Best Song of 2005: Heat #6

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Arctic Monkeys trump the Futureheads to win the heat #4 run-off; Missy, Ashlee, Miranda and Sebastien are through as well. There's a three-way tie for last place (of course there is).

Now for Heat #6, which seems to be a reasonably fair representation of the year 2005. I've been waiting to use this icon for A LONG TIME.

• 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 #1534151]


Extra ticks this heat go to justfanoe and meserach.

Comments

Humps: classic/dud?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about doing a separate poll question about this tbh, as obv it is rather divisive. Does anyone really, really, loathe My Humps still? If you hated it at the time, have the intervening years softened your attitude? Or did you always love it?

I was on the side of the h8tas but then I actually LISTENED to it and dere lord my life was never to be the same again. I also think this was one of my 2005 pop turning points (along with finally embracing Scooter after years of holding out on them), realising that pop songs are only rubbish if you can't think of anything to write about them on the internets.

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[martinv.livejournal.com]

It was one of the few pop songs I included in my excessively indie top 50 for 2006. It's awesome. I didn't exactly need converting to pop, but it was one of the songs that taught me that daftness in pop music wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[martinv.livejournal.com]

2005, I mean, obviously

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It was my first tick, but it was my first untick as well - part of its ubiquity is that I could happily never hear it again. In contrast to Nelly & Tim's brokeback premonition, which I think I'll go listen to now.

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

In fact, is Nelly the one artist who only works in duets? This and Dilemma are kind of a million miles ahead of any of his own stuff.

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hot In Herre?

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Is good! It's just not Dilemma or Over and Over!

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

ride wit me!

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Country Grammar?

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I do like Over And Over quite a lot, but it seems to lack support and there's a lot to tick here. I may throw it a mercy tick later.

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[koganbot]

It shocked me when I first heard it - not 'cause I'm shocked by blatantly attention-grabbing hip-hop tracks that appear to be about the sex, but because, having heard nothing by the Black Eyed Peas except "Where Is The Love?," I'd stereotyped them as positive "conscious" and clean rappers whom you could take home to Aunt Tipper. I instantly thought "My Humps" was terrific, but I needed five or six listenings before this thought penetrated my mental barrier and entered my consciousness as a genuine opinion, and even by year's end I still didn't quite get how awesomely humpsy the track truly was, at least not enough to consider it for my year-end top ten (though I wouldn't have had room for it anyway; my number 10 was "Gasolina"; "Be Mine!" didn't make my list either, and since I'd just belatedly had my revelation about the amazingness of the Ashlee-Kelly-Lindsay-Hilary thing, everything else that wasn't Miranda Lambert or t.A.T.u.'s "Cosmos" was getting forgotten).

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The exact point when the amazingness of it kicked in:

"SHE'S GOT ME SPENNNNNNNDIN'"

Re: Humps: classic/dud?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly disappointed that nobody nominated "Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)" cos then I could have linked to the "Hump My Tunnel" mashup, which still makes me laugh every time I hear it.

"Humps" is classic obv (but so is more or less all BEPs since Fergie joined).