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

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.

haha i know!

sent out confirmation e-mails for all ballots received (so if you didn't get one let me know), and told forks and lamp and mind taker which songs they can blurb. anyone else who wants to write anything for the results rollout feel free to volunteer!

One thing that's been fascinating me when listening to tracks for this poll is finding out which performers are ideally matched to Tim's beats. Unsurprisingly, it's the chemistry between beatmaker and lead artist that makes magic out of the best of these tracks, except for Ms. Jade (where the relative ordinariness of the voice and the rhymes is brilliantly offset by the most dumbfoundingly outre beats Timbaland has ever produced). That's why we'll all stuffing our ballots with Missy tracks. Jay-Z you already know about, but the real surprise has been Petey Pablo. How did I miss this guy? Where is he?

yeah Petey Pablo was a real talented dude and always sounded more at home on Tim's beats than a lot of other southern rappers. after he did "Goodies" and "Freak-A-Leek" it seemed like he was leaning more toward Lil Jon and crunk than Timbo, then kind of out of nowhere he started hanging out with Suge Knight and talking about signing with Death Row and his career just kind of stopped. no flop singles, no mixtapes afaict, he just kinda disappeared. but supposedly he's working on a new album and last year apparently he put out a Timbaland-produced single and it's not bad!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0deR7auxog

this song always makes me think of Pootie Tang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOAqdeVx18

I don't think any Petey songs other than "Get On Dis Motorcycle" will make it for me. I love his second album in particular but I don't feel like any of his other Timbaland collab'os are so great that I'd cite them as top 40 worthy. "Raise Up", "I" and "I Told Y'all" are all solid top 60 or top 70 entrants though.

Whereas basically everything Jay-Z and Timbaland did together circa 99/00 could be top 20 for me.

Talking about Petey Pablo/Timbaland tunes always makes me think of ethan complaining about mystikal rapping over "petey pablo beats".

Also have to decide whether to include "Gun Line" or Tweet's "Sport, Sex & Food". Both have beaten Kiley Dean's "Stay Away From My Boyfriend" in the elimination finals but now I have to decide between them.

fuck i wish i remembered money talks, that song is amazing. i did vote for the jump-off.

can i throw you a late ballot?

For those who haven't voted and also haven't heard the first Timbaland & Magoo album, allow me to present to you "Peepin' My Style":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKGi8trq2A

ethan was prob talking about pastor troy not mystikal right? i dont remember any mystikal/timbo tracks

im w/ tim more or less re: petey although I do like "I" a lot

i didnt read this thread but i just wanna give a shout out to LL Cool J's "Apple Cobbler."

Holla

some of these remixes are so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-8S3Zo8C8

deej, maybe he was, I think it was a general reference to fruity tribal beats rather than timbaland specifically.

ah k i just remember him bitching about 'are we cuttin' which i notice no one has mentioned here lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_G1Yk5c9Y

this is pretty hot

t.o.k. - keep it on the hush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_eGep8Fik0

INJIN CAHPET

my ballot is 40% missy, prob like 70% superfriends

i made mine so fast, just wanted to make sure "peepin My Style" and "I Told Yall" got love really

the "nigga what" beat is so O________________O

o_Orignator 99

lamp otm

my ballot tallied by year

1996: 4
1997: 5
1998: 4
1999: 8
2000: 4
2001: 7
2002: 3
2003: 1
2004: 1
2006: 2
2007: 1

I want timbo to remix "walking on the moon" in an al's poll heatrock n/h

That would be amazing. All about the hi-hat.

I'm digging Ms Jade too. Also, Brandy's Afrodisiac is a really nice album.

the race for #1 is getting REALLY close, the top four tracks are all within like 12 points of each other right now. likewise the boundary between what gets into the top 50 and what's outside it is really thin, so anyone who votes now could really shake up the results.

ah k i just remember him bitching about 'are we cuttin' which i notice no one has mentioned here lol

― D-40, Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:20 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

its on my most-hated heh

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