Listening conditions and Emerge

When checking out songs and albums I listen to them under a variety of conditions.  Simply because it's where I spend a lot of my time, many tracks will be listened to on headphones at work while I'm working and paying primary attention to my job and listening only in the background.  Other tracks and albums will be listened to on the subway coming to or from work.  The obvious disadvantage of the subway is being really loud and often distracting,so I can be focused on music but I can't necessarily hear as well as I would like.  Lastly some tracks I get to listen to on my home system. 

As far as home audio systems go, mine's pretty good, quality speakers, quality DAC, quality amplifier, files are high bit rate. Obviously given the variety of these listening conditions, sound quality, and attention there's going to be some random bias or error based on whether I listen to a track initially at work, at home, or on the subway.  I try to ameliorate this to some extent by just having things on the background in general so that I hear them multiple times in multiple occasions, but nonetheless the bias is going to exist.  There's not really anything that can be done to prevent this so I'm just making a note of it here. 

One impact of this bias that's very noticeable to me is that songs that stand out are going to get noticed more when they do something striking that causes them to move from the background and grab my attention. Songs get through when they have a loud chorus for the subway, or just a catchy part that sticks in my head while I'm doing other things.  

One song that has all those properties, loud moments, catchy hooks, and a propensity for sticking in your head is, the song Emerge by Fischerspooner  (Wikipedia) . Its number 24 on RAs top 100 tracks. The song is pretty quick. It has a satisfying build, starts slower softer and with less going on and then eventually gets nuts. The male vocals at the middle "uh huh that's right" aren't great, but the layering of male and female vocals at the end is quite satisfying. I wish the song was maybe another one to two minutes longer.  After the build up is complete I wouldn't mind another minute or two of payoff. 

Is this song good, or is it just a catchy one that stood out due to conditions? Time will tell. Although since its top 25 in a list of the best songs of the 00s maybe time has already told.