Best Song Of 2002: Heat #8

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Heat #7 was comfortably won by Girls Aloud in a result which will shock everyone, I'm sure. Scooter and the Sugababes make it through, as do dark horses Doves, but a last minute surge from Jimmy Eat World meant they caught Las Ketchup, provoding yet another run-off (see below).

And so to our final heat of 2002, and it's a banger with 14 top 10 hits! Shakira confuses geography and biology, Missy travels back in time and Celine Dion goes disco. It's heat #8, people!

• You now only get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all your new favourite (and why). Put your new favourite in the box below and get an extra tick for 2003!



• 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 fill in the 'best song I only heard today' box later, 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 - then I'll put up the full qualifier list for 2002 and details for 2003 nominations.

[Poll #1470575]


Extra ticks this heat go to: meserach, koganbot, credoimprobus, jeff_worrell and me.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

up the bracket is "an englishman in a baseball cap" one, right?

oh, apparently not. which one's up the bracket then?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Er isn't it the one where they stop and go 'it's impossiBULL'?

You bring light in

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh God I love Two Months Off so much. Here's a proper full length live version where the vocals only kick in after 3.50:



Yaaaaaaay \o/

Re: You bring light in

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Waaah the bit at 7mins makes me weep like a small child. This is not a good look at werk.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Two things:

- Two Months Off MUST GO THROUGH!

- I ALMOST voted for Moby. Almost.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for JEW!

Also stop ticking that Underworld song or I'll have to show you a Venn diagram.

This one was really hard for me, may tactically change my Dilated Peoples vote to something else later.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Oh hang on, I'm committing the sin that prompted the Venn diagram and confusing them with Orbital again, aren't I? As you were...

Underneath Yr Clobber

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This totally passed me by at the time. Does anyone think it's better than Whenever Wherever? I'm not sure it's better than She Wolf...

Re: Underneath Yr Clobber

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

It's a ballad, cheesy but in a good way. No way is it better than WW tho

The FCC won't let me be

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Surprised that not everyone is ticking 'Without Me' - surely this is one of Eminem's best songs? He's ripping himself a new backbone and it's just terrific.

For reference the official Eminem canon as of 2007 (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/352554.html) is this:

1. Lose Yourself
2. The Real Slim Shady
=3. My Name Is
=3. Stan
5. Without Me
6. Forgot About Dre [w/Dr Dre]
7. The Way I Am
8. Guilty Conscience [ft Dr Dre]
9. Cleanin' Out My Closet
10. Like Toy Soldiers

Re: The FCC won't let me be

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I keep refusing to give Eminem nostalgia ticks. I enjoyed most of his early decade singles a lot at the time, but they just sound horrible and cringey now.

Liam Lynch

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I loved this at the time but got sick of it VERY QUICKLY. Especially as it was a pain in the bum to DJ with.

Re: Liam Lynch

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

WHUTEVAH

WE WANT FUN!!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's better than party hard and you all voted for that!!!



fan-uploaded vid, embedding disabled on official version. note interesting speeling in the first 10 seconds...

also, DUDES, jackass was An Important Part of early 00s culture, like totally.

Re: WE WANT FUN!!!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Important, yes, but also fucking dreadful. This, however, is awesome.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Also for the record I am incredibly torn betwen the Ketchup Song and The Middle - the latter just sounds better to my ears these days, but I really have a great love in my heart for Spanish gibberish which phonetically sounds like Rappers Delight.

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

I'd have much preferred both to go through and not the Sugababes (or alternatively Doves) - but it wasn't to be.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I got so distracted by Underworld that I forgot to rep for 'You Can't Go Home Again' which is just as atmospheric if not quite as euphoric:

(Awesome if slightly seasick-inducing unembeddable video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TjPpCU05o4))

Stuff Underworld, all must tick this

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

IF BRANDY DOESN'T QUALIFY I SHALL BE VERY VERY CROSS

Here is "What About Us?"

Re: Stuff Underworld, all must tick this

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is VERY GOOD. My new favourite, I think!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The only one I care about that looks like it might not go through is "What's Luv". Very typical of early 00s hip hop, but a great song. I can't post a video cause of no Youtube at work, so somebody else do it please!

[koganbot]

Greg, I can't find a nonremix on YouTube for "What's Luv" that's embeddable. Here it is on imeem.

I would claim that the track is more important for hip-hop (and better) than the great Timbo-Missy track of that year, for the template it gave for the thug'n'hug hip-hop-r&b mixture.

[koganbot]

OK, found one:

[koganbot]

THE GREATEST AVRIL LAVIGNE SONG, amazingly fucking massive, her voice climbing a mountain of lava. Guitar and production by Clif Magness (who worked a similar miracle on Kelly Clarkson's "Hear Me"). "Unwanted" (the song is 3:41; this vid plays it twice):




THE GREATEST CELINE DION SONG, laser voice, laser disco; "When The Wrong One Loves You Right":

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure about the Celine track, dude! She puts in a great effort but the song is a bit whiffy.

[koganbot]

I count 34 I either haven't heard or barely remember, and I've already used all but one of my ticks.

Sylvie Marks & Hal 9000

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

This may or may not be the track that The Lex nominated. This is the lead song from the 'We Electric' 12" EP (and it's also on the wonderful weiss.mix by Ellen Allien). But there's also a track called "We Electric" on the first bpitch Camping comp - I haven't checked if they are one and the same song. Anyhoo, all their stuff is grebt so check this out:

Re: Sylvie Marks & Hal 9000

[meserach.livejournal.com]

They are the same song - they're both on Spotify, and are identical.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ARSE I forgot to tick 'Whats Your Flava'! Craig is at the ice cream shop and doesn't know what flavour to have:



(for srs dudes, this is GREAT)

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Craig David got such a kicking in the earlier years so I can't imagine there's much hope for this.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey I thought Christina Milian would be doing better!

Actually looking at the relevant Now poll (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/183830.html) (which had unlimited ticking) perhaps this is not so much of a shock.

the day amerie came into my life

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

was the day I realised I could die happy.

Spotify

[meserach.livejournal.com]

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/6GKpqi3PeeFylG5obkNnaJ

Only four tracks short of total coverage, which is one of the best turn-outs yet.

The Abs track

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Sampling "Uptown Top Ranking"? Abs!?

This is either brilliant or terrible, probably both.

Re: The Abs track

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Abs is terribly brilliant.

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I can totally believe this, although it's given how sexually worldly she sounds elsewhere it's certainly odd, but then what is Shakira but oddness personified and made wonderful sexy flesh you know?

So in this interpretation "the endless story" is in fact the story of what happens when a man and a woman love each other very much? That's... kind of adorable?

Perhaps she means this?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(if so = also adorable!)

Tactical Voting

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Did you vote for Las Ketchup? Favour Underworld/Brandy/Fat Joe over Shakira or the Libertines?

I'm prepared to change any of my votes in Heat 8 in exchange for 'The Middle' getting through in the tie-break.