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!

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.

Highway rock and roll DISASTER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

T Raumschmiere plus Miss Kitten equals MONSTER SCHAFFLE BANGER:

[credoimprobus]

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

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

[credoimprobus]

I <3 this so.

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.

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: 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"])?

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: 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: 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.

Re: What planet are you from?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Negotiate With Love should be #4, yes.

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.

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!"

Re: Highway rock and roll DISASTER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

At first I thought she was saying 'monster on Mycenae Hour', like some sort of Ancient Greek daylight savings time.

Re: What planet are you from?

[koganbot]

My number one is "So Good" for having the most unopposable hi-NRG tsunami flow. Would also like to put in a good word for "Crazy Boys" (and of course "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)" and "Some Girls"). Was she the lead on S Club's "Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You"? If so, that's my number two. But I need to be reminded what "My LA Ex" sounds like. Will go listen now.

Re: What planet are you from?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, no, no. It's:

1. Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
2. I Will Be There
3. Fools
4. I Said Never Again
5. Blue Afternoon
6. Glide
.
.
.
998. More More More
999. Some Girls
1000. Crazy Boys

Re: What planet are you from?

[credoimprobus]

My top Rachel Stevens song is actually this b-side -- either that or Funny How, I think.

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.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Jo sang lead on "Love Ain't Gonna Wait..."

Re: What planet are you from?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

will never never never understand your Richard X hate. 'Crazy Boys' easily one of her best.

Re: What planet are you from?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

going by my lastfm stats

I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)
Dumb Dumb
Negotiate With Love
Crazy Boys
Some Girls
Nothing Good about this goodbye
every little thing
all about me
i will be there
so good
funny how

Re: What planet are you from?

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Negotiate With Love = #1!