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

http://i.imgur.com/yVFK5.jpg

Well y'all probably know the drill by now, but anyway:

Choose up to 35 of your favourite Neptunes' productions (this includes the remixes of other artists' productions, too) and rank them from the best to the least best. The point system is simple: #1: 45p, #2: 44p, (...) #40: 11p (please note: we're not gonna have a separate system for unranked ballots, I'll just treat them as if they were sorted top to bottom). It would be very kind of you if the ballots were arranged in a simple Artist Name - Song Name format! (for instance: #1. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money feat. Kelis)

Mail your ballots to voss1979 AT gmail DOT com. The deadline: Friday, October 19th at midnight (GMT+1). Please include the words "Neptunes poll" in subject line of your email, this will help me filter the ballots out in my inbox.

Looking for reference? these lists look pretty comprehensive:
http://theneptunes.org/the-neptunes-discography-2/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neptunes_production_discography

Of course, this thread's main purpose is campaigning: everyone is welcome to hype up and embed their favourite tracks, especially if it is a lesser known cut we should all know about! For me personally this always is the most fun part of a poll, so I count you Neptunes' experts on this matter. If you have any questions about the poll, or ideas about the results roll-out, post them here.

Anybody got a spotify playlist?

I can't help you on that, I don't have a working Spotify account, hope sombebody else can handle making a playlist

Very excited for this. Don't think Ive done a poll since Zep? I may try to round up a spotify list, took me a few days to do the Timabaland one so we'll see.

The drop on When The Last Time is one of my best things ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h47ipBjYA

guess I've got to bump this one every now and then

campaigning for.....
Flap Your Wings
Girlfriend
Am I High
Like I Love You
Stay Together
Nothin' Else

this, always

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psaHLi7-DIs

So, like are we counting writing credits too, cos he wrote (or co-wrote it) Rump Shaker?

Yeah rump shaker & right here human nature get overlooked as neptunes-related bc they weren't part of their classic era. They both rule although I have no idea what pharrels contribution might have been.

Unless we're missing sth very important, or there is demand high enough for such tracks, I am against voting for songs that feature Pharrell only on writing credits (like his guest verses etc). Let's just stick to the ones that were actually produced by both/any of them.

some lesser known tracks for your consideration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-aqMq6TFKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8cemNKOKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_h47ipBjYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sul16s0VSzs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3USgkwiJA

http://open.spotify.com/user/sutrarama/playlist/687z3my4nlvZyU0mkZdsYF

^^^ A-C on that list, will continue later. It is collabrative, so feel free to chip in as it's a big ol' list (going w/ the one that isn't wiki.)

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[feel free to enjoy my Swiss Beatz playlist too I made about 2 months ago on a week long binge http://open.spotify.com/user/sutrarama/playlist/29iFnzhMI7C1k7PqhAZs7Z ]

lol messiah did you just call nothin and whens the last time lesser known tracks? i think WTLT made my all time hiphop singles poll list.

wait no only grindin made it. but still.

the wiki list may be better.

also omg i fucking love the neptunes.

tyahh, that's my next fortnight sorted

best song so far i've not found on spotify

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

ok this clean version of fatty girl is silly, they even edit out 'fubu'

Unless we're missing sth very important, or there is demand high enough for such tracks, I am against voting for songs that feature Pharrell only on writing credits (like his guest verses etc). Let's just stick to the ones that were actually produced by both/any of them.

― V79, Friday, October 5, 2012 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree w/ this. solo productions are definitely key -- for some of the later hits that were only Pharrell, and for those 2 amazing Kenna albums Chad did (can my Kenna people agree on one or two songs to rally around?)

i mentioned doing a Spotify playlist on the poll organizing thread, still will do that but probably won't be ready til Monday at the earliest.

Well i'm halfway through turning the wiki list into a playlist already ship but I most probably won't finish it (won't see the internet from tomorrow till midweek). You're welcome to finish it off. :)

i'm not really clear on whether you being outside the US means we'd have different stuff available to us or would it just be pretty much the same playlist and accessible to all the same people?

but yeah missed that you linked yours upthread, i can definitely just try to finish yours off

tbh the only things i've missed are things i've never heard of before (that i presume were just rubbish throwaway beats sold to no names for whatever reason) or tend to have 'unreleased' or something next to it. down the list halfway, the next needing adding is *sigh* lenny kravitz on the bad boys 2 soundtrack from 2003 - don't think i'll get anymore done.

(i've already added a bunch of a-f stuff from the alphabet because i picked the first list until i noticed it had not enough fabolous)

i actually sort of like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64EwEc96Y24

is this poll casual fan friendly? I would vote only for the chart hits and something like 5 Justin Timberlake tracks.

go for it!

neptunes were usually at their best when they were in the charts

of course it is! everyone is welcome to send a ballot. I'm a semi-casual fan myself, I hope to educate myself a bit over the course of the next two weeks, as it was the case with Timbaland poll (which inspired me a year ago to run a Neptunes' one)

That was a year ago?!

yup, exactly (a year and a month, even)

looking forward to this! a few essential non-smashes for starters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwoHlqSl3U

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi84_y9wqe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCabxwata50

girls dem sugar may be my #1

also this is essential:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6yvOiWqTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCdE_bl0q1g

don't mind me, i'm just taking the opportunity to post this video

too bad, i'm over here. looking at you.

btw i somehow never knew that pharrell had anything to do w/ "right here/human nature," blows my mind that that's him doing the "s, the double, the u, the v" chant

ya every time it comes on in public i know i'm guaranteed to blow someone's mind (= polite raising of eyebrows) with that

much as i love it, can i ask how high you were planning to overrate 'luv u better'

Run To the Sun -> Baby Doll -> Am I High is a real nice 3-in-a-row

I fear "In Search Of" and "Justified" album tracks aren't gonna do so well on this which is prolly my favorite Neptunes shit.

more people should know this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRj2otYT7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPLPb8QuuM

Prob won't be voting in this but will be following it with interest as I feel there are still lots of bit & pieces from the Neptunes' output that I could do with catching up with.

Cosign the promotion of Philly's Most Wanted's "Cross The Border". I also think this is an underrated Jay-Z jam:

If it had been on any other album people would have hailed the beat as genius - esp. the way it flips to the kids going "wah-waow!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontWj9U1OjY

circa 2000 - 2002 I felt like such a realtime neptunes beat connoisseur.

no votes from beyond the grave for 'rock your body':

The "Rump Shaker" producer opened up on trying to convince Michael Jackson's manager to use a selection of beats tailored specifically for the "King of Pop."

"I have been telling him, 'Yo, I got these Michael records [that I did for Michael].' And I'll never forget Michael's manager saying, 'Yo, Michael wants some "Superthug!"' And I was like, 'What?'" the producer-singer recalled. "I remember being so baffled and so crushed, 'cause he still is my idol."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegW8h9nHig

ahhh another classic video, eat a dick james ferraro

haha... is ferraro rocking this parappa the rappa aesthetic now?

2 many polls.

This, always:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-dAOVM1C8M

just received our first ballot! keep them coming, guys. and thanks for all the links, lots of great tracks so far

So.

hearing "excuse me miss" on the radio right now and it's reminding me that i always liked this song when i was a kid, and still kinda do :-/

'excuse me miss again' is very high on my list of i knew people would be too stupid to vote for this tracks

it's ok. if there were 50 spaces on my ballot i might've included it.

yeah that song is pretty dope

that era where the drums had started to go dinky but the synths were still fat and noisy made for some oddly top-heavy beats, which i appreciate more now than i did at the time.

"jigga please" off blueprint 2 being probably the most extreme example

I voted for that and almost voted for "excuse me miss again" but was too stupid, but yeah mainly because I just wanted to throw in one example of that indian summer period of neps beats.

:)

you're both probably right that it's more of a top 50-er tbf, guess this is why i'm not ever too interested in voting in these things

'excuse me miss again'
Do you mean "La-La-La"?

yeah same thing

word that was in my top 10 iirc

i like how a lot of Neptunes tracks from that era start w/ the first note of the song repeating four times

Like an engine revving up.

it was my #4. i'll be psyched if it places top 50.

"Excuse Me Miss Again" and "Stop" were also prob the last time I really felt like a Jay-Z fan (which doesn't mean they were his last good tracks).

Also Clipse's "Ego" was probably my highest vote for "awesome late 2002 neps f**k shit up beat".

haha i had a friend who hated "Stop" so much, i still think it's enjoyable in a lightweight way

Unless it was just on account of its squealiness, it seems odd that someone would get really worked up about "Stop" given it would have been stastically impossible not to dislike at least five tracks on The Blueprint 2.

yeah but it and "La-La-La" came out as the two new tracks for the single disc reissue -- said friend was the first person i knew who was like 'ok my hopes are not that high for The Black Album'

If The Black Album had been all lightweight bangers I think I would have liked it more.

I just sent in a ballot... (which speaks volumes about how organized I can be).

so i was thinking that i wouldn't mind counting votes & rolling this out before ilx Y-E polls or we can just wait until that's over and get to this at the end of jan or feb if V79 isn't back by then

yeah there's plenty of polls going on now, should prob wait til the new year. also not to be too dramatic but afaik nobody here has any way of knowing whether V79 is out there and okay or not, feel like it's kind of callous for everyone to constantly be all 'what about our precious poll results.'

whats up with this

Yeah enough time has passed. Lets do this!

Was gonna ask if this ever happened.

no

bump

can we move on this?

is anyone besides me a little more concerned that someone who posted regularly for years just disappeared in the middle of heading up a large board project than whether that project gets completed anytime soon?

Has anyone tried emailing him? The address at the top of the thread is the one I used to contact him offboard last year.

his twitter's right there in his user info fyi

as of an hour ago he is alive and well in warsaw listening to ducktails

lol

i found (i think) him on fb and soundcloud and dropped a line

take it over yourself man, u know u wanna

would depend on when and how much work remains to be done before rollout -- work sched's been heavy lately and gonna be out of town for a week soon

i was re-reading the timbaland poll today and i'm gonna need ship to write blurbs for every neptunes entry too

XD

i looked over it recently and was like wow i forgot i wrote so much for this!

Haha, top detective work. Somebody take over, come on - and let's go all-out to make sure v79 submits a ballot, no hard feelings.

I'm happy to crunch numbers and do a rollout if someone can get V79 to pass on the ballots

eh??

considering that there've now been indications that V79 is out there on the internet but just not posting to ilx or responding to messages about the poll, yeah, might be a good time to move on

since my Jay-Z poll is coming up in the queue soon, might actually be good to do a Neptunes re-count in tandem w/ that, since there'd be a high level of common voters for both, help get the word out to re-send ballots to me (or submit new ones) w/ a Jay ballot and then roll 'em out in a row or something.

Sounds good to me.

It's about time

if people want to start forwarding ballots they already made, my e-mail is shipley.al at gmail -- obv if people want to wait or re-do them or whatever there'll be a deadline later

I don't know, I think v79 is just about to come through on this one

Ballot sent, let's do this thing.

lol (xp)

Ballot re-sent (with a couple of revisions)

here's the new thread btw: JAY-Z TRACKS / NEPTUNES TRACKS REDUX / I JUST WANNA POLL U (BALLOT 2 ME) voting closes June 16th