Best Song of 2003: Heat #6

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Panjabi MC emerged victorious from heat #5, narrowly beating Junior Senior into second. They're joined in the next round by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kelly Clarkson and Girls Aloud's worst single ahem.

Heat #6 features some big hitters - nine top 5 hits! Today's tracks include a Depeche Mode cover, a Eurovision entry, and some construction workers with scant regard for health and safety regulations. Let the ticks commence!

• 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!



• 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 Tuesday lunchtime to vote

[Poll #1484793]


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

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Arrgh it feels awful ticking Blur instead of Lumidee but that is one of 3 only good Blur songs that I'd actually want to listen to ever again.

Blur

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And of course it's unembeddable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1SIsl_Zi4M). But for srs, this song is v emo and so was I for a lot of 2003 (what with being the dole, back living with parents, near mental breakdown over finals etc).

Full of sparkle and such light

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ultrabeat's finest hour:



Never ever beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee aloooooooone! I heart Mike from Ultrabeat.

also: sorry lumidee! you still might get a vote if i change my mind...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

VERY TOUGH.

Vote goes for Lemon Jelly over Girls Aloud because I have been quoting the song for the past couple of days and let's face it, GA will go through anyway yes yes...

Listened to TaTu again for the other day and Not Gonna Get Us really is sort of the best thing ever?

Re: also: sorry lumidee! you still might get a vote if i change my mind...

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Agreed. V tough. Wanted more ticks this time.

I have been listening to tATu again recently *hearts*

Wayne 'a thing of beauty and' Wonder

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Haven't checked but, hopefully, this is the Diwali riddim version of 'No Letting Go'. All must tick.

Re: Wayne 'a thing of beauty and' Wonder

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh that's who this is! At the time I assumed this was a remix of the Lumidee track.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Mark Ronson, in the days before Winehouse, made a record with Ghostface Killa and Nate Dogg called Ooh Wee. It's the kind of pop-rap classic we rarely get any more and you should really really listen and tick it.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

If Ooh Wee doesn't make it through, I'm seriously considering revoking my membership of Poptimists. Best song in this heat, easily one of the best of the year.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I agree the song is one of Mark Ronson's best, but it doesn't half have a sh1t title.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

No way. Just say it: oooooooh wee! ooh we-ee!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Look, I am speaking as someone who regularly has to search for song titles alphabetically. 'Ooh Wee' does not bring up the same search results in my database as 'Oooh Weee' or indeed 'Ooo Whee'. ARGH.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

just me for javine then. i really liked this song a lot at the time. i know i have played it a couple of times at club FT/popular to large indifference.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Poor Javine.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

of course i meant to add this, yes.

React

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I can't actually remember how this one goes, but it's sure to be good.

Re: React

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

"whatever she said then I'm that.."

My Love Is Like...Wo (no embed)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I'll tick this is ppl promise to tick "Things Come & Go" when we get to that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0LrlgaQS8

Re: My Love Is Like...Wo (no embed)

[credoimprobus]

I cannot believe this doesn't have more ticks. It's BRILLIANT. :(

For those not ticking Benny Benassi

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is why I think you should. (http://katstevens.tumblr.com/search/satisfaction)

This place will tell you lies with each passing shadow that goes by

[koganbot]

Dwight Yoakam "Population Me." Dwight finds himself in a one-man town: engages in comically mournful warbling over a slow two-step. Reminds me of the Kinks' "Harry Rag" but with strength and banjo as well as rue.

On lala and on imeem.

Re: This place will tell you lies with each passing shadow that goes by

[koganbot]

Glad to see I'm not all alone here.

Re: This place will tell you lies with each passing shadow that goes by

[credoimprobus]

Almost forgot to listen to this, but am very glad I finally remembered to, because DAMN that's good. Love the mournful horns halfway through!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

"Life Got Cold" beating out Tomcraft is some kind of sick joke. My nomination this round is "Perfect", which I'm not even going to bother to post cause it's a country song and nobody ticks country.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Would a Decade In Country round-up at the end of the polls be a good idea?

In your hands I'm free to fall

[koganbot]

Celine Dion "Reveal": Private rendezvous turns river into ocean, man into sun, Celine into woman. Dance stormer storms the heavens, as they say.

One is breaking into two, and my heart is turning blue

[koganbot]

Yes to Kat's suggestion for a Decade In Country round-up. This heat's got Faith Hill, Sara Evans, and Dwight Yoakam.

Here's Sara, now that we've browbeaten you into listening to her (though I won't have enough ticks for it):


And here's Faith Hill's "One" which I am ticking, though YouTube's only got a live vid. The hottest of her Adult Contemporary stompers, fierce singing, subtle reggae undertow:


Here it is on imeem.

I only date boys with t.A.T.u.

[koganbot]

And I think this is the greatest t.A.T.u. song of 2003, which is saying a lot.

t.A.T.u. "Ne Ver, Ne Boysia":


Was for Eurovision, right? Not a proper album cut, only a B-side or bonus track.

Re: I only date boys with t.A.T.u.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Their performance of it at Eurovision was pretty dismal though: one of them couldn't make the rehearsal for some reason so it was a bit all over the place. Lots of running around and not much singing IIRC.

Re: I only date boys with t.A.T.u.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

despite their dismal performance they probably would have won if it hadn't been for all the tabloid hysteria in the UK & Ireland meaning they got votes from every country except for us

M83

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This remix:



Is better than this remix:



(Both are pretty lovely though)

Re: M83

[credoimprobus]

I respectfully TOTALLY DISAGREE. ;)

(The original version up there is my nom, if anyone wondered.)

you might not have heard this

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

if you're not familiar with your belgian electroclash. But the insane screaming diva is great and demands a listen.

Re: you might not have heard this

[koganbot]

Sorta like my fantasy of t.A.T.u. waking up one morning and deciding to perform "Sister Ray."

waiting for signal or sound

[credoimprobus]

This track is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for me thinking TV on the Radio were totally letting their potential down up until last year's Dear Science:



(They still haven't managed to beat it, although they're at least finally starting to get close!)


Footnote: it feels really weird to have this but not Staring at the Sun in the same year, as SatS will ALWAYS be a Debut EP Track to me rather than the Debut Album Single it prob is to most of the rest of the world, heh.

[credoimprobus]

Also, JESUS is this ever The Heat of Bitter, Bitter Tears. First run-through gave 10 ticks, and that was with me holding back! I even had to ditch eurovision!tATu. :( (I almost unticked Gurls Aloud instead on the ususal they-don't-need-my-help grounds, but really, as this is one of only two GA must-ticks of the entire decade for me, I just couldn't.)

Anyway, a coupla reps:


One of Ashanti's all-time best, laid-back and slinkily seductive. DESERVES MORE TICKS, DUDES.


Okay, this is one I won't even have a tick for myself, but: still an excellent party track, irresistably sing-alongable chorus and all.

(Also the Poor Javine is actually really good:)