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

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