― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link
― djdee2005, Monday, 16 February 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 February 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
Tim is otm in his Geir-like reference to melody (I'm just playin'). For me, '03 Tim was about the tracks he did for Bubba and Kiley, which prize melodies, instrumental touches, genre-jumping/blending and (in the latter artists's case) harmonies and singing skills (hell, even the 'Deliverance' hook is very cool), esp. over his beat weirdness and general flights of fancy - and let's be real, after the years he's put in, he can't suprise and/or interest with those forever. Obv the Missy record has some worthy stuff too, but he really meant it about giving the two Beat Clubbers some of his best work. He also still has that "one or two decent tracks with Magoo per album" mojo going - 'Indian Flute' is good - not earth-rocking, but still mondo enjoyable.
Also otm is the observation about the Neps' hit'n'miss ratio - last year I tallied about 6 Tim tracks to about 4 Neps in an imaginary top 82 singles I wrote at work - this sin't a big diff, but the Tim tracks were consistently high too - 'Gossip Folks' was 1= (the other was 'No Good Advice') and 'Cry Me A River' is still better than 'Rock Your Body'.
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― prima_fassy (mwah), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 19 February 2004 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 19 February 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago) link
my opinion is that timbaland is an amazing producer... his unpredictable drum patterns have brought him success with the likes of aaliyah,missy, luda, and jay z. ( in the club is my favorite tim beat of all time).. i think that tim though, works best with certain people. ( the ones i just mentioned) its just like the magic quincy jones possessed when working with mj..
i just don't think that he is in anyway better than chad and pharrell though... their resume has a variety of artists in many genre's ( dancehall, hip hop, r&b, alternative, pop).. hell.. even the rolling stones...
yeah, tim has a bigger list of hits.. or classics at the moment... he did have at a headstart of at least 2 years...
i think the reason that i like the neptunes better... i prefer their simple minmalistic, yet bass-driven, catchy hook tracks, better than tims sometimes overshadowing beats which can make some of his produced-songs sound confusing...
another issue with tim... is that he isn't fully responsible for all his beats.. some of the songs you mentioned... cry me a river was co produced by scott storch.. a lot of the missy songs were co produced by her... the article even mentions static playing a role in the melody of Are you that somebody.. these songs are all amazing... but i don't think of cry me a river as a timbaland beat... it is a tim/storch beat ( storch plays the keyboard which is my favorite component of that particular beat).. yes the neptunes are 2 people but there are a lot of single producers who don't co produce ( swizz, premier, rockwilder, just blaze)..
there is a lot more points that i have.. but i hope that people can reply to my post.
― James B., Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link
― djdee2005, Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
What?! The best bit of that beat is the fact that it sounds like someone's brushing their teeth over the top.
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― djdee2005, Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
― James. B, Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Milky, Sunday, 29 February 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
P.S. Patrick P. im lookin for u man. we wont meet na but we surely will man
― John Udemba (SIGNALS), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link