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

[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.

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

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Bums. Can you stick the Har Mar and the Franz on my non-chart list in place of the Headland and Client tracks then?

[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

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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'll just check through the others first and see if any of them qualify for 2004 as well.

[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...

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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(Client were rubbish anyway! :-p)

[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]

The Darkness! THAT'S who I was listening to in 2003 (when not making constant cups of tea for people). They were really awesome at Glastonbury that year.

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

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Pretty much correct, yes. I didn't mind that one track though. Apparently they are still going?(!)

[martinv.livejournal.com]

They were really non-awesome at Leeds that year. IBIATCL is still a bit of a tune though, even if everything else they did was horrible.

[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...)

Re: Non-charty bobbins

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was just about to nominate M83 as well but it has to be the Midnight Fvck remix that appears on the Michael Mayer Fabric mix which is MILES BETTER (imho). Remixes always seem to do badly against each other...

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

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

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Btw, Everyhit lists the R. Kelly single above as "Step In The Name Of Love"/"Thoia Thong"; I'm not sure whether that means they charted as a medley, or the B-side also got airplay in the UK, or what.

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, please don't count "Hey World" as one of my nominations, then. I may nominate a different A.R.E. Weapons single later, if nobody beats me to it.

[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?