MC TUNES - THE RESULTS

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.

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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

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15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5J2Dfi_0no

(Original video unavailable on Youtube, unfortunately)

Certainly splitting the vote lol amirite?

ZTT loved a few money-spinning remixes.

Can you imagine an Art of noise tracks poll?

Just digging out some of the blurbs.

I'm sorry, I have nothing, I justed wanted to look like a big man on one of the Hip Hop polls, prove I'm not a one trick pony, y'know? Just make something up about tørrfisk and I'll get back to you.

Hope he's gonna stick around to enjoy some melodic Candyflip beats.

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14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnKjR0ESPs&feature=related

Think some of you were wrong about this, he looks almost unrecognisable without the beard, but who am I to argue with the poll system?

^ would have been my number one, but I didn't vote in case somebody said that it was unnecessary

Tunes Helps You Breathe More Easily Remix.

Essentially, for me, music is a metaphor, a tool for reflection. We need to think of music as information, not simply as rhythms, but as codes for aesthetic translation between blurred categories that have slowly become more and more obsolete. For me, the Dj metaphor is about thinking around the concept of collage and its place in the everyday world of information, computational modelling, and conceptual art. All of them offer exits from the tired realms of Euro-centric philosophy into some kind of pan humanism. That’s why I like Deleuze and Guattari’s work. Other figures from the European aesthetic realm like Ludwig Feuerbach (who promoted the idea of “humanism” in his works of the mid 19th century), Spinoza, and Giordano Bruno’s exploration of Semiotics are also influences, but the basic sense of “rhizomatic” thought - thinking in meshworks, in nets that extend to other nets - it’s the driving force of my music and art. It's about making multiple rhythms work together, synchronized, cut, pasted, and collaged. That’s the real “abstract machine” - cross reference that with James Brown, think Garrett A. Morgan (the African American inventor of the street light - the choreography on every street corner of the global megalopolis), think Duke Ellington with his “Afro-Eurasian Eclipse” jazz modernity, think Albert Murray’s essay “Spyglass Tree”, think Detroit’s underground forerunners, stuff like Drexciya, but most of all MC Tunes' "Second Class Return To Dottingham Please"

Dottingham IN DA HOUSE

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13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYanc6FJZRI

(Video not available on Youtube, unfortunately)

great to see the chill beats represented

Only twelve to go. Trying to work out what's missing. If I've called the bankers right, by my reckoning either 'The Only Rhyme That Bites' or 'Tunes Splits The Atom' isn't going to make it.

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hang on in there, i'm working on some more jokes

nothing from his 1999 album "Manconia" so far, v disappointing

Think "Bombs Over Bolton" is in with a shout tbh

RIP

ANCOATlians

Our Kid n'Play

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This 'Noodle Vague' fellow sure knows how to work a crowd. Must have been taking lessons from the one, the only ...

Results so far

20. DUB AT ITS HEIGHTS (1990) [532 points, 20 votes, 1 number one]
19. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (CREAMATOMIC RAP) (1990) [564 points, 31 votes]
18. CONNECTED (1992) [588 points, 21 votes, 3 first places]
17. THE ONLY RHYME THAT BITES '99 (1999) [603 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
16. PRIMARY RHYMING (1990) [604 points, 45 votes, 1 first place]
15. TUNES SPLITS THE ATOM (ZERO GRAVITY MIX) (1990) [636 points, 39 votes, 2 first places]
14. SECOND CLASS RETURN TO DOTTINGHAM PLEASE (1983) [675 points, 50 votes, 8 first places]
13. THIS AIN'T NO FANTASY (1990) [712 points, 47 votes, 3 first places]

I think he's letting the Beatles have a crack at the big time first, what with that poll kicking off.

xp oops maybe I was wrong

here we go

What is 'beatles'?

i'm reliably told they can fuck right off

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