TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL (voting deadline Saturday, September 10th at FIFTEEN AFTER THE HOUR midnight EST)

yeah hang on.

thank got forks showed up!

Trying to get my ballot up to 40 essentials - if it doesn't light me up I'm not gonna vote for it. Shouldn't be a problem with such a prolifically brilliant beatmaker, but there's a lot of Timbaland over the years that I've missed, so yeah, I'm catching up.

the "Hit Em Wit Da Hee" video remix, which is a totally different beat from the Supa Dupa Fly version, really needs to be in this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ein59FLQ4

i want to do this but there's so many songs to choose from ._.

i already know what my Highly Unconventional #1 will be though

so far all the #1s have been (all due respect to the voters) highly conventional so that would be cool

It's not Chris Cornell is it?

okay that took some work
i just listed 40 songs, if i wanted to pick a number one it would be are you that somebody but i'd rather just share out points equal.

this made me relisten to cornell and diamond dogs and a lot of ugly shit.

man missy's first album is SO FUCKING GOOD though, there's not much that doesn't belong on a timbo top 40 there

its probably more like mildly unconventional. definitely not in cornell territory

tim was one of the most important artists of my formative years, because he was my first 'in' to appreciating hip-hop as a rock kid - this will be A Meaningful Poll for me

fyi all ballots are ranked, there's no "everything equally" option, so if you care about what gets how many points send it to me in that order, if not i'm just counting it in whatever order the ballot is sent to me

i'm kinda with tamtam as this being MEANINGFUL; though i had numerous other earlier ins to hip hop, timbo and missy were hella impactful in college.

Finally listening to Tim's Bio. WTF is up with this Spider-Man beat? Also, great beats + Timbaland rapping = why, Tim, why?

haha the spiderman one was the SINGLE too

this made me relisten to cornell

there was a dark time in 2009 when i would rep for scream just because it was The Most Ludicrous Thing I Had Ever Listened To.

just sent in my ballot. the ordering was mostly arbitrary after the top 5 - its really tough to rank this stuff! going through the disco, re-listening to the 03 stuff again was a huge nostalgia bomb. its funny because i remember the murmurings beginning around that point that he had fallen off, but that was a motherfucker of a year for tim

yeah i'm finding a lot of sympathy for later stuff i want to throw votes toward, past 03 even

with five ballots now there are 102 songs with votes, and amazingly only one song with votes from everybody so far (and not a very obvious song at all)

6 ballots in, and still a very surprising song in the lead!

i never heard "550 What?" before seeing it on Forks's ballot but now i'm really thinking of voting for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydZy-37w8U

i fucking LOVE 550 what

LOL I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 6 Y.O I WANTED TO WRITE HIM A LETTER AND MY SIS SAID YOU DONT KNOW HIS ADDRESS AN I WAS LIKE "WELL HE SAID ITS 550 WHAT" LMAO OOOOO GOD I WAS SUCH A BABY AND DIDNT KNOW NO BETTER LOL.....GOOD TIMES SMH.... GOOD TIMES.....
beautygurl2007 1 year ago

i would bet the winner is a missy track btw

amazingly there is only one missy track in the top 10 at the moment

wtf people

well it's not like any of the other tracks are bad

Vote splitting might be a problem since she's got so many classics, tho.

we'll see, we'll see. i'm thinking that along w/ the 'worst' poll one of the little preview lists i'll do before the big rollout might be a breakdown of what artists got the most points from totaling all their tracks.

Suddenly feeling a lot less guilty that my ballot will basically be 70 percent Missy.

"Turn It Up" was always my jam off that Brandy record, was bummed that it kind of tanked as a single and they went with that Kanye song instead, really fun little '90s-style Timbo jam full of nods to Aaliyah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spMXQe2r7z0

Ms. Jade - Dream (wasn't on the album, maybe because of the Biggie sample?)

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=rWr4Z5-DOxY

nice find!

Ginuwine's "Do You Remember" (i.e. the song with the "we boned on your mama couch" hook and ridiculous mid-song skit and Queen sample)

http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=4ZloPFZ0ZQ4

That song is so epic and incredible. "i....i just wanna be with him"

I still can't believe he sampled flash's theme in an r&b slow jam

would it be too much in character/easy zings if i brought up that Cex remakes that entire skit almost word for word on one of his early albums

how about that go-go tag on 550 what? (not that timbo did it, it doesn't sound like he did)

i dunno, i wouldn't put it past him

i'll be throwing a vote at "i'll do anything/i'm sorry" off the bachelor

looking forward to ballots from j0rdan, jordan, deej, tim, rtc, brainwasher, lex, rev, k3c, djp, a hoy hoy, spottie, sym, prego, billstevejim, really everyone who's posted itt so far... should i e-mail some ex-pats like matos or ethan and try to get them to vote?

yah def

there was one person who emailed a ballot whose name i didn't recognize (initials 'cm') so maybe that's one of the people i listed but either way! keep em comin!

chris matthews?

it was colin meloy

yes. dude is SO into that shelved kiley dean lp.

sent!

I can exclusively reveal i'm the mysterious "cm"

Probably need another day to figure out this ballot. Sigh.

These mega-polls are awesome because they force me to reconsider my ossified "truisms" about some of my favourite musicians but DAMN if they aren't difficult for the exact same reason.

omg colin meloy posts to ilx

Coming in 2012: Colin Meloy sings Timbaland

Al, if you would like to post these with a few sentences of commentary apiece, I'd be interested in volunteering to see the final list and pick out about half of them to write a lil bit about? Maybe some others would too?