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

I saw Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney cover the original "Ignition" in 2004.

It's not a bad song, but I've been disappointed when I've come across "Ignition" but not "Ignition (Remix)" in karaoke books.

Almost disappointed that there was an "original", it'd be a bit KLF if it didn't though.

Will have to hear it.

yeah I was DJ'ing for some kids one time early 2004 and I accidentally played the original version. they were like literally teenagers though so i think i cared more than they did.

There was no "Sex In The Kitchen" (orig mix) though, was there?

these songs are on platinum-selling albums guys, jeez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAGRyQyDo0

this is like when kids think the Jerry Lewis voice was originated by The Animaniacs

I feel sorry for anyone not familiar with the joys of "GIRL. I'M. READY. TO. TOSS. YOUR. SALAD." tbh

just remembered this topped Stylus' best-of-decade list three years ago.

haha i knew al was gonna flip at that post

Okay, but there was no "Snake" (orig mix) though, was there?

http://i.imgur.com/yiNyw7B.gif

times change :-(

you can't play this at a wedding anymore, right?

yeah the good old days when people were more willing to overlook that he had raped several girls...??

jesus christ if you had to vet the personal history of every musician before playing their song at a fucking party.

Um a lot of ppl'd get off fine, this fuck wouldn't, boo fuckin hoo

wow this brings it back omg no wai etc

sorry my post was a little harsh but that is the only difference between then and now that i can think of so i find it difficult to feel sad that i won't be hearing this at many weddings as a consequence

I'd gladly support the creation of a "100 Reasons Why 'You Remind Me of Something' Is So Damned Great" thread

I'd be amazed if you could come up with more than 2

be amazed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/there-actually-is-an-original-ignition-that-isnt-the-remix#.mrJ85MQDvV

How is that not a Clickhole article?

oh dear lord

this is worse than when they wrote a whole article pointing out the 'lone pine mall' in back to the future

Thought we had polled the original vs. the remix at one point

http://i.imgur.com/zKw8dbh.png

so good

what a world

http://pitchfork.com/news/63040-r-kelly-defends-himself-and-bill-cosby-in-revealing-new-gq-interview/

http://www.gq.com/story/r-kelly-confessions

Kelly then tells me a story about “Ignition (Remix)” that is so bizarre and counter-logical that I'll get him to repeat the whole thing tomorrow. It makes so little sense that I assume I have misunderstood. What he tells me is this: that he wrote the basis of “Ignition (Remix)”—including the lyric It's the remix to “Ignition” / hot and fresh out the kitchen…—five or so years before he wrote the song called “Ignition.” (It stayed on the shelf because, initially, he didn't think much of it.) That's really what he's saying: He wrote the remix of a song, with lyrics identifying it as a remixed version, five years before he wrote the “original.” In other words, the song called “Ignition”—which was presented to the world as the song that “Ignition (Remix)” was the remix of—was actually an R. Kelly-style remix of the song we know as “Ignition (Remix).” I talk this through with him, again and again, increasingly mystified, but he really does seem to mean this. “It's ass-backwards,” he admits contentedly.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2020/01/r-kelly-ignition-remix/

sigh, yeah

It is weird going back to these threads and seeing how things have changed

"I remember its creamy confidence"

tmi

Hey John, do you still want to piss on me?? I might not be as big as you as a writer, but type my name. I might be googleable enough for you to rethink your public opinion.

Hate to break it to you, but I just checked your post history and the relevant threads, and JD never said that to you. The fact that you're fixated enough on a seventeen year old mis-remembrance to come onto a thread and make vague threats is a little worrying to me.

Wait so is this solicitation open to like anybody orrrrr

lol

I googled him and this turned up, not sure why he would want to bring it to JD's attention 17 year later on a thread. Must not like small doggies.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dogs-rspca-animal-courts-injury-20505119

It was forksclovetofu who said it, not J0hn, and forks was (ill-advisedly) quoting a Chapelle Show skit rather than making an actual threat

That said, the cursory glance through the old posts I took shows Robert was coming at this from the same place I ended up, namely a Black man really fucking tired of white people lapping up the R. Kelly Minstrel Show, only he got there way before Trapped in the Closet happened, which was my breaking point

That totally makes sense, and yeah, reading old R Kelly threads is definitely a fucked-up experience. I've talked about it a lot with friends irl, too - while we may not have known the extent of what he was like, we heard accusations and rumours and completely took part in the diminishing of them to salve our own consciences. Fucking fucked up.

I can’t check back on the thread but imo anyone lashing out about long-ago hurt on an R Kelly thread gets a pass today, a day in which Kelly has been found guilty and faces life in prison

(RL’s post made me check & learn the above, so it’s likely that other posters today are operating without that context too)

Thanks, sic. I was missing that context.

Just read up on it too, so apologies for my flippant post to Robert.

Not a fan of r kelly's music, I honestly could only name one of his songs, and have always found him creepy (I remember the allegations he was married to Aaliyah when she was 15 more than anything about his music) but he certainly deserves to spend a long time in jail for what he has done.

I see Robert Lashley won the WWE championship earlier this year, so congratulations Mr. Robert.

Happy to say I never danced to or bought the token hype for Ignition rmx. I’m with you: Fuck R. Kelly.

It's a light jam, it's kinda hard to hate on even discarding the token hype or knowing what kind of person the artist is (which I certainly didn't when I first heard Ignition remix). I'm kinda flummoxed by people's zeal to reevaluate and declare artists off-limits to protect their own online reputation and integrity. "I never", "I always", "I, I, I" - does anybody care ? I guess the shadow of scandals is nothing new in entertainment, but that's not a good place of judgment, and for me that would be super inconsistent with the criminal artists I keep on my playlists (whether it's Ranking Dread, Michael Jackson, or Burzum).

I'm not aiming at anyone in particular btw, just the internet.