The 23rd P&J Singles Poll!

Still "Get Yr Freak On," with apologies to Daft Punk and Outkast.

..and Jay-Z and Sum 41.

...and Basement Jaxx and Madonna.

Daft Punk is gonna split votes btw. "One More Time" and "Digital Love," unfortunately.

oh jeez, I didn't even see "Don't Tell Me."

This is tough. I still really like "Chop Suey" and "Don't Tell Me" and "Fat Lip" and "Heard It All Before" and "Raise Up." And there's a lot of perfectly acceptable stuff that I'm just burned out on or ambivalent toward now, and not much that I hate.

Yeah, I think that's one of her best ever.

xp

"Don't Tell Me" just over "Ride With Me"

Also, let's not forget this most(?) infamous of all Dean's Lists:

1. The Clash "Rock the Casbah" Epic
2. M.O.P "Ante Up" Loud
3. The Moldy Peaches "Jorge Regula" Rough Trade/Sanctuary
4. Bob Dylan "Po' Boy" Columbia
5. Artful Dodger "Re-Rewind" v2
6. Rachid Taha "Barra Barra" Mondo Melodia
7. Manu Chao "Merry Blues" Virgin
8. Pink "Get the Party Started" Arista
9. Loudon Wainwright III "White Winos" Red House
10. St. Lunatics "Midwest Swing" Universal
11. Black Box Recorder "The Facts of Life" Jetset
12. Mary J. Blige "PMS" MCA
13. Bullfrog "Reverse Psychology" Ropeadope
14. Atmosphere "Party for the Fight to Write" Rhymesayers Entertainment
15. The Moldy Peaches "Who's Got the Crack" Rough Trade/Sanctuary
16. Leonard Cohen "In My Secret Life" Columbia
17. Michael Jackson "Unbreakable" Epic
18. Aceyalone "Rappers, Rappers, Rappers" Ground Control
19. Saul Williams "La La La" American
20. Maxwell "This Woman's Work" Epic

Yeah I STILL don't get "Rock the Casbah" up there.

But that "White Winos" song has such a gorgeous melody. And props for top twentyin Michael Jackson. If you were listening to R&B/urban radio in the US at the time, you would have had no idea that his popularity supposedly dropped off in any significant way.

i voted for lapdance

I hear you can find him chillin' with crackaz that like thrash. Confirm/deny?

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, May 11, 2007 11:11 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

first nerd album dating surprisingly well for me

yeah this is one of those years where singles poll was otm like nabisco

man this is a stacked list.

i voted "ugly." my top 10 are:

1. ugly
2. last nite
3. fat lip
4. rid wit me
5. digital love
6. raise up
7. get ur freak on
8. let be blow ya mind
9. izzo
10. fill me in

Great list, voted for "Get Ur Freak On", next up Jay-Z, Strokes---and Coldplay, but weren't they on the last list too with "Yellow"?

"Digital Love" narrowly over "Get Ur Freak On" with about a dozen "if only"s

Coldplay, but weren't they on the last list too with "Yellow"?

yeah. the carryover rule was that if a record had gotten half as many votes as it had the year before the two totals were added together. that rule is what pushed "One More Time" into the Top 10 as well.

ok thanks

Not a very good list, I don't think.

Anyway, everybody else is gonna vote for Missy (who deserves to win, probably), but I'm going to give my runnerup Bubba a vote instead.

What I actually voted for that year:

1 Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott "Get Ur Freak On" The Gold Mind, Inc./Elektra
2 Trace Adkins "I'm Tryin'" Capitol
3 Ludacris "Southern Hospitality" Def Jam South
4 Thomas Ribiero "Rideonastar" Ladykilla
5 Trick Daddy "Take It to the House" WEA/Atlantic
6 Koffee Brown "Weekend Thing" Arista
7 Junie-B "The Luau" Take Fo
8 Phil Vassar "Six-Pack Summer" Arista
9 Bubba Sparxxx "Ugly" Beat Club/Interscope
10 Brooks & Dunn "Only in America" Arista

Actually, though, there's more stuff up there I'm either ambivalent about or I never really took note of at all than stuff I actively dislike. And I should go back and listen to those Craig David, Sunshine Anderson, and India Arie songs sometime. I'm pretty sure I like the Blu Cantrell. And those all do seem like actual singles to, me, I admi-- did any of them ever place albums in Pazz & Jop? Maybe David or Arie, but I don't think so.)

Kind of cool that Nickelback, Petey Pablo, and Afroman placed, too. And I like that Aerosmith song, and both of those Weezer songs.

deej dares a motherfucker to cum in his face

Dear hookers,

I voted for "Romeo" which shoots pink jizz AND gets beaty about it unlike....well, y'all know.

M.I.A.:

A*Teens: "Halfway Around The World" (MCA) - My favorite single of the decade so far. It's my 9/11/01 song, what can I say? Motto: All the colors of the world should be loving each other wholeheartedly. Precious.

Shelby Lynne: "Killin' Kind" (Island) - She learned from The Raspberries that if you get to the chorus in under a minute, that leaves time for other bits of business. Like hitting a Oscar-winning high note. And actually sounding like The Raspberries for a spell.

The Dismemberment Plan: "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich" (DeSoto) - The aural equivalent to a million dollar bill. So yeah, they get rich.

Koffee Brown: "After Party" (Arista) - It was about time that black artists stole back from Hall & Oates.

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, and Jamie Allen: "Elephant Love Medley" (Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corp./Interscope) - Linda Williams: "(Bricolage) animates the musical’s extreme valuation of certain myths – of spontaneity, of performers’ communion with audience, of community integration through song and dance – myths that in turn work to overcome the ‘original sin’ of cinema itself: the fact that, as a mass art of canned performance, cinema can never really bring audience and performer together…In an age of mechanical reproduction, postmodern simulacra, and heightened voyeurism, the rhetoric of the (Hollywood musical) must work overtime, so to speak, to compensate for what has been lost. (my emphasis)” From Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 146.

Christina Millian: "AM to PM" (Def Jam) - Features a middle eight that sounds like The Goblins. Or Midnight Express. Or something creepy and soundtracky that it's not supposed to sound like.

Trick Daddy: "Take It To The House" - See Xhuxk.

Two songs I dig from the list:

Sunshine Anderson: "Heard It All Before" (Atlantic) - So tense it could fit on Sugar and Poison 2. See also Res: "Glden Boys" (MCA) on this matter.

Nickelback: "How You Remind Me" (Roadrunner) -
Me: "I love how the form overwhelms the content."
My husband: "It's all form."

A very dull song:

Eve feat. Gwen Stefani: "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (Interscope)

Love,

Rick Ross

That should be Res: "Golden Boys" (MCA)

No surprise for those tuned in from the albums thread, but I'm going with "Digital Love."

Just relistened to the Koffee Brown and A*Teens albums attached to the singles gushed about above and there's much less filler than you'd anticipate. Check 'em out.

A very dull song:

Eve feat. Gwen Stefani: "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (Interscope)

I'd have argued a very underrated one, if I didn't know it finished in the top 10. 2001 was still in my Dark Period of not listening to the radio, but for some reason, after a certain time at night, MTV2 would play on a channel that was otherwise Polish or Korean or something, and I caught this video pretty often. Good stuff.

(I voted for "Digital Love." On another day, it might've been "Romeo," but I'm making up for forgetting to vote for Discovery.)

what ever happened to blu cantrell?

"Hit 'Em Up Style" was, no joke, a bad omen song for me. A lot of bad things happened to me after that song played, many related to my car.

No love for Destiny's Child?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

No "Letter from an Occupant"?

I'll go with "Last Night", though I didn't end up hearing it until about 2003.

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

Kevin, "Rock the Casbah" was Christgau's September 11 song.

lot of good songs with no votes, but i'm glad "walk on" didn't get shit.

i can't believe i'm the only one who voted for IZZO

17 singles with 1 vote only--must be some kind of a record!

All the polls before 2000 only had 25 options!

True.