Best Singles Of The Last Five Years...

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Ala the albums thread...

1999

Artful Dodger - "Re-rewind"
Kelis - "Caught Out There"
New Horizons - "Slamdown"
Destiny's Child - "Bugaboo"
Boredoms - "Jungle Taitei (EYE Remix)"
Shanks & Bigfoot - "Sweet Like Chocolate"
Dismemberment Plan - "Spider In The Snow"
Q-Tip - "Vivrant Thing"
Fennesz - "Paint It, Black"/"Don't Talk"
Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up"

2000

All Saints - "Pure Shores"
Zed Bias - "Neighborhood (Vocal Mix)"
Jay-Z - "Big Pimpin"
Azzido Da Bass - "Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)"
Beenie Man - "Moses Cry"
Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality"
Nelly - "Country Grammar"
Beta Band - "To You Alone"/"Sequinizer"
NWA - "Straight Outta Compton (Kid606 MC DSP Mix)"
Sweet Female Attitude - "Flowers"

2001

Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
Sticky feat. Ms. Dynamite - "Booo!"
Basment Jaxx - "Romeo"
Basement Jaxx - "Where's Your Head At?"
Girls On Top - "Being Scrubbed"
Freelance Hellraiser - "Stroke of Genius"
Toya - "I Do"
Mystikal - "Bouncin Back"
Pay As U Go Kartel - "Know We"
Missy Elliot - "Get Ur Freak On"

2002

Dizzee Rascal - "I Luv U"
Nelly - "Hot In Herre"
LCD Soundsystem - "Beat Connection"
Conway - "Lisa's Got Hives"
DJ Lance Lockarm - "Save The Whole World For Later"
Andrew WK - "I Get Wet"
Sugababes - "Freak Like Me"
More Fire Crew - "Oi!"
Clipse - "Grindin"
Archigram - "Carnival"

2003

Junior Boys - "Birthday"/"Last Exit"
Dr. Ring-Ding - "Bombs Over Baghdad"
R Kelly - "Ignition (Remix)"
Bubba Sparxxx - "Deliverance"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Wiley - "Ice Rink"
Jammer - "Vice Versa (Remix)"
Quarks - "I Walk (Superpitcher Schaffle Remix)"
Elephant Man - "Nah Lick"
R Kelly - "Step In The Same Of Love"

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No Kompakt?!? (Other than the Superpitcher remix?)

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

kompakt would hit the albums.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

why do i envision this one not being as big of a hit as the albums thread?

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i luv toya.

brian badword (badwords), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone now post their own!

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

People are too befuddled disturbed by the "compophobia" to really give it their full attention.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Too hard

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't have time to do it by year, or actually really think about it for that matter. Top 10, off the dome, in no order, heavily weighted toward the last few years (just like my memory):

!!! - Me & Giuliani...
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv You
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Toya - I Do
Spoon - Everything Hits at Once
Manu Chao - Merry Blues
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
50 Cent - In Da Club
Ghostface Killah - Cherchez La Ghost
Underworld - Two Months Off

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

why do i envision this one not being as big of a hit as the albums thread?

much fucking harder to think about as there are more good singles than albums... nevertheless.

I'm not going to do 1999 or 2000 yet because I can't remember that far back...

2003
tATu - All The Things She Said
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Lumidee - Never Leave You
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night
Outkast - Hey Ya
50 Cent - In Da Club
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
Desert Sessions - Crawl Home

2002
Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Missy Elliott - Work It
Alizée - Moi Lolita
Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
Ms Dynamite - Dy-na-mi-tee
Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You
Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Truth Hurts feat. Rakim - Addictive

2001
Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
Oxide & Neutrino - Remy On Da Floor
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U
Björk - Pagan Poetry
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Shivaree - Goodnight Moon
Astro B - Yoga Disco
Lina - Playa No Mo'

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

see already I forgot Bubba Sparxxx "Ugly", and offhand I don't even know which year that was released

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

2001

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

agh I forgot "Dirrty" as well

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

1999:
1. Super Furry Animals - "Northern Lites"
2. Moby - "Honey"
3. Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"
4. Travis - "Writing to Reach You"
5. Basement Jaxx - "Red Alert"

2000:
1. OutKast - "Bombs Over Baghdad"
2. All Saints - "Pure Shores"
3. Coldplay - "Yellow"
4. Darude - "Sandstorm"
5. Zombie Nation - "Kernkraft 400"

2001:
1. The Strokes - "The Modern Age"
2. The Streets - "Has It Come to This?"
3. Fischerspooner - "Emerge"
4. Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood"
5. Basement Jaxx - "Romeo"

2002:
1. Vitalic - "Poney" EP
2. The Doves - "There Goes the Fear"
3. LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"/"Beat Connection"
4. Conway - "Lisa's Got Hives"
5. Sugababes - "Freak Like Me"

2003:
1. !!! - "Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (A True Story)"
2. Sean Paul - "Get Busy"
3. Coldplay - "Clocks"
4. Belle and Sebastian - "Step Into My Office, Baby"
5. Talk Talk - "It's My Life (Liquid People remix)"

2004:
1. A Guy Called Gerald - "Strangest Changes" (or whenever the hell it finally gets released!)


Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrr! I forgot The Wildbunch - "Danger! High Voltage!" for 2001!! Get "Romeo" outta there!!

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ten not mentioned:
Tweet "Oops"
Wayne Wonder "No Letting Go"
DJ Scud & Nomex "Total Destruction"
Ward 21 & Elephant Man "Anything-a-Anything"
Kardinal Offishal "Bellydancer"
TLC "No Scrubs"
Kaito "Beautiful Day"
Wu Tang Clan "Gravel Pit"
DJ /rupture "Rumbo Babylon"
Missy E "Gossip Folks"

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The only singles I can think of that I have truly loved are Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet" and that Sophie Ellis Bexter Groovejet one. Obviously I have like a lot more than this, but nothing jumps out as being amazingly different or hugely enjoyable as those two.

Since it came out in December 1998 which was five years ago, I'll include Belle and Sebastian's "This is just a Modern Rock Song" as well. Is this allowable?

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

but it's their worst single of the last five years!

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, this one is tougher, Jess. But you indulged mine, I'll indulge yours as best I can:

1999 -- one of the best singles years ever
"Bawadtiba" Kid Rock
"Body Rock" Moby
"Umi Says" Mos Def
"Nookie" Limp Bizkit
"Scar Tissue" Chili Peppers
"Back That Az Up" Juvenile
"Simon Sezs" Pharoahe Monch (that song *owned* NYC that fall)
"I Want it That Way" Backstreet Boys
" ... Baby One More Time" Britney
"Guerrilla Radio" RATM
"We're in This Together" NIN

2000
"B.O.B." Outkast
"Stan" Eminem
"Beautiful Day" U2
"You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun" Sleater-Kinney
"Country Grammar" Nelly
Madonna "Music"
"I Just Wanna Love U" Jay-Z
"Who Let The Dogs Out?" Baha Men

2001
"The Middle" Jimmy Eat World
"Get Ur Freak On" Missy Elliott
"The Modern Age" The Strokes
"You Might Be Wrong" Radiohead
Girls, Girls, Girls" Jay-Z
"Southern Hospitality" Ludacris
"More Than a Woman" Aaliyah
"Where's Your Head At?" Basement Jaxx

2002
"You Can't Go Home Again" DJ Shadow
"Lose Yourself" Eminem
"Party Hard" Andrew W.K.
"Work It" Missy
"Hot in Herre" Nelly
"Lapdance" NERD
"Against Da Wind" Tricky
"Here to Stay" Korn

2003
"Hey Ya" Outkast
"Stand Up" Ludacris
"The Laws Have Changed" New Pornographers
"In Da Club" 50 Cent
"Liberty Belle" Super Furry Animals

Chris O., Friday, 5 December 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f372/f37226k52jo.jpg

gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but it's their worst single of the last five years!

b-but it's got Slow Graffiti on it...

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And anyway, aren't these list things a bit subjective by definition? "I like this" --> "you shouldn't, it's not that good..." - come on. I like stuff, just let me like it, OK.

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaliyah - We Need A Resolution
Erick Sermon - Music
Eve - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Big Tymers - Get Your Roll On
Juvenile - U Understand

Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The b-sides are good, but "..Modern rock song" is just okay!

x-post! just making conversation! I for example seem to be the only one who likes "Waking Up to Us" best

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, getting tetchy as every time I express an opinion people keep posting "but you should like Smashing Pumpkins" or whatever, and I'm so "no, really, I shouldn't". And even if I should, I don't. Bah.

"Gay Bar" should so also be on this thread.

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

then put it on this thread. the list at the top is not some sort of master list.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I did. I said it. Therefore it's on my (extremely short and disjointed) list. Just not numbered or in a list form.

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

2003: Electric Six, "Gay Bar"

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

2004-Yeah(crass/stupid version)-LCD Soundsystem

well, so far anyway. somebody sent it to me in the mail and it's really funny and it sounds so fucking cool for some reason thru my teeny tiny imac speakers.acid techno computer disco with cowbells kills me every time.

scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't it come out this month, though? (i agree it's great!)

Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1999: Xtina-"Come On Over"

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i dunno, i thought it said 2004 somewhere. i could be wrong. i love the ending. i never want it to end.

scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess we really are too much alike!

1999
Destiny's Child - Bugaboo
Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills
Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind
Kelis - Caught Out There
Britney Spears - Baby, One More Time
Britney Spears - Born To Make You Happy
Basement Jaxx - Jump & Shout
Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much
Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate
Layo & Bushwacka - Deep South
Armand Van Helden - Flowerz
Dom & Roland - Can't Punish Me

2000
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass
So Solid Crew - Oh No
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
DMX - Party Up
Craig David - Fill Me In
SFA - Flowers (Sunship Mix)
MJ Cole - Crazy Love
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Nelly - E.I.
Richie Dan & K-Warren - Call It Fate
Beenie Man - Feel It Boy
All Saints - Black Coffee
Outkast - B.O.B.

2001
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Basement Jaxx - Romeo
Aaliyah - We Need A Resolution
Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
Sticky ft. Ms Dynamite - Boo
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
TJ Cases - One By One
Mystikal - Bouncin' Back
Mya - Free
Sugababes - Soul Sound
London Dodgers - Down Down Biznizz
Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
Superpitcher - Tomorrow
Roots Manuva - Witness (One Hope)
Green Velvet - La La Land

2002
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Luomo - The Present Lover
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
Shakedown - At Night
Zed Bias & The Henchmen - Jigga Up (Ring The Alarm)
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
Missy Elliot - Work It
DJ Shadow - You Can't Go Home Again
Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One
Wiley Kat - I Will Not Lose
Closer Musik - You Don't Know Me
Eminem - Without Me
Mis-Teeq - B With Me (Bump & Flex Remix)
Space Cowboy - I Would Die 4 U

2003
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go
Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star
Kano & Jammer - Boys Love Girls/Vice Versa
Sizzla - Love & Affection
Junior Boys - Birthday
Richard X vs Liberty X - Being Nobody
Sean Paul - Close To Me
Danny Weed & Target ft. etc. - Pick Yourself Up
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Beyonce - Baby Boy
Wighnomy Bros - Bodyrock
Panjabi MC ft Jay-Z - Beware of the Boys

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I am That Bored

1998

Pilldriver - "Apocalypse Never"
DJ Scud - "Total Destruction"
Dem 2 - "Destiny (Sleepless)"
Amira - "My Desire (Dream Teem Remix)"
Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
Stardust - "Music Sounds Better With You"
Outhud - "Homonoid Hump"/"Kibbeb"
Basment Jaxx - "Red Alert"
Boards of Canada - "Roy G Biv"
Doolally - "Straight From The Heart"

Black Star - "Definition"

I-F - "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass

Ramsey & Fen - "Desire"

Beachcomas - "Donuts"

Adam F - "Brand New Funk"

Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic (Prisoners of Technology Remix)"

Hidden Agenda - "Fish Eggs"

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Now you gotta do 1998 albums!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i'm not THAT bored

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

okay maybe i am:

boredoms - super ae
herbert - around the house
dreem teem - in session
boards of canada - music has a right to children
cornelius - fantasma
mercury rev - deserters songs
monolake - hong kong
derick may - innovator
mogwai - come on die young (was this 98?)

that's all i can think of

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

mogwai?

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah really... mogwai belongs on the singles lists, definitely not the albums list.

the kid loco remix of "tracy" in particular.

gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh that reminds me I left "Let's All Make Mistakes" off the 2000 albums list!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm I think "Come on Die Young" was 99. My 98 picks:

Herbert - Around the House
Dom & Roland - Industry
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Monolake - Hongkong
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Deep Dish - Junk Science
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
V/A: Dreem Teem - In Session 2

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 5 December 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

In retrospect (I can't tell that I own a hip hop album from '98, what came out that year?!?):

Herbert 'Around the House (not that I heard it in 1998)
V/A 'Kompakt Köln Präsentiert Michael Mayer' (nor this actually)
Mouse on Mars 'Glam' (or this)
Laddio Bolocko 'Strange Warnings of...' (nope)
Massive Attack 'Mezzanine'
Boards of Canada 'Music Has the Right to Children'
Panacea 'Twisted Designz'
Kid Loco 'A Grand Love Affair'
Prince Charming 'Fantastic Voyage'
Boredoms 'Super Ae'

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 December 2003 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

most of my favorites have already been mentioned so I won't bother selecting them again, but not picked yet: "girls like us" and "hush hush baby" and "overload"

scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 5 December 2003 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

From the ILM cannon and missed so far:
'Since I left you'
'Sk8ter Boi'
'One More Time'

MikeB, Friday, 5 December 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of love for Aaliyah but none for "Try Again"?

Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello?"
Where's Mary Jane's 'Family Affair'?

Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hello?"
Where's Mary Jane's 'Family Affair'?

Make a list! Put it on it! (see advice just given to me upthread).

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

where's ARE Weapons? =)

or at least More Than a Woman..

Vic (Vic), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

alex makes a point (and undermines it by listing albums on a singles thread. but there was a preceent so wtf)

were these yr faves IN the year? or did you hear them after? (and yeah, this usually applies to albums anyway...)

gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Best Single of the last 5 years: "One More Time" by Daft Punk

Best Single of the last 50 years: "One More Time" by Daft Punk

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, so in no particular order, a very predictable:

Still D.R.E
Family Affair
Work it
We need a resolution
Fiesta (remix)

Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Still unmentioned:

Madonna - Don't Tell Me
Mis-Teeq - One Night Stand
Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can
Moloko - The Time Is Now
Mogwai - My Father My King
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Bang

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love one more time but surely Music Sounds Better With You is better???

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And 'Digital Love' is better than both.

N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No way, it took me ages to even like Music Sounds Better actually. I can't precisely explain why I love OMT so much, it's soundtracked so many good things and it's just the most beautiful, simple, hopeful song. "Digital Love" is wonderful of course but it's too specific.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

so naturally it's my least favourite Daft Punk track ever ;)

stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I sometimes think that "Come On Eileen" is better actually but it's between those two for the 'justification for pop's existence' award. Or 'human existence' if you catch me on an emo day.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I'm in a 'Music Sounds Better' mood, but fair play both that and 'OMT' are amazing memory songs both (for everyone? for me anyway) but 'Digital' is more... dunno. Still adoring the 2:20 breakdown.

I once saw Basement Jaxx warm up for DP, in '97. The most ILM gig evah?

N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I must love every French house track ever except those by Daft Punk. (Except "Da Funk".) They always left me cold.

"Music Sounds Better With You" trumps the whole thread, though.

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Well maybe except BJ hadn't written any of their good songs at that point.

"Digital Love" was my #1 2001 single I think. Or maybe it was "Romeo".

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I once saw Basement Jaxx warm up for DP, in '97. The most ILM gig evah?

ditto, except Jaxx DJ'd after Daft Punk's set in my case but we had to leave and get the last train back to fucking Hertfordshire. still best gig ever tho.

stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too steve, for many reasons.

Nu-En-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

99 = Basement Jaxx 'Rendez-Vu' / Underworld 'Jumbo'
00 = can't think! but this NME list is surprisingly great
01 = Roots Manuva 'Witness (One Hope)'
02 = Felix 'Silver Screen Shower Scene'
03 = Dizzee Rascal 'I Luv U' / Braxe & Falke 'Rubicon'

stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have absolutely no idea for '99.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Or 03 to be honest. I should start making my list I suppos.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Carnival by Archigram may have been the best 02 record, it just doesn't lose its appeal, I also love the way it slowly cropped up on peoples blog lists etc.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

26 answers since i went to bed and not one list you lazy bastards!

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

memory not what is was, but

98

aaliyah - are you that somebody?
bangalter - music sounds better with you
beta band - los amigos del beta banditos (or whatever)

99

chemical bros - hey boy hey girl
eminem - my name is
jaxx - red alert
d-child - bills bills bills
tlc - no scrubs, silly ho

00

jaxx - jump and shout (or was that 99? whatever)
eminem - the real slim shady
sisquo - thong song
odb - got you money
jay-z - i just wanna love u
daft punk - one more time
wu-tang - gravel pit
st et - how we used to live + heart failed...

01

aaliyah - we need a resolution
daft punk - digital love
jaxx - romeo, where's your head at
avalanches - since i left you
britney - slave 4 u
mary j - family affair

02

aaliyah - more than a woman
white stripes - fell in love with a girl
sugababes - freak like me
nelly - hot in herre
xtina - dirrty
jt - like i love you

03

outkast - hey ya
beyonce - crazy in love
sean-ah and blu - breathe
jt - rock your body
darkness - i believe ina thing called love

N-Ri-Q (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

no way could breathe be in instead of get busy!!

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yes way!

Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

98: Massive Attack's 'Teardrop', sfa's 'ice hockey hair'
99: mercury rev vs chemical bros thing
00: 'forgot about dre' (literally)

N-Ri-Q (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

00: 'a beautiful place in the country' - BOC

Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just started doing my '03 list, its daunting :(

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i could post my lists as compiled at the end of each actual year rather than just compiling a fresh list...

stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

best single of 03 is !!!.


my favourite track is adam beyer's remix of ignition key by speedy j though, it ain't really a single.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!'s not even on my shortlist.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

my list was fake-ass, i mean in '98 i was tres indie and wd no way have included aaliyah. but what the fuck, right?

what's !!!, g?

n-r-k (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard by !!!, check it out. It's happy, it's sad, it's the song that has it all.

My singles list is absurd, all I do is singles, if I started I wouldn't be able to stop. Lucky Star is surely another highlight.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

haha my "shortlist" for 2003 initially included 157 songs.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

bounce bounce


bounce bounce bounce

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine is a puny 102 so far.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there any method people use to remember everything? I completely forgot Wayne Wonder for a while.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

bascially i just sat down and listened to the CDs i made from this year. it took me a couple days.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that would work but some stuff I love I don't own.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i was lucky in that i was making the cds as iwent along this year so there's a bunch of stuff i really dont like much now (i mean..."hey ya"?!) but they work well as a "real" document of 2003.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

oh is tico tico losing the pop faith? the deathknell for dilletantism? say it ain't so brutha!

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

as much as i'm sick sick sick of 'hey ya' i do like that i couldn't've predicted just how mutherfukking omnipresent the thing is (i don't like that if i'd thought about it just a lil bit i could've predicted just how mutherfukking omnipresent the thing is)

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i was really surprised the other day driving around with someone else in control of the radio just how many times i heard it.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have a television? i can't count how many network promos incorporate andre's "1-2-3-4!"

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"1-2-3-4 - tonight on the king of queens..."

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not big here at all really, I have to say I love it but I've only heard it about twice.

Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What year did "A lapdance is always better when the stripper is crying" by Bloodhound Gang come out and that one about Chasey Lain? They were kinda funny.

C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I forgot "Got Your Money"!!! Which would probably get my vote for the most tantric pop song of the last five years - it's the gift that keeps on giving!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 6 December 2003 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

these are NOT in order, and NOT complete.

1999
Armand Van Helden ft. Roland Clark: "Flowerz"
Basement Jaxx: "Red Alert"
Ol' Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis: "Got Your Money" [thanks Tim!]
Backstreet Boys: "I Want It That Way"
Powerhouse ft. Duane Harden: "What You Need"
Fatboy Slim: "Praise You"
Pavement: "Spit on a Stranger"
Pet Shop Boys: "New York City Boy"
DJ Zinc: "138 Trek"
Michael Watford: "Reach on Up"
Q-Tip: "Vivrant Thing"
Clinic EP

2000
Jay-Z: "I Just Wanna Love You (Give It to Me)"
OutKast: "B.O.B" and "Ms. Jackson"
B15 Project ft. Chrissy D & Lady G: "Girls Like Us"
Destiny's Child: "Say My Name"
Scanty Sandwich: "Because of You"
Eminem: "Stan"
Nelly: "Country Grammar (Hot S**t)" and "Ride wit Me"
De La Soul ft. Chaka Khan: "All Good?"
Mystikal: "Shake Ya Ass"
Queens of the Stone Age: "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"
Isolee: "Beau Mot Plage"
The Avalanches: "Since I Left You"
Black Box Recorder: "The Art of Driving"

2001
Jay-Z: "Izzo"
Missy Elliott: “Get Ur Freak On”
Daft Punk: “One More Time” and “Digital Love”
Petey Pablo: “Raise Up” and "I Told Y'all"
Basement Jaxx: “Romeo” and “Where’s Your Head At”
Soulwax: "The Magnificent Romeo"
Freelance Hellraiser: "A Stroke of Genius"
The Strokes: "Last Nite"
Tiger Ranks: “Party wit Me”
Full Intention featuring Shena: “I’ll Be Waiting (Gray & Pern Club Mix)” [handbaggers unite!]
Green Velvet: “La La Land”
Dntel: “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt Remix)”
Stephen Malkmus: "Jenny and the Ess-Dog"
Royksopp: “Eple”

2002 [BEST SINGLES YEAR EVER, maybe]
Kylie Minogue: “Love at First Sight” and "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
The Streets: “Let’s Push Things Forward”/"All Got Our Runnins" and "Weak Become Heroes"
Shakedown: “At Night”
Lo Fidelity Allstars: “Feel What I Feel”
Freelance Hellraiser: “Smells Like Booty”
The Hives: “Hate to Say I Told You So”
Pink: “Don’t Let Me Get Me” and "Get the Party Started"
Clipse: “Young Boy” and "Grindin'" and "When the Last Time"
Freelance Hairdresser: "Marshall’s Been Snookered"
Sugababes: “Freak Like Me”
The Rapture: “House of Jealous Lovers”
No Doubt: “Underneath It All” and "Hella Good"
Tweet: “Oops (Oh My)” and "Boogie Tonite"
Missy Elliott: “Work It”
Queens of the Stone Age: “No One Knows”
Nas: “Made You Look”
Snoop Dogg: “From the Chuuuch to the Palace”
Nelly: “Hot in Herre”
X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne: “Lazy”
Eminem: “Without Me”
Scarface: “On My Block”
Pet Shop Boys: “Home and Dry”
Atmosphere: “Modern Man’s Hustle”
DJ /rupture: “Rumbo Babylon”
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge"
Dizzee Rascal: “I Luv U”
Electric Six: "Danger! High Voltage"

2003
The New Pornographers: “The Laws Have Changed”
Electric Six: “Gay Bar”
Panjabi MC featuring Jay-Z: “Beware of the Boys (Remix)”
Luomo: “So You”
R. Kelly: “Ignition Remix”
Elephant Man: “Fuck U Sign”
Junior Senior: “Shake Your Coconuts” and "Move Your Feet"
Basement Jaxx: “Plug It In” and "Cish Cash" and "Lucky Star"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Maps”
Justin Timberlake: “Rock Your Body" and "Cry Me a River" and "Like I Love You"
Audio Bullys: “The Snow”
Yo La Tengo: “Today Is the Day” [slow version from album]
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z: “Crazy in Love”
Sean Paul: “Get Busy”
The Postal Service: “Nothing Better” and "Such Great Heights"
Freaks: “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out”
Missy Elliott: “Pass That Dutch”

not included because I'm too lazy to look up titles and dates: many miscellaneous Perlon and, to a lesser degree, Kompakt traxxxor.

M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 6 December 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice to see the love for "Where Were You..." - that should be on my list too!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll put my thang down, flip it and reverse it. In bits, like.

Here's 2004:
Richard X feat Javine - 'You Used To'
Bubba Sparxxx - 'Comin' Round' (maybe)
Basement Jaxx feat JC Chasez - 'Plug It In'

2003
Richard X vs Liberty X - 'Being Nobody'
Basement Jaxx feat. Dizzay Raskizzay - 'Lucky Star'
Girls Aloud - 'No Good Advice'
Xtina - 'Beautiful'
J-Timberlake - 'Cry Me A River'
Noonday Underground - 'The Light Brigade' Cut Copy Remix
The Juan Maclean - 'Give Me Every Little Thing'
Missy Elliott - 'Gossip Folks'
Bubba Sparxxx - 'Deliverance'
R Kelly - 'The Remix To Ignition (Hot And Fresh Out The Kitchen)'
Beyonce - 'Crazy In Love'
Liberty X - 'Jumpin''
Kelis - 'Milkshake'
Timbaland, Magoo and Missy - 'Cop That Shit'
Sean Paul - 'Get Busy'
Andrea Doria - 'Bucci Bag'
Busted - 'You Said No'/'Sleeping With The Lights On'
Ladytron - 'Evil' Tony Senghore's Electric Vocal Mix
Junior Senior - 'Move Your Feet'
Neil and Iraiza - 'This Is Not A Love Song'
Jamelia - 'Superstar'
Atomic Kitten - 'Be With You' (*strangled noises*)

Barima (Barima), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
Oh, man, I totally forgot to finish this:

2004
Rachel Stevens - 'Some Girls'/'Some Girls' Extended
Britney Spears - 'Toxic'/'Everytime'
Richard X feat Javine - 'You Used To' (promo)
Basement Jaxx feat JC Chasez - 'Plug It In'
Janet Jackson - 'All Nite (Don't Stop)'
JC Chasez - 'All Day Long I Dream About Sex'
The Knife - 'Heartbeats' (Rex The Dog Remix)
Busted - 'Who's David?'/'Thunderbirds Are Go!'
Petey Pablo - 'Freek-A-Leek'
LCD Soundsytem/Usher - 'Yeah'
The Beta Band - 'Assessment'
Black Eyed Peas - 'Hey Mama'
The Prodigy - 'Girls'
Benny Benassi pres. The Biz - 'No Matter What You Do' (Cagedbaby Remix)
Soulwax - 'NY Excuse'
M.A.N.D.Y. - 'Achaat'
Lethal B - 'POW!'
Spektrum - 'Kinda New' (Tiefschwarz Dub)
Kano - 'Ps & Qs'
Junior Senior - 'Shake Your Coconuts' (DFA Remix)
Kings Of Convenience - 'I'd Rather Dance With You' (Cornelius Remix)
Sugababes - 'In The Middle'
A Man Called Adam - 'Barefoot In The Head' (Justin Robertson and Cagedbaby Remix)
Markus Nikolai - 'Bushes' (Cuban Heels Remix)
The Streets - 'Fit But You Know It'
Girls Aloud - 'Love Machine'
Superthriller - 'Ahjustwannadance', 'I'm Gonna Leave At Three So Call Me'
Destiny's Child - 'Lose My Breath'
Jay-Z - 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder'/'99 Problems'
Brandy - 'Afrodisiac'
Rekindle - 'Ice Skating Girl' (Linus Loves Remix)
Amy Winehouse - 'Fuck Me Pumps'/Aloud - 'Rocky XIII' (Mylo Remixes)
The Go! Team - 'Ladyflash'
Vannessa Carlton - 'White Houses'
Depeche Mode - 'Enjoy The Silence '04'
Junior Jack - 'Stupidisco'

2003 addendums (how did I miss them?)
Cagedbaby - 'Star'
Kiley Dean - 'Kiss Me Like That'
The Shortwave Set - 'Slingshot'
M.A.N.D.Y. & The Sunsetpeople - 'Our World (Our Music)'
NERD - 'Lapdance' (Freeform Five mixes)
Chicks On Speed - 'We Don't Play Guitars' (Tiefschwarz Remix)
Midnight Star - 'Midas Touch'/Swag - 'Where I Belong' (Ewan and Al mixes)
UNKLE - 'In A State'/Chromeo - 'Destination: Overdrive' (DFA mixes)
Chromeo - 'Needy Girl'
The Rapture - 'I Need Your Love'
The Chemical Brothers - 'The Golden Path' (Ewan Pearson Remix)
Stars - 'Romantic Comedy'
Pink - 'Feel Good Time'
Broken Social Scene - 'Stars and Sons'
Sarah Whatmore - 'Automatic'
Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys - 'Get Low'
Missy Elliott feat. Jay Z - 'Back In The Day'
Dannii Minogue - 'I Begin To Wonder'/'Spin Around', 'Don't Wanna Lose This Groove'
Ignition - 'Planet 69'
Lemon Jelly - 'Rolled Oats'/'Nice Weather For Ducks'
Fannypack - 'The Theme From Fannypack'
Audio Bullys - 'The Snow'/'Turned Away' (Tony Senghore Remix)
The Polyphonic Spree - 'Soldier Girl' (RJD2 Remix)
Zongamin - 'Serious Trouble'
Lil Kim - 'The Jump Off'
Thomas Bangalter - 'Outrage'
Cooler Kids - 'Morning Star'
Panjabi MC - 'Mundian To Bach Ke'
Mis-Teeq - 'Can't Get It Back' (Ignorants Remix)
Goldfrapp - 'Train' (Ewan Pearson Remixes)
Lucky Pierre - 'The Heart Of All That Is' (Minotaur Shock Remix)
Javine - 'Surrender'
DJ Shadow - 'Six Days' (Soulwax Mix)

2002 (last year of consistently high charting excellent singles, relatively speaking)
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - 'Early Riser'/'Rocket Coaster' (Fab Cushion Mix)
Justin Timberlake - 'Like I Love You'/'LILY' (Basement Jaxx mixes)
Sugababes - 'Freak Like Me'/'Round Round'
Missy Elliott - 'Work It', '4 My People' (Basement Jaxx Remix)
Archigram - 'More Than A Woman'
Aaliyah - 'Rock The Boat'
JC Chasez - 'Blowing Me Up (With Her Love)'
Fischerspooner - 'Emerge'
Basement Jaxx - 'Get Me Off'
Pedro Vs Kathryn Williams - 'Demons In Cases'
Xtina and Redman - 'Dirrty'
Nelly - 'Hot In Herre'
Kylie Minogue: “Love at First Sight” and "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
The Beta Band - 'Squares'
DB Boulevard - 'Point Of View'
Shakedown: “At Night”
Clipse: "Grindin'" and "When the Last Time"
Cornelius - 'Drop', 'I Love Love'/'I Hate Hate' and 'Point Of View Point'
The Rapture: “House of Jealous Lovers”
No Doubt: “Underneath It All” and "Hella Good"
Tweet: “Oops (Oh My)” and "Boogie Tonite"
Eminem: “Without Me”
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge"
Dizzee Rascal: “I Luv U”
NERD: 'Rockstar (Poser)'
Space Cowboy - 'I Would Die 4 U'
Seelenluft feat. Mic Master Michael Smith - 'Manila' (Ewan Pearson Mixes)
Metro Area - 'Orange Alert' (DFA Remix)
Headman - 'It Rough'
Manhead - 'Show Me The Way'/'Sister'
Lexx - 'Basement Rock' /'Waiting For A Dub'
*NSYNC - 'Girlfriend'
Freeform Five - 'Perspex Sex' (Freeform Reform and Ewan Pearson Remixes)
Together - 'So Much Love To Give'
Lemon Jelly - 'Space Walk'

2001:
Basement Jaxx - 'Romeo', 'Jus 1 Kiss', 'Where's Your Head At?'
Daft Punk - 'Digital Love', 'Aerodynamic', 'Harder, Better, Faster, Strongo'
Missy Elliott - 'Get Ur Freak On'
Cut Copy - 'Glitterin' Clouds', 'Live'
The Avalanches - 'Since I Left You'/'SILY' (Cornelius Remix)
Janet Jackson - 'Someone To Call My Lover', 'All For You'
Britney Spears - 'I'm A Slave 4 U'
Bubba Sparxxx - 'Ugly', 'Lovely'
NORE - 'Nothin''
NERD - 'Lapdance'
*NSYNC - 'Pop'
So Solid Crew - 'They Don't Know'
Badly Drawn Boy - 'Once Around The Block' (Nick Faber Remix)/'The Shining' (original, Avalanches and Minotaur Shock mixes)
Andy Votel feat. Jane Weaver - 'Girl On A Go-Ped' (Minotaur Shock Mix)
Manic Street Preachers - 'So Why So Sad' (Avalanches Sean Penn Remix)
Kings Of Convenience - Winning A Battle, Losing The War/ Alfie - You Make No Bones (Andy Votel Remixes)
Misty Dixon - 'Milk Money'
Mum & Dad - '6 Week Holiday'
Chemical Brothers - 'It Began In Afrika'
Destiny's Child - 'Bootylicious'
Brandy - 'What About Us', 'Full Moon'
Eve feat. Gwen Stefaneee - 'Let Me Blow Ya Mind'
No Doubt - 'Hella Good'
Girls On Top - 'Warm Bitch'/'I Wanna Dance With Numbers'
Lemon Jelly - 'Soft Rock'

2000
Jordan Knight - 'Give It To You'
Vannessa Carlton - 'A Thousand Miles'
Aaliyah - 'We Need A Resolution', 'Try Again'
Sweet Female Attitude - 'Flowers'
Blur - 'Tender' (Cornelius Remix)
Kelis - 'Good Stuff'
Annie - 'The Greatest Hit'
The Bloodhound Gang - 'The Ballad Of Chasey Lain'
Eminem - 'Stan'
Jay-Z - 'Big Pimpin''
Together - 'Together'
Artful Dodger feat. Robbie Craig - 'Woman Trouble'
Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass
DMX - Party Up
Craig David - Fill Me In
Nelly - E.I.
The Beta Band - 'To You Alone'/'Sequinsizer'
All Saints - 'Black Coffee'
Outkast - 'B.O.B.'
Nick Faber - 'Solitude'
Badly Drawn Boy - 'Disillusion'
Destiny's Child - 'Jumpin' Jumpin'
Britney Spears - 'Ooops I Did It Again', 'Lucky', 'Stronger'
Primal Scream - 'Exterminator'
Wu Tang Clan - "Gravel Pit"
Chemical Brothers - 'Music: Response'
Daft Punk - 'One More Time'
Santos - 'Camels'
Dr Dre feat. Snoop - 'Still D.R.E.' and 'The Next Epidose'/feat. Eminem - 'Forgot About Dre'
Lyte Funky Ones - 'Summer Girls'
The Offspring - 'Pretty Fly For A White Guy' (Dust Brothers Space Echo Mix)
10 Cents - 'Blow It Up Y'All'

1999
Basement Jaxx - 'Rendez-Vu', 'Red Alert', 'Bingo Bango'
Ol Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - 'Got Your Money'
Takako Minekawa - Plash
Jay-Z - 'I Just Wanna Love You'
DJ Falcon - 'Honeymoon'
Dreem Teem vs. Neneh Cherry - 'Buddy X '99'
Manic Street Preachers - 'Tsunami' (Cornelius Remix)
Madonna - 'Don't Tell Me'
Destiny's Child - 'Say My Name', 'Bugaboo', 'Bills Bills Bills'
Artful Dodger - 'Re-Rewind'
Britney Spears - 'Baby, One More Time', 'Born To Make You Happy'
Shania Twain - 'That Don't Impress Me Much'
Shanks & Bigfoot - 'Sweet Like Chocolate'
Avalanches - 'Undersea Community'
Nick Faber - 'Something For You'
DJ Downfall - 'Make Me Feel Like A Man'
Jean-Michel - 'Pediculos Humanus'
Avalanches - 'Electricity'/'Information'
OP:L Bastards - 'Spraybeat'
Pedro - 'Lay Down Mega Man'
Sirconical - 'Catalogue of Errors'
Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
Mos Def - 'Ms. Fat Booty'
Xtina - 'Come On Over (All I Want Is You)'
TLC - "No Scrubs"
Chemical Brothers - 'Hey Boy Hey Girl'
Eminem - 'My Name Is'
Ginuwine - 'What's So Different?'
Missy Elliott - 'She's A Bitch'/'Hot Boyz'
The Dust Brothers feat. Tyler Durden - 'This Is Your Life'
Beck - 'Mixed Bizness'

BARMS, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)


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