Best Song of 2001: Heat #2

[katstevens]

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!

Comments

[carsmilesteve]

i like the SOAD song because the man sings:

CIDER CIDER
CIDER CIDER

Ian Van DULL moar like

[katstevens]

How can such a boshing euphoric background be WASTED on that drippy weak vocal hook? It's worse than when Dido turns up on Faithless records.

Re: Ian Van DULL moar like

[chezghost]

'Will I' is better somehow

Re: Ian Van DULL moar like

[chezghost]

"It's worse than when Dido turns up on Faithless records"

except 'Salva Mea'!

Re: Ian Van DULL moar like

[martinv]

Meh. I think it's pretty OK. That and 'Chase the Sun' should both be doing better.

What was with Roger Sanchez not getting through in the last round? Big shame.

2001

[braisedbywolves]

More than the previous lot, this is stuff that I associate with arguing about on ILM. I think that being on the minor side of the arguments on the two big songs has hardened my heart - where I can see that hearing CGYOOMH (and to an extent Digital Love except that you don't, really, hear them) in the intervening years would have softened "I remember this!" to "I like this", I've gone "Oh, that bloody song" instead.

Re: 2001

[braisedbywolves]

haha the 'minor' side may also be known to historians as the losing side :)

[Edit: now I have a spare tick, after finding out that 'Cry' is actually the sort of Michael Jackson song that deserves having Jarvis Cocker waggling his bum at it, rather than 'Earth Song', which is ace :( ]

[petronia]

I have a suspicion that the reason I remember 2001 but not 2000 is because 2001 is when I really started downloading mp3s big-time.

"Crystal" was the first time I heard New Order. I remember this precisely: I was sitting in the computer lab at uni, looking for a download of the third Garbage album, the self-titled. The FTP site at which I found it had two others up: Get Ready and Sneaker Pimps' Bloodsport (which makes it 2002, which makes sense as I remember it being spring, just before semester end). I downloaded the first track of each and ended up getting the rest of one but not the other - to this day I'm not huge on Sneaker Pimps. But I remember "Crystal" because it was possibly the only time in my life I thought "I've never heard anything like this before" but was able to grok it immediately.

[katstevens]

My boyfriend at the time was a big New Order/Joy Division fan and he went mad for Crystal. I couldn't quite see it myself - nice enough but it didn't have that OMG factor.

(gosh I am being incredibly negative about lots of songs on this poll! I will rep for stuff tomorrow to balance it out!)

[katstevens]

Wow - people really like Digital Love that much? I know I tend to go for more boshing stuff but srsly I think it's one of DP's weakest songs. Sappy gameshow end credits :(

[chezghost]

surely it's technically one of their strongest songs and consequently weaker in the departments DP were previously best known for (boshin etc.). i think it's better than the more One More Time because it's less repetetive as a song too tho. but i like about half of the other tracks on Discovery more.

[jeff_worrell]

It's their best radio song, but of course Buggles, Supertramp and ELO (the blueprints for DL) also sound best on radio. Its effect is much diminished in the context of the LP.

[chezghost]

"but of course Buggles, Supertramp and ELO (the blueprints for DL) also sound best on radio"

hmmm, why would that be? not sure i go along with it. they're good songs on their own terms after all.