adventures in patois from the Fox. For all of those who were won over by 'Oh Yeah' in the last heat - this is EVEN BETTER.

How many times I gotta let y'all bitches know I'm
one of a kind, can't fuck with mines
See when Fox in the place, bare hotness a gwan
when I bust wine we nuh watch ya face, gwan!
Ya too fraud, sound ridiculous
I'm the only Trini bitch that can kick yard shit, FIYAH
What you know about skin out and bruck out
Like a bad gyal bunny hot style, pop pure style



Usher - Pop Ya Collar

Really thought this would be more popular - easily my favourite Usher track, such an irresistibly bouncing melody, you can't NOT dance to it. I have genuinely used it as ~inspiration~ to deal with haterz. Usher was SO hot back in the day too, now he's just a skeevy middle-aged dude :(

Re: THEY ONLY HATE U CUZ UR A GO-GETTA

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I would've downloaded the Lina if I had the internet. As it is, I still have no idea what it sounds like so can't possibly tick it.

May yet have to go back and tick Usher, mind. Not sure which tick would have to go though.

OH HANG ON A MINUTE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Just seen the voting totals and we need to have words.

LIMP BIZKIT?????????@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahead of Petey Pablo, Kelis, Usher, QB Finest, Foxy Brown, J-Lo? Um, what?

Also: Andrew WK is easily one of the 10 worst artists of this decade. REDISTRIBUTE YOUR TICKS or never opine on music again imo.

Re: OH HANG ON A MINUTE

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

As always, I'll redistribute my own Lex Anathema(TM) ticks if something more deserving is lagging.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now it's safely unlikely to qualify I can raise my hand and say that "Pyramid Song" is the best 00s Radiohead track.

WHAT?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Far be it for me to argue about Radiohead but 'Idiotheque,' surely?

o is for oochie

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This is 'oochie wally,' for people who've possibly forgotten what it is? It might be too late now but four ticks is RIDICULOUS so if I can jog a few memories then...

you had your eyes on me, I had my eyes on you

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OH WAIT - sorry Kelis, enough of yours have gone thru and this is a classic from the dying days of UK garage.

Re: you had your eyes on me, I had my eyes on you

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

(I still hear this out regularly, I think there was a big bassline remix last year, it never fails to get people dancing)

Spotify!

[meserach.livejournal.com]

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/5n95PAca5Ej8g2saFJ18Yn

Almost entirely complete! I think about three or four tracks were missing (including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, annoyingly because I have never heard it and I love their current album).

Re: Spotify!

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Also I would super appreciate feedback on this one since a couple of times I had to make judgement calls as to whether I had the right track or not, especially for tracks where there were a lot of remixes/edits/etcetera. If I have the wrong version of something up please let me know!

Oh gods how will I choose?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

First impression on skimming this list an compiling the Spotify playlist: AIIIIIEEEE there are going to be tears over this one.

Hear'Say

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

I remember watching the show that created them, which was the kick off in the UK for the current era of talent-shows-that-produce-a-new-pop-act-at-the-end.

I vaguely recall sort of liking this at the time, but it seems very short shelf life now - slow-tempo goo a good half decade out of touch at least.

Liberty X managed to be way better, of course.

Usher - Pop Ya Collar

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Don't remember this at all. A bit rub, isn't it? I mean, s'alright, but I was expecting something more immense for an Usher #2. It's no "Yeah", for def.

Re: Usher - Pop Ya Collar

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Ok clearly I need new EARS because on a second listen this sounds a LOT better. Ignore me!

You'll be in box, flowers spelling your name on top

[credoimprobus]

I'd like to direct everyone's attention to the fantastically catchy Oxide & Neutrino, pls:



(Mind this video version lacks THE BEST BIT OF ALL, for which reason here is also an mp3 of the full-length version. Much recommended!)

Also:



C'mon, people, it's a CLASSIC!

Re: You'll be in box, flowers spelling your name on top

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The IIO is unavailable in my country :(

Two more:

[credoimprobus]

Early Lil' Jon; it may not be Get Low, but it is ROWDY AND AWESOME. (And the video is kind of hilarious! Plus there is an E-40 CAMEO = 10 PLUS BONUS POINTS.)



And on a completely different tip, some Morr Music weenietronica: this is possibly my favourite Lali Puna track ever, it's absolutely gorgeous.




(Also, I'd like to publicly take credit for casting the deciding J-Lo vs. SEB fite vote for the last heat; under other circumstances the Ellis-Bext would have been as solid a tick for me as the J-Lo, but with both tied for 5th I had to make AN CHOICE. Anyway, my actual fave Read My Lips single is up in 2002, so no great harm done!)

Re: Two more:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh shit that Lil Jon is rather awesome. That bass is fucking FAT. I should probably investigate that early stuff. (NB: full track is on last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/Lil%2BJon%2B%2526%2BThe%2BEast%2BSide%2BBoyz/_/Put+Yo+Hood+Up)!)

I would like to commend you on your J-Lo vote! :D

Circularity

[koganbot]

The second hit I get when I google "Thomas Ribeiro Rideonastar" is "poptimists: Best Song of 2001: Nominations so far"

Soon the entire internet will be MINE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

*cackles like Bond villain and strokes white cat*