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― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
YESS!
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
would've been my number one!
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
17. THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES (1999) [603 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfw_FwmC4A
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, that shd say THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES '99.
No, me neither.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
heart-in-mouth moment there
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 June 2011 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't know this version but this tune is so dangerous there should be a COSHH data sheet for it.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to seeing what makes number four
― Mark G, Monday, 20 June 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Mystery Commentator: TS Eliot reckoned that April is the cruelest month but when it's late December and you're not expecting the sun to rise for another 6 weeks then April looks like a drikker samling in a smerten horehuset to be honest. Anyway, there was a terrible shortage of Smørrebrød during the winter of 1999 and spirits were understandbly low. Picture the scene then, when NRK P3 suddenly started playing "The Only Rhyme That Bites" on the reg. Grown men were crying for joy into their akevitt and the nation found a renewed sense of hope and purpose. That this sudden boom in Tunes-age on national radio turned out to be because of an alleged "remix" which sounds exactly the same as the original was perhaps the biggest kick in the baller I have ever experienced in my life.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Bump. It's a shame this poll was never finished - we should rerun it to get modern-day ILM's view.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 June 2011 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry I gotta go do some work for a bit. Numbers 15-11 later today.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe even number 16 if you're lucky
Yeah, it's best to hold off for a bit anyway until America wakes up.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
wake up america you're dead!!!!!
never really felt the '99 version of TORB but the '98 version he did for the World Cup 'Le Only Rhyme That Bites' is dece and Darren Anderton's comedy collapse in the video is all time jokes.
― blueski, Monday, 20 June 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
no spoilers
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 June 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that one's le bomb.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Tunes had better flow than Orinoco. FACT.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so many lyrics he was afraid to use them
― blueski, Monday, 20 June 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
DJs actually lost fingers spinning his records.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/child_rapper.jpg
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
16. PRIMARY RHYMING (1990) [604 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9Ls-BkFlE
(Not sure what that vid's supposed to be but it ain't "Primary Rhyming". Thanks random Youtube numbnuts.)
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooh, only one point in it between those two!
'Primary Rhyming' was my #2, lots of happy memories of this one. My roommate and I took a fortnight off from our freshman year at Brown to do a road trip across the US in October/November 1990 - incredible times, good friends made, good ol' boys evaded, good strong liqour quaffed at sunset in Monument Valley at the climax of the trip, waiting for the peyote to take effect. I'd lined up some Gray Shadow Hawk ambient stuff to soundtrack the moment, but had sold it to buy junk back at a truck stop on '66, and in the end all I had was a Soup Dragons cassingle - picture the ecstasy when it turned out I'd recorded over it with 'Primary Rhyming'! Best night of my life.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 June 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
loving the jifpgs
― blueski, Monday, 20 June 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Commentator X: I am not inclined to rate "Primary Rhyming" particularly highly as the unholy squawking of females is repellent to me. Having said that, the rhymes performed by The Microphoness bear the unmistakeable artistry of Tunes and are therefore acceptable as art. Clearly no woman would have the brain capacity to create lyrics of such truth and beauty. Also, the Wizard Boy Blizzard is now the presenter of Norway's top-rated show on occult affairs, Feeble Screams from the Morten Gamst Pedersen Theatre in Stavanger, and his fans often playfully chase him through the streets of Stavanger waving firearms and shouting "Kill the Darkling". For these reasons and for the delightfully cheesy organ riff I bunged it a couple of points.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Øystein otm
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 June 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBSW_9OQgA
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
God Bless that man
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Clearly pisses all over Diddy's so-called "empire" anyway
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 June 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5J2Dfi_0no
(Original video unavailable on Youtube, unfortunately)
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Certainly splitting the vote lol amirite?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ZTT loved a few money-spinning remixes.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Can you imagine an Art of noise tracks poll?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Just digging out some of the blurbs.
I'm sorry, I have nothing, I justed wanted to look like a big man on one of the Hip Hop polls, prove I'm not a one trick pony, y'know? Just make something up about tørrfisk and I'll get back to you.
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope he's gonna stick around to enjoy some melodic Candyflip beats.
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnKjR0ESPs&feature=related
Think some of you were wrong about this, he looks almost unrecognisable without the beard, but who am I to argue with the poll system?
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^ would have been my number one, but I didn't vote in case somebody said that it was unnecessary
― Food Processors Are Grebt (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Tunes Helps You Breathe More Easily Remix.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Essentially, for me, music is a metaphor, a tool for reflection. We need to think of music as information, not simply as rhythms, but as codes for aesthetic translation between blurred categories that have slowly become more and more obsolete. For me, the Dj metaphor is about thinking around the concept of collage and its place in the everyday world of information, computational modelling, and conceptual art. All of them offer exits from the tired realms of Euro-centric philosophy into some kind of pan humanism. That’s why I like Deleuze and Guattari’s work. Other figures from the European aesthetic realm like Ludwig Feuerbach (who promoted the idea of “humanism” in his works of the mid 19th century), Spinoza, and Giordano Bruno’s exploration of Semiotics are also influences, but the basic sense of “rhizomatic” thought - thinking in meshworks, in nets that extend to other nets - it’s the driving force of my music and art. It's about making multiple rhythms work together, synchronized, cut, pasted, and collaged. That’s the real “abstract machine” - cross reference that with James Brown, think Garrett A. Morgan (the African American inventor of the street light - the choreography on every street corner of the global megalopolis), think Duke Ellington with his “Afro-Eurasian Eclipse” jazz modernity, think Albert Murray’s essay “Spyglass Tree”, think Detroit’s underground forerunners, stuff like Drexciya, but most of all MC Tunes' "Second Class Return To Dottingham Please"
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Dottingham IN DA HOUSE
― Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYanc6FJZRI
(Video not available on Youtube, unfortunately)
― j/k lacan (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
great to see the chill beats represented
― blueski, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Only twelve to go. Trying to work out what's missing. If I've called the bankers right, by my reckoning either 'The Only Rhyme That Bites' or 'Tunes Splits The Atom' isn't going to make it.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
hang on in there, i'm working on some more jokes
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing from his 1999 album "Manconia" so far, v disappointing
― blueski, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Think "Bombs Over Bolton" is in with a shout tbh
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― Dear Projectionist (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
surely "Tunes Splits the Bucket" would scan better?
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
Bloop
Bleep Bloop
Bleep BANG
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
feeling so attacked rn
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
not for the first time this thread has made me think about changing every mention on his wiki page to McTunes but the man the ledg doesn't deserve such treatment
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:59 (seven years ago) link
thinking thru the lyrics this was probably a low taste idea
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:59 (seven years ago) link
imagine if the tune they play to the aliens in Close Encounters was the bleep bloop bit from "Tunes Splits the Atom", how much better would that film be?
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
bump
― hotwire my scampo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 June 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
only ten hours to wait for the results on / drastically influence this poll:
Qualifier 56!DREAM WARRIORS - "Wash Your Face In My Sink": https://t.co/BLtMGIblKYQUEEN LATIFAH - "Come Into My House": https://t.co/9AJ4EklIMzMC TUNES and 808 STATE - "The Only Rhyme That Bites": https://t.co/kU64WM4E54GARY CLAIL - "Beef": https://t.co/hfIGoWJsM2— World Cup Of 1990 Tracks (@peoples_pop) July 9, 2020
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Saturday, 11 July 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link
Tunes has made it into Round 2 proper (and seeded). But based on the early returns, he’s going to need all our support in order to progress further in the tournament. 🙏
Match 2.17!Moss Side's lightning-tongued MC Tunes up against Bushy's most famous son George Michael.MC TUNES and 808 STATE - "The Only Rhyme That Bites": https://t.co/zK1qkJH1C3GEORGE MICHAEL - "Freedom '90": https://t.co/LSM0INpxvN— World Cup Of 1990 Tracks (@peoples_pop) July 21, 2020
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
thanks for the reminders Jeff
really this should have been "Tunes Splits the Atom" tho
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
Is that a SPOILER re our Top 10?
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Tom's doing debut singles next month, obv the Tunes massive were keeping their powder dry
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link