The Official ILM THE NEPTUNES Poll (#27 In Series) - Voting & Campaigning Thread (VOTING STILL OPEN)

That is so great

I don't recall hearing "Signs" on the radio all that often.

How was that list put together? "Frontin'" is their 10th biggest song?! Or did it just chart really well one week?

longevity-wise, isn't "Got Your Money" more popular than about half of those songs?

that's kind of a really bad list

really? the only songs on it I dislike are "Money Maker"/"Wind It Up"/"Change Clothes"

"Signs" was a total flop in the U.S. for some reason -- maybe urban radio had some anti-Justin sentiment since that was the first thing he dropped since the Janet incident, but pop radio didn't touch it either. i blame "Let's Get Blown" for blowing the "Drop It Like It's Hot" momentum.

A couple of album tracks from Kaleidoscope I'll be voting for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZNCkrLdwLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCR3KgQsCso

you'd vote for those tracks but not for "roller rink"?

I've been working through ahh's playlist but am running into the sand too quickly. A whole sea of Clipse hasn't helped, but the problem atm is that I've completely lost sight of what's Neptuney about these tracks - right now it sounds like a bunch of pop R&B tunes one after the other, some decent, some not, but there might as well be no link between 'em.

Can anyone (without revealing too much) give me a quick pointer towards a couple of quintessential Nep flourishes? Just to help me reconnect. Needn't be a personal favourite or anything, just a sound that they do and noöne else does.

Love both of these for different reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8ZpvWlaCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLySgRW6y8

Two more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXVqVc4OVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BVHP514ZQ

you'd vote for those tracks but not for "roller rink"?

Yeah, not that I dislike 'Roller Rink' or anything.

is this possibly fake? this song rules hard but the video sounds like someone took the justin song and added their own drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPDs1ZQZ3bQ

ok the real version has live drums so maybe it's not fake.

Kenna just dropped a new single/video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8KjIIo9uI

digging this more than anything on the EP he had out earlier this year

BUMP

more food for thought, Neptunes tracks that have ranked on the Pazz & Jop singles poll:

3. Nelly “Hot In Herre” (2002)
4. Kelis “Milkshake” (2003)
7. Snoop Dogg “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (2004)
7. Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” (2005)
8. Mystikal “Shake Ya Ass” (2000)
12. Justin Timberlake “Rock Your Body” (2003)
12. Clipse “Grindin’” (2002)
16. Ol’ Dirty Bastard “Got Your Money” (1999)
20. Jay-Z “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)” (2000)
22. Pharrell f/ Jay-Z “Frontin’” (2003)
24. Snoop Dogg “Beautiful” (2003)
24. N.O.R.E. “Nothin’” (2002)
26. No Doubt “Hella Good” (2002)
27. Clipse “Mr. Me Too” (2006)
30. Britney Spears “I’m A Slave 4 U” (2001)
33. Justin Timberlake f/ Clipse “Like I Love You” (2002)
38. N.E.R.D. “Lapdance” (2001)

Can this get extended? I need the weekend to finalize.

Is anyone else going to put pretty much all of Wanderland on their ballot? The record still feels to me like a producers' showcase, although Kelis has a strong enough presence to offset that; just one amazing beat after another.

why didn't i vote for "i'm good" goddamnit

oh crap, this is tomorrow huh? when a poll comes around i'm excited for i've actually been busy and stuff!

how many votes do you have? do we need an extension?

i always thought the song on blackout was the neptunes letting down the crazy britney team but after bowwow is sounds so much better

man those busta records may be just about the best things he ever did. which, fucking hell.

Voted. I had to censor my ballot due to "outbound profanity" detector email software! Apparently ODB is persona non grata. I assume you'll get the gist though ;-)

hey guys and girls: GRINDIN

I've reached the outer limits of my Neps zone of tolerance. The tracks I have flagged will now form my shortlist. There are 36 of them :(

did they produce definition of a roller from the mia mixtape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TgMlw8Dz5s

i love those clipse tunes from between their albums. i know they def didnt do zen.

yeah there's not much other Neptunes-produced stuff from that era besides like "Pussy" and "Stuntin Yall", right? tbh i wouldn't mind if everything Clipse did after "What Happend To That Boy" vanished off the face of the earth, but those are ok

this song is awesome and hilarious imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrTnHhr8lPQ

http://www.rocketxl.com/launchpad/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/i-voted-sticker.gif

Me too!

what time is midnight GMT in eastern time?

i think you are 5 hours behind us, so in like 8 1/2 hrs time?

um isn't midnight GMT 3 1/2 hours from now?

yeah that's what i was thinking

unless you mean you're accepting midnight from the voter's time zone wherever they are?

um im not the guy counting votes, i was just being stupid.

lol i forgot who was running it

Still no confirmation on an extension right? I can get it done by Sunday night if you want another ballot.

sorry guys for disappearing for a bit: so far I've got 10 ballots in the mail and since I won't start the countdown until around the middle of the next week anyway the deadline gets extended at least for this weekend. everyone who hasn't voted yet but plans to compose a ballot is still welcome!

YES!

y'know, I'm not gonna be the one to strictly enforce these deadlines - as long as the result thread is not already running, you still can try to squeeze your votes in

i am puttin my ballot together now and everyone has already mentioned most of the shit that's gonna be on it but i always thought this beat was sick as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIqt3z2sRoQ

also ha ha sigh yeah i'm not really surprised there's ONE song on my ballot from after 2004, really barely anything after 2003, but jeez.

bump.

bump

any mods looking at this thread? subject line should prob take out/change deadline or say VOTING STILL OPEN or something

also ha ha sigh yeah i'm not really surprised there's ONE song on my ballot from after 2004, really barely anything after 2003, but jeez.

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, October 19, 2012 6:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

after all my trashing of the later period i ended up voting for six post-'04 jams

vote!

I'd love to vote but I'VE GOT THIS HORRIBLE DEADLINE hanging over me. Sigh.