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!

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.

[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.

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.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ludicrous picks are the entire point of these polls :)

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: Cooler Kids, Lisa Maffia

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

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: 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.

[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.

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.

[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'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We discussed this in the nominations thread - the two versions are different and charted separately:

5 Panjabi MC Mundian To Bach Ke Jan 2003
25 Panjabi MC featuring Jay-Z Jogi / Beware Of The Boys Jul 2003

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):

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: New Pornographers

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Good song on very solid album, but not - IMO - the best track on the album, hence no tick from me.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see, it was listed as 'Jogi/Beware Of The Boys' which is why I couldn't find it on Everyhit - I searched 'Beware...'

Right, time to go change my vote - I didn't want to vote for the Jay Z version, the original was much better.

[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]

So you *want* me to vote for The Coral, is that what you're saying? )

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Beyonce fatigue

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.

Re: New Pornographers

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

No, it's like the 5th best track from the album, but I threw it a tick anyways.

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...

Re: New Pornographers

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

For me it's close between this and 'Miss Teen Wordpower' for best track. 'The Laws Have Changed' will likely get a tick from me as well.