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Best Song of 2001: Heat #2

Jul 21, 2009 12:33

Destiny's Child lead the way once again, with MOP, So Solid Crew, Mis-teeq and Daft Punk slipping in behind them to make the 2001 final.

More big hitters in round 2!

( Voting rules remain the same - TEN ticks in total. )

2000s

Comments 67

chezghost July 21 2009, 12:12:16 UTC

Toughest heat yet for me - in that I had a 4-way eliminator and had to sacrifice Mystikal (using 'i class it as 2000' as my excuse)

the Sovereign mix of 'Case Of The Ex' is great too

alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 12:18:24 UTC

yes this was such a great era - it just seemed like there was this endless stream of classic R&B singles, and they'd always be accompanied be equally classic garage remixes.

The "class of 2000" excuse doesn't wash I'm afraid - it worked for the 1999 tracks because I felt they didn't belong in a 2000s poll at all. But 2000 tracks definitely do, and it's not their fault they ended up in this heat!

me and <i>my</i> daughter alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 12:15:46 UTC

The Tori cover might be quite interesting to ~discuss~ actually. Background: for her concept covers album Strange Little Girls she decided to reinterpret 12 songs by male songwriters from a female perspective (complete with SHORT STORIES and OUTFITS AND WIGS for each). So far so Tori, and it's a hit-or-miss affair generally which was obviously done to get out of a contract; mostly when it works, it works despite the concept ('Time' and 'Rattlesnakes' especially). But the Eminem one is an exception - she says she sung it as the dying wife locked in the car boot in the original, echoing her husband's words, and IIRC she recorded it locked in a wooden coffin (!) - and it REALLY works. Like the original it's the perfect midpoint of slightly hammy shock tactics and genuinely chilling moments.

Um, you might want to ignore the random chick and her "art project" video below.

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Re: me and <i>my</i> daughter alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 12:30:42 UTC

Yeah, so do I: it's a damn sight more interesting than anything she's subsequently done, at the very least, and I really love a good half of it (the Velvet Underground and Slayer covers too).

Put rappers in coffins, they dive like dolphins alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 12:23:17 UTC

as requested...Mystikal & Nivea's astoundingly great 'Danger (Been So Long)'.

WATCH yourself! Or fuck around and get BESIDE yourself!

Re: Put rappers in coffins, they dive like dolphins katstevens July 21 2009, 12:37:37 UTC

This is awesome! I don't think I've heard it before but his phrasing is v similar to that on Shake Ya Ass so it seems familiar. I prefer the backing on this to SYA though. Definite tick.

Re: Put rappers in coffins, they dive like dolphins freakytigger July 21 2009, 12:50:34 UTC

:-0 wow

Re: Put rappers in coffins, they dive like dolphins alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 13:41:16 UTC

sighing so hard at Poptimists right now.

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infov0re July 21 2009, 12:25:02 UTC

Wow, this is really hard; I don't like many of these at all, and don't know a handful. And the ones I do like aren't that great.

Although: big props for "Crystal"; one of my favourite New Order tracks, still, and coming so late.

Ugh. Now to find four more ticks.

hunt you down, i'll come tear out your heart / werewolf, i'm coming in dark alexmacpherson July 21 2009, 12:29:26 UTC

Oh go on then, the other one which might have fallen down the cracks in people's memories. LOL I never knew this was on the Tomb Raider soundtrack. Fucking epic, anyway. Does anyone know where the chants were sampled from?

I really like these occasional ultra-gothy dark garage tracks which pop up every so often - see also Lady Fury's 'Murk Dem' ("Don't think I'm way too ruff - I'll snatch your heart and drink your blood") and even, I'd argue, Geeneus' 'Yellowtail'.