Best Song of 2003: Heat #5

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

R Kelly, Sugababes 2.0, Fiddy Pence and Johnny Cash are through, with some last minute vote-switching giving Will Young the last spot. On to heat #5!

• 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 #1483394]


Extra ticks for this heat go to me, friend_of_tofu, ijgrieve, jeff_worrell, koganbot and credoimprobus.

Today's heat also has a sad footnote - !!! drummer Jerry Fuchs died yesterday. RIP dude.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is my favourite of the year, and I hadn't heard any of their other records before, so I was quite excited to hear "Maps" earlier this year, as everyone said it was their best...

..but it's kind of boring, no? It's nowhere near as good as anything on their new record.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think it's ok but not astonishing - I know an awful lot of dudes who Love It Long Time though. Perhaps we're missing something?

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's better than most of stuff on the otherwise quite dated sounding debut. Except Y Control.

Also, it's their obligatory indie debut "oh look we can write a song as well as prance around and wear nice clothes" track (suspect this was pioneered by Motorcycle Emptiness but willing to accept earlier citations) so you have to like it. It's like the law.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You are so right that Our Proper Song is a subgenre and really needs its own thread. (The pop equivalent is "Back For Good" etc: look it is our Well Crafted Classic).

But since they have written loads of proper songs since I feel justified in dismissing this one.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I never much liked the YYYs but am taking solace in how, now Karen O has done the soundtrack for the ill-advised Where The Wild Things Are film, their star is surely set to fade.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

That WTWTA song is SO BAD (http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1583).

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I cannot begin to process the amount of wrong in this comment.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Admittedly I have not seen the film but I did read the associated Dave Eggers novel (he also co-wrote the film script) and it has really done for any optimism I might have felt towards the project. And I used to really like Dave Eggers.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise there was an attached Eggers book (generally I'm fan). The trailer alone hooked me in, and it's been fabulously received... Maurice Sendak loves it and he's a right grumpy bastard - hang on and see!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The problem is, having read the book I can't see how the film can avoid falling into the same trap - the novel does a very good job of particularising Max, getting into his head and filling out his life. Which is precisely what you don't want, because the whole point of the original was that Max was an Everychild stand-in for each individual reader.
It presumably won't make the Wild Things themselves quite so dull, but still...

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

They're a great band, and I definitely think Maps is one of their best. Not one for the dancefloor, certainly, but one of those big, slow-burn epics that rarely work for typically stacatto guitar bands.

Plus, I think every indie worth their salt fell a little bit in love with Karen O in the video. I certainly did.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJjHCZN46U

[petronia.livejournal.com]

LOL this is exactly how I feel about it, thought I was the only one. (I like the Ada cover better, but it's not the best song on that album either.)

[cis.livejournal.com]

yeah it is basically not as good as the ada cover (or the supermayer mix of the ada cover for that matter).