MC TUNES - THE RESULTS

Quick review of the results so far, have put the ones I voted for in BOLD

20. DUB AT ITS HEIGHTS (1990) [532 points, 20 votes, 1 number one]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/cream_420x315.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/atomic-kitten-20050826-66210.jpg

no wait i could've done it in 1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39802000/jpg/_39802305_milk.jpg

back in 5 minutes guys

Damn you, suspense is killing me.

shit, has this started?!

Just seen that Atomic Kitten picture again, back in another 5.

too early for predictions? Own Worst Enemy a lock for the top 3, Mancunian Blues highest placing non-album track.

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02/clintboon_450x250.jpg

^ he's ready

19. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (CREAMATOMIC RAP) (1990) [564 points, 31 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iImvf8VZ68

(Original video unavailable on Youtube, sorry)

TOO LOW

Don't forget individual remixes count, that' all I'm saying.

What are Atomic Kitten doing in that picture?

Hang on, back in 5 minutes.

Waxing their moustaches. xp

Put A Donk On It

do feel the transPennine counter-'nuum is undertheorised by reynolds crew. Tunes –> Donk lineage representing discontinuities generated by material Kapital of North (King Cotton) vs Immiseration of the Hands, where Londonocentric 'nuum = Virtual Kapital of The City aligning w/ entrepreneurial streetscene? idk just kicking ideas around.

ooh forgot the blurb.

___R _____O: Whilst hardly reaching the, um, heights of the album version, the Creamatomic version of "Tunes Splits the Atom" definitely brings some new elements to the party. The relentless use of what I assume to be a sampled goose honk is surely a tip of the hat to Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause", and Tunes delivers one of the greatest raps of his career, nimbly inserting a verse which dissects UK government post-War economic policy into the flow we already know and love. I have to say this is banging and I'm completely on its dick. PS could you mail me back a copy of them Atomic Kitten bukkake pics than you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/the-defiant-ones-20100614-152528-medium.jpg

18. CONNECTED (1992) [588 points, 21 votes, 3 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezbMtlwW5Q

choon

This poll is a travesty, have sugbanned everyone for their lack of discernment.

GH: I usually prefer my Tunes a bit rawer than "Connected", but I have to admit that its slinky funk groove and racially incoherent backing vocals were a surprising change of direction for Manchester's finest MC back in 1992. Of course over here in Hammerfest we were very much getting into the bludgeoning sounds of America's Gunge scene, with artists like Poison and The Quireboys very much dominating the charts. "Connected" was seen very much as a reaction to this primitivist atavism and a much-needed reintroduction of the essence of James Motherfucking Brown y'all into contemporary music. PS Got the Atomic Kitten pix thanks, BRB

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/rhyme.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/snake_biting_face.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/ice_cream_99.jpg

YESS!

would've been my number one!

17. THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES (1999) [603 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfw_FwmC4A

Sorry, that shd say THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES '99.

No, me neither.

heart-in-mouth moment there

Don't know this version but this tune is so dangerous there should be a COSHH data sheet for it.

I'm looking forward to seeing what makes number four

Mystery Commentator: TS Eliot reckoned that April is the cruelest month but when it's late December and you're not expecting the sun to rise for another 6 weeks then April looks like a
drikker samling in a smerten horehuset to be honest. Anyway, there was a terrible shortage of Smørrebrød during the winter of 1999 and spirits were understandbly low. Picture the scene then, when NRK P3 suddenly started playing "The Only Rhyme That Bites" on the reg. Grown men were crying for joy into their akevitt and the nation found a renewed sense of hope and purpose. That this sudden boom in Tunes-age on national radio turned out to be because of an alleged "remix" which sounds exactly the same as the original was perhaps the biggest kick in the baller I have ever experienced in my life.

Bump. It's a shame this poll was never finished - we should rerun it to get modern-day ILM's view.

oh sorry I gotta go do some work for a bit. Numbers 15-11 later today.

maybe even number 16 if you're lucky

Yeah, it's best to hold off for a bit anyway until America wakes up.

wake up america you're dead!!!!!

never really felt the '99 version of TORB but the '98 version he did for the World Cup 'Le Only Rhyme That Bites' is dece and Darren Anderton's comedy collapse in the video is all time jokes.

no spoilers

Yeah that one's le bomb.

Tunes had better flow than Orinoco. FACT.

so many lyrics he was afraid to use them

DJs actually lost fingers spinning his records.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/child_rapper.jpg

16. PRIMARY RHYMING (1990) [604 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9Ls-BkFlE

(Not sure what that vid's supposed to be but it ain't "Primary Rhyming". Thanks random Youtube numbnuts.)

Ooh, only one point in it between those two!

'Primary Rhyming' was my #2, lots of happy memories of this one. My roommate and I took a fortnight off from our freshman year at Brown to do a road trip across the US in October/November 1990 - incredible times, good friends made, good ol' boys evaded, good strong liqour quaffed at sunset in Monument Valley at the climax of the trip, waiting for the peyote to take effect. I'd lined up some Gray Shadow Hawk ambient stuff to soundtrack the moment, but had sold it to buy junk back at a truck stop on '66, and in the end all I had was a Soup Dragons cassingle - picture the ecstasy when it turned out I'd recorded over it with 'Primary Rhyming'! Best night of my life.

loving the jifpgs

Commentator X: I am not inclined to rate "Primary Rhyming" particularly highly as the unholy squawking of females is repellent to me. Having said that, the rhymes performed by The Microphoness bear the unmistakeable artistry of Tunes and are therefore acceptable as art. Clearly no woman would have the brain capacity to create lyrics of such truth and beauty. Also, the Wizard Boy Blizzard is now the presenter of Norway's top-rated show on occult affairs, Feeble Screams from the Morten Gamst Pedersen Theatre in Stavanger, and his fans often playfully chase him through the streets of Stavanger waving firearms and shouting "Kill the Darkling". For these reasons and for the delightfully cheesy organ riff I bunged it a couple of points.

Øystein otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBSW_9OQgA

God Bless that man

Clearly pisses all over Diddy's so-called "empire" anyway

Reading this and the hardson mix tape thread in the same month has helped me reduce my medication by 25%.

ok, shit got real :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-27080346

who has heard this follow up ?

his roadie noodle vague

my reaction to this news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GeQR8fJo

funny guys

More excited for this than I was for MBV tbh

^^^ truth nuke

a wait is a wait

can we re-poll with these new song titles before the album comes out, I think this is crucial

Jump Grave Slacks better make the cut this time if we do.

unfortunately due to new rules i wd have to get in the queue behind some cunt's 14 Iced Bears poll scheduled for 2021

i laughed, it was out loud

XP ^Reads like Sleaford Mod lyrics.

classic nv post :)

damage by stereo OUT MONDAY!!

Mega lol @ nv's xxxxpost!

i ask myself, did we ever get this sorted?

outsider for a nobel laureate in '17?

his Jump Grave Slacks: Collected Lyrics and Essays deserves a look for sure

thinking of running a write-in poll for famous horses where everybody can nominate animals that clearly aren't horses but then argue that they're basically the same as horses so it would spoil the famous horses poll if they aren't allowed to vote for these not-horses

also i would express a burning desire for Trigger to win in a manner that suggests it hasn't occured to me that it absolutely does not fucking matter

maybe I shd keep it in here, I dunno, ILX has been weak lately

surely "Tunes Splits the Bucket" would scan better?

Bloop

Bleep Bloop

Bleep BANG

feeling so attacked rn

not for the first time this thread has made me think about changing every mention on his wiki page to McTunes but the man the ledg doesn't deserve such treatment

thinking thru the lyrics this was probably a low taste idea

imagine if the tune they play to the aliens in Close Encounters was the bleep bloop bit from "Tunes Splits the Atom", how much better would that film be?

bump

only ten hours to wait for the results on / drastically influence this poll:

Qualifier 56!

DREAM WARRIORS - "Wash Your Face In My Sink": https://t.co/BLtMGIblKY
QUEEN LATIFAH - "Come Into My House": https://t.co/9AJ4EklIMz
MC TUNES and 808 STATE - "The Only Rhyme That Bites": https://t.co/kU64WM4E54
GARY CLAIL - "Beef": https://t.co/hfIGoWJsM2

— World Cup Of 1990 Tracks (@peoples_pop) July 9, 2020

Tunes has made it into Round 2 proper (and seeded). But based on the early returns, he’s going to need all our support in order to progress further in the tournament. 🙏

Match 2.17!

Moss Side's lightning-tongued MC Tunes up against Bushy's most famous son George Michael.

MC TUNES and 808 STATE - "The Only Rhyme That Bites": https://t.co/zK1qkJH1C3
GEORGE MICHAEL - "Freedom '90": https://t.co/LSM0INpxvN

— World Cup Of 1990 Tracks (@peoples_pop) July 21, 2020

thanks for the reminders Jeff

really this should have been "Tunes Splits the Atom" tho

Is that a SPOILER re our Top 10?

Tom's doing debut singles next month, obv the Tunes massive were keeping their powder dry