best song The-Dream Love/Hate

Also I know I've got a stake here but, um, who writes about R&B albums a lot on pitchfork apart from me anyway? They simply didn't cover it at all during the 2000-2001 era, as far as I can recall.

ha i wrote a D'Angelo review they never published. D'Angelo!

Fancy.

Shit wrong poll.

Nikki

voted "nikki" but i sort of hate alex for pointing out what a bad line "springtime, summertime, falltime, winter" is in one of these threads. now it bothers me every time.

lol sorry but seriously that line

i really like "nikki" but mainly because of the way the beat bleeds in from "fast car"...tho "fast car" is probably my 2nd fav song on the album "nikki" really signals that this shit is about to get real

xp ha why don't you like that line? and you reviewed voodoo (i assume)? would have liked to have read that

how could it not be I Luv Your Girl? am i alone in this?

Nope. I've probably listened to that song like five hundred times in the past six months. (OK, maybe not that much, but even after the first album finally clicked -- I hadn't listened to it enough -- that one never fails to mesmerize. "Fancy" seems like the idealized version of what's going on in "I Luv Your Girl" musically for some reason but haven't figured out why I think that yet.)

a) because FALLTIME and b) yes, Voodoo

more like failtime eh

falltime is not that bad

love this album to the extent that i could have gone with any of 8/9 songs here. wish i could get with the new one too but it ain't happening; the harder i try to hear what y'all hear in it the more i end up mumbling to myself something like "jeez, am i nuts or is this just a watered-down retread of the debut?"

I think he means the aforementioned seasonal line as "Fall Time" - the fall of the relationship, which leads into, of course, (Hate Me All) Winter.

(Just kidding; that line's indefensible.)

I love the new mixtape, just getting this now.

"Sweat It Out" off the new one is amazing, that bit at the end where he's just roaring "SO PUT IT ON ME LIKE YEAH" as if his entire family has just been murdered before his eyes.

New mixtape? To clarify, please?

okay well the thing I have is love/money? or is it an album?

New mixtape? To clarify, please?

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sweat it out is on 'love/money', the album from this year. theres no 'new mixtape'

o dear

yeah love vs money was officially released in the UK...today.

I might be being dense here, but I still don't get why that line is so bad. Is it because nobody actually says "falltime"? And if so, he could have been making a sly reference to songwriting and its conventions or even his own occasional ineptness w/r/t lyrics, kind of like New Order often did. I mean, he coulda said "autumn" and have it scan pretty much the same, but then everyone would've been like "lol British!" I genuinely don't understand the criticism. Anyone?

some dude's just jealous he didnt think of "falltime" first - like a true dream-hater

I think I'm going to rep for "falltime" IRL now.

yeah thats what im saying, 'falltime' really doesnt sound weird at all imo

people actually say "summertime" and "springtime" -- they even say "wintertime" but he doesn't say that! that's why the line is shit!

i mean granted it could've been written in a knowing/playful way, but it's still shit

yeah i think at the very least it was that

Ha, I just realised I gave myself away by mentioning New Order -- I mean, I like shit lyrics!

how about 'a knowing/playful way, but its not shit' -- it really isnt that ridiculous i promise

i know you like rap w/ more awkwardly created lines

Yeah even if it was an awkward line - it doesn't strike me as one - there's so many more awkward/sub-literate stuff on the same album you could object to.

can you assemble a list to poll?

please don't :(

don't actually like this album all that much but Shawty Is da Sh*! is a jam.

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I luv ur girl/fast car

purple kisses
fast car
she needs my love
luv songs
falsetto
shawty is da shit!
playin in her hair
mama
livin a lie
nikki
I luv your girl
ditch that...

besides the first two and the last one, that's a reallll fluid ranking

hahaha thought i would never see the day when this poll would end

did I really not vote on this before?

gave mine to "She Needs My Love" because it seems to encapsulate everything he's capable of doing on this album more than any other track

"Fast Car"

^^was my favorite for a long time, but seems kind of limited in retrospek

answer same as it was back then, "she needs my love"

purrrrrple kisses, purrrrple kisses

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every song got a vote = ^_^

winner otm

ya these results are good

"mama" still sadly underrated ;_;

yeah whoever voted that is awesome

^^^

took me a long time to f/w that song but once it got to me, it always makes me ;_;

"mama" still sadly underrated ;_;

I voted for it but TBH mainly because I expected no one else would. It's def one of my absolute favourites though. Always makes me cry too.

A lot of votes, all things considered.