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

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.

I deeeeid it.

this is really kinda staggering when you start to list it out

yeah i had about 60 to narrow down to 35

alright, my ballot's in... pretty canon, but basically no choice

really excited to check these results.

what does the official countdown start from? 50?

ray j is def gonna make this right...?

this is kind of a dumb question but, who do y'all think fell off harder: neptunes or timbo?

even accounting for tim's sabbatical i don't think he ever had a period of mediocrity that stretched as long as the neptunes from, like, 2004 up until pretty recently (HHNF stans stand down). that said, i think tim from 08-present is kinda pushing that right now... even the neptunes down period was more repetitive & lazy as opposed to the offensively bad shit tim has been a part of for the last few years. and the neptunes/pharrell have sort of picked it up recently whereas tim hasn't had a hot track pop up on a random pop album since like flo-rida's first joint. plus there's the whole danja thing with tim's latter-day stuff as well.

i think i'd have to say tim fell off harder now that i've thought about it... when it first popped into my head i would've said neptunes no doubt

I agree that Pharrell's pulling it back - Sweet Life is a great, subtle production. His style isn't as emphatic as it used to be but nor is it as generic as it became. Scrolling down the Neptunes wiki discography I'm surprised by how much post-2008 stuff I like, if not love, whereas Timbaland's output in the same period is a wasteland.

Did you get my ballot V79?

I think Timbo had more true one-of-a-kind talent/brilliance, and lost his magic touch more dramatically, in the sense that his best later stuff may have been driven by Danja or other co-producers, and there is just a ton of later stuff that contains nothing of what I consider Tim's musical character beyond his voice. Pharrell at his worst, which is pretty bad, has always felt kind of true to who Pharrell is, and I kind of feel like a lot of the failure of later Neptunes is aesthetic and almost technical; once they abandoned their best drum/synth sounds, they just never found new ones that worked remotely as well.

Also feel like the results of this are gonna be less interesting than the timbo poll - I suspect that the neptunes' stand-outs are much easier to spot. But we'll see.

the "imperial period" is a real thing, and both Tim and Neps are this century's best exemplars

well both bridge the century but ykwim

Also feel like the results of this are gonna be less interesting than the timbo poll - I suspect that the neptunes' stand-outs are much easier to spot. But we'll see.

― Tim F, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really? my expectation has been the opposite. there will probably be fewer deep cuts in the mix but i feel like i have much less of an idea of what hits will do better than ohters.

Okay yeah that's probably true - I felt like my ballot felt more boring overall this time around but yeah the top ten was necessarily random ass in its ordering b/c how can you parse the qualitative differences between these tunes.

yeah the top 20 is kinda set in stone already but i feel like it could go in virtually any order

Bump.

V79, could you take the wheel of this vehicle? Announce an end to voting if voting is at an end, get results moving, etc?

Ready for this!