It's the 2001 Tracks of the Decade Second Chance Saloon

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Get ready to redress some grievances! Because you (very very quietly) demanded it, I've rescued forty-five tracks from the 2001 Best Song of the Decade heats.

Forty of them were the top 5 non-qualifying tracks from their respective heats. An additional five have been added based on my personal whim a rigorous mathematical formula of percentages and suchlike.

They all enter the Second Chance Saloon. Only the top 5 will leave, to enter a final which will determine which of them is best. (and maybe Kat will be nice to the winner later when we finally get to the proper finals or something)

As is customary, you get ten ticks. Use as many of them as you like.

This poll will close next Wednesday lunchtime, so I can run the final while we're still doing the nominations for 2002.

A Spotify playlist with most but not all of the tracks is available here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/6V9VAuF7FLO3y45yQnvwuF



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Phew!

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I don't remember this being as hard last time! Though obviously it should be.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found this much harder than any of the main sequence polls!

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Started with 22; I know it's second-chance saloon and all, but still. Getting it down to ten involved throwing out a lot of great stuff. I think my end result may actually be totally random.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ha, even i've started with 20, and i've been consistently ticking less than 10 in the main polls...

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Yep, I usually struggle to tick ten. This time; had to throw out lots of indie, even threw out the Dandy Warhols. I know, right? Anyhow: fast, quick, clean; take no prisoners, that's my advice.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hehehe, i didn't even START with the dandy warhols ;)

i am confused as to why last nite is trumping hard to explain so much...

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Hard to Explain is waaay better, it's a real shame.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's got THE FAKE ENDING, how can it not be better? ;)

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

My Last Nite tick was purely TOKEN. I quite like(d) the Strokes, but really w/evs re song.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I like Last Nite far, far more than Hard To Explain.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All of the songs in the lead are fucking gross. Strokes, Dandy Warhols, Andrew WK, the fucking Moldy fucking Peaches with one of the WORST SONGS I HAVE EVER HEARD? Can we just cancel poptimists.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Like...Aaliyah with her masterpiece on 3 ticks. All the above with over 9. WHAT. Ms Dynamite on 2. "What's Your Fantasy?" languishing on 6. Neither Jay-Z above 7. WHAT ARE YOU PLAYIIIIING AAAAAAT.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

[picks toys up, puts them back in pram]

are you trying to tell me you didn't see this coming?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

In fairness, you can't be that suprised that these have a popular following: you did run actual tactical campaigns to deny some of them their rightful place :)

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised by the Strokes or Andrew WK, given how close both game to qualifying normally the first time out.

The Dandy Warhols and the Moldy Peaches, on the other hand...