Songs of 2006: Heat #5

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It's the penultimate Heat of 2006! I can't do maths it transpires (or rather 'didn't think about needing to do any maths when I started this') so we will also actually have a post-heat-6 poll of the nearly-rans to get the numbers up to 40 but we're getting there.

Through from the Heat Of Death:
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (12)
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (11) (this rly surprises me! I thought it was the weakest single)
Taylor Swift - Should've Said No (10)
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (10)
Hot Chip - Over & Over (9)

And there's a four-way tie on 7, more of which later...


1. Tick SIX (6) songs wot you like the best of all of these.

2. They will go through to the 2006 final.

3. If you tell us what the best song you've heard out of the comments that you hadn't heard before is, you get a seventh tick for the next heat.

Extra ticks from last round go to koganbot and credoimprobus. (GUYS, it is so easy! You just write a thing in a box! You can lie if you like although obviously I'd rather you didn't and it wouldn't be in the interests of FAIR POLLIN' which might as well be our only attempt at a purpose etc. etc.)

[Poll #1734903]



Poll closes lunchtime GMT, Tuesday 3rd May.

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Hah, I hadn't thought about Shimura Curves as being eligible for this, but fair enough. Here's the track as the backing of for a slot on the BBC (I realise nothing is improved by having someone explain what MySpace is on top if it)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

There is so much I love here and so little I can do for it until I've dug myself out of this immense pile of work. I'll be back and I'm bringing goths.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I think that Scritti Politti track might be, like, one of my top favourites of the whole decade. I'm not up with this embedding videos thing (and I can never see them on this rubbish browser my work has seen fit to provide), but here's a link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5KGD5brp4) to a live version. Unsurprisingly, there's no official video...

I don't wanna hear, I don't wanna know

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Sorry is AMAZING, people. AM-A-ZING. I know Madonna shitting out the worst phone-in of an album to excuse rinsing some money out of fans before Beady Eye subsequently may have altered your memories but COME ON-

I got a selection of positions of affection

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

'Tell Me' is the most monstrous, strident air strike of a song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOKXzt1DgDY&feature=fvst
The threatening strings, especially on the hook (I know you're gonna like it (I know) so tell me how you want it (tell me)) and the occasional stutters into rapid danciness (I don't want your innocence, I don't want you to stutter, I don't want a commitment and I don't want you to suffer) and the swoops of prettiness from Christina (boy I got my eyes on you, tell me what you wanna do, I can picture you in my room until the morning) all punctuated by that room-silencing chorus. Press Play had some of the most amazing dramatic pop on it I've ever heard. Also what kind of an arsehole do I feel like that I didn't nominate Thought You Said or Last Night? Aaaargh.

if it will help my sea level go down but I'll come back to haunt you if I drown

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This isn't going to win anything but I love it very, very much- beautiful, rippling power-pop with a fine sense of gothic melodrama (twenty yeeeeears, sinking slowly) and an intense catchiness and wall-of-sound Xenomania-at-their peak kinesis and cleverness to its instrumentation. Emilie has since decided to become a burlesque artist who only performs her lamer songs, which is a bit of a shame but that's being a mentally ill classical violinist accidentally making a pop record for you-


The best bit is the bit that goes to tell the truth all of my songs/are pretty much the fucking same/I'm not a fairy/but I need more than this life so I became/this creature representing more to you than just another girl/and if I had the chance to change my mind I wouldn't for the woooooorld but actually it is all good in context. It is very goth but then so is Kate Bush.

Re: I got a selection of positions of affection

[credoimprobus]

(Thought You Saaaaid! <3)

I absolutely love the Tell Me video; very fitting of the song. (By which I mean fitting of its RIDICULOUS MASSIVENESS.)

OT

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

The you said I did you wrong, you did me wrong and we was both at fault and of course you lost me with your alibis and all of your talking and most important I just questioned myself bit made my whole heart explode out my mouth on Monday whilst I was flicking through my music collection. Seriously a fucking masterpiece; Diddy's ability to grotesquely self-analyse whilst absurdly posturing is something you have to be Diddy already to carry off but works so fucking well it's insane.

(Good news! Press Play was the next year so I'll nom 'em then -phew)

but it's the only way I hear your voice anymore

[credoimprobus]

gotta change my answering machine now that I'm alone
cos right now it says that "we" can't come to the phone
and I know it makes no sense
cos you walked out the door
but it's the only way I hear your voice anymore

So Sick: deserves ALL THE TICKS for that gutpunch of an opening alone.



The lyrics have all the hallmarks of Ne-Yo's best: personalised detail, vivid worldbuilding, solid touches of humour. And the production is beautiful -- the midtempo handclaps, the sweet melancholy of the plucked strings.

In contrast, Stay is bright and sunny, full of life, while the lyrics are dizzy desperation. Plus it has a brilliant, agile tune. (HOW IT DIDN'T HIT I SHALL NEVER UNDERSTAND.) It opens In My Own Words, and instantly pulls you into the album's world.




In summary, In My Own Words = one of the stone cold classic albums of the decade, and if you like Ne-Yo and haven't (improbably) heard it yet, YOU REALLY NEED TO.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I can see that "Sweet Temptation" is going to have a tough time of it this heat, which is TOTALLY WRONG. It's one of the catchiest songs of the decade!

I can't embed videos at work! I will do it later tonight unless someone else does it for me.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Here it is:

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

If you are a fan of minimal, the pet shop boys or lovely scandinavian singers (or even better all three) you should check out this marvellous mix of timecode - the fantastic Marit Bergman singing the Pet Shop Boys' 'Rent' over the original Timecode. For me this is way better than the original of either

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

My favourite Eurovision song of the decade, Mihai Traistariu's Tornero

[koganbot]

Boy's giving Taylor a line, she lets him know she knows it's a line, but in her gut she wants it to be true, and she gives him a summer's worth of nights on lover's lane. Tim McGraw is their Barry White-like soundtrack. Then, after the breakup, Tim's the sound that provokes wistfulness or hot rage depending which way you poke this song. Still my favorite Taylor song, and the best and most complex lyrics of the '00s not to have the names Eminem or Ashlee in the writing credits.



(Will link the official vid and some comments of mine in my next comment, but Moggy or Kat or someone will have to unscreen it - PLEASE - for you to see them.)

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I think I've unscreened it. I've never had that happen before though so am not sure!

[koganbot]

Thanks. It actually happened to me in Round Two as well, but I didn't make a thing of it (is my second comment on the Tigarah subthread), so it's still sitting waiting to be unscreened.

I think what's happening is that with all the DOS attacks and spamming, lj tightened their default settings so the way you've now got it is that they will screen or mark as spam anything that contains links and isn't from a mod. I've loosened my own settings since I don't mind spam sitting for a couple of hours before I see and delete it. I basically want to make sure that anhh, who posts anonymously, gets to continue posting and embedding and linking on my threads (though I haven't heard a peep from anhh in several months).

[koganbot]

I've written more about "Tim McGraw" than about any other Taylor song, angling it this way and that; here's a sample. And here's the vid (only good rip on YouTube was American Vevo, which probably won't play in Britain; trying Dailymotion, though that may have the same problem).

[askbask.livejournal.com]

TaylorSwiftVEVO's video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkD20ajVxnY) on Youtube works here in Norway, but not the Dailymotion link.

[koganbot]

Works for me too; might as well try the embed, and see if it works for the Brits:

if you could see me here this way, looking backwards from today, would you do it all again?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Stoned in Love by Chicane was originally Strong In Love and featured someone who wasn't Tom Jones. Fortunately they corrected both of these errors and gave it a great Bonnie'n'Clyde heist video-


Probably one of my most-listened to iTunes purchases ever. Stonking poppers o'clock balladry with a heartfelt vocal = HIGHLY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.

missing song?

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

Where's Shakira's "Timor"??? I thought it had been nommed. It would have walked this heat.

Re: missing song?

[koganbot]

I'd have voted for it. No one specifically nominated it, however. Jeff and Kat had this convo during the 2005 noms:

Another ruling needed
jeff_worrell
2010-02-10 06:32 am (local) (link)
Is Shakira's "Timor" 2005 or 2006? I think the album came out in the US at the end of '05 but not in the UK until well into '06. I'd rather save it for 2006 if poss.

If it is '06 then my last nomination for '05 is:
Aavikko - "Rosinante"
(Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: Another ruling needed
katstevens
2010-02-11 09:53 am (local) (link)
Rosinante is IN, Timor is 2006.

Now, I would think that if "Timor" is 2006 that means that someone has to nominate it for 2006, not just mention it in 2005 while nominating another 10 songs (otherwise I could have asked about a whole bunch of 2006 songs in 2005 and then they'd have been automatically nominated for 2006 while meanwhile I got another 10 nominations in 2006, which wouldn't be fair to the rest of you), though I'm not sure how Kat actually did carryovers. Thought basically she carried over tracks that charted in a later year in the UK, and maybe some things that someone nominated that she decided belonged in a next year. But not something that someone didn't nominate but just inquired about. Anyhow, Jeff wrote this on the 2006 noms thread:

also I'm pretty sure Kat agreed when we were doing 2005 that "Timor" by Shakira (<-- best/most bonkers song ever) would appear on her spreadsheet of doom for 2006

But in fact I'm not sure saying "Timor is 2006" means that Kat agreed to anything. And since no one responded to Jeff's post...

Well, since the situation is ambiguous, I say we include "Timor" in the next heat, but that's only 'cause I might well tick it, and it is Shakira's (and therefore possibly the world's) most bonkers song ever.

Re: missing song?

[koganbot]

Or maybe we could even have a separate poll as to whether it gets included in the next heat, which would possibly inspire more people to listen to it.

Spotify playlist!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

For anyone trying to ignore the outside world on this day :) (http://open.spotify.com/user/afarrell/playlist/2ZmPLBKIkIC5pKqcmHwZEe)

Missing: Snook, Shimura Curves, and Marit Bergman.