Best Song of 2002: Heat #3

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Xtina and her leather chaps storm to the lead in Heat #2 - she's joined in the next round by Fischerspooner, Avril, Ms Dynamite and Nelly & Kelly's morally dubious duet.

What's in store today? Quite fittingly, it's the debut of Sugababes 2.0...

• You now only get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll. Oh stop whining, it'll make for a more interesting top 40 at the end.



• The top five will still go through to the next stage, but now it's going to be that little bit tougher to get there. If your favourite song isn't doing so well then try and convince people in the comments as to why it's so good!



• 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'.



• You have until Friday lunchtime to vote.

[Poll #1460995]


Q for the comments box: What's the best song up there that you hadn't heard before today? chuckeddy's earned an extra nomination spot for the 2003 poll and so can you, if you tell us why you liked it...

Comments

FOR FVCK'S SAKE

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Come back, all of you, RIGHT NOW and tick 'Girlfriend'. I am serious. If this doesn't go through I will have SUCH a flounce you will not believe and you'll all have go read about it.

-he don't love you like I could love you
-squeeze you like I squeeze
-I'll make you neck pop back
-and in fact I'll buckle your knees
-ok baby what's it gon take for you to be my lady?

yr little sisters keep yelling 'Nelly I wish you would'

does the man even know yr alive?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Excuse my typing, am on my iPhone. Even so; it's honestly one of the top #40 songs ever.

Re: FOR FVCK'S SAKE

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Serious what the hell is it where this isn't easily WINNING this poll, let alone failing to QUALIFY WAHRGLBARGL

Re: FOR FVCK'S SAKE

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Embeddable version for the lazy with poor memories.



Seriously, PEOPLE! YOU LOVE THIS TRACK. You simply forgot to vote for it somehow. It's okay! People make mistakes. There's still time to REDEEM YOURSELVES.

Re: FOR FVCK'S SAKE

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

so tell your man BYE BYE and tell him you're long GONE
ain't no need in waiting up you done found you another home.

Re: FOR FVCK'S SAKE

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

put you so high on a pedestal, make your nose bleed
so much ice around your ankles and watch your toes freeze.
what's wrong ma, your man ain't bringing you joy?
don't trip, flip your script to a country boy.

:D

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Not a particularly deep heat, but there are 2 songs here that are currently contending for my top 10 of the entire decade, "Fell in Love with a Girl" and "Everywhere". Everybody please tick those songs. Here is "Everywhere":

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

On the contrary, I think this is comfortably the toughest heat yet. I could have picked 12 easily.

MOAR DEATH IN VEGAS LOVE PLS PPL.

[koganbot]

I wonder why this is doing so poorly here in comparison to last heat's Avril, given that, (1) "Complicated" is so copying this one's format (sensitive confessional-sounding verse, sugar-rush chorus), (2) this sounds even better than "Complicated," John Shanks generally writing better tunes than the Matrix and giving them better settings. Of course, in "Complicated," Avril at least has something to say, whereas Michelle, while sounding confessional, rarely has anything interesting to confess, and on this song she's just giving us airy, diffuse obsessiveness. But (3) since this song is about airy, diffuse obsessiveness, the words work - you can spend the whole song wondering whether she's actually seeking/seeing God rather than a boy, until the last line where it's finally got to be a boy (probably). That last line is really good, too: "You're in everyone I see/So tell me/Do you see me?" So in the end she's just a girl with a guitar, in her room, with her dreams (rather than being, say, a stalker).

Anyhow, in the U.S. this hit months before Pink's going confessional on "Don't Let Me Get Me" and set the stage for Avril and Vanessa C. and, from there, Hilary, Ashlee, and Lindsay, and for Max 'n' Luke 'n' Kelly going for the sweet and the storm on "Since U Been Gone" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes," and the Veronicas' "4ever" and then a whole lot of heavy-handed stuff that is worse like Avril's "Girlfriend" and Katy kissing a girl the rest is history.

The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is probably one of the pivotal songs that made me stop and think 'hang on pop music is pretty awesome right now why am I listening to indie'. I obviously needed the halfway house of an ex-ska-punk band to get me there!

but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I am so torn about this one; I actually only realised how good it is thus year but it is SO VERY GOOD. Also Gwen's second best vocals ever.

This movie would have killed us

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Boo, embedding disabled for Cooper Temple Clause (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t9GdfSdXxc). The CTC are basically a dreadful indie rock band from Reading that just happened to have two awesome songs (I didn't have enough nominations to put up the other one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_E9Nivi8g)). It's basically Muse but with the singer is his best Liam Gallagher impression instead of a Thom Yorke impression.

Caution: all the rest of their songs are just dreadful, steer well clear.

Re: This movie would have killed us

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ARSE the other one was a double-A side to this and I could have nominated it anyway! I am an idiot :(

Preposition madness

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I should have put this as a separate poll question, but is 'Get The Party Started' about:

- druqs ("I'm coming UP so you'd better...")
- being a big gayer ("I'm coming OUT so you'd better...")
- running out of tampax ("I'm coming ON so you'd better...")

Re: Preposition madness

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(I always thought it was the 2nd one)

FILAG support

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

aaargh, I'm so busy with actual work at work, I'll have to come back with AWESOME Michael Gondry Lego video links, but here is why you should vote for Fell in Love With A Girl:

1) the video (link later cos I can't find on YT for some raisin)
2) the icon for this VERY COMM comes from this song, via
3) the awesome 'other' video http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens

subject title !fail!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

FILWAG sheesh. Call it by its name!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Didn't we have Girls x3 in the 2001 polls. What is this, Jay-Z benefit week? Oh wait, that was last week on the BBC.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, let me consult the spreadsheet.

Yes, yes we did. Oh well - if that's the worst mistake I've made in this year's lot I'll be surprised, I just haven't really had the leisure time to check all the songs properly for 2002 :(

alanis

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

one of her best singles imo - fresh and feelgood

Re: alanis

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I really like that whole album tbh but I am a sekrit Alanis fanperson.

It got edged out by 'Gossip Folks' tho.

WARNING!! MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE (to everyone except Ben)!!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

And here's a link to Cassetteboy's channel on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=cassetteboy&view=videos

Re: WARNING!! MIGHT BE OFFENSIVE (to everyone except Ben)!!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I actually dug out my copy of 'The Parker Tapes' last week to play 'Joliver' to a friend after a discussion about Jamie Oliver's face.

no love for the Robster...

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

...only 3 ticks for Feel? Gosh!

I really really like that song!

Re: no love for the Robster...

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

It is one of his best, but this is a really difficult heat. It's got the two best alternative/indie songs of the year in it ('FILWAG' and 'HTSITYS') and one of the Sugababes' finest moments, so that's probably 3 votes gone for a lot of people immediately.

FILWAG video

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

THE LEGO!!!! <3 <3 <3

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Puretone through + Fischerspooner through + White Stripes doing very well = I totally withdraw any complaints about the 6-tick rule! And in fact I have a spare tick this round, too.

Lex Pretend

[meserach.livejournal.com]

WHY ARE YOU NOT VOTING FOR GINDIN'? WHY??????



YOU MAKE BABY LEXUS CRY

(For serious, this is bare, stripped, controlled, disciplined, jaw-dropping hip-hop worthy of some RESPECK)

Re: Lex Pretend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's clinging onto qualification, when it should be one of the 2 or 3 walking this, but thank goodness for small mercies. The interweb in 2002 seemed to be entirely made up of people going holy shit over this record.

Put your hands on my waistline

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Christina Aguilera - Get Mine, Get Yours is an album track offa "Stripped" that is just super sexy++ bedroom music and worth your attention

(Nb: not a real video obv.)

Spotify

[meserach.livejournal.com]

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/2cJsp1lRHCfRDlYaahwmWU

Really good turn out I felt. Most notable absences probably the Clipse, and DJ Sammy. Also no Michelle Branch who people are excited about above. Also can't get the right version of Girlfriend but a) I put on the no-Nelly NSync only version off the album and b) it's youtubable above so whatevs.

Question for Polyphonic Spree fans: there's two tracks on this playlist, neither of which has quite the name given in the poll. Which, if either, is correct?

Some great R&B things I don't have enough ticks for but maybe you do

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Eve & Alicia:


Brandy (I love love love the whole of the album this comes from, sooo underrated):


Missy's "Funky Fresh Dressed" (no vid as such, so just a link, but check out all the choreography on YouTube to this great beat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj4J2av9WGw

Re: Some great R&B things I don't have enough ticks for but maybe you do

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Gangsta Lovin' was last to go of mine, I think.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I clicked my 7. At least 5 of which I might wind up changing if I get around to checking out other songs here -- everything is fair game but "Grindin'" and "Heather's Wall," which is possibly either the spookiest and most spacious country song of the decade or second spookiest and most spacious (after "I'm Tryin" by Trace Adkins). It very well might make my top ten singles of the decade list, and I've never liked anything else by the singer. The video follows, and sorry if the link doesn't work as usual. Watch it anyway.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uiIdf3Xfw

Anyway, I especially hope to find time to check out that Cooper Temple Clause song listed above, since I vaguely remember liking something by them once, but I have no memory of why, or even who the heck they are. I hope they sound like the Fall, but they probably don't.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Okay, not quite like the Fall, but energetic and tuneful (more Three Johns maybe?); I voted for it. Didn't sound like Brit-pop to my ears, or at least not what I hate about Brit-pop.

Best song I *may* not have heard before is a tie between that one, Michelle Branch, and believe it or not (since I live in a bubble with no contact with the outside world), the Sugababes' "Freak Like Me." Actually, that one wins. I'd heard of the Gary Numan sample when it came out, I think, but never actually (knowingly) heard the thing til now.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Finally, one I can do lots of ticks in.