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

Your heart also doesn't like riding ponies 'stead of riding bikes.

well on that one, my heart is 100% OTM

"Beep Me 911" rocketing up my list on repeat listens

Just noticing now using Ctrl+F that neither "SWV" nor "Can We" appears anywhere on this thread which has got me kinda sad. I assumed this was a fan fav since it was always in my favorites.

nearly finished this but what tracks did he do on the s/t aaliyah record?

SENT!

10 Missy tracks I think (it's Missy so she's most prob. involved in like 30 of them)
6 Aaliyah
No Obie Trice

Only 1 record solely added because of freestyles i've heard on the beat because timb gave it to the rong person

I'm trying to be very methodical about this & working steadily through the playlist. This stuff's nearly all new to me and I don't want to miss anything. It's mostly great. I may not get to the end, but you'll get forty tracks from me idc.

One thing though - is Tim heavily front-loading all these albums? Whenever I start a new one I'm marking a star beside all the first few tracks, then usually withering away to 'meh'. Either that or I've only got a limited tolerance for these dudes'/gals' voices.

ok, fine, fine, i'm just going to get this over with and do a totally instinctive ballot. automatic voting.

Where he's been given a whole album to play with, usually I find that it starts with the big dancy singles and then goes into a second half of him playing with r&b genre expectations. when i was 15 and listening to trevor nelson religiously, that stuff seemed so much more interesting to me. (in the same regard, i currently feel totally out of the loop with r&b and if someone like timb came along today, i'd most prob just go for the singles.)

Something i recommend is turning off the timb after voting. Shit I missed X-tasy! How was my list not just all Missy????

Late discovery - Petey Pablo & Kiley Dean's "The Gun Line" on a Bubba mixtape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qbiJZXQteY

oh shit, has this (tlc) been posted yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bn8wzTUg7s

IMO that's the weakest song on 3D

great beat though.

i voted, put down 30 and tried to base it mostly on beats, not on my favorite songs.

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?

― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:47 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

i am into this idea, since i was thinking about writing a bit about some of the songs along w/ the results but definitely wouldn't be able to do it all myself. tell you what, if you (or anyone else) e-mails me with a list of songs you'd like to write about, i'll 'assign' some that are definitely going to make it into the top 50 that haven't been claimed by anyone else.

three ballots in my inbox when i got home today, keep 'em comin'!

btw there is now NO song that appears on everybody's ballot -- one song hung on for the first 10 ballots and then got snubbed by Jordan

I'm up for doing some blurbs too - will identify in my ballot.

oh yeah good call, people can also feel free to just asterisk songs on their ballot they would blurb -- or if they just want to say they're up for blurbing, i'll pick songs they placed highly or something

btw there is now NO song that appears on everybody's ballot -- one song hung on for the first 10 ballots and then got snubbed by Jordan

― Speculum (some dude), Thursday, September 8, 2011 6:34 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

bastard

Just noticing now using Ctrl+F that neither "SWV" nor "Can We" appears anywhere on this thread which has got me kinda sad. I assumed this was a fan fav since it was always in my favorites.

― billstevejim, Thursday, September 8, 2011 12:37 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

this song has been appallingly underrepresented on the ballots so far btw

that gun line song is sweet

was listening to Tim & Magoo's Welcome To Our World today since it's probably my favorite Tim-produced full-length and is just a perfect party record front to back, bums me out that it's not gonna be represented very well in the poll. a few of my fav tracks:

Peepin' My Style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKGi8trq2A

15 After Da Hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdZsi9gFtUU

Luv 2 Luv U, classic single, classic remix, classic video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DNqEAXel0

Pretty sure at least three from that album are on my ballot.

Can I also pimp for "We At It Again" from the Romeo Must Die soundtrack?

i'm down with reviewing anything on my ballot, just let me know what you want covered al

Just noticing now using Ctrl+F that neither "SWV" nor "Can We" appears anywhere on this thread which has got me kinda sad. I assumed this was a fan fav since it was always in my favorites.
― billstevejim, Thursday, September 8, 2011 12:37 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

this song has been appallingly underrepresented on the ballots so far btw
― some dude, Friday, 9 September 2011 00:15 (6 hours ago)

bummin huge

hey late voters.... do not sleep on this. this was the first timbaland song that ever really got my attention when i was like 17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf3vlOAc71o

Also iirc the first time I ever heard "Beep Me 911" was on a Pearl Jam radio simulcast when they got to DJ songs they liked.

haha yes! Monkey Wrench Radio! i totally forgot about that! apparently Stone Gossard also played "Luv 2 Luv U":

http://www.monkeywrenchradio.org/spr/19980131.html

real talk: listening to "Can We" on headphones for the first time i JUST noticed the barking dog in the beat!

I'll be giving 'Can We' some, this is great.

omg the version of "All N My Grill" on this Spotify playlist is the one with MC Solaar in place of Big Boi that led to a classic exchange on this thread: da real world

Ballot submitted. Voted for 'Can We', but guessing that & Total's 'Trippin' are going to be a bit under-represented.

Hadn't realised jess'd posted 'Gun Line' before I did - soz!

No mention of Omarion's 'Ice Box' on the thread yet, which is a shame - exquisite latter-day co-production with The Royal Court. Ditto the few tracks he produced for Japanese megastar Utada.

i mentioned icebox up top
the utada tracks are okay; i prefer the "make me want to be a man" song that he didn't produce off that album by far.

...which ties with "Simple and Clean" for my favorite Utada

btw there is now NO song that appears on everybody's ballot -- one song hung on for the first 10 ballots and then got snubbed by Jordan

― Speculum (some dude), Thursday, September 8, 2011 6:34 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

bastard

haha. actually i think this was an oversight, i had it on there, then moved stuff around and forgot to add it back.

you don't even know what song it is! (and probably wouldn't be able to guess)

oh! assumed it was 'pony', but looking back i had that on my ballot after all.

18 ballots now! and a song needs at least 3 votes to make it into the top 50 at this point.

I'll try to e-mail people about blurb opportunities ('assignments' doesn't sound right, this is all optional and for fun) tonight or tomorrow, and voting ends midnight tomorrow night EST.

so we've got 5 or 24+5 hours left? that's important, my one is in the making, I'm still checking albums out!

Man this is harder than I anticipated. I haven't listened to so much of this stuff in such a long time, random album cuts that I never thought twice about when they came out are opening up to me now. And I had never heard that Ms Jade, its awesome. Probably will get you my ballot at 11:59 tomorrow night.

24+5 hours left. i will probably be flexible about late ballots, especially if people give me a heads up to wait for them and don't push too far past the deadline.

mine will prob be late becuz I wasn't even planning on voting in this until today. i'll let you know though.

gotta have BW in the mix! yes get it in when you can

i voted but haven't had the confirmation email yet... are you sending these some dude?

i've been terrible about those, will send confirmation e-mails to all tonight, so let me know if you don't hear back from me by tomorrow

i've literally been adding in new ballots as soon as i get them and often forgetting to respond just from being excited about seeing how the results change

So much material to take in. I had completely forgotten the existence of Lil' Kim's "Money Talks", which was a huge favourite of mine back in the day.

ARGH this is so painful.