Best Song of 2004: Heat #1
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poptimistsI got 294 nominations but Michelle McManus ain't one! Welcome to 2004 everybody - coming up this year we have at least three songs/artists that have inspired lj names of poptimist members, debuts from Kanye, Estelle, TashBed and McFly, plus plenty of mumpop, teenpop, hiphop and blip-bop (that's quite enough of that - Ed).
Without further ado, let's crack open the Brandy and get Bubblin'! (sorry) It's heat #1!
[Poll #1494342]
Without further ado, let's crack open the Brandy and get Bubblin'! (sorry) It's heat #1!
- 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 it for five or more heats and get an extra nomination for 2005.
- 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 #1494342]
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Date: 2009-12-04 12:50 pm (UTC)Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:08 pm (UTC)Followed by Kylie's second best song of the decade after "Spinning Around" <--ALSO TRUFACT
And this is probably my favourite track on The College Dropout
Re: Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:27 pm (UTC)BLUE TOP FIVE TIME:
1. All Rise
2. Bubblin
3. Too Close
4. Guiiiiiiiiiiiilteeeeeeee
5. If You Come Back / U Make Me Wanna (THESE ARE THE SAME SONG)
999. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Re: Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:53 pm (UTC)You must be kidding.
Also, I forgot to get my non-chart nominations in on time! There was no reminder - which means this poll will be without T.I.?!?
Re: Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:55 pm (UTC)Re: Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: Blimey, where to start with the reppin' in this heat??
Date: 2009-12-04 01:59 pm (UTC)Ninety-nine I started to write rhymes
Date: 2009-12-04 01:33 pm (UTC)confessions of a secret K4s4bi4n fan
Date: 2009-12-04 02:01 pm (UTC)Re: confessions of a secret K4s4bi4n fan
Date: 2009-12-04 02:53 pm (UTC)(Why am I even admitting this)
Re: confessions of a secret K4s4bi4n fan
Date: 2009-12-04 03:35 pm (UTC)Re: confessions of a secret K4s4bi4n fan
Date: 2009-12-05 12:42 pm (UTC)Belinda
Date: 2009-12-04 02:23 pm (UTC)Re: Belinda
Date: 2009-12-04 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-04 03:31 pm (UTC)Michaela Melian "Brautlied": Loved this from the second it showed up in the League Of Pop. Finds gravity in plinky little bells, then strides along purposefully to strings and bass.
Kelly Clarkson "Addicted": Album is called Breakaway but should really have been called Breakaway. (LOL.) 'cause as soon as you start hitting the songs Kelly herself pens (Track 3 "Behind These Hazel Eyes," Track 4 "Because Of You," then this one, Track 6) you hear her fiercely and hopelessly trying to scratch her way out of herself. Being addicted to loving someone is a venerable and tattered trope but she makes it gut-level and personal, following up on the autobiographical "Hazel" where she's not getting over David Hodges and the autobiographical "Because Of You" where she gives herself the choice of either compulsively repeating her mother's love disasters ("I watched you die, I heard you cry every night in your sleep") or walking a living death alone on the safe side. By "Hear Me" (coming up in a few heats) she's screaming out to nowhere. Here she's fighting for her very breath, and the reason she sounds so liberated back on "Since U Been Gone" when she announces "I can breathe for the first time" is that this song makes that one sound like a desperate fantasy.
Ashlee Simpson "Better Off": I seriously think these are some of the best lyrics ever sung by anyone. ("Love Me For Me," which we'll hear in heat four or five, has even better.) Ashlee starts off claiming between the lines that her bad days are as good as her good days ("I spilled my coffee/It went all over your clothes/I gotta wear mine now"; fifteen words tells us she's in a love relationship and the nature of the relationship, an easy sharing, including the sharing of mishaps), but then a few deceptively confident lines later she's confidentially informing us that she's keeping the boy from her friends, doesn't want to lose so soon what she's got now. That's Ashlee: pensive, exuberant live-wire with a bomb of pain and uncertainty underneath.
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Date: 2009-12-04 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 02:16 am (UTC)Aaaaaaargh, impossible choices on this heat.
Embrace me, surround me
Date: 2009-12-04 05:01 pm (UTC)Anyway, as previously intimated this is one of my tunes of the decade:
Possibly the decade's best trance track: dark but warm, embers and velvet night; it wraps around you and engulfs you, leaves you feeling comforted and safe. You may be lost in the dark of the woods, but there's not a single thing to fear in it.
Also:
John Tejada in one of his most tender moments, without ever forgetting the groove. Minimal and hypnotically pulsing, and raised to outright beautiful by the fragile vocal.
Saul Williams is also minimal, but with sparse music hall piano and sparser beats, and uses it to ruthlessly pick over his own old teenage insecurities (I dreamed of being white and complimented by you/but the only shiny black thing that you liked was my shoes)
Re: Embrace me, surround me
Date: 2009-12-04 08:46 pm (UTC)Re: Embrace me, surround me
Date: 2009-12-04 09:24 pm (UTC)Re: Embrace me, surround me
Date: 2009-12-05 02:23 am (UTC)And out of the charters pool
Date: 2009-12-04 05:22 pm (UTC)Excellent semi-banger, great melody. NEEDS MOAR TIX, EVERYONE.
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Lovely JoJo at her possibly all-time loveliest:
I love this one insanely, it just makes me uncomplicatedly happy every time I hear it.
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Fabolous perhaps not as lovely, but all the more massive:
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Date: 2009-12-04 08:35 pm (UTC)Have also now ticked Brandy, though whoever dressed/styled her for those black-coloured outfits in the video should be ashamed of themselves. She looks terrible in those shots!
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Date: 2009-12-04 08:03 pm (UTC)Burn
Date: 2009-12-04 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 06:46 am (UTC)I took a crack at Autobiography two years ago (http://www.cureforbedbugs.com/2007/10/kill-me-kill-me-kill-me-001964.html) and don't have a heckuva lot to add to this song now, except to say that it's my favorite of hers, from an album that's my #1 of the decade. So give it a listen!
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Date: 2009-12-05 08:33 am (UTC)Michaela Melian / Sunship
Date: 2009-12-05 09:03 am (UTC)Glad someone else nominated this as I forgot to. It's a crime I appear to be the only person who's voted for this yet. Have a feeling this may be the wrong mix (am in an internet cafe with no sound. Grrr). If it is, I hope someone else turns up who likes this and posts the right one!
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Date: 2009-12-06 03:00 pm (UTC)May have to abandon my Brandy tick for it. :(