Best Song of 2004: Heat #7

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Close heat last time, with barely a whisker between Big & Rich, Basement Jaxx, Outkast, NERD and Jamelia (shout out to the Jamelia street team for a last minute surge!)

By far the toughest heat of the year coming up today - I need at least ten non-negotiable ticks myself! Good luck everyone...

• 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 Friday lunchtime to vote.

[Poll #1516818]


Extra ticks this heat go to credoimprobus, jeff_worrell, koganbot and ME (thank god).

Comments

Should have wangled this to be on Friday obv

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Michael Gray's 'The Weekend' - fantastic handbag house that is very difficult not to dance to on top of my desk RIGHT NOW. All must tick:



(on a nsfw scale of 1 to Benassi this video only ranks about a 5, but you might want to wait until yr boss isn't looking just in case)

Flutter my mascara like a butterfly

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ARGH so hard, ticked 12 on the first pass. I know 'The Show' probably won't need my help but it was my favourite Girls Aloud song until 'Tangled Up' was released so I cannot untick it. Franz F and Rachel S can do without me though, as can the best Killers song (which I thought was two separate songs until last week for ages). Busted, Maroon 5 and MIA just don't make the cut.

Beastellabeast

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This was one of my nominations, and I entered it for the League of Pop but zenith had already heard it, wah. He said at the time "I totally deleted this off my harddrive the other night, but now I think maybe I shouldn't have. Weird, unpop pop."

you may have forgotten this one

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

but it is BRILLIANT. [Edit: it is of course 'So Confused' by 2play/Raghav]


(I can't work out what was the actual single mix; there's a better-than-passable garage mix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECfUBqq9r4Y) here)

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

This heat is crazy hard. I have 3 nominations in it, though. Here they are:

Sara Evans: Fun, upbeat, and funny country, and Sara is a great country singer

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Nellie McKay - The Dog Song: Cheerful and sunny, makes me happy to hear! Nellie is maybe too self-consciously cute, but I like this one.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

AC Newman - The Town Halo: Really catchy indie rock with great cello and typically nonsensical lyrics.

Those Dizzee Top 10 singles in order

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1. Stand Up Tall <--- VOTE FOR THIS YOU GUYS
2. Fix Up Look Sharp
3. I Love U
4. Dirtee Cash
5. Bonkers
6. Holiday
7. Flex
8. Dance Wiv Me
9. Pussyole
10. Jus A Rascal

Only one indie record is getting a tick from me this heat...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

...and it's not Frank Ferguson or The Killers

Walkmen - The Rat (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11qpl_walkmen-the-rat_music)
Uploaded by humasetu (http://www.dailymotion.com/humasetu). - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more. (http://www.dailymotion.com/gb/channel/music)

(though "Take Me Out" is fine, and since we've put through two awful FF songs we might as well let their only good one in!)

What do you get if you cross Phil Collins with Diana Ross?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alcazar are about 4 years late with the whole disco mashup thing but we'll let them off this time:

BOSH MASSIVE REPREZENT

[credoimprobus]

Here is some extremely glossy and propulsive trance from good ol' Lasgo. You should tick it! (...because I may possibly have to untick it myself, woe.)

hyper-bowl...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

read some byron, shelley and keats
recited it over some HIP. HOP. BEATS.

is up there with

when you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
billy shakespeare wrote a whole lot of sonnets

and

you read karl marx
and you taught yourself to dance

Also: Lovely Brandy & Lovely Jamelia

[credoimprobus]

(As a footnote, that is one very shiny (literally!) video Jamelia is frolicking around in on this one. Always loved it!)

The Thing

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The title is a bit nondescript but this is the song I gave to koganbot in the League of Pop, who put it in first place. Even freakytigger said it was great and threatened to play it at Poptimism, although I dunno if he did.

In short, please tick!

Spiel Mit

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not heard this, but I like "Ich und Elaine" so am posting this now, to listen to later, in the hope it's as good.

Only 4 ticks for Thunderbirds Are Go?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Come on ppl, I don't really need to link to this, do I? It's Busted's second best song! (It's also the only good thing about the Thunderbirds movie, excepting possibly Vanessa Hudgens)

It won Record Of The Year in 2004 you know.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Still think this is the best Kanye West song eva. And if not the best song, at least the best rap. All he needed was all those marbles in his mouth, I guess. Will withdraw nindie vote for "The Rat" (it was IMPORTANT, dammit) AND the Killaz if this isn't doing better by Friday.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Finally, something I can tick all of without wondering why I don't remember any of the songs.