Top 100 singles of 2003 so far

24 'strict machine' - goldfrapp

and dan i already listed "no letting go"!!

33. dmx - "x gon give it to ya"

39. origin unknown feat. mc dynamite - "hotness"

53. Justin Timberlake - 'Rock Your Body'

and Beyonce is already in there

73. Vitamin C 'Last Nite'

88. Outlaw Breakz feat. Gemma Fox & Sweetie Irie - "Dutty"

i think the last two are joint 100th in fact

103. The Gift - Love Angel
104. Madonna - Hollywood (+ remixes)
105. Agoria - Kofea/Sky Is Clear EP
106. Size DDD - Nobody Listens To Techno (Deep Dish Mix)

107. Coldplay - "Clocks"

'still the same' came out as b-side to the 'back then' 12, siegbran

120. Nu Stereo-Freaks

121. Playgroup-Make It Happen (Zongamin Remix)

122. Electric 6-Danger! High Voltage (Jacques Lu Cont mix)

123. Junior Jack-E Samba

124. Saffron Hill ft Ben Onono - My Love Is Always There
125. Royksopp - Eple (Shakedown Club Mix)
126. Sean Paul & Heartless Crew - Gimme The Light (Remix)
127. The Donnas - Take It Off
128. Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floor (Junkie XL Vocal Mix)
129. Double Dee - Shining (Cicada Remix)
130. David Guetta vs David Bowie - Just 4 One Day
131. Alex Gold & Phil Oakey - LA Today
132. Panjabi MC - Jogi (Deichkind Mix)
133. Olav Brekke Mathisen - Crockett & Me
134. Bob Sinclar - Sexy Dancer
135. Malixx ft John Watts - End (Marco Zaffarano Remix)
136. Tok Tok vs Soffy O - Day Of Mine (Starecase Remix)
137. Fast Floor - Sirens Of Time (Überdruck Remix)
138. Infusion - Legacy (Junkie XL Vinyl Remix)
139. Yves DeRuyter - Y.D.O.T.
140. Vanguard - Flash (+ remixes)
141. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Love Lost
142. Tomaz vs Filterheadz - Sunshine (remixes EP)
143. Sam Obernik - Mr Butterfly (M Factor Mix)
144. P Diddy ft Kelis - Let's Get Ill (Deep Dish Vocal Mix)
145. Deichkind - Limit (Phobique Mix)
146. Benjamin Bates - Thin Time
147. Moby - Sunday (T & F vs Moltosugo Mix)
148. Audio Bullys - Turned Away (Tony Senghore Mix)
149. Bob Sinclar - Beat The Clock
150. Nirvana vs Adam Freeland - Smells Like Teen Spirit
151. Spiller - Sola
152. Rank 1 - Sensation 2003 Anthem
153. M.I.K.E. - Turn The Lights Out
154. The Love Committee - Love Rules
155. Marco V - del c:\*.mp3
156. The Streets - It's Too Late (High Contrast Remix)
157. Freeform Five - Perspex Sex
158. Planet Funk - Who Said
159. Scott Bond vs Solar Stone - 3rd Earth
160. Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis 3000
161. Bjork - Pagan Poetry (Infusion Remix)
162. Syntax - Pray
163. Holden & Thompson - Nothing (93 Returning Mix)
164. Alphazone - Rockin'
165. Agoria - La 11me Marche (remixes EP)
166. Hooverphonic - Sometimes
167. Calling "The Freak" - Your Time Is Up
168. Amber - Anyway (Steve Porter Remix)
169. Jewel - Intuition (Markus Schultz Coldharbour Remix)
170. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes
171. Deepest Blue - Deepest Blue
172. Delerium - After All (Satoshi Tomiie Mix)

193 Mellowdrone - "Fashionably Uninvited"
194 Year Of The Rabbit - "Rabbit Hole"
195 Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - "Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone"
196 Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - "Do Not Feed The Oyster"
197 The Jayhawks - "Stumbling Through The Dark"
198 Zwan - "Honestly"
199 Deftones - "Minerva"
200 The Bens - "Just Pretend"

And I thought I was bored of Rock Your Body, until one day I realised it had burrowed its way into my subconsciousness like only a few other songs this year, damn those pesky Neps.

I heard that for first time yesterday. Some thoughts to follow on relevant thread

Anyway, candidate for bootleg of the year:

215. DMX vs Michael Jackson - No Love For Billie Jean

also what did i tell you all about lumidee remixes! huh! punks

does no one else share my love for the ashanti tune? the fatback original is better arangement-wise, granted, but her vox r00l da sk00l!

Thanks, stevem. You wouldn't believe how much brainracking that took, tho', especially when so many picks already got posted.

Siegbran, 'Spiral' should still be available on vinyl.

(Y'know, one of these days I'll remember to introduce myself.)

(boo hiss for the "hot in herre" cover tho)

i'm so glad someone else said it first.

220. Clipse feat. Pharrell, Ab-Liva and Roscoe P. Coldchain, "Hot Damn"

(I have no real idea why I seem to be getting more and more wound up on the issue but it's almost like I feel that I'm some sort of pseudo-semi-recovering addict wondering what the thrill was to start with. Doesn't ANYONE not listen to music for stretches at a time anymore? Is life now defined by some sort of standard of 'listen to everything now and acknowledge everything in the past while you're at it or throw yourself on the dungheap if you're not willing to keep up'? JESUS H., life is too goddamn short!)

Anyway, this year's music has rocked hard-definitely as good as the past 2 years.

This unfortunately just makes me think of that whole 'do you hate fun?' semi-meme here that I despise. I'm not blaming you, I should note.

I get joy out of lack of pace, of *long* stretches of not having to be forced to listen to music and to immediately comment on same, out of not having to feel there's some sort of goalposts I have to continually reset. That seems impossible these days so why I continuing writing and thinking about music is sometimes a goddamn wonder to me.

I'm just starting to come out of my own personal version of Ned-ness now, thanks in part to this thread. I'm not trying to reduce your stance, Ned, but I've noticed a--how would you say it--less than sanguine mood in many of your (usually terse) posts on all these recent best-of-this-or-that-of-'03 posts; I've noticed mainly because I've been completely agreeing! Two things in particular have irked me: 1) the idea that there are already (not even halfway through the year yet) anything even approaching 20 or 30 GREAT songs (nevermind 278 or so good albums--sorry Chuck E.). (I'm not talking about the cumulative list produced by a thread like this, but posters listing what to me looks like everything they've probably heard in the last 5 months.) 2) All sorts of people jumping on the idea that 2003 is "the best year ever" or even "great." I don't doubt anyone's sincerity in thinking this, but I've felt alienated from that line of thinking, and I don't hear it in too much of the stuff that was supposedly the evidence for this (particularly White Stripes, Rapture, Electric Six, Lightning Bolt, !!!). (Mind you, on a personal level it's been a really weird near-voodoo sort of year that has involved a costly car accident, a missed job opportunity, frighteningly worrisome financial setbacks, etc., etc., so discovering new-pop-joy-everyday-all-day hasn't exactly been high on the priority list.)

Having said that, I started fetching a lot of the songs on this thread today, and I'm starting to hear some terrific stuff: Wayne Wonder, Tiga, Mis-Teeq, Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" (and this is from someone who utterly despises "Cry Me a River")...and...there's more, too. I'm actually starting to believe that the (er, MY) year is turning around. Possibly. Hopefully.

I'm sure there's a lot of fine stuff on there that I'll enjoy if/when I get around to hearing it somewhere or sometime. But I also take the example of the Focus Groups for Freaky Trigger to heart -- for the last three or four times, I rarely have heard anything from them before I review them, I note some 'new' to me songs that I really like and then I never feel any particular need or desire to listen to them again. The same with many albums, I should note -- these past couple of years have been a case where there will be one album, just the one, I REALLY get into and the rest go by without a second play for the most part (very rarely a third). I don't think this has anything to do with the putative quality of a year's releases as it does something personal I can't quite put my finger on, though I have a variety of guesses, as played out here and elsewhere.

The two things that have most been coming to mind is that whole 'hate fun' thing again -- so much of pop celebration now passes for me as the equivalent of 'enforced fun' like I've always hated, the summer camp/school spirit 'let's all get together and put on a show/have a good time! why aren't you out playing softball with us right now?' thing I personally have always wanted to blowtorch -- and how much getting involved in music writing more and more means even the act of listening to music is less like a pursuit and more like a job, a constant pressure to stay up to date or else. It's a big reason why I left the academic job track and I sometimes wonder if history is repeating itself for me here.

That all said, Justin still sucks. ;-)

Ned I was hardly listening to music for the last couple of months, so you're not alone. So the stuff I've listed is mostly the stuff that's kind of filtered through to me via radio etc, it's much less effortful than you seem to think, most of these are just 4-minute tracks after all.

This might make Ned very happy. No guarantees, though. Not really a single in any sense either, but...Am I the only one who's gonna give it up for

227. Celine Dion, "I Drove All Night"

Actually Ned I kind of empathise with your frustrations - we've both I think reached a point where the role of the critic/'informed listener' is chafing badly. That role being, in sum, 'hear the latest stuff and reach a measured judgement upon it'. But we're chafing at different aspects - I want to kick out the measured judgement and just drown in novelty; you can't bear the latest stuff bit.

I guess I'm guilty there, although in my defense I have to say I have heard around 2000 new singles & remixes released this year, so narrowing it down to 50 songs was already pretty difficult.

228. Mya, "My Love Is Like...Wo"

i still have 9 cds full of singles/songs from this year that i really like, and i could probably narrow it down to 4 that i love, and even in a pinch, 2 (thats at least 30 songs) that have given me some sort of chiller-thriller moment, that elevate them above and beyond

i think yancey may be right: it's gray in olympia today for the first time in 2 weeks and i've been listening to piano magic and hood and havent once wanted to listen to any pop

ned, maybe you just need to...you know...take a break...go away...don't bring me down whoa-oh don't bring me down

whenever i put on the radio all i hear are these almost atonal, hookless, bottom heavy-top lite received timba-neps tracks (with that ll/j-lo song being something of a nadir in that i "fell for it" even though its godawful) & nth-gen nu-metal. but again i probably could have said the same thing in 2002, and that ended up being a "good year". (even though, as you kinda say, it didn't seem like it for the first 1/3.) hip-hop seems to be swinging back towards a kind of "dark"/banger/club phase right now (see: bonecrusher, "act a fool", most of the joe budden album, lil jon), kayne/blaze notwithstanding. and i really really don't like 75% of that shit.

of course, we do live in different countries, which means a lot sometimes.

Remember how someone, maybe you, said that the evil genius of MTV is the feeling that if you're not tuning in you might just miss something really astonishing?

the videos are fine too.

The top 10 here is perfect.

I mean, I'd probably only like about 40/50% of the tracks on this thread myself (and that's probably what I've heard anyway), but it's not disheartening or anything because I can still appreciate their dopeness and there's still way too much music out there to be discovered to keep me busy. For example, Kiley Dean's 'Keep It Moving' has somehow managed to obliterate many memories of all the bad music of this year in a way Timba hasn't done since 'Beep Me 911' and the obvious.

For me re say garage rap, the need to "keep up" is partly due to the fact that unless you're paying attention this music really might disappear after all - it's hardly being catalogued very extensively. But it also goes to the core of how I contextualise time-based changes in music-as-a-totality as... not progression... but maybe flux/mutation. I get something that's hard to articulate out of knowing that what I'm hearing now won't be the same thing as what I'm hearing in six months, which won't be the same as in twelve months. The sense of music I like being an entirely contigent, fragmentary creation that might just collapse at any moment (in that sense the "great year for music!" chat isn't boosterism so much as relief - the sense that at any moment the tap of good new music might dry up but it hasn't yet), but also the sense that this is a music whose context has yet to be created, whose futures have not been paved and whose effect has not been measured. ie. when talking about current music the thrill is not getting it "right" but getting it wrong and then finding out by how much.

And I think a lot of that is a reaction to how I used to receive music, which was very much a trapped-in-amber affair - knowing before I even heard The Chameleons and The Comsat Angels etc. that such and such album was the last (or last good) release, that their influence can be seen here but not there, that their *effect* had been comprehensively mapped before I ever discovered them. This was heightened by the knowledge that no-one I knew liked this stuff, so it felt even more like all of it was swallowed by the weight of history, and my enjoyment was somehow much more vicarious than that of listeners who had gone before me.

That's a false position of course - there's no reason why music needs to be enjoyed in context, and a lot of the fun of listening to music is being able to decontextualise or recontextualise it - especially the construction of "secret histories", which effectively does away with the oppresive murmur of the past by breaking with its accepted presentation so decisively. But at the same time, current music provides an easy access to a visceral response to music, and I think I appreciate the absence of that hard work.

Anyway, Tim: here's a maybe-interesting anecdote -- at the start of this year I was telling myself, "Well, you know, moved into a new place, need to get a fresh start to go with that, and that means paying a bit more active attention to what's on and going around in various spots musically. I have sources, I know people who will provide and suggest, so go for it." But it didn't happen, really, I never felt a particular itch to actually go through with that. Like I've said in various comments here and there over the past few months, hearing nothing -- and enjoying hearing nothing -- has been crucial. It's different from cossetting oneself in old favorites solely, it's more a sense of being disconnected from the medium and many times not really minding that disconnection at all. So with that as a bit of background:

Obviously, finding a visceral thrill about something new doesn't surprise me, neither does wanting to talk about it. Seems like that's a natural reaction of criticism, though I take some issue with the idea that's always partnered with an automatically loaded sense of trying to nail down something because it could be doomed. Then again, I don't see 'good music' as anything other than a neverending flow all over the place, so expressing surprise or delight over any particular year strikes me as being equal to expressing similar feelings over the fact that the year has four seasons.

But this obsession with change qua change, this feeling of 'it's happening and I need to see it happen because I've set myself this goal and idea that it will yet change' -- this to me is where the issue becomes less one of the music and more one of why one engages with anything in particular. I find it honestly curious, a situation where what you say lacks 'hard work' really sounds like something that is, because you make it sound like something needs pinning down right this second or else. It need *not* disappear and it won't, let's face it -- it's a fly in amber now too, and the heavenly jukebox now means everything will circulate forever regardless of its currency, it's already IN a historical moment as you observe it. But it only becomes burdened down with history if you let it, and it's less important to me right now that I know exactly what is happening where with who than it is that something is generally there and if and when I feel a particular itch to explore more I'll do so rather than let an artificial sense of a deadline run rampant -- a poor characterization of what you're outlining, maybe, but one that seems to suggest itself.

But Ned it's not like I don't have a choice insofar as which music I'm keeping track of - I couldn't tell you the first thing about new developments in garage rock, for example. There's no "deadline" either - it's just that the itch to explore is stronger. I think that your lack of an itch may be a result of being disappointed a lot by recent recommendations, which has possibly made you wary of reacting too quickly to them; generally though if Tom or Jess or Andy K or Sterling or Michaelangelo or Spizzazzz recommend something to me, I find that I like it or love it even, so I have a greater sense of anticipation - but by naming those very people I've already constructed borders for the sort of current music that I'm interested in hearing. To turn it around, you can't tell me that if a new MBV album came out tomorrow you wouldn't try to hear it asap.

And obviously one of the notable things about a thread like this is that it's jamming together whole threads of disparate music under the rubric "singles", so it's not like it's necessarily implicating a context before I download a recommendation - I had no idea who Joe Budden or Lumidee were prior to downloading their songs.

"I find it honestly curious, a situation where what you say lacks 'hard work' really sounds like something that is, because you make it sound like something needs pinning down right this second or else."

Ned, it surprises me that this is how you interpreted my comments - i thought I rambled on for quite a while on the very point that listening to/talking about new music *doesn't* have to be about pinning it down. If that's how you interpret the way *I* talk about music, for example, then I'm going to have to seriously rethink the way I write about music, because that's not what I'm trying to achieve at all.

this:
And I think a lot of that is a reaction to how I used to receive music, which was very much a trapped-in-amber affair - knowing before I even heard The Chameleons and The Comsat Angels etc. that such and such album was the last (or last good) release, that their influence can be seen here but not there, that their *effect* had been comprehensively mapped before I ever discovered them. This was heightened by the knowledge that no-one I knew liked this stuff, so it felt even more like all of it was swallowed by the weight of history, and my enjoyment was somehow much more vicarious than that of listeners who had gone before me.
is a lot like me at the moment, I feel. This is partly because of not being able to use slsk since a few months, which was quite handy in quickly finding out what the fuzz is all about. For the last two or three years, I have hardly listened to the radio at all, so that artery that supplies me with new stuff is cut-off, mainly because I like to listen to lp's or cd's in the evening when I'm at home. And the stuff I listen to are indeed mainly flies in amber (Tim's definition, not Ned's). Since I am merely a musiclover and no critic I am not really interested in contexts, which allows me (at least I like to think so) to listen for (visceral) enjoyment only.
(hmmm. That's not entirely true, of course it's not entirely visceral, a lot of stuff I hear I hear because of people (mainly ILM since my friends like music, but not to my extend) being/getting really enthousiastic about something, therefore my response is already biased and cannot be visceral. so yeah, maybe Ned's right about current music also/already being a fly in amber. this is going towards Einstein, as soon as you observe something, it's no longer what it was before)
this blabbering is not leading anywhere I think and I forgot what I was trying to get across, sorry... discard & continue the thread.

(not "great", perhaps, but good enough for this list)

There's no "deadline" either - it's just that the itch to explore is stronger. I think that your lack of an itch may be a result of being disappointed a lot by recent recommendations, which has possibly made you wary of reacting too quickly to them

I don't think that is the case necessarily -- personally I happen to generally agree with your list of recommenders and would definitely include others. But it's not so much disappointment with what I've heard them choose as it is no driving desire to necessarily go ahead and do anything about it. There's years' worth of music that I've got around downloaded that I've burned to disc and really not gotten to yet and not had the urge to. Telling case in point -- Dizzee Rascal's "I Luv U" -- everyone started going on about it six months ago and I ended up with an mp3 of it soon after. I still haven't heard the song. I'm not being willful about something so simple, it's more like I forget it exists until I hear it or him mentioned again. I don't blame anyone for my own state of mind but neither do I think my state of mind is a bad thing necessarily -- I actually think it's good to be off that particular 'hear NOW NOW NOW' train of thought in general. As you note with MBV, there will definitely always be exceptions though for me they're VERY few and far between now, and novelty in and of itself isn't overriding.

Ned, it surprises me that this is how you interpreted my comments - i thought I rambled on for quite a while on the very point that listening to/talking about new music *doesn't* have to be about pinning it down. If that's how you interpret the way *I* talk about music, for example, then I'm going to have to seriously rethink the way I write about music, because that's not what I'm trying to achieve at all.

Hey now, I would NOT take one person's probably crabby view of things as a sign to reorder your writing life! Heavens, my friend, stand up for yourself. :-) I was commenting less on your own writing style and approach to what seemed like a grander 'project' in general, and it could simply mean that I am reading more or forcing more of an interpretation on your words than you were thinking or expecting.

All I will say is that you might not be pinning new music down in a conscious and formal way, defining a taste, an aesthetic, a mode of communication, but in the same way that something new is still in a moment, however immediate, your own thoughts are similarly in that moment, and if captured in writing, they're being fixed. This isn't a bad thing at all! But it's also more of an archival/documentary project than might be thought -- it's the type of thing (to stretch a point a bit) that sociologists love when looking at essays or diary entries or whatever when looking back on documentation of an event or trend. The intention might not be for formalism that way but it accrues in that sense -- otherwise, why maintain blog archives, say? You are trying to capture lightning in a bottle and create a context, but certainly so are we all whenever we write about music, old or new, good or bad.

Er, if that made sense. Really need to go and get that bus soon...

and anyway, 236. Susheela Raman, "Love Trap." it hasn't really hit as a single yet and the album doesn't come out for a few days but damm, this is very obviously one of the greatest songs of all time, please listen to it a lot, it's like shirley bassey international funk with tuvan throat singers and sitar and the greatest bass player in the world m. hilaire penda, it's based on a 1970s song by mahmoud ahmed but with new lyrics in english, it's kinda cheesy but it transcends its inherent cheesiness with a great sense of humor and plus its pure sex on a stick

I'm starting to think I haven't explained a point very well (big surprise). I don't think music is kinda eh -- to restate an earlier point with an improved metaphor, there's this endless stream of music that I have an intrinsic faith is ALWAYS turning up wonderful stuff in all areas. What is wonderful and what isn't is up to the beholder, but I don't think that this is a 'bad year' in contrast to others thinking it's a 'good' one, just that every year is laden with potential captivation. But the kick to consciously and willingly engage with music (new or old) -- especially when it comes to a situation where discourse and writing is expected of such an engagement, of the internal or external expectation to 'say something' -- that's something else. Tom noted above how his own engagement with the now isn't anywhere like mine but that he has a strong feeling of, "Rather than talking about it, I just want to ENJOY it" -- which, in terms of thoughts and reactions to music is how most everyone in the world does engage with music. We're (taking in all humanity as the universal we) not all writers, after all -- we think, we react, we reflect, we may discuss but we don't always put the words down, something which the Net forces us to do if the conversation goes there.

Mike Taylor, actually, said something on another thread I realize now is all the more true, namely that when you're drowning in music from all sides -- especially if you are a writer on a promo list, for instance -- then your time and tolerance can readily shrink. I'd add that it's also your enthusiasm (though perhaps he had noted that as well) which can -- not must, but can -- suffer. Neudonym, Yanc3y and Scott among others also have noted that one's own mindset and work can also be an impact, and I won't hide I've had to wrestle with a number of private concerns as of late.

But to get back to time in particular -- throughout all this, maybe even in spite of all this, I'm still writing on records for the AMG and elsewhere, though I've got that down to such an immediate formalism that it's almost automatic. It's still enjoyable and gratifying work, to be sure -- my own little fixings of time and context if you like -- but increasingly my approach towards downtime away from such writing is, instead of choosing to listen to something else for the comfort or the potential thrill of the new, is to simply not listen. To turn away from this seemingly constant need to always have to give oneself a kick, to let silence exist rather than always having to fill up the empty space during the day. I've used the addiction metaphor a few times and I think it's applicable here. My record buying has decreased dramatically -- not disappeared, but not at the levels it once was -- but my listening time is also shrinking back, and I'm choosing my battles a little more carefully when I do. It's been a curious process but the fact that I have done so and not felt as much of a sense of loss as I might have thought earlier I think is telling -- I've had bouts where I practically despair over it, and I think my initial post was a build of frustration on that point, but it's not that greatly missed per se.

Perhaps related to this -- and to issues of personal reflection -- is what I think has been the most positive event in my life in the past six months. Shortly after I moved, good friends of mine who lived near my new apartment happened to mention that they were going to start work on a garden on the UCI campus in a section where organic gardens are encouraged. I immediately volunteered to help with them on that on a weekly basis -- they were going to make it a regular Saturday morning thing to do some overall work, which has turned out to be the case. I can't begin to explain what a sheer joy that's been for me -- to help my friends (along with getting to hang around with dear friend Stripey, who decided to take over one of the gardens herself) on a series of utterly peaceful and pleasant mornings on various tasks, to do so with random conversations on this and that, to keep an eye on their kids, chat with neighbouring gardeners and so forth. And something else I realized more recently too -- that we do so without music playing or any sort of distraction, that there's a calm peace to be found there whenever we garden. Now, it's no revelation or surprise that there's something more to be had and gained out of life in helping friends and having fun while doing so (rather than hating it ;-)) than the simple act of playing music, I'm sure. But it is an important reminder to me about what life is and can be -- and when my avocation so seems to be verging on a vocational grind of sorts, then escape and perspective is necessary.

I mean think of the amount of work it takes, you'd have to have everything currently released transmitted directly into your brain to 'keep up', plus even the thought of trying to 'keep up' will affect your processes as it infers a certain lack of confidence with what you're doing, result = the sound of stumbling.

It is quite possible that as a listener/commentator confronted with the same conundrum I simply fear stumbling in one respect or another, that I don't WANT to say anything on many things for fear of seeming foolish (I know Trife would say that about many things about me, I'm sure ;-)). But I don't think that entirely satisfies as an answer.

New/old ratio is probably 50%, I'm also completely behind the times when it comes to albums - I only own a handful of 2002 albums, two 2003 ones and hundreds of older ones.

Cool! :)

It's like the vortex of hell opening up in your head while you think where has this been all my life. dark.

?No song, technically not strictly, has a date other than that on which you first hear it.? - Someone Else.

i dont really agree with these two statements and would prefer if this top 100 really did consist of JUST single released this year (not including 12" promos, white labels etc.). of course a freer chart would be great but surely you have to draw the line somewhere? could i include Stereolab's 'Cybele's Reverie' which i only heard for the first time ever in January for example?

(radiohead are in there there twice)

203. Noonday Underground - The Light Brigade (Cut Copy remix)

272. Nio 'Do You Think You're Special'

273. Jewel 'Intuition'

274. Avril 'The Date'

275. Hot Hot Heat 'No Not Now'

276. Richard X vs Kelis 'Finest Dreams'

277. Junior Senior 'Rhythm Bandits'

and replace my Poly Spree with Mogwai's 'Hunted By A Freak'

yeah man that's hot!! last year tho i thought? also will no one acknowledge my beloved craig david - hidden agenda (plasma remix feat messiah bolical)?

293. Rupee - "Tempted 2 Touch" if I haven't mentioned it before.

294. Elephant Man - "Nah Lick" (the Cashmere Riddim is titanic!)

Real Things deserves to be so much higher. Can't Get It Back is seconded for sounding like Like I Love You's little sister, though with lamer lyrics. The Richard X remix of the Tiga cover is so much better than the original and replaces my previous nomination, while the Kelis collab. is the business and the TLC remix perplexes me.

Ewan Pearson remixes to check out: Goldfrapp, Zuco 103, Freeform Five, Stargazer, Ladytron, Seelenluft Orchestra, The Flaws, Blake, Playgroup, Erlend Oye, Slam.

(ducks)

(that Wayne Wonder song IS good. really good.)

(christ people wake up.)

(ned you are a strange man.)

How so? I'm not as wound up on the point now as when I posted all that (probably the acting of writing it helped, doubtless), to be sure. I still figure I'll end up with a CDR or three of all this music on it, listen to it once and then never go back.

(a) I don't have broadband at home (or a computer I can hook up to speakers)

(b) I can't listen to music very loudly at work, so everything leaves only a faint impression on me

341. Richard X featuring Kelis-Finest Dreams

342. Madonna-Hollywood (Jacques Think White Duck Remix)

It's becoming a cliche to say Madonna's remixes highlight what a mistake it was keeping Mirwais.

And thus, two months later: more candidates for my personal 2003 top 100.

343.Nena & Kim Wilde - Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime
344.DJ Ernesto - Urban Cowboy
345.Sven Wittekind - Headnut
346.Technical Itch - Pressure Drop
347.Electric Six - Dance Commander (Benny Benassi Remix)
348.Obie Trice ft 50 Cent, G-Unit & Eminem - We All Die One Day
349.Deepack - Here's Johnny
350.16B ft Morel - Escape (Driving To Heaven) (Omid Full Vocal Mix)
351.Ad Finem - Angel (M.A.S. Dub 2 Mix)
352.Wavetraxx - Das Boot 2003 (Schall & Rauch and Westwood Bros remixes)
353.Michael Splint presents Eruption - I Feel Free (DJ Choose & F's That Mucho Dub)
354.Coldplay - Clocks (Röyksopp Trembling Heart Remix)
355.Pulsedriver - Toxicated Smoke
356.Ron Van Den Beuken - Timeless (Ron Van Den Beuken Remix)
357.Dirt Devils - Music Is Life
358.Silverblue - Do U Know (Infiniti Remix)
359.Iio - Smooth (Airbase Remix)
360.Fat Phaze - It's Magic
361.Sharkey Major - This Ain't A Game
362.Sweet Coffee - Don't Need You
363.Bertine Zetlitz - Girl Like You
364.Roxane - Re-Arrange
365.Golan Globus - Blazer
366.Ruff Squad - Everytin Down
367.Basement Jaxx ft Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
368.Audio Bullys - We Don't Care (Buffalo Bunch Mix)
369.Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not The One (The Passengerz Girlfriend Club Mix)
370.DJ Falcon & Thomas Bangalter - Call On Me
371.Andreas Kauffelt - Noisechamber
372.Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock
373.M.I.K.E. - Turn Out The Lights
374.Sasha vs Underworld - Cowpander
375.Tuneboy - Dirty
376.Luomo - Tessio (Moonbootica Remix)
377.Ricky Fobis - No Regular (M.I.K.E. Electro Shock Mix)
378.Alexander Kowalski - Belo Horizonte
379.Mauro Picotto & Ricardo Ferri - Alchemist EP
380.M Factor - Come Together (Eric Prydz Remix)
381.Junior Senior - Rhythm Bandits (Santos Another World Remix)
382.DJ Ton TB - Electronic Malfunction
383.Monika Kruse - Latin Lovers
384.Zoot Woman - Hope In The Mirror
385.Kay D Smith & Marc Tall - Passive Resistance (Hoipolloi Mix)
386.Geyster - Bye Bye Superman
387.Lost 'n Alive - Feels Like Love (Tiefschwartz Remix)
388.Michel de Hey vs Secret Cinema - Another Sweater (Sterac Electronic Mix)
389.Dirty Bass - Emotional Landscape
390.Dariush - Accidia (Elettronic Mix)
391.Justus Köhncke - Homogen EP

392.Holly Valance - State Of Mind
392.Chromedioxide II - Concious (Kaylab Remix)
393.The Silures - All You Can Eat EP
394.Alexander Kowalski - Belo Horizonte EP
395.Mauro Picotto - Playing Footsie
396.Moguai - Get On (Legowelt Remix)
397.Taksi - Bienenstich
398.Sven Väth - Designer Music (Legowelt Remix)
399.Sweet Coffee - Don't Need You
400.The Strokes - 12:51
401.Joey Beltram - Super Magnetic
402.Crystal Waters - My Time
403.Positive Energy - Space Girl Space Boy
404.BK & Lab 4 - Final Chapter
405.Polekat - Dancing Queen (You Know What I Mean)

No idea about the sample. Think it mentions it on the AMG review of the album.

296. Linus Loves - 'Stand Back' Archigram Remix

Finest Dreams went in twice, so:

341. Michelle Lawson - 'I Just Wanna Say' (easily the best thing J-Walk will ever do)

415. Lucky Pierre - 'The Heart of All That Is' Minotaur Shock Remix (remake of the year, surely?)
416. Seelenluft - 'Manila' Remixes
417. Swag - 'Where I Belong' Ewan and Al's remix
418. Chicks On Speed feat. Peaches - 'We Don't Play Guitars' Tiefschwarz Remix
419. Beats For Beginners - 'Kill All DJs'
420. Benzino - 'Rock The Party'
421. Bubba Sparxxx - 'Deliverance'
422. Derrick Carter - 'Squaredancing in A Roundhouse'

433. Xtina - 'Fighter' Freelance Hellraiser 'Thug Pop' Remix

436 Keren Ann "Sailor and widow"
437 Syd Matters "Black and white eyes"
438 Lyrics Born "Callin' out"
439 Eric Polaire "Ice bear" (Shakedown dub)
440 Blondie "Good boys" (Scissor sisters mix)
441 Glove "Wunderbar"
442 Ricardo Villalobos "Easy Lee"
443 Blackstrobe "Me + Madonna"
444 Five Deez "Funky"
445 Buck 65 "Wicked and weird"
446 TTC "De pauvres riches" (Detroit Grand Pubahs mix)

447 fuck the pain away - peaches
448 she lives in my lap - outkast
449 stand up - ludacris
450 can't stop won't stop - young gunz

What the fizzuck?

447. Peaches - 'Operate'

453. Ignition - 'Night Flight'

What style is this dude?

Anyway, here's my (very tentative) singles list so far, plus extras:

1 Panjabi MC feat. Jay-Z - "Mundian to Bach Ke (Beware of the Boys)"
2 Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys feat. Ying Yang Twins -- "Get Low"
3 Living Things -- "Bombs Below"
4 Bat Eats Plastic -- "City Beat"
5 Lycaon Pictus - "Lycaon Pictus"
6 Man in Gray - "Incommunicado"
7 Hitman Sammy Sam -- "Step Daddy"
8 Molotov -- "Frijolero"
9 Nena and Kim Wilde -- "Anypace, Anywhere, Anytime"
10 Rot Front - "The Robots"

honorable mentions: 50 Cent - "In Da Club"; Dizee Rascal - "I Luv U"; Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" and "Danger! High Voltage"; the Notwist - "Pick Up the Phone"; Justin Timberlake -- "Rock Your Body" and "Cry Like a River"; Junior Senior "Move Your Feet"; AB Quintanilla II and the Kumbia Kings -- "El Tengo Dinero"; Merle Haggard -- "That's the News"; David Banner - "Cadillacs on 22s"

Not in the running for my singles list since I'm definitely voting for their albums: All singles by Brooks & Dunn, Bubba Sparxxx, and ARE Weapons. (Justin and/or Merle and/or David Banner's screwed record could easily wind up in my album top ten as well; if so, I'll refrain from voting for their singles, too.)

465. Will Young - "Leave Right Now"

we need more Woosterism on ILM!

Your wish, etc.:

-- ddrake (ddrak...)

468. rachel stevens- sweet dreams my la ex.
469. atomic kitten- if you come to me (the first atomic kitten single ive liked in a long time)

Single. Of. The. Year.

Yep. It's on Warners Germany, in which nation I think it might have gone number one or something. Though actually, its true title is "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime." I think I left out an "l" up above.
The German version is called "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann;" the B side is "Nur Getraumt," with an umlaut over the "a," of course.

More!

MORE!!!!!!!

474) "Babe I'm On Fire" Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
475) "Stacey's Mom" Fountains of Wayne
476) "Bad Day" REM
477) "Nada" Gold Chains
478) "We've Had Enough" Alkaline Trio
479) "Diamonds and Guns" Transplants

Great solo.