Best Song of 2003: Heat #1

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Russian faux-lesbians, Knightrider bhangra and countless remixes by Richard X: welcome to 2003!

• You 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 the next heat - do this on five or more of the eight heats and get an extra nomination slot for 2004! (thx to credoimprobus for this suggestion)



• The top five in each heat will go through to the next stage. Make sure you rep for your faves in the comments!



• 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

[Poll #1477035]


Extra ticks for this heat go to meserach, justfanoe, koganbot and myself.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Urgh missing hyphen on All Around The World. Sorry Cooler Kids!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Also, if we're being pedantic, wasn't the Panjabi MC track released under its original title of Mundian To Bach Ke? At least, that's what I always thought it was called, and Everyhit reckons that it charted under that name, rather than 'Beware of the Boys'.

Whassup bitches?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Princess Superstar (http://www.beatsdigital.com/index.php?track_id=78085) says about three syllables but still totally owns the track (which there's only about a minute of streamed there but it's enough to give you an idea). I still cane this song on my mp3 player ALL THE TIME.

Re: Whassup bitches?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

yeah, sounds good from that clip - could've left out that well-worn (BBC Radiophonic Workshop?) sample though

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I decided just to tick things that could arguably be the best song of the year, without any votes of moral support for otherwise ludicrous picks.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ludicrous picks are the entire point of these polls :)

Cooler Kids, Lisa Maffia

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

possibly better if you pretend this was something from Paris Hilton's album (tho I would understand if that actually ruins it for you)




NOW WHO GOT THE IN FLOW KEEPIN IT TIGHT etc.

Re: Cooler Kids, Lisa Maffia

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Leeeeeeeee-sa! This is great - not heard it before today. I love her bunches.

New Pornographers

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Guessing a lot of you haven't heard this - it's IMO the best track from the 'Electric Version' album. Exuberant sugar-rush power pop:

Re: New Pornographers

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Very good song and I ticked it. Unfortunately, I suspect it will only get a few ticks from the poptimists indie crew and languish there.

Re: New Pornographers

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite bands, but not the best song on the album. Even so, it's a tick in a very tough round indeed.

Lacquer

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1. learn to drive, 2. copy this video, 3. profit somehow

Big Sur

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Thrills were kind of terrible, weren't they? However I accidentally saw them play a free gig in Rome train station - this song sounds much better when it's 28C and you know you can walk away at any time...

Re: Big Sur

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

no, they were JUST TERRIBLE.

althoughsinging "california love" to their song "california" can provide a few seconds of fun...

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

The only one of these I care about that I consider unlikely to go through is 03 Bonnie & Clyde":



More or less a cover of "Me and my Girlfriend" by Tupac, but I like it better than the original.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Needs a couple more ticks, for sure (if only to knock out Being Boring, I mean Nobody)

Fiddy - Back Down

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I got into this, believe it or not, via the FashionTV channel. Of course, they used a different video. Ahem.

Song is great. The spoken word bit at the end is a bit dubious though.

I take one of the chicks from under your armpit

[koganbot]

Panjabi MC f. Jay-Z "Beware Of The Boys." This is a remix of "Mundian To Bach Ke" and it's even better, ups the drama and intensity of the original. Probably my song of the decade (all of my contenders seem to be 2003):

Re: I take one of the chicks from under your armpit

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Sorry but I am afraid this is one of those ones where I suddenly become my dad and get all grumpy about people taking a GOOD (indeed, amazing) song and rapping over it. Young people of today, etc.

We're the monkeys, we're the show

[koganbot]

Living Things "Bombs Below" (no YouTube embed). From my Voice review: "It's as good hit-your-fist-into-the-wall music as you'll ever get, but its condition of existence is that the wall stays intact."

Re: We're the monkeys, we're the show

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Gave this a tick. If I'd thought of it, their song I Owe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmXmcLwdDTk) would have been nominated.

[koganbot]

Also flabbergasted that "Baby Boy" isn't doing better. I won't embed 'cause you've all had plenty of chances to hear it, but among other things, it's the strongest I've ever heard Sean Paul. He's like hard rubber, flexible enough to maneuver and to strike you, but hard enough never to give way.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Beyonce fatigue

Spotify

[meserach.livejournal.com]

34 of the above songs can be found on Spotify like so:

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/2cVYGfFQkVWL7eTH7eeyEq

Next heat looks EVIL

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Not to dismiss this heat as a mere aperitif, but daaaayum...

Crazy In Love, Justin's "Cry Me A River", Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life", Christina & Lil' Kim "Can't Hold Us Down", Blu Cantrell & Sean Paul "Breathe". Mis-Teeq's "Can't Get It Back"....

..and that's just stuff I nominated! (And I didn't even mention Coldplay's "Clocks" which would probably have struggled here anyway but now has no chance in hell)

Re: Next heat looks EVIL

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

Aargh! I've just realised that this means 'Danger! High Voltage' - the song that got 2003 off to such a good start - has a high likelihood of not making it :-(

Stop (ticking) Richard X

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Biggest waste of space of the decade. I won't keep on about this after this round, but srsly ppl.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ah, starting around here it gets real, before that it could just as well have been 1991 as 2001 as far as I'm concerned. XD

[richaod.livejournal.com]

THREE PEOPLE VOTED FOR JET?!!!!

Just making sure everyone knows: we non-bogan Aussies officially disown them. They give our country a terrible name...

Just quickly, my* stuff in this heat

[credoimprobus]

*) for some values of "my"

Blamstrain - Advance




(ALL MUST LISTEN)







(descriptions/proper pitches in the evening, when I have more time)

Re: Mew

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Is Mew the one you insisted we listen to? I gave it a go. In fact I played it twice. I like that it's really 3 songs for the price of one (very Stereolab). Not enough to tick it though, sorry.

[credoimprobus]

Just curious: is t.A.T.u. the highest tick no. we've had since the 6 tick rule? (I'm personally saving my Tatu tick for Not Gonna Get Us, which unlike AtTSS really WAS one of my singles of the year, but seeing it steam unstoppably ahead like that is still glee-inducing.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Highest 2002 score was 'Freak Like Me' with 29 ticks. I've done a 'normalised' score (er divided by 0.6!) for the finalists to roughly compare them with the earlier years - 29 is the equivalent of 48 ticks in 2000/2001 (Get Ur Freak on got 49, Say My Name got 47).