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'

[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":

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.

[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.

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!

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.

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.

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 :(

OBJECTION!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

No good music has ever been made in Reading. Also I can remember when the CTC were playing a support slot for my mate's band, ie: were no good at all and never have been.

Also their album cover was the most offensively wordy thing ever.

That song is ok though.

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We never did a No Doubt/Gwen canon did we?

Gwen top ten:

1. The Climb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAQqrHqRSw)
2. What You Waitin For
3. Just A Girl
4. Early Winter
5. Hella Good
6. Hollaback Girl
7. Sweet Escape
8. Spiderwebs
9. Sunday Morning
10. Sixteen
999. Don't Speak

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: does the man even know yr alive?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I can't believe no one's voting for it. It is the reason why we have Timberlake in the form he is now! If the career of N*Sync was made into an X-Men Origins: Timberlake film, this song would be the point that Justin pops out his claws and stabs a dude for the first time.

Honestly, it's amazing.

Re: Preposition madness

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(I always thought it was the 2nd one)

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Wot no Cool?

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'd put Cool somewhere in 11-15 (along with 'Rich Girl' which took a while to grow on me but is definitely Good) but those ten are SOLID.

*goes to listen to The Climb again for 4th time today*

Re: OBJECTION!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hahah if the Maccabees can play a support slot for my band then the CTC might as well open up for my mum's barbershop chorus...

Re: does the man even know yr alive?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was my iPhone-tastic lack of embeds; HERE IS THE VIDEO, WATCH IT AND LEARN. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN6g_jE1IRw)

Honestly if it doesn't get more than two ticks there's quite a high chance of me having an apopleptic fit.

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

4 In The Morning > Early Winter, shurely?

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I respectfully disagree.

Re: but your love keeps on coming like a thunderball

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I've never really seen the whole Early Winter thing. I always thought people must be talking about 4 In The Morning, until I realised they were different songs.

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!

[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.

[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.

Re: The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I luv this but luv 'Hey Baby' even more