AALIYAH poll

I'm pleasantly surprised with the amount of love in this thread.

-- Tape Store, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 6:59 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

?? this is ilx canon material

haha i know right. "How strange, where are all of these Daft Punk fans suddenly coming out of the woodwork from?"

Oh, yes...all those long, enthusiastic Aaliyah threads crowding ILX!

I Love Everything Aaliyah R. I. P.
I Love Music aaliyah
I Love Music Aaliyah at number 1?
I Love Music Aaliyah or Beyonce
I Love Music the 'new' Aaliyah album
I Love Music songs that sound like the 'came to give love' outro by aaliyah
I Love Music I've already got the Aaliyah best-of ("I Care 4 U") do I really need One in a Million or anything else?
I Love Music why the internet dont show the autopsy of aaliyah or biggie small also lisa left eye
I Love Music Aaliyah "2004 Editions"?
I Love Music POX: Aaliyah
I Love Music AALIYAH poll

I Love Music why the internet dont show the autopsy of aaliyah or biggie small also lisa left eye

Why didn't they make the CL6 wit' a clutch?

-- Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, October 5, 2004 2:26 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Did you actually read any of those threads?

where is jadakiss when you need him

Did you actually read any of those threads?

-- Tape Store, Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:36 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

do u mean the death thread where everyone is really sad?

Yeah, the one where ten people talk about this album? Or maybe these:

I've already got the Aaliyah best-of ("I Care 4 U") do I really need One in a Million or anything else?

-less than 10 posts

why the internet dont show the autopsy of aaliyah or biggie small also lisa left eye

-irrelevant

Aaliyah "2004 Editions"?

-5 posts

POX: Aaliyah

-list thread (20 posts), with multiple people not even listing ten

lol u were 12 when i started posting on ilx

if ilm isn't indie dudes venerating aaliyah, i don't know what it is.

lol ur still here

LOL

i dont think anyone can really point fingers about that sort of thing

see u in 2017, tape store

:-(

good work guys

I Love Music why the internet dont show the autopsy of aaliyah or biggie small also lisa left eye > jamie lynn spears thread.

"We Need a Resolution" -- without a doubt.

I should probably vote in my own poll, huh. I need to listen to the album first, maybe three times, if I'm ever going to make up my mind.

How fucking cool is "Extra Smooth"?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Ah, I'll vote for "Extra Smooth". Some of the others are just as good, but I have a feeling they'll get more love.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

SO RONG

Results 1 - 10 of about 187 for "from aaliyah to zz top". (0.33 seconds)

6. "I Care 4 U" 4:33 2
10. "I Refuse" 5:57 2
2. "Loose Rap" (featuring Static) 3:52 1
7. "Extra Smooth" 3:55 1
13. "Those Were the Days" 3:24 0
12. "I Can Be" 2:59 0
11. "It's Whatever" 4:08 0
9. "U Got Nerve" 3:43 0
8. "Read Between the Lines" 4:20 0
5. "Never No More" 3:58 0
14. "What If" 4:24 0

WTF2K7 ILX?!?!?!

(more proof that this album is NOT a part of "the ilx canon")

the ilx R&B canon is pretty small if it exists, but if it does this album is top 3 easy

i'm gonna go ahead and say i never totally understood "We Need A Resolution." seemed like a really odd choice for the album's lead single at the time and especially now.

(more proof that this album is NOT a part of "the ilx canon")

-- Tape Store, Sunday, 11 November 2007 00:28 (1 hour ago) Link

dude yr seriously wrong. just because ppl dont care about voting in polls =/ not in ilx canon

also this got like 40 votes!!

good luck getting that w/ the keyshia cole album or whatever

Forgot to vote but would've just added to the "We Need a Resolution" chorus.

I think the point is that there are many album tracks that are just as good as the singles. These are really boring results.

What did you expect though.

Thanks ILM. I am no longer an optimist.

all my favorite aaliyah songs are on the previous album, plus "are you that somebody" which is the best
not that this isn't good i've been playing it a lot the past few weeks.

I'm surprised there was no love for "I Can Be" on this thread; maybe it gets lost from being near the end of the album? But the chorus has a terrific vocal hook, and the guitar grind and beats are ace too. Wikipedia calls this song "pop rock", but that seems wrong; if anything the vocal is a blues thing (I guess that comes off as rock to some people). Anyway, this song is great.

I bought this when it came out but gave it a shamefully cursory listen and only stuck the singles on iTunes. The love displayed on this thread has made me think I should dig it up.

Plus, for people listening to all of their CDs in alphabetical order by either artist or album title, this should be at the front of the line, no?

^good post

1. "It's Whatever" 4:08 0

deserved a vote

12. "I Can Be" 2:59 0

^^as did this

has the rev changed his mind about "more than a woman". crazy talk imo

8. "Read Between the Lines" 4:20

This one deserved a vote too

yeah I'd vote for "I Can Be" if we did this again.

If this poll was to happen again I'd have to vote Extra Smooth. It's just too damn fucking cool. The way it builds up the guy and the sucker punch of "nothing rude but way too short for me" kills me everytime. If only more songwriters were able to write this well, it doesn't condescend, it just says 'tone it down please' while the beat distracts you enough that it doesn't seem mean that she's pulling the rug from underneath the generic extra smooth character. (Sorry if that's nonsense, we can't all be fancy critics.)

And to add to all that talk upthread whether this album is part of the ilx canon, I think when 2k10 rolls around and we vote for the best album of the decade, I might end up giving this my #1 and hopefully it ends up pretty high on that list.

has the rev changed his mind about "more than a woman". crazy talk imo

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― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Sunday, April 5, 2009 10:47 AM Bookmark

Nope. :/

I mean, I don't hate it, I just don't enjoy it, either.

More than A Woman is a song that feels so insanely right, and it's got that upward lift that buoys the whole thing up so weightlessly.

I GOT SOMETHING 4 ALL U FOOLS

IT AINT JUST RHYTHM AND BLUES

this is one of those albums where i want to like... watch a feature length documentary on it

for some reason i don't have strong memories of her death, though i do remember her owning the music video channels i'd watch at summer camp for a minute there

i remember where i was when i heard about it but i didn't really grasp the impact of it at all

I remember I was watching MTV late at night and it scrolled across the bottom of the screen.. I was like WTF and didn't believe it until the next day, when it was a big deal everywhere.

i was in oxford hmv, on the phone to a friend, and i had to go and take a moment in the dvd aisle (which, back then, was the empty niche corner of the shop).

"i care 4 u" is my favourite on this album but i can't really imagine living without any of them.

I don't think I can ever listen to "Rock the Boat" enough or too much.

^^ her best single. More flippy floppy drums plz

yeah that song is just absolutely perfect in every way

It works the middle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZsEEPo_Tw

tbh what a fucking record

people in the pfork thread complaining about it getting a 9.3: you're right, it deserves a 10

Every song that got zero in this poll is amazing, esp. "Never No More", "U Got Nerve", "It's Whatever" and "I Can Be". There's a voluptuousness to the production that really feels like the last word on that era of R&B (and chronologically it kind of was: by 2002 it felt like Murder Inc's neo-classicism was the dominant sound).

Obviously the central tragedy of Aaliyah passing is the loss of Aaliyah herself, but one of the apparent side-effects was that it seemed to kill Key Beats' career stone-dead. I remember being so excited about their sound based on Destiny's Child's "Perfect Man" and "Independent Women Part II" and then all their work on this album.

on spotify today. still sounds like the future

It does sound great. Really wish I had held onto the promo CD that was in my sort-of possession at the time... oh well

Finally, I can place the proper "Rock the Boat" in all my playlists!

"U Got Nerve" hits so hard

I must have missed this poll if those were the days got zero