AALIYAH poll

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"?

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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.

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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

Never No More is ridiculously underrated.

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weird i was just thinking that earlier

also, extra smooth

comin on strong, six pack showin

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

deserved a vote

― i think mermaids are real (J0rdan S.), Saturday, April 4, 2009 4:11 PM (1 year ago)

otm

^seconded. just caught Romeo Must Die on TV today and it made me think about what music she would be making in 2010. she is deeply, deeply missed.

def

man "we need a resolution" is really not at all the best song on this album by any reasonable measure

the competition is stiff, but "We Need a Resolution" really is that great of a song

like, it captures the paranoia of thinking your lover is cheating on you as well as any song since "Who Is He (and What Is He to You?)" but instead of just being on the verge of spazzing out like Bill Withers is, she's trying to make something productive out of the situation

i usually skip it, and i know it's good and i used to love it, but not what the album's about imo. in this case gorgeous dramatic, sultry rn'b trumps kinda dated stilted funky timbaland pop rap. "more than a woman" is a better example of that anyways.

"gorgeous dramatic, sultry rn'b trumps" is a perfect description of the song imo

trumps

"What If" deserved a vote, too.

most of these songs did

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