Best Song on Diddy - Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris"

well that's a bonus track on the deluxe version that's not even an option in this poll.

original "Angels" single version would easily be my least favorite song out of this project, but the synths on the remix redeem it somewhat.

i love "love come down" and am actually disappointed it's not on the main album - hate the recent trend for artists/labels to disown underperforming lead singles

^^^ Was just thinking that yesterday. It really encapsulates that air of lack of self-confidence about pop music these days, like, "oh we thought this was good but if the public doesn't take to it we're gonna assume the crappy track we'd red-marked "album at best, outtake possibly" is better".

"massive attack" vs. "your love" GRRRRRRRRRR

i mean ultimately it's also the fault of all the appalling people without taste who actually made "your love" a success instead

"Massive Attack" was the example I was thinking of actually, w/r/t a bounty post on Nicki (though not on "Massive Attack" itself). Especially given it was such a "statement" first single, and then it's not like they're entirely pretending that side of her doesn't exist.

i was wondering what you actually thought about nicki, don't think i've ever seen you post about her!

i voted for "massive attack" in my p&j which was a STATEMENT of sorts

given the amount of bonus trax you'd think they could've at least have dumped it on pink friday at the end

there was also ciara's "go girl" in the fantasy ride era, which underwhelmed me as a single but finally grew on me at around the time i learned it was being purged from history, stalin style

Haha with Nicki it gets actively 1984. We were always at war with Eurasia!

wtf @ all this 'strobe lights' hate itt

so how is the deluxe 17 extra minutes if there's only two extra tracks adding up to 7 minutes? methinks wikipedia track length=wrooooooooooooooong

― mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Sunday, January 9, 2011 9:58 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are 2 tracks added to the main sequence, plus 2 more bonus tracks ("First Place Loser" and "Love Come Down")

― some dude, Sunday, January 9, 2011 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

which version is this? the amazon deluxe one I got didn't have either of these tracks. looking now, the itunes deluxe has first place loser but not love come down.

smh @ amazon

"strobe lights" is v.great

"I know" is the worst song imo

yeah - I mentioned this in the other thread but the opening weezy verse is so ruthless xp

nah it's got plenty of ruth

weezy parts are just ugh and the beat sounds like a less catchy version of "the way i are"

The physical deluxe version does not have either "First Place Loser" or "Love Come Down".

But yeah basically hating iTunes right now for making "First Place Loser" Album Only. Fuckers.

"Strobe Lights" was the exact moment of my first play that I freaked the fuck out about how good this is. Worst song is "Loving You No More".

Apparently J. Cole wrote "Coming Home"?

jcole would make a great ghostwriter

wrote the rapps?

i've said this before but i wish drake would cease all rap music & just do r&b for himself/other ppl

i've said this before: NO

"first place loser" is kind of really, really great

the intertwining melodies on the chorus, the call and response, the layered vocals, if the diverging melodies on 'ass on the floor' was a heroin this is a fucking speedball

those synth...woodwinds! fuck it, idk!

I'm gonna make a deluxe deluxe edition of this poll, you watch me

wrote the rapps?

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Sunday, January 9, 2011 8:18 PM Bookmark

yeah

i randomly met whoo kid the other day and he is NOT aboard the last train to paris

i was like SMOKE WEED LISTENIN TO SADE!? and he was like no. just no.

ha

i now regret giving whoo kid my vote on let's poll mixtape dj drops

like, can someone else say something nice about "Someone To Love Me" so I don't feel like a weirdo about it

i like it a lot, although it never feels like a standout because it's surrounded by songs i like more

Yeah.

one of my favourites - actually disproves the line that diddy hands over vox to others so much because he's incapable of carrying the album, because he pretty much carries that song with some of the best (and oddest) lyrics on the album (apart from dawn's kinda amazing chorus - love how she deliberately mimics an old blues sample, feels incongruous but fits perfectly)

like, can someone else say something nice about "Someone To Love Me" so I don't feel like a weirdo about it

I said it on the original thread: it's my favorite Diddy rap in years. In a couple of spots he even apes Chuck D's post-1994 intonations (thinking specifically about "He Got Game").

I always just assumed that was a sample.

yeah thats one of the best tracks, maybe my 2nd fav after ass on the floor

it may well be a sample, i haven't seen proper credits yet, but dawn sings it in the video

DON'T YOU KNOW I FUCKS WITH YOU
I NEEDED YOU

Top 3:

"Ass On The Floor"
"Shades"
"Hate That You Love Me"

Also love "Angels" actually, though the Serani version is better I think.

wtf @ "shades" love - i mean it's not unlistenable, and justin's verse is kind of mesmerizing even if it's objectively evil, but of all the songs??

90% for the "Woah!!!! What you gonna do when I'm perfect for you??" multitracked pinnacles. But I do love JT's sub-Drake verse too.

It's kind of the most Last Train To Paris moment on Last Train To Paris.

"Shades" is dope

Shades is fun. JT's grocery bags are at least forgivable because they aren't done in earnest as a serious rap. whereas Drake/Weezy/kayne and company I can picture leaning back and going "whoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" after every hashtag they toss out

'someone to love me' is dope is that the one whiney liked

shades is A+++

"shades" is awesome -- great production & chorus

i listened to this in my car today & noticed that everything is mixed pretty perfectly except for "coming home"

i was kinda http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif @ critics being all "lol he says he'll fuck you on marmalade!" about "shades" -- a symptom of ppl refusing to see diddy as an actual artist