Best Song: Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
The experimental nature of Basement Jaxx has mean their music has been a mixed bag over the years. When they get it right though they come out with something outstanding like this record. Everyone with good taste loved this at the time and I recall been taken aback when I first heard this.
Worst Song: Anastacia - Paid My Dues
When I first heard this record I thought oh no not Anastacia again. It was compounded by how much this record was irritating me. there was a lot of attitude in it which just made me think shut the fuck up. I've always found her voice irritating too.
Top 40 Review
A strong candidate for worst song was the Christmas number one of 2001 which was "Something Stupid" by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. That record has always annoyed me whatever version it is but despite it being Christmas number one I didn't really hear it too much at the time, or indeed since.
Nicole Kidman wasn't the only singing actress in the Top 40 though. Kate Winslet had a hit with "What If" which was dreary nonsense and I remember whenever it appeared on the music channels my housemate at the time would shout expletives and change the channel.
The number two record seemed a bit of of the blue. It was "How Wonderful You Are" by Gordon Haskell who was 55 at the time and it was his only Top 40 hit. It was a decent record though and gets full marks.
The number three record came from someone who should have been a one hit wonder. It was "Gotta Get Thru This" by Daniel Bedingfield, a UK garage record that was the only decent record he had. The UK garage era was coming to an end, with previous garage chart toppers Oxide & Neutrino making more of a rap record which wasn't bad.
Trance was the main dance music genre in this Top 40 which ranged from the decent "Resurection" by PPK and "Rapture" by IIO to the abysmal "Will I" by Ian Van Dahl and "Who Do You Love Now" by Riva ft Dannii Minogue with some OK records in between.
On the subject of music acts with only one decent record, we had the excellent "Just A Day" by Feeder in the Top 40 which was a punk record unlike the dreary indie records they'd usually release. Sticking with punk there was also "In Too Deep" by Sum 41 which was alright, but nothing special.
It was the year where Hear'Say won "Popstars" and Liberty X were runners up and both groups are in the charts but neither gets a point.
Christmas music wise it's just "I Believe In Christmas" by the Tweenies, a long forgotten Christmas record that was for kids who'd now be in their 30s.
Some decent records in there but loads of crap too, mainly from the boy bands/girl groups/mixed gender groups and a few others.
Score: 9
Table
Once again the year we look at goes into 2nd place but we're getting closer to the 1962 score. Just slightly lower than the best year 2001 score:
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