Songs of 2006: Heat #6

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

We are at the final proper heat of 2006; there'll be some mathematical mop-up at the end but this is pretty much the final curtain. As it's a short heat (36 rather than 40 contenders) you only get FIVE ticks. Which is a shame, as the end of the alphabet is looking great- like all good compilations it's got a dodgy indie collection at the end but there's some ruddy great hits before then.

Through from the last round were the following-
Girls Aloud- Something Kinda Ooooh (14 ticks)
Lily Allen - Smile (12 ticks) (this surprises me)
Rihanna - SOS (9 ticks)
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (9 ticks)
Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind (7 ticks)
Jojo - Too Little Too Late (7 ticks)

(Okay, actually all of that lot surprise me)

The winner in the Heat 4 playoff was Amy Winehouse and her Rehabs. Amy will no doubt be very pleased about this victory and if you pop along to the right place in Camden you can probably join her in celebrating.


1. Tick your FIVE favourite songs here.

2. The top five pollers will automatically go through to the 2006 FINAL. There will be a playoff to make up the numbers later this week tho.

3. Tell us your favourite song you've heard new here in the box at the bottom for an extra tick in the next poll.

Extra (sixth) ticks in this round go to: braisedbywolves, infov0re and askbask

[Poll #1737883]

This heat will close LUNCHTIME GMT on FRIDAY 6th May.

Comments

YOU'LL! NEVER! BE ALONE AGAIN!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Just in case anyone was wondering why they felt a lingering need to tick that.

everything you want me to be but we haven't spoke in days in fact it's been a matter of weeks

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, god help us if there's a war but this is very lovely and would fit quite comfortably with modern-day Take That innit-

[credoimprobus]

Craaaap I really should have got myself the extra tick. I have exactly six must-ticks here. :/

(Gwen & her goatherd shall have to go without my tick unless she start to look too in trouble.)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Well, after the first seven votes, she's in no trouble of getting any ticks :)

Hah, looking at the video now, she is totally Lady Gaga's John the Baptist!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Lady Gaga's John the Baptist
This is the best thing I've read on the internet today!

[credoimprobus]

Ha, it is looking rather grim for poor Gwen, yes; I may have to do a rep post yet!

if you don't know the answer why you still standing here

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Kelly's Walk Away is stonkingly great in a 'singing into your breakfast cereal' way. I have the feeling that, appropriately, they include this in the video but can't watch it at work to verify this fact-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6poXoO224E

(probs my favourite song of the Since U Been Gone era)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

This heat seems designed to cause me great distress. I DIDN'T EVEN TICK WAMP WAMP.

But the absolute must-tick for me is The Pack's Vans:



Hey, current hipster cred points -- Lil B's best work was with the Pack!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I love that Will Young song but have run out of tix :(

Worth it to tick Fergie's Voodoo Doll though - I put this on a mixtape for martinv without telling him who it was by and he thought it was brilliant:

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Fergie is like that - I encountered Clumsy under similar circumstances and I basically guessed 50% of the female population of the world before finding out it was Fergie :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The whole album is amazing. Even the blanket song. OK, maybe not 'Mary Jane Shoes' (which sucks mightly in the way only drippy cod-reggae can) or 'Finally' (album-closing piano ballad where Ferg just goes off on one to no great result).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

e.g. on 'the makeup song' (or whatever it's called) we have the genius lines:

"Would! You! Love me if IIIII didn't work out, or I didn't change my natural hair..." <--- you mean that's NOT your natural hair Ferg?

"But when I look into your eyes I'm not scared to say, I see little YOUs, I'm in the picture too" <-- most terrifyingly honest chatup line ever and precursor to TashBed's (upcoming in 2007) "I Wanna Have Yr Babies"

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Oh THAT. I will have to relisten to that tonight and possibly amend my indieticks as I remember it being great. I never learn, though...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And here's Ellen and Sascha absolutely somehow talking about Dried Eggs:



This whole album has v happy memories tied up in it for me.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

This currently needs more ticks. Probably the best thing in the whole of 2006 voting, I reckon.

Viscera Eyes!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

radio edit. I love when Cedric sings in Spanish!

Re: Viscera Eyes!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

hahah, the still is shirtless Thomas Pridgen.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

OH CRAP I DIDN'T EVEN SEE "VALENTINE" ON HERE. GAH!!!!!

Another favorite from this year. Kind of an "ambushed by emotion" song for me, though not as much as "Robot Song" from last heat.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Had to jettison either Kelly C.'s "Walk Away" or T.I.'s "What You Know." The Latter's too damn iconic to get rid of, but I'll come back to Kelly if it's close.

Marit Larsen - Under The Surface

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer this to Don't Save Me: a lovely sun-dappled wander through perfect love, which nearly immediately steps off a cliff. On the way down, dark wings unfurl...



(I know that it's problematic to mix "quirky indie princess" with "mental health issues" - I don't really have anything to say to that except fucking hell, this is an amazing song)

Re: Marit Larsen - Under The Surface

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

this is absolutely amazing, best thing she's ever done

Do they REALLY belong together?

[koganbot]

Actually, this is the first time I've heard this, and I don't yet know what I think. Is sweet mush and a slow embrace between G-Dragon and Bom until 1:55, when T.O.P. takes over for 40 seconds, excellently pouring dead cinders on everything, Bom being relegated to the backseat (though I doubt that that's what the lyrics say is going on). Tension from thereon as to where G-Dragon's loyalties really lie, or so it seems from the vid.

Re: Do they REALLY belong together?

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I really like Big Bang in this smooth, commercial rnb mode, one big charismatic grin - more than the shiny, aloft, guitar-infused mode they operate in as a group recently.

I ain't talkin' fast, it's just you listen slow, ya know what I mean?

[koganbot]

Sweet pleading emotion turned up to high pitch, Spandau Ballet's slow glacier of beauty as backdrop ('cept does anyone think that Lloyd, when he goes, "She's fine, too, but I want you," really thinks he can't have both?).

Re: I ain't talkin' fast, it's just you listen slow, ya know what I mean?

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Made a mistake in not ticking this.

The obligatory "stop ticking" post

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Stop ticking Justice/Simian* and* Young Folks*

*delete according to taste

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I always thought this (http://stoppeterbjornandjohn.blogspot.com/) was one of the great heroic failures of the interwebs

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I must admit I am appalled by the PBJ love.

WE CAME DOWN FROM THE NORTH

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

Clearly doing well already but seriously come on:

ATT: SHOCKING INJUSTICE IN PROGRESS

[credoimprobus]

I was going to do a Gwen/Pink/Bouncy post, but then I took a look at the ticks and hang on HANG ON HANG ON--



ARE YOU PEOPLE SERIOUS? How the hell is this in danger of dropping out?

*aghast, appalled, and indignant!*

Re: ATT: SHOCKING INJUSTICE IN PROGRESS

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I wonder if people here don't appreciate big, gorgeous carpets of sound - see the failure of Ciara's "Promise".

Re: ATT: SHOCKING INJUSTICE IN PROGRESS

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

The problem with Promise may be less carpet than doormat, in fairness.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

B0LL0CKS I've just realised I forgot to nominate 'Off The Hook' by CSS for this year. Can we do it next year pretty please Mog? I know 'Lets Make Love & Listen etc' charted in 2007 but 'Off The Hook' did not wah :(

I got the sweet victory in Jesus!

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Awesomely OTT christian R&B - Yolanda absolutely belts out every line like her life depends on it, while a gospel choir shreaks away behind her, and all backed up by amazing VWORP-VWORPing synths.