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

Idiot Kat

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I meant to upload some Youtubes of MU and Random Logic last night but totally forgot (and they are nowhere on the interweb that I can find) :( Will try and rectify this at some point.

Lovely lovely Alex Parks

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

For the uninitiated, Ms Parks won Fame Academy 2 (the one that didn't have David Sneddon or Lemar in it) then disappeared off the face of the planet :( This song is just lovely, but unembeddable, boo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ErJo8iC-o).

Re: Lovely lovely Alex Parks

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

didn't she go off to become a lesbian or something?

worst. heat. ever.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

scraped to 5 and that was including good s0dding charlotte...

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

From poptimist polls you'd think Delta Goodrem was the biggest thing to hit the charts since sliced JLS (ha ha I so typed JSL...) - anyway, I can't recall a single one of these and think that I am confusing her with Lisa Loeb. Should I just resign?

Do not remember the ABS single which isn't Back To The Limbo. Can anyone hunt it up?

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Were you not watching Neighbours when Delta wz in it then? Anyway surely everyone hatorades on her now that she stole Brian McF from The Sunday People's Princess K Katona?

Abs

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Jebus but everything is unembeddable these days (curse not being able to put Dailymotion/Vimeo in LJ comments, bah):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqeywag0e0

Dear any dudes not ticking Tomcraft:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Are you mad???



Love Kat x

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh er um I guess not! Is this just like me not understanding what anyone is talking about these days cz I haterades on the Eggs Factor?

(I do not recall any of the nominated hits being... ~*there*~!)

[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.

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i would like everyone to start calling JLS JSL.


JSL...

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

My contribution to this heat was "Magic Stick", which is a great song that people should listen to and tick. (However, since Youtube is blocked at work I can't post a link. Some other ticker please oblige.)

[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.

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[koganbot]

Vote for the T. Graham Brown! (But I haven't ticked it yet because I've forgotten which one it is.) He's an old country guy and quite excellent; his sound is actually very soul, but that's true of a number of country singers. I'll look for a stream and post below if I find one.

I found a new way to die

[koganbot]

Living Things "March In Daylight"; like Joey Ramone trying to sound like Iggy. (credoimprobus, I'll see if I can find a non-MySpace link for you.)

Love is stronger than each other

[koganbot]

S Club "Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You"

British disco almost always carries a chill, which is occasionally a virtue; inexplicably, "Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You" feels as hot as Thelma Houston (which probably explains why none of the Brits here are supporting it, but maybe some Murricans will give it a whirl).



And here's the studio track, courtesy of the Non-Embeds.

Re: I found a new way to die

[koganbot]

Here it is on Lala (eighth track down), here it is on Last.fm, and here it is on Imeem.

Re: worst. heat. ever.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It is pretty poor, isn't it? I largely voted for 'acts I generally like but who were clearly having off days'.

Re: curse not being able to put Dailymotion/Vimeo in LJ comments, bah

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Is this one of those stupid online empire pissing contest things, like when Delphi fora would ##### any use of the word 'boardhost'?

[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.

Your toes bound to curl

[koganbot]

[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.