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The Record Of The Year 2003
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Bro
06-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by Nonkey
In my opinion the best record of this year was Coldplay - Clocks. What about you?? ”

Oh yes - one of my faves.
lala
06-12-2003
lala sings

*oh Mandy,
you came and gave me a turkey*



I'm so glad i didnt watch this show lol, best sings were robbed for looks and average singles. Just a slap on your face isnt it to remind us we are in "Great" Britain after all .

Thank god for the Big Read on BBC 2! Now theres something i'm passionate about
steveyboybmth
06-12-2003
I think that just summed up Detestlife's falseness, all this boy next door, men in suit clean image, and what does Brian McFadden do, W**k on National TV, try to strip, then Moon, oh how Simon Cowell will be proud

I was disgusted with his behavior, especially due to his supposed Target audience, I never thought I'd be cheering for Busted or Daniel Bedingfield
Catzy
06-12-2003
This would have been my personal top ten instead of the cr@p that got in...


1. Clocks - Coldplay
2. I Believe in a thing called Love - The Darkness
3. Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics
4. Sexed Up/Feel ( Dont care which ) - Robbie Williams
5. If Your Not the One - Daniel Beddingfield (At least they got this one right!!!)
6. Bring Me to Life - Evenescence ( Yay...but it got knocked out early which was irritating...)
7.All The Things she said - Tatu
8. White Flag - Dido (Yay...)
9. Beautiful - Christina Aquilera
10. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

How about u guys?
Bro
06-12-2003
not sure if all these count but...
1.Delta Goodrem - lost without you or any of them
2.Will young - LRN
3. Sinead Quinn - I can't break down
4.Delta Goodrem - lost without you or any of them
5.Dido- White Flag
6. Coldplay Clocks
7. Darkness - i believe...
8.Dido-Life For Rent
9. Daniel Bedingfield ( even though I hate it I recognise it is loved)
10. Christina _ Beautiful/ Fighter
Marillion fan
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by Bro
Daniel Bedingfield ( even though I hate it I recognise it is loved)”

That song was brilliantly written. Love songs of that quality don't come along very often, especially these days. I doubt he'll ever top that.
DryHumper
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by steveuk
I think that just summed up Detestlife's falseness, all this boy next door, men in suit clean image, and what does Brian McFadden do, W**k on National TV, try to strip, then Moon”

I was kinda hoping at that point, that he be magically transported to the serious nutter wing of one of her majesty prisons, where he would have got what he deserved up his protruding backside
DryHumper
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by Catzy
This would have been my personal top ten instead of the cr@p that got in...


1. Clocks - Coldplay
2. I Believe in a thing called Love - The Darkness
10. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
”

I think those 3 should have been at least in the final 25, for the public to vote on, as well as Justin Timberlake's Cry me a river (best selling album, after all), plus Christina's (although it might have been in there, I never spotted it).

I've curious to know how the final 25 were decided on, I personally thought it must have been on sales, which, in a way, would have been fair. But I noticed a post that said Gareth Gates effort (although I cant stand him), was one of the biggest sellers of the year, but never made it. There seems to be a air of mystery over this selection, they never seem to have stated how it was done, and unless theres a transparent selection of the final 25, the whole thing is a farce from beginning to end.
Marillion fan
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by klw
The Cheeky Girls! You must be joking. What possible merit does their 'record' have? ”

Light relief maybe?
DryHumper
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by Bro
This show is a f***ing joke. It's a sham.
It's just like another smash hits award.
GG will win with Spirit in the Sky
Just like he won last year with a COVER VERSION!
Record of the year a cover version? That's a sad state of affairs.
”

Actually I noticed his 2004 calendar was down to £2.99 in woolies, the other day, where as Robbie and the lovely Rachel were still at £6.99. Ever get the feeling he's in his 13th minute of his 15 minutes of fame?
Marillion fan
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by Catzy
But I knew Coldplay wouldnt be in with a shot. ”

Coldplay are a serious band (so I'm told, I'm not particularly a fan) so why would they want to be associated with a show like this?
June
07-12-2003
Well, luckily I didn't watch it as I was out. I did tape Will's performance though on the results show and then turned it off.

I would have thought that a song which had only come out and therefore surely has less sales would not be eligible. How many do they need to get into this list?

Also I feel that one of the rules should be that, if you are there, you MUST sing live, even with a backing track.
raymond901
07-12-2003
It's all because of Simon Cowell being assosciated with ITV.

I just feel sorry for all those people who wasted their money voting, because I doubt a single phonecall was even taken into account.

The winner was chosen before they even finalised the short-list.
lala
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by DryHumper
Actually I noticed his 2004 calendar was down to £2.99 in woolies, the other day, where as Robbie and the lovely Rachel were still at £6.99. Ever get the feeling he's in his 13th minute of his 15 minutes of fame? ”

Oh yes and lets not forget to mention that his album is at 120 in the charts!

Ouch, talk about adding insult to injury
Bro
07-12-2003
Quote:
“Originally posted by DryHumper
I think those 3 should have been at least in the final 25, for the public to vote on, as well as Justin Timberlake's Cry me a river (best selling album, after all), plus Christina's (although it might have been in there, I never spotted it).

I've curious to know how the final 25 were decided on, I personally thought it must have been on sales, which, in a way, would have been fair. But I noticed a post that said Gareth Gates effort (although I cant stand him), was one of the biggest sellers of the year, but never made it. There seems to be a air of mystery over this selection, they never seem to have stated how it was done, and unless theres a transparent selection of the final 25, the whole thing is a farce from beginning to end.
”

gareths entry couldn't be included because charity songs aren't allowed to be.

Justin with Rock Your Body would be in my top 10 to actually.
From what I understand a panel picks 25 from the top 60 sellers.
FastEddie
08-12-2003
Despite the fact that i found myself watching it and seething again, by Monday morning i am considerably more chilled out.

I mean, come on - we didn't really buy ANY of it as anything other than an exercise in horse-trading and back-slapping by the UK majors.

For a start, i don't think anyone can argue that if we had a fair poll, there's no way anyone like the Darkness or Evanescence or Coldplay would win, and neither would Westlife or Busted. The nation as a whole would happily compromise on a song like the Black Eyed Peas or Beyonce, but even moreso on the song that was missed out that made it obvious that it was a BMG/19 fix-up - JT's 'Cry Me A River'.

I have NO idea what that 'Eurovision' style jury thing was all about, ESPECIALLY since one of the 'regions' was the phone/text vote results - how did they work out the results from the regions if they'd already partitioned off the phone and text results? There must have been, what - 20 votes that were cast in other ways?

Obviously I was cheering for Busted to win, for my sins - but if i was being impartial it was clear to me that musically the fight had to be between Bedingfield and Rachel Stevens and saleswise between Beyonce and Black Eyed Peas. But once Westlife won it with a horrible song by even their abysmal standards, i was left without even a smidgen of justice being done (apart from the hilarity of Brian's fat face, arse and gestures invading the screen).

But why should we expect anything else? For all its sins, Pop Idol isn't even half as contrived as that bullshit. I for one can't wait for next year, when Westlife's cover of a Gareth Gates song released the day of the show still wins.
RichardN
08-12-2003
Well, the voting procedure was about as flawed as it could be.

Considering that the likely voters are much more likely to use text than phone and all the texts were condensed into one section.* Plus small regions like "Channel" have the same voting power as "London"...

I'd love to know the grand total of votes cast and the breakdown.

*Although it could be argued that Busted had an advantage from a text POV because the word "busted" can be predictively texted, unlike most of the others.
Geeg
08-12-2003
The whole thing of course is a martketting ploy. Those artists had their songs played repeatedly on primetime terrestrial tv and now the grannies know what to buy for the grandkids this xmas.
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