Decade Polls Revival: 2006 nominations post

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

After 100% positive feedback to the idea, I'm bringing this mothereffer back.

THE PROJECT:
Like all Poptimist projects, the point ultimately is to prove how great Scooter are. No- I mean, it's to work out what our favourite songs of the last decade were. With polls, naturally. You can look at some of the previous ones here -feel free to go back and do some ticking in the poll ones, although obviously nominations closed several years ago now.

THE RULES:
First we nominate top tracks of the year to be included within the POLL PHASE which will happen when I remember to actually renew my paid account next week. You may nominate as many songs which charted in the UK top 40 for the relevant year as you want but only 10 which did not chart in the UK.

Q: BUT WHY?! I want to nominate the entire of this white-label Hawaiian funk compilation!
A: Because there is, even in Poptimists, a limit to the number of things we will eventually include in a poll, also it is more fun if the nominations are things people can actually discuss- 10 extras is a good way to get people to be discriminating about what they nominate. Also there are hundreds of things you can nominate from within the UK charts!

Then we will vote on them in gluts; there is a TICKY BONUS SCHEME for listening to new stuff when it comes to the poll phase, which I will elaborate more on when the time comes.

For now, let the nominations for 2006 commence! ETA: nominations will close at midnight, Friday (25th March)


2006 was the year that Take That came BACK BACK BACK and produced the first song of theirs that I've genuinely liked-

Meanwhile...
My Chemical Romance welcomed you to the Black Parade
Nelly Furtado welcomed you to her cannibal lair
and Justin had a nice relaxing break in the Hotel du Foxy Spying

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

Right, here are some noms I already had in the ancient spreadsheet of doom:

Cassie - Me & U
Cassie - Long Way 2 Go
Christina Aguilera - Aint No Other Man
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
Fergie - Fergalicious
Fergie - London Bridge
Justin Timberlake ft TI - My Love
Lil Chris - Checking It Out
Lily Allen - Smile
Lily Allen - LDN
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Girl
Pussycat Dolls - Buttonz
The Feeling -Fill My Little World
The Feeling - Sewn
Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooh
J-Lo & LL Cool J - Control Myself

Obviously Let's Make Love & Listen Death From Above didn't chart until 2007... I will think of some more at lunchtime!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also lol @ awkward Kenzie-from-Blazing-Squad side project Friday Hill.

FRIDAY HILL DUDES

More

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Chico - It's Chico Time
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Rihanna - SOS
Will Young - Who Am I
Daz Sampson - Teenage Life (!)
Matt 'out of Busted' Willis - Up All Night
Paul Oakenfold and Thingbob What Died - Faster Pussycat
Depeche Mode - John The Revelator (though I am kind of nominating the Tiefschwarz mix really)
Dannii Minogue - So Under Pressure
TI - Why You Wanna
The Automatic - What's That Coming Over The Hill Is It A Livejournal Poll

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

IRL LOL 4EVA I'd totally forgotten about that. I seem to remember their song being strangely good in a teenage bedroom emo way?

Re: More

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OHHHH I rly rly loved the Oakenfold/Brittany Murphy song!

Even More

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
Busta Rhymes - I Love My B1tch
Justice v Simian - We Are Yr Friends
Cascada - Everytime We Touch
David Guetta vs The Egg (like an Egg) - Love Don't Let Me Go
Chamillionaire - Ridin Dirty
Alesha Dixon - Lipstick
Robbie Williams - Rudebox
P Diddy & Nicole Scherzinger - Come To Me
Amy Winehouse - Rehab

nom nom noms

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Non-charters:
TV On The Radio- I Was A Lover (unless this did chart??)
Emilie Autumn- Swallow (this definitely did not)
Emilie Autumn- Opheliac (or this- I can't believe she's STILL touring this album)

Jamie T- Calm Down Dearest
Hot Chip- Over and Over
Lil Chris- Gettin' Enough
Beyonce- Irreplaceable
Aguilera- Aint No Other Man
Taking Back Sunday- Make Damn Sure (unless this didn't chart but I thought it crawled in at no. 38 or something)
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.- War Of The Worlds

Why yes, I was indeed some sort of a student at this time.

Can't think about this properly at work but will be back with more LATER.

YOU'LL! NEVER! BE ALONE AGAIN!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

We Are Yr Friends sometimes comes up on shuffle when I've forgotten it's on my iPhone and it is just as exciting now as then. I bought it on PHYSICAL CD SINGLE at the time coo urr grandma.

I Love My B1tch is absolutely fantastic and I'd completely forgotten about it.

RONSON VS TIMBALAND CHART DOMINANCE: FITE!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This was 2006 amirite?

Re: nom nom noms

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

OH! Cut Copy was this year! I mean, when Cut Copy were the best band to be pretending to be from France, not when they turned out to be mildly disappointing later.

Last chart ones for now:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Infernal - From Paris To Berlin
Infernal - Self Control
Booty Luv - Boogie 2nite (aww I miss Booty Luv)
Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up
Cascada - Truly Madly Deeply
Jamelia - Beware of the Dog

Re: nom nom noms

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

More from the charts:
Chicane ft. Tom Jones- Stoned In Love
Panic! At The Disco- Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Panic! At The Disco- But It's Better If You Do
Madonna- Sorry
Stacey Orrico- I'm Not Missing You
Similou- All This Love (I utterly, utterly love this- so beautiful and sunny and sad)
Ver Strokes- Heart In A Cage (which is the only one of their songs I like at all)
Massive Attack- Live With Me

Re: RONSON VS TIMBALAND CHART DOMINANCE: FITE!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I appear not to have listened to any hip hop this year at all? Possibly it just got lost because my hard drive crashed about twenty times.

They see me rollin, they hatin...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Chamillionaire counts as hiphop!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

No Chart:
Lillix - Sweet Temptation
Amy Diamond - Don't Cry Your Heart Out
Marit Larsen - Only a Fool
Paris Hilton - Nothing in this World
All American Rejects - Move Along
TI - What You Know
Fergie - Fergalicious
Aly & AJ - Not This Year
Ciara - Promise

Chart:
Charlotte Church - Moodswings (To Come At Me Like That)
Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Fergie - London Bridge
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Christina Aguilera - Hurt
Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

Leaving me one more nonchart slot, which I'll save for later

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Good call on Hurt- I'd forgotten the other singles from Back To Basics, since Candyman was such a rub-fest but Hurt properly makes me bawl my easily emotionally manipulable eyes out.

From various Nows:

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Will Young : "All Time Love"
Sandi Thom : "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)"
The Automatic : "Monster"
Rogue Traders : "Voodoo Child"
Girls Aloud : "Whole Lotta History"
Girls Aloud : "Something Kinda Ooooh"
Justin Timberlake : "SexyBack"
Razorlight : "America"
The Gossip : "Standing In The Way Of Control"
Jamelia : "Something About You"

*falls over* *gibbers*

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

SANDI THOM!!!

STRAIGHT OUTTA TOOTING

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

There may be a call for a lyrical content poll XTRA.

[credoimprobus]

(Quick pet peeve nitpick: it's just "Promiscuous", not "Promiscuous Girl".)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It was called that by whoever first posted on poptimists and I shall remember it as such forevermore!

BRINGING THE INDIE

[martinv.livejournal.com]

A look at my top 50 for this year made me very unhappy. Some quite horrible things in there. Here are some of the hopefully less awful ones.

NON CHART
Camera Obscura “Lloyd I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
The Similou “All This Love”
Cat Power “The Greatest”
Metric “Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)"
The Long Blondes “Once and Never Again”
Junior Boys “In the Morning”
I’m From Barcelona “We’re From Barcelona”
The Spinto Band “Oh Mandy”
Luke Haines “Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop”
The Rapture “Get Myself Into It”

CHART
The Killers “When You Were Young”
Franz Ferdinand “The Fallen/Lindsey Wells”
Franz Ferdinand "Eleanor Put Your Boots On"
Muse “Starlight”
Morrissey “You Have Killed Me”
Scissor Sisters “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing”
Keane “Crystal Ball”
All Saints “Rock Steady”
Belle & Sebastian “Funny Little Frog”
Belle & Sebastian “The Blues are Still Blue"
The Pipettes “Pull Shapes”

Re: BRINGING THE INDIE

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Oops, totally didn't realised the amazing Similou track had (a) charted and (b) been nominated already. I'll find some more rubbish indie instead.

Re: BRINGING THE INDIE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I could quite happily never hear "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" again.

Charters pt. 1

[credoimprobus]

(the ones I don't need to give a listen to decide whether to nominate)

Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
Ne-Yo - So Sick
Ne-Yo - Sexy Love
Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
P. Diddy feat. Christina Aguilera - Tell Me
Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy - Say I
Beyonce feat. Jay-Z - Deja Vu
Pink - U + Ur Hand
Madonna - Get Together
Madonna - Jump
The Pussycat Dolls feat. Will.I.Am - Beep
The Pussycat Dolls - I Don't Need A Man
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Kelis feat. Too $hort - Bossy