Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread

eh, releases that came out in 1999, esp late the year, are totally valid as 00s songs if that's when people were discovering them

i nominated filter's "take a picture", a 1999 release that broke at rock radio in november of that year. but i didn't hear it until it started picking up steam at top 40 stations, which was like 3-4 months later. i wouldn't fault anyone for considering it either a 90s tune or a 00s one. people are inevitably going to think to some extent about whether a song is actually 'from' the 2000s when they consider whether they should vote for it

so i don't think it would be some big injustice if a track that technically came out in 1999 slipped into the results

There’s gotta be a cutoff, may as well make it strictly by release date.

decade of impact rule

Half the releases in this thread had almost no “impact” at all

Even judging by year of impact, "My Life Muzik" was an underground hit in 1999 and appeared on several different multi-artist compilations that year, so no way does it count as a 2000 track.

(It’s not my poll, of course — just seems weird to say that a chart-performing release gets to slide into consideration for the following year, if that’s when it has the fortune to “pick up steam” culturally.)

Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix) was released in Germany in 1999, but was only a hit in the UK in 2000, honestly not sure on that one.

The same with Darude's "Sandstorm" (which I don't think was nominated?): it was released here in Finland in late 1999 and was played a lot in clubs already that year, but it didn't become a global hit until 2000.

I'm wondering where the "decade of impact" rule will put my nominations of Lady Gaga/Beyonce's "Telephone" (released on an EP at the end of 2009, but not released as a single until early 2010) and Young Money's "Roger That" (included on a 2009 compilation before being released as a single in 2010). I'm still going to vote for them, but I totally get why they might be thought of as belonging more to the current decade than the previous one.

i believe "decade/year of impact" pretty much means "if there's an edge case like that, it's eligible" so i don't think there's a problem with either of them

i feel like not having hard cut-off will generate more work on what’s already going to be an epic poll.

If we're going by decade of impact, "Don't Stop Believin'" should def be nominated.

Wouldn’t the tracks cited above be “edge cases” only if this were a 2010s poll? If they were released officially in some form in 2009, I would think they qualify here.

number one track of the 10s = africa? xp

OTM

Either Africa or Bohemian Rhapsody.

Wouldn’t the tracks cited above be “edge cases” only if this were a 2010s poll? If they were released officially in some form in 2009, I would think they qualify here.

Yeah hard to argue against including the 2009 tracks. But I mean, "Better Off Alone" is a 1998 track, even if its parent album was only released in 2000. Easiest solution is just leave it up to voters I think

a few big omissions from the 00s Dance tracks poll results

Green Velvet - La La Land

Thought I nominated that but perhaps I forgot

I still have 20 nods left, go ahead and throw one of them to that

TRACKS

Green Velvet - La La Land

(31/50)

nominations be closed.

Oh well

Crap, I missed this, and my no. song wasn't even nominated :(

No. 1?

Ok, anyone is allowed to nominate their no. 1 song if it's missing. However, if their ballot later shows up without that song at no. 1 their ballot will be discounted! Isn't power fun

There is *no way* you will check all ballots on that but <3 :D

Too funny

how many ballots could possibly ask to nom their #1 vote after the deadline tho? he could easily check the 1-2

I only need to check ballots who nominate a #1 from this point onward! Exactly

damn we forgot to nominate "duffle bag boy" didn't we

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

jewlia eisenberg (of charming hostess)'s trilectic is a vocally inventive playful post-meredith monk album that uses cantorial traditions, eskimo throat singing, doo wop, ethiopian jewish traditions and more as settings for text excerpted from letters exchanged between walter benjamin, asja lacis, and gershom sholem (+ other texts). it came out on zorn's tzadik label under the radical jewish culture imprint. it was tremendously important to me when it came out in 2001 and i was still a rabbinic student in yeshiva, bc it was so unlike anything else i had heard (both musically + in that nexus of theological/political thought) but over the years its uniqueness has only grown to me. it sounds like very few other things (and most of the things it does sound like are also in the tzadik catalog and are influenced imo by eisenberg's work -- i'll write a recommendation about mayim rabim at a later point unless sund4r wants to??) but it's extremely listenable and memorable for an avant/experimental vocal work. it has hooky moments and gorgeous melodic moments. it also has a song ("Dream of Me") based on Susan Buck-Morss's The Dialectics of Seeing about Asja's frustrations with Benjamin that includes the line, "I dreamt you fucked me like John Reed, and I'm a good red - I pushed back and begged for more / I dreamed the vanguard of the left she came so hard she had to scream." it's a v weird + strange alternate dimension of an album both in choice of subject material (communist love songs) + sonic palette. i really think ppl should seek out the whole thing bc the style + tones shift wildly over the course of the album but i'll include a couple youtube links bc i'm not sure where you can actually stream the whole thing. i could probably write a million more things about this album but i'll just say that i always thought it was the kind of thing i'd think [some] ilmers would be into and i'm not sure why it never happened [yet, utopian longing v much themely].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4n2LVyMy1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2leR5i8Hw

those are the only two i can find on youtube. also i dropboxed one of my favorite tracks that i cannot find on youtube here

Here are some of my nominations that aren't on spotify (or maybe just not on canada spotify?) that i wanna highlight/campaign for

1. ZAZEN BOYS - WEEKEND
I literally think about this song almost every 7 days. Weird mathy Japanese band goes FUNKY and screams about the WEEKEND. Also the video rules. everyone should be as obsessed with this as i am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZjYq8-SHw

2. STONED GREEN APPLES - SUGAR K (YURA YURA TEIKOKU REMIX)
Why this hasn't played at every good party I've ever been to is a stupid mystery. doesn't really sound like the original, doesn't reaaally sound like a lot of yura yura teikoku, but goddamn is it good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1epHwAQTVc

y'all voting for this one, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6T3I_Zskfs

are we supposed to be campaigning in this thread?

yes

Or here

NOUGHTIES/NOWTS/00s POLL CAMPAIGNING SIDE-THREAD: Youtube, Bandcamp & other links to YOUR nominations that AREN'T ON SPOTIFY

Spotfiy is still banned by the local mystics here since they formed an alliance with the Asda Boys, their grip is tightening so I have no idea what has made it out there

man i really need to give zazen boys a proper listen someday, "weekend" rules

No. 1?

Ok, anyone is allowed to nominate their no. 1 song if it's missing. However, if their ballot later shows up without that song at no. 1 their ballot will be discounted! Isn't power fun

― imago, Monday, September 16, 2019 9:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks, imago!

Here we go!

Alexis Strum - Nothing Good About This Goodbye

:)

on I plunge playlisting

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

noticed we all failed to nominate merzbeat, or indeed any merzbow. what has become of us? only my colossal respect for imago stops me from voting for it anyway

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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Tracks to follow.

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The Chemical Brothers - Surrender has been officially thrown out of this poll for being released in the middle of 1999, sorry ledge

i was going purely on my shoddy antiquated mp3 tags, apologies for wasting your valuable time.

Right now I've been playing the fun game of going through the tracks playlist on shuffle and trying to pinpoint what year a song I don't recognize is from without looking at any track or artist information.

xxp thanks! only 1,661 album noms, I can do this.

looks like you've got Dam-Funk's Toeachizown on there twice

A couple more dupes:

Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Abe Vigoda - Kid City
Elliot(t) Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Move D / Namlook - XII: Space & Time
Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House / Up the Wooden Hills
Spoon - Transference
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Oh, and Mastodon - Leviathan

Transference turned out to be ineligible.

Has a voting deadline been set yet?

Daamn no-one nominated Daft Punk's Human After All (not that I'd vote for it)

It was pointed out already but Fripp & Eno's 'Evening Star' is presumably ineligible? It was merely remastered in 2008 afaik