Did I Hear You Say HOTTER THAN JULY Poll?

I don't disagree with that. "Dud" might be a bit harsh. It's just not quite up to the rollicking standards of the rest of the album for me.

I don't mind the sentiment behind "Happy Birthday," but even for 1980 the arrangement is incredibly dinky.

'happy birthday' is awesome you fools, the dinkiness of the track, sounding like a bontempi preset, is all part of the charm!!

cant believe no one voting 'as if you read my mind'

between that and rocket love, all i do and master blaster

'lately' wins my vote tho

I'm actually looking forward to the results of this one (I mean, assuming that more than 8 people vote) because I don't presume either "Master Blaster" or "Lately" will just run away with it to the extent that "Superstition" did the Talking Book poll...

cant believe no one voting 'as if you read my mind'

-- deej, Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:23 AM (Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:23 AM) Bookmark Link

oh, I love it, but you can only choose one

Bump

Lately easily.

Five votes for "Happy Birthday"? Disappointed that my two strongest runners up for my vote -- "Did I Hear" and "Rocket Love" -- were the only two that racked up zilch.

Boy, have I never been able to get into this. And I've tried.

it's his most easily get-into-able album!

Five votes for "Happy Birthday"? Disappointed that my two strongest runners up for my vote -- "Did I Hear" and "Rocket Love" -- were the only two that racked up zilch.

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― Eric H., Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:25 PM Bookma

yaah wtf

Kind of amazed nobody went for "Rocket Love," such a great hook, or maybe I just can't separate it from the interpolation on GZA's "Cold World."

Those "Happy Birthday" votes still burn.

About time to initiate another year of spinning this for 3 months solid.

heatwave music

alll iiii doooooo

isthinkaboutyouuu

Did I Hear You Say You Love Me 0

this is outrageous

Rocket Love at 0 votes also a crime.

total Brad music

The amount of votes this one got ... also a crime.

This is a 100 vote album, you monsters.

The correct song topped the poll. Great album, though - still bizarrely underrated by some.

feel like this one might have been during a service outage or sandbox period or something? or we'd done it recently?

All I do is think that All I do is the best track on here

Happy Birthday!!!! 5 votes!!!! FFS

I remember throwing a bbq back in the pre-streaming days, and I thought it was safe to just leave my iPod on shuffle as a playlist.
Then "Happy Birthday" popped up on the shuffle, and everyone stopped mid-conversation to demand "wait, what the fuck are you playing?" It was like I tried to spin the teletubbies theme song or something.
I think it was after that that i started curating my party playlists.

happy birthday is good jfc

ok brad, i'll give 'hotter than july' a spin today with fresh ears. i don't think i've actually listened to 'happy birthday' since that ipod shuffle debacle.

I have always been a huge fan of Lately. The cover Jodeci did for MTV Unplugged in 92 was the first time I ever heard it, since Hotter than July came out before I was born. I remember being 10 years old and hearing the Unplugged version on the radio, and immediately taping it onto whatever cassette I had in my boombox at the time. I wasn't able to tape the whole song, but I played the hell out of the part that I was able to get. I know Stevie is king, but I stilly actually prefer the Jodeci version to TBH.