Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2002 poll

finally back after the break, going to power through a few years before Christmas.

Acclaimed Music Top 40 from 2002

^^^ Spotify link

(i actually think the Spotify link has more than the Top 40.)

"No Children," no question.

my heart says grindin'

one of these:

Missy Elliott - Work It
Coldplay - Clocks
Clipse - Grindin'
Nelly - Hot in Herre
The Libertines - Time for Heroes

grindin'

"rock your body" is good too

Wilco, pretty handily.

I don't think I've heard this Jürgen Paape track before. Gorgeous.

Heartbeats, in a heartbeat

top 3 tracks don't work too well in 2016 imo

this is completely reprehensible

ban 2002

anyway, my love is bigger than your love, sing it

Some absolute corkers here - the top 6 is more or less solid. LOADS of indie landfill dross permeating though. I remember 2002 being a freaking excellent year for new music.

Heartbeats beating out Losing my Edge in this one though

This isn't nearly as good as '01. Probably Heartbeats.

'Heartbeats' another one of those that wouldn't have made any EOY list at the time - first release listed as Dec 27 2002.

That top two is as good as it gets.

Oof. Some real stinkers here. 2001 list infinitely better than this bunch.

Prob Heartbeats or No Children.

I like in varying degrees all of these:

1 111 LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
2 177 The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
3 257 Johnny Cash - Hurt
4 273 The Knife - Heartbeats
5 333 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
8 580 Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
9 586 The Roots feat. Cody Chesnutt - The Seed 2.0
10 596 Missy Elliott - Work It
15 957 The Streets - Weak Become Heroes
16 986 Clipse - Grindin'
17 1129 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
28 1832 Nelly - Hot in Herre
40 2703 Jürgen Paape - So weit wie noch nie

But I would only rate 5 stars the Jurgen Paape and Missy tracks. The rest I dont think I would care if I ever hear them again. Voting Jurgen.

Work It, Grindin, No Children, Time For Heroes, Hot in herre, Cry me a River

One of those

but which Interpol song to pick?

Thing I never woulda predicted in 2002: the JT songs holding up way better than the Interpol songs.

heh, I didn't even like JT until "Rock Your Body" and I would have said at the time that his songs would hold up better than the Interpol songs (in fact, I probably did; I always hated Interpol)

Interpol are a sentimental teenage favorite that have endured for me. Paul Banks is one of my favorite lyricists and these three songs have some his best work. it's between PDA and NYC for me.

"I had seven faces / thought I knew which one to wear" is such a great couplet.

1. Rock Your Body
2. Grindin'
3. So weit wie noch nie

Never was into Interpol... it seemed to me that artists from previous decades did that sort of thing better and always hated how buried his voice was in the mix. Then again I also don't like Joy Division which seems to be the closest reference critics loved to drop on them. It was always "the new Joy Division" "the new Television"

I didn't get the Joy Division comparisons because I never found JD to be enervating

Lol

nobody in that band but Carlos D was into Joy Division though. it's such a drag that they always got tagged as a JD ripoff when Paul just had a similar baritone voice.

Jesus, etc might be my all time song.

... Jesus.

the joy division/interpol references demonstrate a lack of basic understanding of either band's music

xpost

Jesus...

takes....all shapes.....and sizes.....xxp

something wrong with the song?

JD and Interpol are alike for me in that they have one song each that I can stand to listen to these days.

VHS all maitre d' at the wilco cafe

the joy division/interpol references demonstrate a lack of basic understanding of either band's music

― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 1, 2016 2:21 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm.

curtis' lyrical obsession is isolation. banks' obsession is girls

work it, duh

xxpost ... ok

Move Your Feet! One of my all-time favorites. It always gets my toe a-tappin'.

Tempting to vote for What a Waster, one of the best guitar rock songs of the decade. But it's Heartbeats.

"Move Your Feet" a good second place here, but

I hope you die

I hope we both die

oh shit i missed electric six. that's up there too. fire in the taco bell!

interpol sound like the chameleons, duh. the jd thing is just... the vocals are a hilarious misreading of ian curtis' style.

interpol sound like the chameleons, duh.

this is blasphemy

well they do! doesn't mean they're any good

The guitar thing they do does mirror Television in some songs only Television is way cooler. The JD comparison is probably in the voice.

no it's a shitty version of the chameleons, trust me, they do the same "chun-chun-chun-chun" guitar thing

oh nevermind, i don't know what i'm talking about

I don't think I've heard this Jürgen Paape track before. Gorgeous.

― jmm, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:18 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes! A total find!

Co-founder of Kompakt. This is a great compilation: https://www.discogs.com/Jürgen-Paape-Kompilation/release/2624503

Tough choice between The Rapture, The Knife, Missy and Jürgen Paape.

Loads of great tunes on here but heard "There Goes the Fear" again last week and the memories came back. Songs holds up really well too.

one of these:

4 273 The Knife - Heartbeats
7 513 Eminem - Lose Yourself
8 580 Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
10 596 Missy Elliott - Work It
11 603 Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River
15 957 The Streets - Weak Become Heroes
16 986 Clipse - Grindin'
21 1343 The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward
22 1459 Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
23 1476 Doves - There Goes the Fear
29 1868 Talib Kweli - Get By
32 2220 Sugababes - Freak Like Me

Clocks

Weak Become Heroes is fantastic, too

yeah i never heard of the Jürgen Paape (didn't know shit about house then, don't know shit about house now), but man it sounds great. voted for it over jesus, etc (much love for fred lonberg-holm)

For those who haven't heard the jurgen paape before and loved it: if you're interested in hearing more house and techno from the 00s here's the ilxor poll results for top 110 electronic tracks of the 00s:

http://ilxpolls.tumblr.com

The Jurgen Paape song was #3.

"Mit dir" from Total 4 is even better imo

Work It for me

Missy Elliott "Work It" rules the world.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

heartbeats, comfortably

You bought a new bag of pot, said let's make a new start

And that's the way to my heart

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

interesting results as always, listening to this playlist and feel "Danger! High Voltage" got robbed.

I like LCD Soundsystem as much as the next guy but I don't get the sonic appeal of losing my edge

speaking as someone who voted for it, its more about its lyrics/humour than its "sonic appeal"

I don't mind these results as i like all 4 songs in the top but would have preferred:

Jurgen > Missy > Knife > LCD

I know the namedropping section that begins on the "have you seen my records?" it's meant to be satirical on "Losing my Edge" but those are frankly great artists and would be proud to have them in my collection. Is he trying to make people like me ashamed? It has sort of the opposite effect.

He also forgot to quote "Cardboard Lamb" by Crash Course in Science which seems to be the musical inspiration (bordering on rip-off) behind the song:

https://youtu.be/DdNH1urxXOw

Guitars also could be a reference (or another rip-off? No idea if James Murphy ever mentioned the influence) to Killing Joke - change, a band he also doesn't mention.

https://youtu.be/t166M5ESVNk

I know it's not the most creative riff but there's also the drum break + guitar thing present on LME and considering the kind of band that LCD is, I don't think any of their music is accidental or coincidential ripping off but carefully chosen hommage.

The chance of hearing the inferior re-recorded versions of 'So weit wie noch nie' before the original are pretty high on Spotify (which doesn't differentiate between them currently) :(

I fell so hard for "All My Friends" in '07 that I sometimes forget how annoying I used to find James Murphy. A relisten confirms: "Losing My Edge," like "Daft Punk Are Playing At My House," is snarky, exclusionary and nowhere near as witty as it thinks it is. Why people hate hipsters, basically.

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Thanks!

Ha, no votes for any of the Libertines tracks!

2016 sure showed them

This list needed more MC Pitman.