Best Song of 2005: Heat #1
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poptimistsOh my gosh! The days are getting longer - there's no turning back, I'm voting 2005!
[Poll #1526211]
Extra ticks this heat go to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skyecaptain, koganbot and credoimprobus.
- You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you told us all your new favourite (and why) from the last heat. 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 2006 (unless I think of something else to do in 2006).
- 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 #1526211]
Extra ticks this heat go to
skyecaptain, koganbot and credoimprobus.
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Date: 2010-02-16 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 02:54 pm (UTC)Lots of huge tunes in that first group though, mostly the ones that have titles which are, or start with, numbers.
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Date: 2010-02-16 03:28 pm (UTC)Hardest. Heat. Ever
Date: 2010-02-16 03:33 pm (UTC)Missy's rap at 2:12 in "1 2 Step" is a tribute to Teena Marie's amazing "Square Biz" (listen at 3:48).
Fannypack is hilarious. "Face looks like you did a hundred-yard dash in a 90-yard gym." Mournful harmonica sets stage for least mournful rap in history.
And please listen to "Before He Cheats," y'all.
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Date: 2010-02-16 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 01:10 pm (UTC)David Blunkett-ah
Date: 2010-02-16 01:23 pm (UTC)(god knows who that dude clapping at the beginning of the clip is, the contrast between straggly hippies and no-nonsense The Falls is quite telling)
Re: David Blunkett-ah
Date: 2010-02-16 04:34 pm (UTC)2 Hearts
Date: 2010-02-16 01:33 pm (UTC)Re: 2 Hearts
Date: 2010-02-16 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 01:35 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTb7QGv2UU
Seconded
Date: 2010-02-16 05:13 pm (UTC)the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 01:52 pm (UTC)I remember this song made me reconsider the whole genre of country music, which I had previously rather ignorantly written off. This song is so fierce -
“I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive / carved my name into his leather seat /
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights /
Slashed a hole in all 4 tyres /
Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.”
In fact, I could've just quoted the whole song, as it's so quotable. But what makes it so great is that Carrie herself hams it up with a little guttural affectation. Few things are as bitter, funny, and endlessly entertaining as a wronged psycho country girl.
Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 03:03 pm (UTC)moviecountry music video is a girl and glass that smashes."Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 03:29 pm (UTC)Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-17 11:00 am (UTC)Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 05:16 pm (UTC)Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 05:26 pm (UTC)Potentially divisive question: Does 'Hotel Yorba' count as country?
Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-16 05:53 pm (UTC)You should also run your list by me and Xhuxk and Dave and Greg and Martin to see if you missed any that should count country. (E.g., I also placed a couple Bubba Sparxxx on my '03 ballot. You can always asterisk the more questionable calls.)
Re: the greatest diva video of all time
Date: 2010-02-17 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 02:29 pm (UTC)Let's pretend you're mine
Date: 2010-02-16 03:08 pm (UTC)AAAGH
Date: 2010-02-16 03:04 pm (UTC)Just the road and its majesty
Date: 2010-02-16 03:10 pm (UTC)Country scion who's a friend of Axl's rides the Jack & Diane highway.
ain't in any of his categories
Date: 2010-02-16 06:08 pm (UTC)So as with much of the Pipettes' stuff it's a kiss-off to an unsatisfactory man delivered as a 60s girl group pastiche (complete with lovely lovely harmonies) and so I love it for those reasons alone but the reason I nominated this specifically is that it's one of those instances where I actually identify with a song, although in this case not with the singer but with the subject of the lyrics.
"he's kinda tall and kinda shy
he's always asking me why"
The character of "ABC" is totally me, in short, and it speaks to many of my own difficulties that I have in relationships. It's kind of a succinct a distillate of what Asperger's syndrome is as I've seen, in fact, and there's a surgeon's precision behind the woah-uh-oh exterior of the Pipettes stuff , a cold exactitude.
also it is just two minutes long
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Date: 2010-02-16 06:15 pm (UTC)The full extent of my rah-rahing is going to go for "4ever" this heat.
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Date: 2010-02-16 07:34 pm (UTC)Spotify'd!
Date: 2010-02-17 07:05 pm (UTC)Pretty full turn out - only three missing! They didn;t have The Fall, Paleface or the Toby Keith (they never have the Toby Keith stuff, only cover versions).
Hey Kat, I just realised that this means all the Chemistry-era stuff by Girls Aloud shoulda been nminated this year! Shit! Did anyone nominate "Mdoels" or "Racey Lacey"? If not, could I do so retoractively? :(
Re: Spotify'd!
Date: 2010-02-19 10:27 am (UTC)Re: Spotify'd!
Date: 2010-02-19 07:17 pm (UTC)Ah well, good though they are they'd never have won single of the decade.
I'm planning on doing an extra poll for stuff we missed nominating at some point, also, so I'll just include them in that.
ALERT ALERT ALERT
Date: 2010-02-19 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-19 11:18 am (UTC)(The real shocker is M***mo P**k in 4th spot)