The 24th P&J Singles Poll!

enuff with the Missy love. I voted for Kylie, even though "Love At First Sight" isn't here. This was a really great pop year that's not reflected on this tally.

how the hell did "Soak Up The Suck" make this list??

The Blame Game:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/02/voted_for.php?titleid=101884

Greil Marcus I can kind of understand, but Skott?

Ms. Fremme Neppa Venette get's it again, in spite of some...er...stiff competition.

Also: Former ILxors SFJ and Keith Harris--the villains!

Nelly, followed by Tweet, Kylie, and Missy.

et tu, Mikael? That list is SHAMEFUL.

lol and then I went and voted for the Vines. guess I'll put that first stone back in my pocket.

i really hope other people have realized how ban lose yourself aged.

how BAD

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I can't imagine a year where there weren't 10 songs better than Emo Of The Tiger.

Yeah, but '02 comes pretty damn close regardless.

Wow, this is a genuinely great list. I could make a strong case for about a dozen of these.

Although Alfred OTM that "Love at First Sight" > "Can't Get You Out of My Head."

i'm either voting kylie, rapture or the clipse. probably the latter.

Although Alfred OTM that "Love at First Sight" > "Can't Get You Out of My Head."

The former got lot's of love from ILxors, though:

http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/02/voted_for.php?titleid=101718&poll_year=2002

Yeah, but '02 comes pretty damn close regardless.

dude, Eminem's got a better song on this list than "Lose Yourself." Only songs in the top 20 I'd take it over are "Do Your Realise??" (once the second key change comes around) and "The Rising."

and maybe "in my place." "complicated" is a tie.

Oh yeah, "Without Me" is definitely the better single--no argument there!

I'll still take "Lose Yourself" over "Without Me."

you should be stomped by obie

eminem threatening moby for conspiring against him with Triumph The Insult Comic Dog while accepting his MTV music award is a moment he may never top.

speaking of Moby...

Moby: "We Are All Made of Stars" (V2)

Wow, pretty decent year. Missy leaves all competition lying bleeding in the gutter.

And as entertaining as Moby's cover of "Heroes" is, and the White Stripes cover of "Middle of the Road," I just can't vote for them over Missy.

At the time I was all about "Love At First Sight" over "Can't Get You Out Of My Head," which I actually didn't like all that much. Now, the two have switched positions.

Voted Rapture just over Clipse.

Truth Hurts: "Addictive" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Scarface: "On My Block" (Def Jam South)
Justin Timberlake: "Like I Love You" (Jive)
Cam'ron: "Oh Boy" (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
Sean Paul: "Gimme The Light" (VP)

^^^all of these are really fucking awesome.

you forgot Nas

true also NORE. i would actually vote for "made you look" if it wasn't for "grindin'"

love that andrew wk too. good list

i just spent $400 $2 on records "Oh Boy" 12" and im in even deeper debt

-- max, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:25 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Elvis vs JXL: "A Little Less Conversation" (RCA)

^^i'm pretty sure this is john edwards' campaign song?

IF YOU WERE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHICH SONG FROM THIS LIST WOULD YOU CHOOSE AS YOUR CAMPAIGN SONG?

LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge" (DFA)

^^JOHN MCCAIN WE HARDLY KNEW YE.

ok that elvis remix is actually MITT ROMNEY'S campaign song.

NEVER ENUF MISSY LOVE for that awesome single

true 'nuff.

"Work It" is awsome but I always thought that last verse was oddly diffuse lyrically.

but hey, I'm voting for "Get Free." Why can't people get DOWN with Nirvana bubblegum? WHY?

tbh this poll's top 3 is almost as boring to me as the wilco/beck/flaming lips trifecta in the same year's albums poll.

(xpost Nirvana was more bubblegum than "Get Free". shorter doesn't equal catchier or more pop or whatever, and that song's a slog.)

if it was a slog you'd love it

lol not quite sloggy enough for me no

lol at "Hot in Herre" being boring...unless you mean because it's overplayed to you. o/w I don't see the comparison with the boringness of the Beck record.

Dirty Vegas: "Days Go By" (Capitol)

i like this lol car commercial lol electronica

"days go by" like stops time for me. i love that song.

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TAH! TUH! TEH!
TAH! TUH! TEH!

B'DUM DUM DUUUM DEYUM DUM
B'DUM DUM DUUUM DEYUM DUM

White Stripes, Dirty Vegas, Scarface = best videos

I go through very extended periods wondering if "Made You Look" isn't the best single of the decade, so I voted that.

That's completely reasonable. There are a lot of excellent songs here.

actually, one of the other singles I tend to think is maybe best of decade is m.i.a. here: Moody, "Dove (I'll Be Loving You)"

i echo matos re: "made you look" though i also go through extended periods wondering if the remix isn't better.

I do not know the remix! Details, plz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-SRgZzXnA

it's with jadakiss and ludacris + a different nas verse. that's the sloppy video for it but it's edited. i think it has my fav luda verse of all time.

thanks!

song is edited i mean.

More shit out in the streets than evicted tenants!

ah in that video nas doesn't do the verse from teh actual remix. that is an awful example remix :(

^^^most illiterate sentence ever.

In an Aston Vanquish the color of dandruff!

The [gun synonym], the [gun synonym], the [gun synonym], the [gun synonym],

how have u guys not heard that before

I do not know the remix! Details, plz.

-- Matos W.K., Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:29 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

please read thread.

I'm pretty sure Matos is the only one who said he hadn't.

i said 'how' not 'who'

how have u guys not heard that before

-- deej, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 4:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

w/e this is pointless.

Voted for Truth Hurts. Missy's single is probably better, but it will get its share of votes. Tweet, Cam'ron, Kylie, a couple more singles also real good. But overall, one of the worst singles lists yet, I'm pretty sure. (And I've never really gotten Sean Paul, at all, which I don't doubt is my loss.)

What I voted for that year:

1 Ty Herndon "Heather's Wall" Epic
2 Faith Hill "One" Warner Bros.
3 Cordelia's Dad "Camille's Not Afraid of the Barn" Kimchee
4 Missy Elliott "Work It" Elektra
5 T.A.T.U. "All the Things She Said" Interscope
6 LeAnn Rimes "Life Goes On" Curb
7 Truth Hurts "Addictive" Aftermath/Interscope
8 Paulina Rubio "The Last Goodbye" Universal
9 Bomfunk MCs "Freestyler" Sony International
10 P.O.D. "Youth of the Nation" Atlantic

Voted Truth Hurts.

M.I.A.:

Las Ketchup: "Aserjé (The Ketchup Song)" (Sony Discos) - I overrated this some. But I fell for it hard after reading Jane Dark's review where s/he picked up that The Ketchups were ripping off "Rapper's Delight" as much as "Macarena."

FunDaMental: "Dexy's Enemy" (no label) - My favorite mashup ever. Which is kinda cheating cuz it's only 44 seconds long (at least the version I have). Still, two singular singles swing like a 1970s middle class couple. I've seen this listed as "Come on Boiii: Dexy's vs Public Enemy." And I have no clue why FunDaMental signed it.

Palomar: "Knockout" (Self-Starter)
Palomar: "Up!" (Self-Starter) - I guess I was being all Xgau in the Aughties with these two seeing as how they're not singles (that I know of). But the album they came from bore no more fruit which heightens their single-like quality. And goddamn - hyper indie kids somehow manage to rock the fuck out, an achievement all the more precious given how wobbly their rhythms and harmonies are.

P!nk: "Just Like A Pill" (LaFace)
Brandy: "What About Us" (Atlantic) - Do people really think all pop comes off an assembly line?

Bitter Sound Foundation: "Why Does Michael Hurt?" (no label) - An absolutely devastating mashup of "Smooth Criminal" and Carly Chic's "Why?" The track searches for what has mucked up Michael J's mind. It's like a deeply moral slasher flick where the violence is suffused with sourness, regret and pause. (Oh wait - Peckinpah did that already with Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.)

how the hell did "Soak Up The Suck" make this list??

I seriously thought this was an actual title by Limp Bizkit or whoever.

"On My Block" vs. "Like I Love You" vs. "Grindin"

I'm going with Scarface, I think. Or Timberlake. Probably Scarface.

Haha, funny. I'd never connected "The Ketchup Song" with "Macarena", but picked up on "Rapper's Delight" the first time I heard it.

I don't buy into concepts of "assembly line pop", but if any song has ever sounded like it came off an assembly line, then "What About Us" is it. It sounds like something from after the machines won.

Then your machines be stickin' something fierce. Go oil 'em before they break down for good!

Hey, my second-favorite year for music. Gotta be Tweet, with "Smells Like Booty" right behind. I forgot about "Nothing"! Man, what a great Neptunes year. Mystikal's "Bouncin' Back" would've been nice. "Oh Boy" and "On My Block" make up for it.

"What About Us" is like a beautiful breach birth.

great year! I didn't like "Get Free" at the time but I like it now. I love like 95% of this list. Even beck. but I think I might go with JT - I just saw him a couple of nights ago, and had forgotten how awesome those Justified singles were.

Missy Elliott: "Work It" (Elektra)
Eminem: "Lose Yourself" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Nelly: "Hot in Herre" (Fo' Real/Universal)
The Hives: "Hate to Say I Told You So" (Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph)
The White Stripes: "Fell In Love With A Girl" (V2)
Kylie Minogue: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Capitol)
Rapture: "House of Jealous Lovers" (DFA)
Tweet: "Oops (Oh My)" (Elektra)
Clipse: "Grindin'" (Star Trak)
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge" (DFA)
Vines: "Get Free" (Capitol)
Nas: "Made You Look" (Columbia)
Dirty Vegas: "Days Go By" (Capitol)
NORE: "Nothing" (Def Jam)
No Doubt: "Hella Good" (Interscope)
Truth Hurts: "Addictive" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Scarface: "On My Block" (Def Jam South)
Justin Timberlake: "Like I Love You" (Jive)
Cam'ron: "Oh Boy" (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
Sean Paul: "Gimme The Light" (VP)

^^^A+

Wow this is tough. But in quite a few instances they chose the WRONG SINGLE... " Call Me" is so much better than "Oops... Oh My", "Get Busy">>>>> "Gimme The Light", "Obstacle 1">>>> "PDA" "Gossip Folks">>>>> "Work It", etc... and where is Brandy "Full Moon"? That is by far the best single from that year.... But anyway, I went with "Oh Boy"

Classic:
Missy Elliott: "Work It" (Elektra)
Nelly: "Hot in Herre" (Fo' Real/Universal)
The Hives: "Hate to Say I Told You So" (Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph)
The White Stripes: "Fell In Love With A Girl" (V2)
Kylie Minogue: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Capitol)
Rapture: "House of Jealous Lovers" (DFA)
Tweet: "Oops (Oh My)" (Elektra)
Queens of the Stone Age: "No One Knows" (Interscope)
Clipse: "Grindin'" (Star Trak)
Jimmy Eat World: "The Middle" (DreamWorks)
Coldplay: "In My Place" (Capitol)
Norah Jones: "Don't Know Why" (Blue Note)
Avril Lavigne: "Complicated" (Arista)
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge" (DFA)
Vines: "Get Free" (Capitol)
Nas: "Made You Look" (Columbia)
Freelance Hellraiser: "The Strokes vs. Christina Aguilera (A Stroke of Genie-us)" (n/a)
No Doubt: "Hella Good" (Interscope)
Truth Hurts: "Addictive" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Scarface: "On My Block" (Def Jam South)
Justin Timberlake: "Like I Love You" (Jive)
Pink: "Don't Let Me Get Me" (Arista)
Cam'ron: "Oh Boy" (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
Sean Paul: "Gimme The Light" (VP)
Beck: "Lost Cause" (DGC)
DJ Shadow: "Six Days" (MCA)
Interpol: "PDA" (Matador)

Dud:
Eminem: "Lose Yourself" (Aftermath/Interscope)
Moby: "We Are All Made of Stars" (V2)
Elvis vs JXL: "A Little Less Conversation" (RCA)
Andrew W.K.: "Party Hard" (Island)
Nirvana: "You Know You're Right" (DGC)
Sheryl Crow: "Soak Up The Sun" (A&M)
Eminem: "Without Me" (Aftermath/Interscope)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Very hot and cold list, some greats and some duds. I went with "Grindin'," although a handful of these could easily have trumped it.

Refresh my memory, was "What Happened to that Boy?" '03 or '04, because if it was '03 it is very much missed from this list. Probably one of the five or so best singles this decade, yam.

Also, can't wait for the next singles poll when the Pied Piper cleans that ish up.

'03, I think.

I didn't even see "Grindin'" til now! And I missed that Nore song, too. So the list is better than I gave it credit for above (but still more crapful than usual, I think.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sheryl Crow: "Soak Up The Sun" (A&M) 8

OK WTF. Stop this now!

hahaha!

Sheryl Crow: "Soak Up The Sun" (A&M) 8
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge" (DFA) 2

okay who's been tampering with the results?

this is really weird

how did the rapture beat nas and kylie?

idont see anything weird with s. crow winning

I think people are fucking around on some "vote for Sanjaya" shit.

xp: Because HOJL is great.

lol ilx isnt that clever

possible reasons for high placement in bold:

"Soak Up the Sun" was the first single from Sheryl Crow's 2002 album C'mon, C'mon. The song, which features backing vocals by Liz Phair, peaked at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, becoming one of her biggest hits since "All I Wanna Do". Although making less of an impact on the UK Singles Chart than her previous singles, the song still managed to enter the Top 20 at #16.

The song was remixed for club use by Victor Calderone.

Official remixes include: - Soak Up The Sun (Sunsweep Radio Mix) - Soak Up The Sun (Sunsweep Club Mix) - Soak Up The Sun (Sunsweep Dub)

The Kidz Bop Kids covered this song.

I didn't vote but I really enjoy "Soak Up the Sun" when I hear it on the shuttle bus. Would have prob voted DJ Shadow though. Norah Jones #2 maybe.

"Soak Up the Sun" is actually quite alright by Sheryl Crow standards, but WTF?

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)

had to hear "soak up the sun" every day @ work this summer. it is not quite alright by anyone's standards tbh.

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV
I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe i am crazy too

I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
Don't have no master suite
I'm still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I'm the one who has the key
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe I am crazy too

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on.

Why on earth would you defend this song?

that "up and down, maybe i am crazy too" part before the chorus is hella shrill too.

Hell, at least it didn't beat "Work It." Better luck next time, Mr. Voter Fraud!

I hear that as the "Better luck neeeext tiiiiime" from Parliament's "Sir Nose D'Voidofunk".