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

371. Back to the dancehall inflection on "Mama ROLLIN that body". He really drives the point home with the even more affected "LISTEN NOW!" that follows in the background, as if to remove any ambiguity that he knows exactly what he's doing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxwnz7q4cQ

http://www.avclub.com/articles/young-the-giant-covers-ignition-remix,71123/

^not one of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwNp5i-TuI

this is, i think, at least a little offensive to ppl that use ASL ("look at how they ~talk~") but g-d i lol'd ok

Released 10 years ago today.

I can't even believe that. Am I just getting old, or has the entirety of post 2000 time blurred together into one big indigestible mass?

Yes.

kids still love this song.

also 2003 was fucking amazing, so expect a lot more of these "omg no wai 10 years ago" deals

we get links

There was no "Ignition" (orig mix), was there?

Crying 4 u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJYZLjc8JQ

it was a radio hit before the remix dropped. it's on The Chocolate Factory directly before the remix. it's a fucking awesome song, and I hate that the remix has so totally eclipsed it for most people.

xp

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