Best Song To Get 21 Votes In The 2001 Pazz'n'Jop Critics Poll

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TIEBREAKER

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Daft Punk, "Digital Love"	28
Afroman, "Because I Got High"	12
Weezer, "Island In The Sun"	7
Aerosmith, "Jaded"	6
Indie.Arie, "Video"	1

― da croupier, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

since everyone is going to vote for Daft Punk, I'm going Afroman

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

india.arie by miles

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

Ranked:

Digi Love
Video
Jaded
Bc I Got High
Isle in the zzzzzzzzzzzz

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

1. digital love
2. because i got high
3. video
4. island in the sun
5. jaded

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:25 (fifteen years ago)

"because i got high" is one of the only songs i've ever heard played back immediately after its 'premiere' on the radio -- i actually remember exactly what intersection i was at

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

we need video reminders IMO

"Jaded":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705LEH3j2g0

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

"Because I Got High":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw&ob=av2e

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

there's a large population of college students who still think that "because i got high" is the shit and are all "omg afroman" when he's on tour

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

"Digital Love":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjli3hj0ZkM&ob=av2e

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

"Video":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq86e4Fhja0&ob=av2e

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

steven tyler really is one of the most jaded creatures of my lifetime

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

oh lord -- VILE CREATURES. vile.

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

"Island In The Sun":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3zgYW_FAM&feature=fvw

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

lol I have never heard this Weezer song before but it is pretty easily the most boring song here

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

the thing about "island in the sun" is that i think the refrain is great, but the chorus is suuuuuuch a drag

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

lol I wish I hadn't comedy-voted Afroman now because my answer really would have been "Video"

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

I stand by my comedy vote for Afroman fwiw

― markers, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

hard to argue tbh

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

some other decent tiebreaker poll possibilities on that year's p'n'j

with 27 votes:
Basement Jaxx: "Romeo"
Madonna: "Don't Tell Me"
Nelly: "Ride Wit Me"

with 19 votes each:

Basement Jaxx: "Where's Your Head At" (Astralwerks/XL)
Destiny's Child: "Survivor" (Columbia)
Britney Spears: "I'm a Slave 4 U" (Jive)

2002 has an even more obvious WHICH ONE OF THESE IS HIPPER THAN THE OTHER than the one being polled. 29 votes each:

Coldplay: "In My Place" (Capitol)
Norah Jones: "Don't Know Why" (Blue Note)
Avril Lavigne: "Complicated" (Arista)
LCD Soundsystem: "Losing My Edge" (DFA)
Bruce Springsteen: "The Rising" (Columbia)
Vines: "Get Free" (Capitol)

― da croupier, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

wow, those groupings of songs do more to convince me 2001 > 2002 than practically any other argument you could make

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

Never heard Afroman until five minutes ago.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

"Jaded" is a pretty good song imo, just Pro Tooled to death.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

Never heard Afroman until five minutes ago.

...whuh?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

I'd sort of forgotten that I really dislike "Digital Love"

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

...whuh?

So it goes.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)

I do kind of love "Because I Got High" though

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)

I like it more now than I probably would have then.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

def. voted Afroman here, though I like that Weezer song more than anything else they've done since the Blue Album (& maybe "El Scorcho").

― Euler, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

it is so aggravating that a song called "Video" has such a boring video

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

Also, this is so obviously Afroman

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

Aerosmith, "Jaded"
Weezer, "Island In The Sun"

^rock critics are disgusting savages

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

'island in the sun' was wishful thinking from ppl happy about the weezer comeback, 'jaded' i actually recall getting serious crit love from various quarters (pretty sure charles aaron had it on his list), i have no idea why. i think the only post-alicia aerosmith i have any affection for is 'pink'.

― balls, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

I hated Aerosmith post '89 so this is my tip of the hat to'em.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

you didn't like 'eat the rich'?

― balls, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

I am pretty certain I said positive things about "Jaded" when it came out but it never would have occurred to me in a million years to include it on a list of the best songs of 2001

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

Eh, fuck it -- voted for Daft Punk just this once.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

Don't think it's great either but I never changed it when it came on the radio. Plus, it sounded really good sandwiched around Missy Elliott and N'Sync.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

i kind of liked "Livin On The Edge" for some reason

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

God forbid you be like any old rock critic and vote for the obvious choice Alfred.

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

I think a post-Pump Aerosmith singles poll would be a good poll if a brave ilxor wants to bother

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

haha here we go: Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation: Classic Or Dud?

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

Listening to "Jaded" for the first time since 2001-02 and it's a fucking travesty.

Re-ranked:

Digi Love
Video
Bc I Got High
Jaded
Isle in the zzzzzzzzzzzz

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

Afroman
Daft Punk
Indie.Arie
Aerosmith
Weezer

― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

lol at alex in nyc all 'um, we're talking about PERMANENT VACATION here guys'

― balls, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

daft punk

afroman
indie.arie

aerosmith
weezer

― balls, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Jaded" is great.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 16, 2003 6

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

Indie.Arie
Afroman <--- voted this tho
Aerosmith
Daft Punk
Weezer

― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

Listening to "Jaded" now, it sounds like a Shania Twain number sung by Def Leppard.

― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

I'd sort of forgotten that I really dislike "Digital Love"

NEVER FORGET.

Voted for Afroman.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

POLLIN ON THE EDGE - AEROSMITH POST-PUMP SINGLES

― balls, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)

at this point i'm resolved to my position as the one person on ilm who rides the fuck out for "island in the sun" but it's still not better than "digital love".

after those two:

afroman
arie
don't even want to know what the fuck that aerosmith song is

― ENBBQ (The Reverend), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:28 (fifteen years ago)

oh n/m 12 other people voted for "island" in the weezer 2.0 poll. well then.

― ENBBQ (The Reverend), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:30 (fifteen years ago)

"Because I Got High". I didn't much like it first, but one Friday night me and my friends learned to love it because, well, you know.

― Tuomas, Friday, 15 October 2010 09:26 (fifteen years ago)

Afrosmith ftw

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 15 October 2010 09:31 (fifteen years ago)

why did ppl in 2001 not realize that Jaded wz horrible?

― scaruffi kaleidoscope (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 15 October 2010 10:24 (fifteen years ago)

I have always loathed "Video". It's one of those songs that stands in for a whole bunch of things I hate about wide swathes of music.

― Tim F, Friday, 15 October 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

India.Arie: 2001's Natasha Bedingfield

― scaruffi kaleidoscope (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 15 October 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)

"Jaded". (Aerosmith's best hit since the mid '80s fwiw.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 15 October 2010 12:12 (fifteen years ago)

"Because I Got High". I didn't much like it first, but one Friday night me and my friends learned to love it because, well, you know.

OMG U DID DRUGS???

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

u guyz suk island in the sun is my fav here. it was in the commercial for mary kate and ashley HOLIDAY IN THE SUN.

ps lol @ indie.arie

― teledyldonix, Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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