Best Song of 2001: Heat #7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

So close! But Wyclef beat Andrew WK by one vote (not mine!). However even if pop-metal is not represented in the finals it is clearly made an impact on all your hearts etc.

Back to the heats now, and this penultimate bunch of 2001 features up-and-coming young guns Janet Jackson, Snoop Dogg and the Manic Street Preachers. It's heat #7!

• 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 #1448661]


Cheeky edit: this is probably a good juncture to point out that it is POPTIMISM on Friday! Details here.

Comments

madonna's into the groove in my cellphone / ringing like a non-stop metronome

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's AMAZING. As much for the twinkling synth patterns as for the quintessential Kittin lyrics.

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Stock Exchange (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=54646077)


my psy told me to go to a spa
but my jet is flying to vienna, austria~~~

Re: madonna's into the groove in my cellphone / ringing like a non-stop metronome

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

UGH I always forget - does anyone know why stupid LJ never embeds non-youtube videos properly? Oh well that's the link there anyway. Fucking technology, just die.

Re: madonna's into the groove in my cellphone / ringing like a non-stop metronome

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's something to do with the <embed> tag - LJ normally blocks them (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=14&q=video) but makes an exception for Youtube I think.

Re: madonna's into the groove in my cellphone / ringing like a non-stop metronome

[koganbot]

It embeds them in posts, but not on comment threads. Kat's probably right that Livejournal makes an exception for YouTube.

Do you suppose that YouTube pays Livejournal? The disadvantage for YouTube would be that viewers of the embeds won't see the ads, but this is more than compensated for by YouTube embeds' further establishing that YouTube is THE place for streams. This is to YouTube-owner Google's advantage. Even if they lose a small amount of money on YouTube, which apparently they do, the dominance of YouTube weakens any potential competitor's streaming site. (This paragraph is speculation on my part, however.)

Re: madonna's into the groove in my cellphone / ringing like a non-stop metronome

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I had never heard this before and it's great! One of the finest songs I've encountered through this competition. Good work. Further, in order to make room for this tick I unticked the Avalanches.