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

"Bossman" is incredible too, Neptunes + Beenie Man was a lethal combination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQaQFQ-rbc

The Funeral beat still sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NnDbfd4yc

T.I.'s "I'm Serious" is so fuckin slept on

http://www.youtube.com/v/UY6ChdU_J-M&fs=1&hl=en

― some dude, Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes yes

Never really like much of the NERD stuff, but always vibed to this production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmvbz1-Ves
Snappy snares and a little panning is all I need really.

i think i'm gonna have "beautiful" in my top 5

i really need to not be going down a neptunes wormhole at 1 am

neptunes stuff from the last 5-7 years shows you how close to incredibly corny they were with shit like "beautiful" but man when they hit this kinda sound it worked so damn well

Oh for sure, one thing that has been surprising to me as I've been digging around is how many Neptunes productions actively irritate me.

"Am I High" is top 5 for me.

looking over the discography in chronological order i kind of re-lived what a heartbreaking fall-off late 2003/2004 was. "Change Clothes" was a real shark jump moment.

here's some food for thought, the top 25 biggest Neptunes hits on the Hot 100:

1. Nelly - "Hot In Herre"
2. Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback Girl"
3. Snoop Dogg f/ Pharrell - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
4. Ludacris f/ Pharrell - "Money Maker"
5. Kelis - "Milkshake"
6. Usher - "U Don't Have To Call"
7. LL Cool J f/ Marc Dorsey - "Luv U Better"
8. Justin Timberlake - "Rock Your Body"
9. N Sync - "Girlfriend"
10. Pharrell f/ Jay-Z - "Frontin'"
11. Snoop Dogg f/ Pharrell and Charlie Wilson - "Beautiful"
12. Gwen Stefani - "Wind It Up"
13. Jay-Z f/ Pharrell - "Excuse Me Miss"
14. Mase f/ Puff Daddy - "Lookin' At Me"
15. N.O.R.E. f/ Pharrell - "Nothin'"
16. Jay-Z f/ Pharrell - "Change Clothes"
17. Jay-Z - "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
18. Justin Timberlake f/ Clipse - "Like I Love You"
19. Busta Rhymes f/ P. Diddy and Pharrell - "Pass The Courvoisier, Part II"
20. Mystikal f/ Pharrell - "Shake Ya Ass"
21. No Doubt - "Hella Good"
22. Mystikal f/ Nivea - "Danger (Been So Long)"
23. Clipse - "When The Last Time"
24. Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality"
25. Britney Spears - "I'm A Slave 4 U"

looking over the discography in chronological order i kind of re-lived what a heartbreaking fall-off late 2003/2004 was. "Change Clothes" was a real shark jump moment.

― some dude, Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:19 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^^

that's kind of a really bad list

"money maker" is no joke one of my least favorite songs of all time. hate that beat/hook. that whole era of ludacris is just... so depressing.

I dont think thats a bad list. Got love for plenty of those.

Everything from 17 is ridiculously great but there's some serious junk blocking the upper reaches of that chart.

i didn't realize "when the last time" was that big of a hit -- bigger than "slave 4 u" !!

kinda shocked 'signs' isnt in there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_(Snoop_Dogg_song)

always got the deepest love for a thorough and considered wiki

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

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Me too!