Best Song of 2005: Heat #4

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Kanye, Gorillaz, Daddy Yankee and the Chemical Brothers qualify for the next round. Kanye also wins the run-off from Heat #2. But guess what? Yes, ANOTHER run-off follows heat #4, which is FULL OF BANGERS.

• 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 Tuesday lunchtime to vote.

[Poll #1530858]


Extra ticks this heat go to justfanoe, credoimprobus, mesearch, koganbot and me.

Comments

Baxendale?????

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Even M Mayer could not make them anything other than utter crap

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

The lyrics to 'In Public' are enough to make you think Nas never consumated his relationship with Kelis:

"The pussy or the mouth, that is the question
Like Shakespeare but my erection is the case here
I ain't got time to drive you all the way home
But instead I can slide you to a club bathroom or a restaurant men's room
Then I can zoom in your womb."

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

full of mash more like

I live for the day, I live for the night, that you are desperate and dying inside

[koganbot]

Lindsay and Ashlee rage back:





Lindsay goes beyond brat to tiger claws. And Ashlee's at her most Courtney. I was playing these five times a day at the end of '06.

Wheeeee-awwwr WHEEEEE-AWWWR

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Embedding disabled for Ciara (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIBwQI4UzpA) but doooods I think this was my first encounter with crunk proper. Vote for her you guys! </lex>

BAD! NOW DIG IT

[credoimprobus]

SMITHMONGER VS KOBI, PEOPLE. Not on youtube, but this place at least has a full preview (and there are approximately 50 000 other mp3 stores with previews of various length of it a google away if that particular one doesn't work for you). Thing is abs BANGING: seriously filthy bass, 8-bit effects, awesome vocal loops (esp the cut-up one). JUST LISTEN TO IT SERIOUSLY.

Other things:

Not my nom but I love it long time, and so must REP -- Sticky-produced grime classic Hype Hype:



Xzibit and early-days K-Hil; also BANGING:

Gone

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Possibly my favourite Kanye song.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

"Helena" has a very (very) hesitant tick from me right now but I could waver elsewhere. I've decided not to tick "Hollaback Girl," but here's a HILARIOUS kiddie version from Girl Authority.

Spotify

[meserach.livejournal.com]

http://open.spotify.com/user/meserach/playlist/658kcsmCwtIVlKmlZf5aTJ

Missing:
They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABCs
SLK - Hype Hype
Baxendale - I Built This City For You (Michael Mayer mix)
The Pipettes - I Like a Boy in Uniform (School Uniform)
Lindsay Lohan - I Live For the Day
Lee Ann Womack - I May Hate Myself In The Morning
Roisin Murphy - If We're In Love

SCHOOL UNIFORM!

[meserach.livejournal.com]

The Pipettes at their most directly FUN. You'll love it or you'll hate it.

Like a fist, can't resist you

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Here's Kieron Gillen (www.kierongillen.com), of comics, videogames crit and general writer-thinks mini-fame, giving Had-Fi's Hard to Beat 2nd place in his top 40 of 2005 (http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?p=1114). I have nothing to add!




2 - Hard To Beat – Hard Fi
As I said at the start of this particular exercise, I had no idea what was going to be at number one – or even at the top end – until I finished it. And I suspect that Hard To Beat has gained more from the last eight months than any other song in this chart, which found itself being reached for any time I stumbled in a strange street at a strange hour of the day during those six strange months in the middle of 2006. Hell, at one occasion I was literally doing the shouting at strangers routine from Spaced to it, bouncing between road and kerb, throwing shapes and not caring…

I dunno. I’m sorry. You have to care too much to not care like that, and I’ll cherish that.

Understand Hard Fi are an entirely forgettable, sludge-grey band. Which makes Hard To Beat such an anomaly – a structure which leans on the basis of that ska, before draping every colour of the universe over it. It’s like walking into the strange dusty cupboard in some relatives place and finding yourself in a club at 2.50 am with only the people who care about caring there. Even elements like the absolute basic crassness of the lyric rubbing against the songs waves of sonic-eroticism are key – it’s a macho-posturing record which sounds enormously fey, with Hard-fi seemingly unaware of it. Like the hardest guy you know wearing a pink shirt because it’s in fashion, it’s both inspiring and hilarious.

It’s not just a record which makes me want to turn around dramatically, hoping someone’s behind me.

It’s a record which makes me believe if I do so, someone will be.

Anthony and the Johnsons

[meserach.livejournal.com]

My experience with this record just now:

*it comes up on Spotify as I listen to my playlist*
Me: "I have no idea who these guys are"
* listen for a bit *
Me: Man, what is that voice?
* listening *
Me That's either the most annoying voice in the world...
* listens a bit more *
Me: ...or the most heartbreaking
* listens *
* cries *