Best Song of 2003: Heat #7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Girls Aloud comfortably through along with tATu and Justin; Missy and Lumidee fend off the rest of the competition.

Today: double Mis-teeq, double Shut Ups and dead cartoon children rapping from the afterlife. Waah! It's heat #7!

• 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 Friday lunchtime to vote

[Poll #1486675]


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

Comments

He popped me in the oven, set the dial to lovin'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Waaaaa this song is the saddest break-haerts thing ever:



Miiiiiissing you magic crew!

Re: He popped me in the oven, set the dial to lovin'

[credoimprobus]

I <3 this so.

Re: He popped me in the oven, set the dial to lovin'

[koganbot]

This is new to me, and is quite dreamy and pretty in its elegiac (sp?) way; might it be the French animated (!) correlative to Fannypack (reading between the lines in Wikipedia I'm gathering that this might be rap from French dance bohemia rather than from French hip-hop, though I know zilch about what "French dance bohemia" or "French hip-hop" might apply to, so I may be fingering scenes that exist only in the hypotheses of my imagination [but am imagining this as emerging from a scene rather than from "someone who simply decides to rap, and draw pictures"])?

Re: He popped me in the oven, set the dial to lovin'

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

this has got to go through over effin postal service!

We can take it to the window, to the wall -- OR BETTER YET!

[credoimprobus]

You Got Served may be one of the rubbishest dance films ever made, but it had BANGING music (and excellent dancing!). This was pretty much the best thing on the soundtrack album, an electrifying burst of dancefloor energy with amazing clattering beats, and Omarion seriously bringing it vocally. STUNNER.

Re: We can take it to the window, to the wall -- OR BETTER YET!

[koganbot]

Wow. I love this, a boyband that references crunk (or was that vice versa? or was "from the window to the wall" a standard phrase in pop culture that didn't make it to me until Lil Jon brought it? in any event, when I hear this I keep wanting to add "sweat drop down my balls" and "'got so drunk he fucked the floor,' 'fucked the floor?' 'fucked THE FLOOR'") and that pulls in Timboish pan pipe exotica etc. while the Afro-whatever percussion helps this to shimmy and skitter along.

Highway rock and roll DISASTER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

T Raumschmiere plus Miss Kitten equals MONSTER SCHAFFLE BANGER:

Re: Highway rock and roll DISASTER

[koganbot]

Kittin's accent makes this excellent for rorschaching. At one point I get "Monster on my tea-mom fatwa! Basta! Banzai!"

[credoimprobus]

Also, some cracking Swedish electro-poprock, high on energy and melody:

Tooties little booties better back it up

[koganbot]

Fannypack "Smack It Up": four of my top ten tracks of the decade were this year, and "Smack It Up" is one of them. Bohemian art-brat finger-painting dance-rap bubblegum that draws on teenish Miami bass like L'Trimm, more spark in its off-the-wallishness than either Santogold or M.I.A., and that's saying a lot.

Re: Tooties little booties better back it up

[koganbot]

(My top ten tracks of the decade are, at this moment: Panjabi MC f. Jay-Z "Beware Of The Boys," Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz f. the Ying Yang Twins "Get Low," 50 Cent "In Da Club," t.A.T.u. "Kosmos," Hilary Duff "Come Clean," Missy Elliott "Get Ur Freak On," Jay-Z f. UGK "Big Pimpin'," María Daniela Y Sonido Lasser "Duri Duri," Fannypack "Smack It Up," Margaret Berger "Robot Song.")

Re: Tooties little booties better back it up

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think Fannypack are my greatest shame this decade, i.e. I totally heard the name loads but never bothered to check them out before these polls. They are brilliant. Did she just say 'cootchie umbrellas are opening'?

Representing

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Pretty standard low key indie, but I love the simple melody and guitar:



Another indie song, this one much more uptempo. I love the singing and the song structure and it's got lots of great hooks:



I love the lyrics and the melody on this, and H. Duff's ultra-thin voice gives the song an interesting character:

Re: Representing

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The Laws Have Changed is the song that got me hooked on The New Pornographers - it's wonderful.

What planet are you from?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'Sweet Dreams My LA Ex' = 2nd best Rachel Stevens song?

1. I Said Never Again But Here We Are
2. Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
3. Some Girls
4. Um...

Re: What planet are you from?

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I also like "Nothing Good About This Goodbye", "Negotiate with Love", "Dumb Dumb", and oh probably most of them actually. But I'd put "Some Girls" at #1.

Bell-end Sebastian

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This song PLAGUED me - it was on the radio all the bloody time. I'm glad I don't work in an office with communal music anymore. Especially communal music about working in an office. ARGH.

PAGING THE UN

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

IT IS HORRIBLE. One of their worst (of many) crimes.

State Of Mind

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

this is getting terribly under-loved. boo hoo.

someday, sometimes this don't feel right

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It is amazing. Clearly within the top 20, probably top 10 of the year.

Nelly's verse OWNS this, of course

[credoimprobus]

Although...did Murphy Lee just say "I'm starvin' like Marvin"? Dude.

Also

[credoimprobus]

Has everyone forgotten how awesome Stand Up is?

Re: Also

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

AGREED. Stand Up is Luda's last brilliant single, no? OTOH, this is a fucking DIFFICULT heat.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Scandalous felt like a betrayal at the time; painful to see it going through!

1. Superstar: I used to go to Woolworths in Bicester just to hear the music (the wasn't much to do in Bicester) - this is the one platonic true Woolworths playlist single.
2. The Bitter End: If you like indie I don't know how you can not vote for this!
3. Smack It Up: I remember hearing this for the first time and just having my mind blown

I don't normally vote for more than one or two tracks but I voted for 5 here, what an amazing section!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Why a betrayal? Obv it's not very UK Garage-y but Alesha still churns out some awesome rhymes :)

Televators!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

This is a song about a man who kills himself by jumping off an overpass. The video is creepy and bonkers and surreal and doesn't really make sense till the end - and even then, doesn't really make that much sense. Gorgeous.

I don't even know who nominated this but come on ppl RESPECT

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh come on

[ijgrieve.livejournal.com]

There's just no appreciation of guitar pop on Poptimists, is there? How is 'Stacy's Mom' not a front-runner in this Heat. Plus, after 'Lifestyles...' failed to get through I figured GC ticks were being saved for The Anthem. Perhaps not :-(

Also why is B&S's best pop song languishing on 7?

Re: Oh come on

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well I could say there's no appreciation of euro-bosh either after Tomcraft and Benassi failed to get through.

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

Take It to the Floor is fucking great. How had I not heard this before?

[weasel-seeker.livejournal.com]

In fact, great enough that The Math got sacrificed. I hate this heat. Why must it all be so great?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Can I vote Goldfrapp 6 times and nothing else?

A bit late in the day, but...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

since I nominated this, and still have a soft spot for that first G-Unit LP, here's their hit: