Best Song Of 2002: NOMINATIONS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's 2002, and it's nominations time!

NOMINATION RULES

10 song per person limit on stuff that didn't chart in the UK top 40 in 2002.

Nominate as many charting hits as you like.

Nominating fewer than 10 non-charting songs is perfectly fine.

Do check everyhit.co.uk for chart placings: if your song might be spelled weirdly and doesn't show up in the results, try searching by artist instead of title (or vice versa) or using 'contains the word' instead of 'first few letters'.

Recommend posting nominations in a new comment thread rather than in the middle of another thread, as I am lazy and therefore unlikely to go digging around in nested comments etc.

Don't worry about repeating someone else's nomination - as far as possible I'll let you know if one of your ten picks is already nominated so you can choose another one.

Songs that were released in more than one year should go under the year that gave it its highest chart placing (if it didn't chart then bung it in whichever of the years you like)

Nominate double-A sides separately please!

ARGH ARGH HELP

Some examples:

- Person A nominates tracks 1-10 from an obscure German techno album plus Kylie and Fischerspooner.
- Person B nominates Scooter only.
- Person C nominates the entire top 40 from May 21st 2002 because they loved it so much.

HOW TO DETERMINE THE RELEASE YEAR FOR NON-CHARTING STUFF:

Here's the general criteria for determining what year something falls under:

1. Everyhit
2. Discogs UK release date
3. Discogs US release date
4. My werk database
5. Wikipedia/other interweb source

So if Discogs says it was 2002 but Wikipedia says 2003 then we go with Discogs. If the song doesn't turn up on any of these I'll just take your word for it.


ALREADY NOMINATED FOR 2002:

Britney Spears - I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
Britney Spears - Overprotected
Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship
DJ Shadow - You Can't Go Home Again
Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen/Shower Scene
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Garbage - Cherry Lips
Golden boy & miss kittin - Rippin Kittin
Ja Rule ft Case - Livin' It Up
Jennifer Lopez ft Ja Rule - Ain't It Funny (remix)
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
Lasgo - Something
Ludacris - Rollout (My Business)
Mary J Blige - No More Drama
Matt Darey ft Marcella Woods - Beautiful
Michelle Branch - Everywhere
Missy Elliot - 4 My People (Basement Jaxx remix)
Mum & Dad - Bird With A Broken Leg
No Doubt - Hey Baby
Pink - Get The Party Started
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push The Air
Scooter - The Logical Song
Tenacious D - Wonderboy
The Faint - Agenda Suicide
Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night
White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang


Got that? Excellent. You've got until next Friday (11th Sept) to nominate.

GO FORTH AND NOMINATE!

While you're mulling over your choices, remember you have until Wednesday to go and vote in meserach's 2001 Second Chance Saloon, where the Dandy Warhols are just edging out Sophie Ellis-Bextor...

Comments

Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[credoimprobus]

(The ones I can be pretty sure there's no risk of someone else nominating, the rest I am TACTICALLY SITTING ON)

Luke Slater - Only You*
Sneaker Pimps - Loretta Young Silks
VNV Nation - Beloved
Kemopetrol - Everything Under Control**
Bis - The End Starts Today

*this waged a long and bitter battle with Stars and Heroes for track off Alright on Top to be nominated, but Only You always was my fave. Still, WOE AND REGRETS.
**probably the only Finnish track I will nominate for this year, numerous other candidates in spite; the others will all have to give way to the less tactically rubbish options, I reckon, but this is one of my ALL TIME FAVOURITE SONGS EVER. I don't really have any choice but to nominate it. :D


I would also like to formally lodge a protest regarding the fact that if I decide to nominate Kate Ryan's Libertine, I will be using one of my ten slots for a song that went top 40 in 13 COUNTRIES. :( (I'm uh hoping someone else will spare me that necessity, though.)

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[koganbot]

As for your protest, the rules are the rules... er, I just posted upthread that Kat needs to make occasional exceptions to the rules, but I wouldn't make it for this one or otherwise we Murricans can pretty much bitch in every poll about important world-shaking song that we have to use up one of our nominations on because it didn't chart in tiny lame old UK. In fact there's one for 2002, the [NAME REDACTED BECAUSE I AM TACTICALLY SITTING ON IT]'s emblematic [TITLE REDACTED].

Anyhow, the disadvantage is that the rules make this list even more Britcentric than it would be anyway, the advantage is that therefore we non-Brits learn a lot that we didn't know, just by going through these polls. Whereas the Brits simply stew in their complacent Britishness.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

mmmm...STEW

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Having minor work meltdown right now but just quickly: obv this is non ideal but a) we had to get the nomination count down to a manageable level b) there is/was such a massive influx of US pop in the UK anyway that you're not missing out on *that* much, only yr more niche stuff (which prob has its UK and European non-charting sympathisers).

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[koganbot]

You're crucially missing a lot of hip-hop and some country. But I agree about keeping the nomination count down. I was thinking that as we go along we might even need to set a limit on the number of charters people can nominate, but that would probably be unworkable, as people would forever be tactically sitting on their nominations, and most nominations would only be made in the final 24 hours. (Not really, this is only if people behave in the way I do.)

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also there's always an upper limit on how many songs make the chart, and as that's going to go down as we get nearer to 2009 I'll investigate increasing the non-charting vote quota.

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[credoimprobus]

Yeah, I wasn't really looking for an exception, just wanted to bitch. :)

(I agree on the advantage of the er Britcentricness, although MY GOD does it make for a lot of youtubing.)

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Bis - The End Starts Today'

Tommie Sunshine remix of this is great btw

Re: Non-charting bobbins (extremely long-winded version)

[credoimprobus]

Ooh, must look that up!