The 2004 campaign begins

[koganbot]

I'm going away for a week on Monday, with partial computer access (but no sound), so I'll start the rah-rah now:

Here are some very good tracks from 2004 that I won't be able to nominate for the poptimists Best Of 2004 poll, since I've already got another ten picked out. (By the way, Ashlee's "La La" peaked in Britain in early 2005, so you can feel free to nominate other songs that you love that begin with L, though none of these do.)

No Lay - "Unorthodox Daughter"
Crime Mob - "Knuck If You Buck"
Method Man - "What's Happenin"
Jim Jones f. Juelz Santana and Cam'ron - "Crunk Muzik"
Big & Rich - "Real World"
Big & Rich - "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"
M.I.A. - "Galang"
Skye Sweetnam - "Hypocrite"
Skye Sweetnam - "Tangled Up In Me"
Ying Yang Twins f. Trick Daddy - "What's Happnin'"
Kelly Clarkson - "Hear Me"
Kelly Clarkson - "Addicted"
Miss B - "Bottle Action"
Toby Keith - "Whiskey Girl"
Ashlee Simpson - "Autobiography"
The Hold Steady - "Positive Jam"
Montgomery Gentry - "Gone"

EDIT: Lex, have you ever heard Miss B (or Ms. B, according to the video) "Bottle Action"? I embed it down in the comments.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Will quite obviously stan for almost all of these, the only ones I don't know are Miss B, Montgomery Gentry, No Lay, Method Man (or maybe I'm just not remembering it?), and can't remember if I've heard that Toby Keith song, probably not.

I'll be using "Hypocrite," "Hear Me," "Better Off," "Love Me for Me," and would strongly consider repping "Real World" which is one of my fave tracks off that album.

Brooklyn, Shaolin, Queensbridge down to Long Island

[koganbot]

Could well be the best grime track I've ever heard:



Method Man and Busta (good job of being moody and fun simultaneously, which is a feature of a lot of the decade's hip-hop, when I think about):



I don't know how I'm not nominating these (though if other people nominate some in my ten, maybe I'll get my chance).

I don't fight, I don't argue, I just hit that bitch with a bottle

[koganbot]

[koganbot]

No Lay "Unorthodox Daughter":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Pp3V0N0hk

Method Man "What's Happenin":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LN1vIZDMck

Miss B "Bottle Action"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp_cdGGbPX8