12 July 2011: It's... 2000!

[sundaygal]

So hints AL.  Is this our first time in the millenium?

[radical347]

Yes    (except for the millennium decade set)

People need to stop requesting "Beautiful Day," though...

I requested:
Dexter Freebish - Leaving Town
Eiffel 65 - Blue
Eve 6 - Promise
Fastball - You're an Ocean

[urth]

So hints AL.  Is this our first time in the millenium?

Yep. 98 and 99 have appeared thrice each, but this is the first time we've had a year that starts with a crooked number.

Anything but Train. Please.

[radical347]

Uh oh...we already have a +1 (and AL "liked" it, too) for Joan Osborne - "Love is Alive" 

Brace yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12k3uTtpEU

[RGMike]

Indeed, our first 2000 set... this is really making me wonder WTF is up over there.  I've requested Tom Jones' "Sex Bomb" but I'm not at all sorry I have a 10:00 meeting tomorrow.  Gawd save 10@10 as we knew it.

[radical347]

Ehh, it was bound to happen.  And 2000 is older than 1999 was when we first went to 1999 (2009).

[RGMike]

Ehh, it was bound to happen.  And 2000 is older than 1999 was when we first went to 1999 (2009).

Having 2000 on the "Big Wheel" in itself is no biggie (and if AL actually plays Tom Jones, then woo hoo!) but in the past week we've been below 1980 exactly once and it's creeping me out a bit.

People are also requesting Sting's "Desert Rose", which I heard on the morning show just the other day.  BTW, we did get a '00s-retrospective set on New Years 2010 and as I recall it was quite good.

[Tinka Cat]

gosh, I have no idea what to request.  I  took a look at the Wikipedia "2000 in music" page and I'm still flummoxed.  I feel like Joel Selvin must feel when asked about anything after 1978.  I will tune in just to hear what kinds of music I should have been listening to back then. 

I predict Coldplay's Yellow will make an appearance.  But I hope we don't get Barenaked Ladies or The Corrs.  I hope AL goes all out with some pop -- how cool would it be to hear Madonna or Robbie Williams' Rock DJ?

[RGMike]

gosh, I have no idea what to request.  I  took a look at the Wikipedia "2000 in music" page and I'm still flummoxed. 

The songs that hit #1 in Billboard in 2000:

What a Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden
Thank God I Found You - Mariah Carey/Joe/98 Degrees
Amazed - Lonestar
Say My Name - Destiny's Child
Maria Maria - Santana
Try Again - Aaliyah
Be With You - Enrique Iglesias
Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
Bent - Matchbox Twenty
It's Gonna Be Me - *NSYNC
Incomplete - Sisqo
Doesn't Really Matter - Janet Jackson
Music - Madonna
Come on Over Baby - Christina Aguilera
With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Independent Women - Destiny's Child

Damn that's a depressing list.

[Big Fingers McGee]

If she plays "With Arms Wide Open", even though I won't technically be listening, I may still hurl.

Almost a dogfight over on FB.... I couldn't help but laugh that right after RGMike pointed out that 1999 was the year for "Smooth", "Maria Maria" was requested.

That Steely Dan song was awful, even by their standards. Yes, I'd rather hear Nickleback (although I don't believe they released anything in 2000).

[ggould]

If she plays "With Arms Wide Open", even though I won't technically be listening, I may still hurl.

Almost a dogfight over on FB.... I couldn't help but laugh that right after RGMike pointed out that 1999 was the year for "Smooth", "Maria Maria" was requested.

That Steely Dan song was awful, even by their standards. Yes, I'd rather hear Nickleback (although I don't believe they released anything in 2000).

well, I guess you're going to have to cut some slack if Smooth shows up; it charts high on the Billboard 2000 chart

[Big Fingers McGee]

If she plays "With Arms Wide Open", even though I won't technically be listening, I may still hurl.

Almost a dogfight over on FB.... I couldn't help but laugh that right after RGMike pointed out that 1999 was the year for "Smooth", "Maria Maria" was requested.

That Steely Dan song was awful, even by their standards. Yes, I'd rather hear Nickleback (although I don't believe they released anything in 2000).

well, I guess you're going to have to cut some slack if Smooth shows up; it charts high on the Billboard 2000 chart

It still holds the record for most weeks at #1 on any weekly chart (25 on R-n-R's Hot Adult Contemporary), from which a majority were in 2000. IMHO that makes it too popular for 10@10. So of course it will be played.

[ggould]

If she plays "With Arms Wide Open", even though I won't technically be listening, I may still hurl.

Almost a dogfight over on FB.... I couldn't help but laugh that right after RGMike pointed out that 1999 was the year for "Smooth", "Maria Maria" was requested.

That Steely Dan song was awful, even by their standards. Yes, I'd rather hear Nickleback (although I don't believe they released anything in 2000).

well, I guess you're going to have to cut some slack if Smooth shows up; it charts high on the Billboard 2000 chart

It still holds the record for most weeks at #1 on any weekly chart (25 on R-n-R's Hot Adult Contemporary), from which a majority were in 2000. IMHO that makes it too popular for 10@10. So of course it will be played.

I think one of the problems is that from a foghead point-of-view (I would consider myself one, as I simply don't listen to much else, even if I don't listen much to KFOG!) is that I don't see hardly any familiar music on the Billboard Hot 100 from that year.

[sundaygal]

This is gonna be the musical equivalent of watching a car crash.  If Nickelback, Creed or Smooth by Santana gets played, I might have to pull a Donny Hathaway...

[Big Fingers McGee]

This is gonna be the musical equivalent of watching a car crash.  If Nickelback, Creed or Smooth by Santana gets played, I might have to pull a Donny Hathaway...

You forgot the ever-present Vertical Horizon. Not to be confused with Matchbox Twenty or Lifehouse.