Best Song Of 2003: NOMINATIONS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ready to crash the wedding and shake it like a polaroid picture? It's 2003 nominations time!


# 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'.

# I strongly recommend posting nominations in a new comment thread rather than as a reply to another comment, 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 humanly possible I'll let you know if one of your ten picks is already nominated so you can choose another one.

# Nominate double-A sides separately please!

# Any queries regarding years/chart positions shall be subject to my WHIM.

# Need more help? Have a look at the examples on the 2002 nominations post.

What's been nominated already?

50 Cent - In Da Club
Alex Parks - Maybe That's What It Takes
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love?
Blazin Squad - Flip Reverse
Blu Cantrell ft Sean Paul - Breathe
Blur - Out Of Time
Busted - You Said No
Busted - Crashed The Wedding
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Christina Aguilera ft Lil' Kim - Can't Hold Us Down
Dizzee vs Vitalic - I Luv Poney
DJ Sammy - Boys Of Summer
Electric Six - Danger High Voltage
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Faith Hill - One
Fatman Scoop / Crooklyn Clan - Be Faithful
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up
Kylie Minogue - Slow
Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oooh)
Mark Owen - Four Minute Warning
Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch
Mis-Teeq - Scandalous
Outkast - Hey Ya
Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke
Pink ft William Orbit - Feel Good Time
R Kelly - Ignition (remix)
Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
Royksopp - Eple
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Sean Paul - Like Glue
Sugababes - Hole In The Head
Sugababes - Too Lost In You
TATU - All The Things She Said
Tomcraft - Loneliness
Transplants - Diamonds And Guns
Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes
Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D
White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
Will Young - Leave Right Now

(If this looks quite long that's because I've included most of my own charting nominations already)

Aaaaaaand... GO!

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'll get the ball rolling just by reviewing my own top songs of the decade list:

Rachel Stevens - "Sweet Dreams My LA-Ex"
Martina McBride - "This One's For The Girls"
Guided by Voices - "The Best of Jill Hives"
David Banner - "Cadillac on 22s"

That's 3 slots, I'll go in the tank to think of my other 7

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saving me from having to nominate McBride and Banner, thus enabling me to squeeze 2 more songs onto my noms list!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Such a weird year this, for me - emotional, physical and musical upheaval! Spent the first couple of months listening to indie and electroclash, then the spring listening almost exclusively to techno (and any stuff without words), the summer listening to whatever was playing on Capital FM in the kitchen/bar I was working in and the rest of the year listening to Busted and the Sugababes in the Island offices.

Basically October-December for me can be summed up by:
Hey Ya
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
Hole In The Head
Crashed The Wedding
Be Faithful
...and being EXTREMELY POOR

First year I have a top 50 for, so for starters...

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Charted (I assume):
The Libertines - Time For Heroes
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Caesars - Jerk It Out
Kelis - Milkshake
Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Richard X ft. Kelis - Finest Dreams
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
Placebo - This Picture
REM - Bad Day
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
Har Mar Superstar - EZ Pass
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test

Didn't chart (probably):
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Chicks On Speed - We Don't Play Guitars
Black Box Recorder - These Are The Things
Atomizer - Hooked On Radiation
Mew - Am I Wry? No
Ladytron - Evil (Ewan Pearson Mix)
Client - Price Of Love
Headland - Freak Flag Fly
Venus Hum - Soul Sloshing
The Faint - The Conductor (Thin White Duke Mix)

Re: First year I have a top 50 for, so for starters...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Caesars didn't chart until the re-release in 2005! Seems daft not to include it though as it was EVERYWHERE. Darts of Pleasure and EZ Pass didn't chart at all though.

Kelis and Scissors are Jan 2004 - I'll hold them over.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Charted, I believe, and I don't think nominated yet:
Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within
Basement Jaxx ftr Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
Basement Jaxx ftr Lisa Kekaula - Good Luck
Johnny Cash - Hurt
DMX - Where The Hood At
Missy Elliott ftr Ludacris - Gossip Folks
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Liberty X - Jumpin'
Ludacris - Stand Up
Saint Etienne - Soft Like Me
Tatu - Not Gonna Get Us
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Obie Trice - Got Some Teeth
Richard X vs Liberty X - Being Nobody

non-chart, I think:
TLC - Damaged
Fallacy - Big N Bashy
Kelis - Popular Thug
Outkast - Ghetto Musick
Royce Da 5'9" - Make This Run
RZA - Drink, Smoke & Fcuk (sic)
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We had Popular Thug in 2001 - want to choose another one?

I NOM

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Pin - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Maps - YYYs
Inertiatic ESP - The Mars Volta
Televators - The Mars Volta

Re: I NOM

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

also WS: The Hardest Button to Button & I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Charted in the UK (and not yet nominated, unless my control-F isn't working. (Actually, a couple of these were probably already used in 2002; I'm not sure):

joe budden – pump it up
the darkness – growing on me
the darkness – I believe in a thing called love
jet – are you gonna be my girl
r. kelly – step in the name of love
electric six – gay bar
electric six – dance commander
dizzee rascal - fix up look sharp
Justin timberlake – señorita
Justin timberlake – rock your body
The roots feat. cody chesnutt – the seed (2.0)

Curious about this one, too; Wikipedia says it went to #96 in the UK, but I'm not finding it on everyhit, so I'm not sure whether it qualifies as a charted song or not:

A.R.E. Weapons – Hey World

Still need to check out the Darkness's Christmas song that charted, which I don't think I've ever heard...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Everyhit only goes up to 40 - that's what we've been using so far.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

More that I think might have charted:

No Doubt - It's My Life
Phixx - Hold On Me
Chingy - Right Thurr
Beyoncé feat. Sean Paul - Baby Boy
The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Jamelia - Superstar
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Tiga - Hot In Herre
Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold
Goldfrapp - Train

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

All in except Tiga.

Non-charty bobbins

[credoimprobus]

UNKLE - Eye for an Eye
TV on the Radio - Satellite
E-40 - Married to the Ave
B2K - Take It to the Floor
Wesley Clarke - It'll Be Okay
Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin
In-Grid - Tu es foutu
M83 - Run into Flowers
Zombie Nation - Chowpatty Slices

My 10th (lovely lovely Mew) was preempted, so I shall have to have a long hard think about what to replace it with. Too many options! Charters I'm leaving till the first rash of nominations is done, because a lot of mine are already covered.

Re: Non-charty bobbins

[credoimprobus]

Oh hang on, the Unkle actually charted? How did I miss that before? (Okay, probably because of spelling discrepancy. Either that or I didn't so much miss it as forget it came up in the search, heh...)

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

All of mine already nominated except for
Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke

Everyhit lists this and "Beware of the Boys" as two different songs, by the way, which confuses me. (In the states, "Beware" was simply the subtitle of "Mundian," as I recall.) If "Beware" is the remix with Jay-Z on it, maybe they should both be on the list, separately?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

If they're on everyhit as double A's they'll need to be nominated separately (I don't know the song well enough to make the distinction myself!).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ok so in addition to I Luv Poney up there which was one of my 10, I am going to nom:

LFO - Freak
Random Logic - Martiro
Munk ft Princess Superstar - Ah Uh
Radiohead - Where I End And You Begin
T. Raumschmiere ft Miss Kittin - The Game Is Not Over
Bumblebeez - Microphonediseases (Alt. mix)
M83 - Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix By Jackson)
Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer
MU - Let's Get Sick

Oh, and Radiohead - There There which did chart. No room for Braxe & Falke's Rubicon!

[credoimprobus]

I approve so hard of yr Where I End and You Begin nom. Second favourite track on my (controversially enough) favourite Radiohead alb! (Also, this makes me feel better about not having room for Backdrifts in my own noms, heh.)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Ah, someone got to Panjabi MC before me. I heart that track SO BAD.

I have no idea what the hell was out this year, I'd descended into full-on rockism. Was there a quite good track by Liberty X where they were on train tracks in the snow in the video? I think there was.

[koganbot]

In the U.K. Top 40:

Kelly Clarkson - "Low"
Kelly Clarkson - "Miss Independent"
S Club - "Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You"
Beyoncé f. Sean Paul - "Baby Boy"

(This was at a point where S Club no longer knew how many they were. Also is the only S Club track that ever really made me feel.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This was when the S Club Seeing Double movie came out! They cloned themselves and the bloke that wasn't Jon or Bradley left in disgust!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Chart stuff:

50 Cent - P.I.M.P.
Jay-Z ft. Beyonce - '03 Bonnie and Clyde
Mya - My Love Is Like...Wo
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now
Ludacris - Stand Up

No Chart:
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
Lil' Kim ft. 50 Cent - Magic Stick
Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Hey look, I accidentally put KC in the wrong section, and it's already nominated! Whoops.

Crunk

[koganbot]

Caesars didn't chart until the re-release in 2005! Seems daft not to include it though as it was EVERYWHERE.

OK, here's the first nominee of my ten:

Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz f. the Ying Yang Twins - "Get Low"

It similarly did not chart in the U.K. until re-release in 2005, where it scraped in at 38, but it would be even more daft not to count it for 2003, since not only was it everywhere, its success in the U.S. in 2003 was probably the most significant event in hip-hop in the entire decade, further solidifying the dominance of the Dirty South and having a massive, massive, massive effect on what popular hip-hop would subsequently sound like and on what made it onto U.S. and even British radio in 2004, and is a likely precursor to some of what we'll nominate in 2004. So it seems wrong to put the precursor later than the stuff it precursed. This is entirely up to you Kat, but pretty please? It'll count against my ten.

Re: Crunk

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'll see how much room we have once nominations are over (that goes for the Caesars as well).

top 40 noms

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

tried to cut back on top 40 noms a bit but this year was so damn awesome it couldn't be tougher:

Jaimeson featuring Angel Blu - True
Audiobullys - We Don't Care
Electric Six - Danger High Voltage
Nas - Made You Look
Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D
Syntax - Pray
Sarah Whatmore - Automatic
Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
Moloko - Familiar Feeling
Massive Attack - Special Cases
Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris - Gossip Folks
Un-Cut - Midnight
Dannii Minogue - I Begin To Wonder
Jay-Z - Excuse Me Miss
Lisa Maffia - All Over
DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
Nivea - Laundromat / Don't Mess With My Man
Saffron Hill featuring Ben Onono - My Love Is Always There
Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey featuring The Flipmode Squad - I Know What You Want
Dannii Minogue - Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling
Linkin Park - Faint
Jamelia featuring Rah Digga - Bout
Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
Ashanti - Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)
Moloko - Forever More
Javine - Real Things
Kraftwerk - - Tour De France 2003
P Diddy featuring Kelis - Let's Get Ill
Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On
Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee
Holly Valance - State Of Mind
Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up
Nelly Furtado - Powerless (Say What You Want)

Re: top 40 noms

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

forgot to take a couple out there that were already nominated and/or maybe from 2002 eg 'We Don't Care' and 'Gossip Folks' - usual goldfish memory when it comes to remembering what we've already polled...

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

In case anybody is having trouble coming up with ten nominations and needs their memory jogged, you're welcome to any of these songs that are unlikely to make my nominations list (unless somebody else nominates one or more of the ten on my short list before I do): Gary Allan "Songs About Rain," Brooks & Dunn "Red Dirt Road," Kenny Chesney "Big Star," Clone Defects "Shapes Of Venus," Sara Evans "Perfect," Kentucky Headhunters "Everyday People," Lifesavas "What If It's True," Bubba Sparxxx "Back In The Mud" and "Comin' Round."

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

A couple more I probably won't nominate but somebody else should (now that a post that Frank put on his blog reminded me of a couple more I'd forgotten about that I probably will nominate): Lyrics Born "Callin' Out" and Ying Yang Twins' "Naggin'" Also, Deana Carter had a couple singles that might be worth somebody nominating: "There's No Limit" (which Frank also mentioned) and "I'm Just A Girl" (which he didn't.) (I'm limiting myself to songs that I can actually verify were singles; album tracks are just too hard to manage and keep track of and go back to doublecheck.) Anyway, somebody should really use their stray nominations on a few of these (and/or the ones Frank mentions on his blog, which people should look at too unless he also posts them here).

My Chart stuff

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Much of this will have been nominated already, but here we go anyway, a top 98 from the chart (I pulled these all from everyhit so they should all be 2003 for def.)

Lemar - 50/50
Jennifer Lopez featuring LL Cool J - All I Have
Tatu - All The Things She Said
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Beyonce featuring Sean Paul - Baby Boy
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Richard X vs Liberty X - Being Nobody
Thrills - Big Sur
Delta Goodrem - Born To Try
Blu Cantrell featuring Sean Paul - Breathe
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Mis-Teeq - Can't Get It Back
Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim - Can't Hold Us Down
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
Coldplay - Clocks
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River
Electric Six - Dance Commander
Electric Six - Danger High Voltage
Androids - Do It With Madonna
Big Brovaz - Favourite Things
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Queens Of The Stone Age - First It Giveth
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp
Blazin' Squad - Flip Reverse
Emma Bunton - Free Me
Pharrell Williams featuring Jay-Z - Frontin'
Rachel Stevens - Funky Dory
Electric Six - Gay Bar
Sean Paul - Get Busy
B2K - Girlfriend
Good Charlotte - Girls And Boys
Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow
Evanescence - Going Under
Darkness - Growing On Me
Outkast - Hey Ya!
Craig David - Hidden Agenda
Sugababes - Hole In The Head
Madonna - Hollywood
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Dannii Minogue - I Begin To Wonder
Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down
Daniel Bedingfield - I Can't Read You
White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey featuring The Flipmode Squad - I Know What You Want
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Jennifer Lopez - I'm Glad
Avril Lavigne - I'm With You
R Kelly - Ignition Remix
50 Cent - In Da Club
No Doubt - It's My Life
Dizzee Rascal - Jus' A Rascal
Lisa Scott-Lee - Lately
Will Young - Leave Right Now
Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
Sean Paul - Like Glue
Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You
Basement Jaxx featuring Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules - Mad World
Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Emma Bunton - Maybe
Amy Studt - Misfit
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Evanescence - My Immortal
Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oooh Uh Oooh)
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Tatu - Not Gonna Get Us
Linkin Park - Numb
Missy Elliott - Pass That Dutch
Ashanti - Rain On Me
Javine - Real Things
Ashanti - Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Mis-Teeq - Scandalous
Justin Timberlake - Senorita
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up
Kylie Minogue - Slow
Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong
Holly Valance - State Of Mind
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
Stacie Orrico - Stuck
Jamelia - Superstar
Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
Placebo - The Bitter End
Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within
Stacie Orrico - There's Gotta Be More To Life
Sugababes - Too Lost In You
Pink - Trouble
Amy Studt - Under The Thumb
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love?
DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya

Such a good year! Man.

Re: My Chart stuff

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's also the year with the most top 40 charting hits of the decade, so I'd expect there to be plenty of stuff.

(We're now at 221 nominations!)

My non-chart stuff

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Based on the assumption that we count both "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" and the Dresden DOlls' self-titled debut as 2003 albums:

Scout Niblett - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
Har Mar Superstar - Power Lunch
Har Mar Superstar - We Could Be Heavy
Black Eyed Peas - Latin Girls
The Dresden Dolls - Coin-Operated Bouy
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me
Outkast - Spread
Outkast - Bowtie

...aand another I haven't decided on yet.


(Outkast's "Roses" and "The Way You Move" are chart for 2004, I believe. As are a bunch of things I would otherwise nominate for the Peas.)

Re: My non-chart stuff

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Power Lunch! I was trying to remember which Har Mar song it was I liked, and it was that one.

Deadline

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

By the way everyone, you've got a week to do these - nominations close next Monday evening and the first heat goes up on Tuesday.

[koganbot]

OK, well here are my nominees 2 through 5 (which means I have another five left, though I'll need to insert a sixth in the event Kat disallows "Get Low").

Fannypack - "Smack It Up"
Dwight Yoakam - "Population Me"
Celine Dion - "Reveal"
Gary Allan - "Can't Do It Today"

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Chart:

Busted - Year 3000
Benny Benassi presents The Biz - Satisfaction
Dido - White Flag
Emma Bunton - Free Me
Emma Bunton - Maybe
Jay-Z - Change Clothes
Pharrell Williams feat. Jay-Z - Frontin'
Madonna - American Life <-- hush now, I like it
P!nk - Trouble
Big Brovaz - Favourite Things
DJ Sammy - Sunlight

Non-chart (and pedantic observations):

Stereolab - "...sudden stars" <--NB all punctuation is in title, as is use of lower case
Elephant Man - Fvck You Sign
Luomo - What Good
Bubba Sparxxx - Intro/Jimmy Mathis <--NB all one track as far as I'm concerned
Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say
Mya - Things Come & Go
2Raumwohnung - Ich und Elaine (2Raumwohnung club mix)
50 Cent - Back Down
Fannypack - Cameltoe
Uminski - Harder Better Faster Stronger

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Shit, how did I not put in Benny Benassi already?

The Hounds Of Heck

[koganbot]

This is the best version of "Seven Nation Army":

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Chart

Angel City - 'Love Me Right (Oh Sheila)'
Good Charlotte - 'The Anthem'
OK Go - 'Get Over It'
Violent Delight - 'I Wish I Was A Girl'
XTM feat Annia - 'Fly On The Wings Of Love'


Non-Chart

Distillers - 'Dismantle Me' (from Coral Fang album)
Easyworld - 'Second Amendment'
Hot Action Cop - 'Fever For The Flava'
New Pornographers, The - 'All For Swinging You Around' (from Electric Version album)
Ozma - 'Turtleneck Coverup' (from Spending Time On The Borderline album)
Party of One - 'Shotgun Funeral'
The Sounds - 'Living In America'

[credoimprobus]

Okay, some charters I haven't seen yet:

iiO - At the End
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Beautiful
Bhangra Knights vs. Husan - Husan
Big Brovaz - OK
Girls Aloud - Jump
Muse - Hysteria
Madonna - Love Profusion
Britney Spears feat. Madonna - Me Against the Music
Abs feat. Nodesha - Miss Perfect
Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
Ja Rule feat. Ashanti - Mesmerize
Blondie - Good Boys
Blu Cantrell - Make Me Wanna Scream

May be a handful more to come, haven't managed to decide yet whether to include them or not.