The Official ILM THE NEPTUNES Poll (#27 In Series) - Voting & Campaigning Thread (VOTING STILL OPEN)

i still hate that video but "Freetime" is cool

i only have the vaguest memory of an MTV2 promo featuring it as one of their new videos in rotation but i've never actually watched it! but yeah this is kinda dumb

there's very little from past, say, 2004 that i can even listen to

eh, imo they never stopped releasing decent stuff, they just stopped releasing great stuff

I might vote for "Freetime"

kenna isnt on spotify. also i have no idea who kenna is.

2007-2009 all look rubbish. ok im sure the twista or mario songs are fine and i cant remember if Till The Casket Drops is any good or not but... urgh, it gets p nasty.

it's on the US spotify -- Kenna is a Virginia Beach dude who grew up w/ them and released 2 albums of synth pop bangers primarily produced by Chad

ok, i may look them up.

surprised at how much i am enjoying HHNF right now, i always thought it was kinda disappointing when it came out.

both the praise and the backlash were overstated

http://open.spotify.com/user/sutrarama/playlist/687z3my4nlvZyU0mkZdsYF

Spotify playlist is complete for stuff available in the UK.

cool, i'll see what i can add from the states

yeah i was always somewhat neptunes skeptical or at least thought they were overrated, greatly preferred timbaland, but i have to admit this stuff still sounds great and not to get all youtube commenter but man do i miss these guys dominating radio.

anyhow stoked for this!

Oh man, I've barely got started on this - I reached Hollaback Girl and I can't get past it. This is the second time it's blown me away, and I hated it when it came out.

noooo, i need my fellow hollaback holdouts to stay strong! resistance movement!

I doubt I'll be voting for it, it's fine but there's so much other better stuff.

Yeah. meh.

bump - one week left for voting (and I've received only two ballots so far)

Eep. I'll redouble my efforts - I'm inching through the playlist, have identified about ten tracks for my ballot so far.

yeah i'd meant to bump the thread and post more this week but didn't get around to it, definitely gonna take my time w/ my ballot though. don't be afraid to push back the deadline to get more ballots, though, that seems to work more often than not.

T.I.'s "I'm Serious" is so fuckin slept on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY6ChdU_J-M

"Bossman" is incredible too, Neptunes + Beenie Man was a lethal combination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQaQFQ-rbc

The Funeral beat still sounds great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NnDbfd4yc

T.I.'s "I'm Serious" is so fuckin slept on

http://www.youtube.com/v/UY6ChdU_J-M&fs=1&hl=en

― some dude, Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes yes

Never really like much of the NERD stuff, but always vibed to this production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJmvbz1-Ves
Snappy snares and a little panning is all I need really.

i think i'm gonna have "beautiful" in my top 5

i really need to not be going down a neptunes wormhole at 1 am

neptunes stuff from the last 5-7 years shows you how close to incredibly corny they were with shit like "beautiful" but man when they hit this kinda sound it worked so damn well

Oh for sure, one thing that has been surprising to me as I've been digging around is how many Neptunes productions actively irritate me.

"Am I High" is top 5 for me.

looking over the discography in chronological order i kind of re-lived what a heartbreaking fall-off late 2003/2004 was. "Change Clothes" was a real shark jump moment.

here's some food for thought, the top 25 biggest Neptunes hits on the Hot 100:

1. Nelly - "Hot In Herre"
2. Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback Girl"
3. Snoop Dogg f/ Pharrell - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
4. Ludacris f/ Pharrell - "Money Maker"
5. Kelis - "Milkshake"
6. Usher - "U Don't Have To Call"
7. LL Cool J f/ Marc Dorsey - "Luv U Better"
8. Justin Timberlake - "Rock Your Body"
9. N Sync - "Girlfriend"
10. Pharrell f/ Jay-Z - "Frontin'"
11. Snoop Dogg f/ Pharrell and Charlie Wilson - "Beautiful"
12. Gwen Stefani - "Wind It Up"
13. Jay-Z f/ Pharrell - "Excuse Me Miss"
14. Mase f/ Puff Daddy - "Lookin' At Me"
15. N.O.R.E. f/ Pharrell - "Nothin'"
16. Jay-Z f/ Pharrell - "Change Clothes"
17. Jay-Z - "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
18. Justin Timberlake f/ Clipse - "Like I Love You"
19. Busta Rhymes f/ P. Diddy and Pharrell - "Pass The Courvoisier, Part II"
20. Mystikal f/ Pharrell - "Shake Ya Ass"
21. No Doubt - "Hella Good"
22. Mystikal f/ Nivea - "Danger (Been So Long)"
23. Clipse - "When The Last Time"
24. Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality"
25. Britney Spears - "I'm A Slave 4 U"

looking over the discography in chronological order i kind of re-lived what a heartbreaking fall-off late 2003/2004 was. "Change Clothes" was a real shark jump moment.

― some dude, Sunday, October 14, 2012 11:19 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^^

that's kind of a really bad list

"money maker" is no joke one of my least favorite songs of all time. hate that beat/hook. that whole era of ludacris is just... so depressing.

I dont think thats a bad list. Got love for plenty of those.

Everything from 17 is ridiculously great but there's some serious junk blocking the upper reaches of that chart.

i didn't realize "when the last time" was that big of a hit -- bigger than "slave 4 u" !!

kinda shocked 'signs' isnt in there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_(Snoop_Dogg_song)

always got the deepest love for a thorough and considered wiki

That is so great

I don't recall hearing "Signs" on the radio all that often.

How was that list put together? "Frontin'" is their 10th biggest song?! Or did it just chart really well one week?

longevity-wise, isn't "Got Your Money" more popular than about half of those songs?

that's kind of a really bad list

really? the only songs on it I dislike are "Money Maker"/"Wind It Up"/"Change Clothes"

"Signs" was a total flop in the U.S. for some reason -- maybe urban radio had some anti-Justin sentiment since that was the first thing he dropped since the Janet incident, but pop radio didn't touch it either. i blame "Let's Get Blown" for blowing the "Drop It Like It's Hot" momentum.

A couple of album tracks from Kaleidoscope I'll be voting for:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCR3KgQsCso

you'd vote for those tracks but not for "roller rink"?

I've been working through ahh's playlist but am running into the sand too quickly. A whole sea of Clipse hasn't helped, but the problem atm is that I've completely lost sight of what's Neptuney about these tracks - right now it sounds like a bunch of pop R&B tunes one after the other, some decent, some not, but there might as well be no link between 'em.

Can anyone (without revealing too much) give me a quick pointer towards a couple of quintessential Nep flourishes? Just to help me reconnect. Needn't be a personal favourite or anything, just a sound that they do and noöne else does.

Love both of these for different reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8ZpvWlaCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLySgRW6y8

Two more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXVqVc4OVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BVHP514ZQ

you'd vote for those tracks but not for "roller rink"?

Yeah, not that I dislike 'Roller Rink' or anything.

is this possibly fake? this song rules hard but the video sounds like someone took the justin song and added their own drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPDs1ZQZ3bQ