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

OK some #1 hits for starters:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground
Liberty X - Just A Little
Aaliyah - More Than A Woman
Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss
Eminem- Without Me
Sugababes - Round Round
Blazin' Squad - Crossroads
Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje)
Christina Aguilera ft Redman - Dirrty
Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One

Charting stuff, part 1

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

J-Lo - JENNY FROM THE BLOCK
Eve ft. Alicia Keys - Gangsta Lovin'
Puretone - Addicted to Bass
Christina Milian - AM to PM
Christina Milian - When You Look At Me
DB Boulevard - Point of View
Brandy - What About Us?
Brandy - Full Moon
Mis-Teeq - B With Me (Bump & Flex radio edit)
Princess Superstar - Bad Babysitter
P!nk - Don't Let Me Get Me
P1nk - Just Like A Pill
P!nk - Family Portrait
Green Velvet - La La Land
Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
White Stripes - Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground
Daniel Bedingfield - James Dean (I Wanna Know)
Will Young - Light My Fire

Charting stuff part 2

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Busta Rhymes ft. P Diddy & Pharrell - Pass The Courvoisier Part II
Britney Spears ft. Pharrell - Boys
Fat Joe ft. Ashanti - What's Luv?
Ashanti - Foolish
George Michael - Shoot The Dog
Peaches - Set It Off
Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
Appleton - Fantasy
Nore - Nothin'
Platinum 45 ft. More Fire Crew - Oi
DJ Shadow - Six Days
Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes
Shakira - Objection (Tango)
Cosmic Gate - Exploration of Space
Shakedown - At Night
Cornershop - Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III

[koganbot]

In the UK Top 40:

Fat Joe f. Ashanti and Ja Rule "What's Luv"
Shakira "Whenever Wherever"
Truth Hurts f. Rakim (not to mention Lata Mangeshkar) "Addictive"
Celine Dion "A New Day Has Come"
Avril Lavigne "Complicated"
Vanessa Carlton "A Thousand Miles"
Eminem "Lose Yourself"

Indie Shame section:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns (SHUSH IT WAS GOOD)
Cooper Temple Clause - Film Maker
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
Hundred Reasons - If I Could
System Of A Down - Toxicity

Not shameful at all:

Shy FX & T Power featuring Di - Shake Ur Body (SO BANGING)

[koganbot]

OK, here's five non-Brit-charting nominees:

Celine Dion "When The Wrong One Loves You Right"
Ying Yang Twins "Sound Off"
Robyn "Blow My Mind"
LeAnn Rimes "No Way Out"
Serial Rhyme Killers "Something About Mary"

Top 40 bobbins

[credoimprobus]

Abs - What You Got
Kosheen - Hungry
Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation
Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Get Over You
Bouncy - Work It Out
Jakatta feat. Seal - My Vision
Big Brovaz - Nu Flow (NO SHAME :D)
Craig David - What's Your Flava
Ms Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Tim Deluxe feat. Sam Obernik - It Just Won't Do
The Chemical Brothers feat. Richard Ashcroft - The Test

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Chart stuff A-N:

Elvis vs. JXL A Little Less Conversation
Puretone Addicted to Bass
Foo Fighters All My Life
Ja Rule feat. Ashanti Always on Time
Christina Milian AM to PM
Britney Spears feat. Pharrel Williams Boys (Co-Ed Remix)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers By The Way
Garbage Cherry Lips
Avril Lavigne Complicated
Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland Dilemma
Christina Aguilera featuring Redman Dirrty
Pink Don't Let Me Get Me
Holly Valance Down Boy
Ms Dynamite Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Pink Family Portrait
Sugababes Freak Like Me
Pink Get the Party Started
N*Sync Girlfriend
Liberty X Got To Have Your Love
No Doubt Hey Baby
Nelly Hot In Herre
Nickelback How You Remind Me
Liberty X Just A Little
Pink Just Like A Pill
Holly Valance Kiss Kiss
X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne Lazy
Justin Timberlake Like I Love You
Eminem Lose Yourself
Aaliyah More Than A Woman
Big Brovaz Nu Flow

Less shameful:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Underworld - Two Months Off (must remember to nom 'Little Speaker' for my 10)

[meserach.livejournal.com]

General question: If we like the uncensored, non-radio-friendly version of a track, but it's the censored, possibly-even-the-title-changed version that got into the charts, can we nominate the uncensored version as if it were a Top 40 track?

UK charters

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Alizee - Moi Lolita
Three sentimental favorites, three world-beaters, and one just kind of undeniable song

Doves - There Goes the Fear
Enrique Iglesias - Escape
Rhianna - Oh Baby (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzNGQpv-VSY)
Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma

plus (2nded)

P!nk - Get the Party Started
Sugababes - Freak (this clearly should be the ultimate winner, btw)
Eminem - Lose Yourself

... of course leaving out all other kinds of goodness. May add non-chart stuff later

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

top 40 hits jan-june

Shimon & Andy C - Body Rock (CLOWNSTEP)
Jay-Z - Girls Girls Girls* (01?)
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar* (01?)
Elton Johns - This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore
Spiller - Cry Baby
Timo Maas - To Get Down
Alanis Morrisette - Hands Clean
Junior Jack - Thrill Me
Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
Alcazar - Sexual Guarantee
Bjork - Cocoon
Blue - Fly By II
Badly Drawn oy - Silent Sigh
Outkast ft Killer Mike - The Whole World
X-ecutioners - It's Goin Down
Galleon - So I Begin
Doves - There Goes The Fear
PAYG Cartel - Champagne Dance
Pulp - Bad Cover Version
The Streets - Lets Push Things Forward
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (same release as 'The Test')
Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars
Timo Maas ft MC Chickaboo - Shifter
Aaliyah - Rock The Boat
Heartless Crew - Heartless Crew Theme

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.)

NOMS

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

The Young Crazed Peeling - The Distillers
War on War - Wilco
Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes
Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
Concertina - The Mars Volta
Feel - Robbie Williams

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Probably charted:

Britney - Boys
Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River
No Doubt - Hella Good
Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach
Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up
N.E.R.D. - Rock Star
Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

Probably didn't chart:

Liveonrelease - I'm Afraid of Britney Spears
TLC - Girl Talk
Eve - Gangsta Lovin'
Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks
Clipse - Grindin'
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Minterpol - Obstacle 1
Andrew WK - She Is Beautiful
Gogol Bordello - When the Trickster Starts a-Pokin'
Big Tymers - Still Fly

Charting stuff, part 3 (and I'm done for now)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High (Get The Feeling)
Beenie Man ft. Janet - Feel It Boy
Madonna - Die Another Day
Cosmos - Take Me With You
Dannii Minogue - Put The Needle On It
Busted - What I Go To School For
Puddle of Mudd - She Hates Me
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Sean Paul - Like Glue <-- 2001 release originally, peaked 2003, can we call it 2002?
Sean Paul - Gimme The Light
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself
The Streets - Weak Become Heroes

(v. tempting to use my 10 other noms on Original Pirate Material tracks, but hopefully other people will pick off some)

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I think the only one of mine that hasn't already been mentioned (I know not why, as it's one of the top indie songs this decade) is:
The Coral - Dreaming Of You

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also I think it is time for a NEW ICON.

[koganbot]

There's a very obvious chart hit that no one has nominated and I'm going to be perverse and also not nominate it, just to see if someone else will.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

I assume these two either (1) charted and were already nominated or (2) count as a different year because of some weird Limey technicality, but for some reason they're not turning up when I search, so what the heck (either way, these two don't count as my "offical" nominations):

Missy Elliott - "Work It"
T.A.T.U. - "All The Things She Said"

And these, which I assume did not chart (though correct me if I'm wrong) ARE my officical nominations (which will hopefully all wind up on the ballot, as one of my nominations for 2001 -- "The Luau" by Junie-B -- curiously did not):

Ty Herndon - "Heather's Wall"
Cordelia's Dad - "Camile's Not Afraid Of The Barn"
Paulina Rubio - "The Last Goodbye"
P.O.D. - "Youth Of The Nation" (if that charted in the UK, let me know, I'll replace it)
Kenny Chesney - "Young"
Toby Keith - "Courtesy Of The Red White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Toby Keith - Who's Your Daddy?"
Montgomery Gentry - "My Town"
Field Mob - "Sick Of Being Lonely"
Gore Gore Girls - "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby"

Alternate choice, if one of those doesn't count or redundifies somebody else's nomination:

Toby Keith - "My List"

Deferred to 2003, when it was actually charted as a single (though if I'm wrong, I hope somebody else nominates it):

Faith Hill - "One"

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Three more personal choices, and one of them will be:

M2M - "Everything"

Gotta think of the other two, though.

[tjanik.livejournal.com]

charted:

Ja Rule featuring Ashanti - Always On Time
Irv Gotti presents The INC featuring Ja Rule, Ashanti, Charli Baltimore & Vita - Down 4 U
Luck & Neat - Irie
Mis-Teeq - B With Me (Bump & Flex Radio Edit)
Mis-Teeq - Roll On
Mis-Teeq - This Is How We Do It
S Club Juniors - New Direction
Ladies First - I Can't Wait

[koganbot]

Kat, in case it gets lost in all the nesting, Dave decided to nominate "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" from Chuck's list, freeing Chuck up to nominate:

Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop"

(And if this was lost in the confusion, Toby Keith's "My List" is already nominated by Chuck, since it turns out that POD's "Youth Of The Nation" did chart in Britain, hence is a free choice.)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Loads of mine already nominated, but I don't think these chart hits have been:

50 Cent - In Da Club
Ms Dynamite - It Takes More
Eminem - Without Me
DJ Marky & XRS - LK
Noreaga/N.O.R.E. - Nothin'
Will Smith - Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)
Xzibit - Multiply

Nor these that I don't think did chart:
Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Dave Clarke - The Wolf
High Contrast - True Colours
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 2002 (Bushwacka Mix)
Timo Maas & Kelis - Help Me
Trick Daddy - Thug Holiday
Tom Waits - Misery Is The River Of The World

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I haven't spotted Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River, but either I wasn't looking properly or I've misremembered the year. Also, Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale. Oh, and The Mountain Goats - See America Right, not that that troubled the chart in any way...