WU-TANG CLAN — Artist Poll — Voting Thread (deadline Oct. 15)

Sorry the nominations thread took a while. I thought we left some classics out so took some license to add some in. Hopefully we get some more traction in this thread.

Send ballots to pop the levels at gmail dot com by the end of day on Sunday, Oct. 15. Or you can webmail me it through ILX.

TRACKS POLL Eligible Tracks List

— Submit your tracks ballot with up to 36 entrees
— Please copy and paste directly from the google sheet (let me know if you see duplicates or misspellings and I can fix)
— Please don't number them, put your top pick at the top and go down from there
— I'll accept unweighted ballots but please let me know if that's the case. I'll assume it's weighted unless told otherwise.

ALBUMS POLL Eligible Albums List

— Submit your weighted albums ballot with up to 12 entrees
— Please copy and paste directly from the google sheet (let me know if you see duplicates or misspellings and I can fix)
— Please don't number them, put your top pick at the top and go down from there

FAVORITE CLAN MEMBER POLL

— Submit your ballot ranking all 9 original members
— Please don't number them, put your top pick at the top and go down from there

PLAYLISTS

I've just started loading tracks into the Spotify playlists but hopefully soon all the nominated tracks will be here (Forks said he will help):

—Tracks: https://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/0hrB4fgawF12IaUvrSBq3x
—Albums: https://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/5S0Lc73MOfwMeLjmJTrunG

loading these up. i, uh, forgot to nominate anything and am only asking for clemency for the highly underrated Cherry Range
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTp4KdVCXJo

couldn’t in good conscience participate in the nominations but i’m gonna try to vote in this anyway

Do it Brad.

Forks I added that track.

whoah I didn't know this "Odd Couple" track w/Ghost and Cap, this is great

that's a great one. Def voting for. could easily do just a ghostface ballot

lol at this kanye bieber remix with raekwon

also: no "ghetto superstar"?!?!? i think not.

that song is terrible

dirty singing the vowels at the end, cmon

always liked the bass line on that

I really loved Beneath the Surface (the alb) when it dropped and after re-listening I think it holds up. Top tier wu album, easily his 2nd best and only GZA full length you need to concern yourself w outside of Liquid Swords. I think it's my favorite 'sounding' wu album, great bass.

Def voting fro Breaker, Breaker. Tons of memorable lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdEzN6UWrQ

great video btw, never seen it video before

Shakey, what's your fav WU album. you said you ranked something over 36 chambers?

hey I'm still assembling my ballot!

oh sorry i figured you had that choice nailed down

there's no disputing that 36 Chambers is all-time game-changing classic, with zero filler or bad tracks. at the same time, it isn't the one I return to the most, and it's p rare that I go back and listen to it all the way through. if I'm being honest I prefer the overall sound of Wu-Tang Forever (even if there are certain tracks that get skipped every time), or the cleaner production and gangster mythologizing on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, or the non-stop grimy insanity of the first ODB record. I go back to those more.

im gonna have to do a lot of listening for this--gonna go through each of the 1st gen albums at least twice

I don't want to overstuff my ballot with Ghost tracks

I think it's inevitable since he's without question had the most solid solo career

yeah a really good hit to miss ratio plus a steady stream of releases.

looking back it's a pretty interesting development, I don't think anyone would have predicted from the outset that Ghost would be the breakout critical (if not commercial) star with the deepest catalog

nearly done with the singles playlist... fun to listen to these songs randomly. finding some i had never heard!

there's no disputing that 36 Chambers is all-time game-changing classic, with zero filler or bad tracks. at the same time, it isn't the one I return to the most, and it's p rare that I go back and listen to it all the way through. if I'm being honest I prefer the overall sound of Wu-Tang Forever (even if there are certain tracks that get skipped every time), or the cleaner production and gangster mythologizing on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, or the non-stop grimy insanity of the first ODB record. I go back to those more.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:21 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can see that. altho i have some issues with the mix on some of Forever

looking back it's a pretty interesting development, I don't think anyone would have predicted from the outset that Ghost would be the breakout critical (if not commercial) star with the deepest catalog

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:44 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah meth was supposed to be the star

and in some ways he was, right? I feel like he definitely had a higher commercial profile + hit ratio, altho maybe all the acting gigs distort that.

yeah i guess. just seems like he hit a cliff after Blackout

blackout 2 has some jams

looking at Meth's singles chart postings it looks like his peak era was already over by '96 tho lol.

But he has a number one, and I don't think Ghost has ever even broken the top 10

probably gonna vote for at least one of its tracks

xp

blackout 2 has some jams

― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:54 PM (fifty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah for sure. i added A Yo in there. Meth had some scattered goodness left

if wiki is right then 4:21 sold over 230k!? jeez

loved the fallon performance when meth gets up on his desk and starts dancing <3
http://cms.springboardplatform.com/embed_iframe/159/video/48337/rab010/rapbasement.com/10

couldn’t in good conscience participate in the nominations but i’m gonna try to vote in this anyway

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, October 1, 2017 7:30 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brad, i meant to ask what you meant by this? the first part)

Okay, Spotify tracks list is done. Biggest missing albums are 8 Diagrams, Theodore Unit, Ghost and Trife... but it's only 20 tracks out of 328!
I built a YouTube playlist with the non-spotify tracks; that's here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqiswAZfVPq-ohw_PGfSMBrSmlDNdlX5
It all ends up being right at 24 hours of music.
I'll build the albums list later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RdWHFTNEk

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

yeah, those are in the youtube playlist i just posted.

ah, sorry

will always stan for this wild track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8YoV2UVwc

the only intersect of Clinton and Wu, right?
Really enjoying Gravediggaz first album rn, which i somehow never seriously listened to!

isn't Clinton on some other track on that shitty album

like I seem to remember him getting two of those motor-mouth monologues in

(tbf "Wolves" is def one of the good track on there)

wolves is great.

that first trife track you posted is good but just a trife solo song no?

thanks for doing the playlists, forks, will be helpful for sure.

No prob man. I'm learning a lot!

Haha oh shit yr right! Track is so good i got distracted. Feel free to remove

Xp

I'll POLL Your Asshole Shut and Keep Feedin Ya and Feedin Ya and Feedin Ya

that was in my top 3 lol

votey vote vote vote

Got a couple more. Couple more days. One of these days, and it wont be long.

okay okay will get you one on sunday
i am self conscious as my picks are gonna be very garden variety

don't matter just do it!

Excited for the roll-out on this, haven't really campaigned for anything because my wu-opinions are fairly orthodox and it's not like an album like OB4CL needs extra repping here. How many ballots have been submitted?

working on it working on it

vote you foolz

vote while you still can

i got 2 more last week and one early this morning. Just a couple more lets get it done people.

oh dang... no nominations for:
GZA - Publicity
Method Man - What's Happenin' (feat. Busta Rhymes)

might have voted for both but my bad not paying attention sooner

did you submit yours yet?

incoming in 3... 2...

vote you suckaz

marcos! Forks! get jn

BEAT THE CLOCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bFbod2ZuQ

ahh i don't know if i can get this in in time

there is no specific time, how much do you need?

did you get my corny-ass ballot?

Got it!

Did my ballot come through a couple of weeks back (sorry wasn't sure if you were sending replies or not)?

yeah got it

woohoo ty!

Marcos can you do a ballot by the end of this weekend?

spottie i missed this sorry!! proceed without me sad to say :( unfortunately i have too much going on

:( hopefully youll join in the rollout.

I got another one last night . not sure who from. think im gonna cut it off Sunday night for good and roll out with what we have next week.

do we at least have... 36?

Ok I am going to try and do a ballot by the end of today. Thanks for doing this spottie

Aw no cobra clutch? Ok I'll be voting for enough ghost as is I guess

Sent a copy over

do we at least have... 36?

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, November 4, 2017 1:19 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wish .

got your a hoy hoy, waiting on forks now...

Forks you have until Teusday night. Im starting this rollout Wednesday.

(or anyone else that wants in still)

is this going to open this week?

got everythign compiled but had to go on business trip so starting it fresh on monday now. sorry team.

can(t) it all be so simple

nice timing... little appetizer for us to discuss in the meantime

https://massappeal.com/wu-tang-clan-ranked-every-song/

man those full catalog worst to best breakdown lists are exhausting

that mass appeal list is so lazy, just 92 songs presented with a quote from each, no criticism or engaging with the songs

believe it was rushomancy who demonstrated the format's potential in his breakdown of every pink floyd song, that list ruled

I’ll have to check that

https://pinkfloydsongsranked.blogspot.com/

Nice thx

man Supreme Clientele is such a great start-to-finish record, greater than the sum of its parts in a weird way

agreed.

btw ive got everything ready to go just doing some graphics. gonna start with the sub polls tonight.

ended up with 17 ballots so dragging it out got us over the hump

fwiw I would've voted for more "The W" songs if it weren't for the fact that almost every track on that album is actually 2 or 3 different songs randomly cut together.

agh i unbookmarked thread accidentally. i am bad person.

THE POLL IS COMIN THROUGH, THE OUTCOME IS CRITICAL — WU-TANG CLAN — Artist Poll — Results

woohoo!