100 Reasons Why "Ignition - Remix" Is So Damned Great

Wait, we are talking about Dynamix II, right?

same chords/bassline

One Love.

----this is the sound of me backing out the thread slowly.

still great

359. this is the only song i listened to the year i graduated from high school and is inextricably tied up in my mind with weeks on end being drunk with high school friends and having the best time of my entire life smoking metric tons of weed in my garage

bump.i was just watching music videos on youtube and was reminded of this ,easily my favourite ever thread about music

This thread makes up for any Egyptian Lover-related beardiness twice over.

A few years ago, on his blog, the white folk rocker John Darnielle declared his admiration for R. Kelly’s new R. & B. single “Ignition.” Thirty years ago, Darnielle might have attempted to imitate R. Kelly’s perverse and feather-light soul. Now he’s just a fan.

^^^was gonna make this zing when i saw thread had been bumped

Probably has the best example in music of rhyming a word with itself, specifically "lobby".

This is gonna be a highlight of future VH1 'I Love the 00's!' shows in the future

bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce

still the ultimate weekend song

This is my favorite ILM thread.

28. The good grammar: "Food everywhere / as if the party was catered"

― amateurist (amateurist)

Good grammar would be "food everywhere/as if the party were catered".

like "hey ya" or "crazy" this is another song that i love but really don't want to hear ever again

also ruined by the amount of non-rap/r&b listeners who're all OMFG GREATEST SONG EVER R. KELLY LOVE THIS but don't want to dance to say.... "step in the name of love" - yeah it's an awesome song but let's move on

let's step on

seriously tho this is a music snob thing that always kind of annoys me... why so mad at crossover hits and the people who like them? not being a rap/r&b listener isn't a character flaw, isn't it good that people who like other kinds of music have also get exposed to r&b through songs like this?

it's a delicate balance between admitting that the strength of the crossover hit is that it just happens to be awesome & hating people who won't get down to the I Wish remix

but I didn't see a lotta ppl reppin for "You Saved Me" which was also awesome, so there are numerous circles of frontin to be unpacked

...

lol forgot the "s"

jordan s4rgent, weren't you just a year and a half ago all like "I like r&b singles but never would think to listen albums"

genuine lol & genuine pride in having inspired this new screenname

360. this coming on shuffle when you haven't heard it in a year, and you're just walking to a bar on a summer evening

157. this thread made me download a whole bunch of R Kelley songs. the best part of all of them is in "I Wish" when he's talking about this guy who'll "always be his nigga" and he goes "radio don't take the 'nigga' out this song'

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, June 16, 2003 1:47 PM (6 years ago)

this thread made me put the 4 hours of R. Kelly shit in my iTunes library on shuffle and it's really putting me in a good mood

159. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqO5iiPoog

160. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqO5iiPoog&

(I think that's worth at least two spots on this list)

I don't understand why the video of me dancing to Ignition - Remix in the backseat is not a youtube hit

haha so dope

161. It's an Al Green tribute without the slightest hint of reverence.

162. The way the original single of "Ignition" (not the remix) segued into "Now usually I don't do this, but...uh...go on head and break em off with a little previews of the remix" and played the whole first verse of the remix before fading out during the chorus.

like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJYZLjc8JQ

I had never heard this song until earlier this week. It's pretty good!

this is the best thread

162. The way the original single of "Ignition" (not the remix) segued into "Now usually I don't do this, but...uh...go on head and break em off with a little previews of the remix" and played the whole first verse of the remix before fading out during the chorus.

― horribly jaded internet person who takes nothing too seriously (The Reverend), Friday, August 28, 2009 9:50 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ this is awesome!

Yeah...IIRC the original was out for like 3 months before the remix, so it was like, you know it's coming, what does the rest of it sound like, etc.

^^^this

OK guys so I'm OBSESSED with this song and realized I'm completely unacquainted with the R&B canon. Where should I start if I'm really into this (major-key harmonies, soulful falsetto, etc)?

to be honest i have no idea how to recommend something to you, because knowledge of this song is like a venn diagram overlap of every single human i know, so its kinda hard to know what R&B you actually know.

I recommend starting with an early 'rhythm and blues' compilation from the mid-20th century

woah i had never heard the "original" ignition before and i love it. remix is better but like, not even by that much. besides that "wiik wok wiik wok" guitar line during the chorus and the "bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce" i wouldn't have even thought the two songs were related. would've just assumed they were commonly reoccuring r kelly motifs.

OMG, I listened to this a few times in the past couple days, having been inspired to by this thread & it is like SUPERGLUE ON MY BRAIN - the chorus just keeps cycling over & over and then bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce..

Damn fine song, though, and deserving of all the recent praise.

listening to Suga Free's Doe Doe and Skunk and it feels related. (great lil' slick song) (i looked for a Suga Free thread, but don't think it exists)