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is it rightfully known as a golden age? list the best tracks from this era

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

compare and contrast

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

let's make the era a more specific '98-'02

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The one and only golden age of R&B was the golden age of Motown: 1964-66

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i will get some of the obvious ones out of the way:

aaliyah - try again
aaliyah - are you that somebody
aaliyah - we need a resolution
aaliyah - rock the boat
aaliyah - more than a woman
destiny's child - jumpin jumpin
destiny's child - say my name
destiny's child - bugaboo
destiny's child - bills bills bills
destiny's child - independant woman
destiny's child - bootylicious
pink - there you go
pink - most girls
kelis - mars
kelis - i hate you so much right now
r kelly - rnb thug
r kelly - fiesta
r kelly - feelin on yo booty
sisqo - the thong song
112 - peaches and cream
112 - dance with me
monifah - touch it
salt n pepa - gitty up
mary j blige - family affair
faith evans - love like this (crooklyn clan remix)
mya - free
mya - case of the ex
tlc - no scrubs
tlc - silly ho

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking SWV but maybe that's too old

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i feel like an uncle

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah swv is on the other thread ronan :)

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

do people still listen to al jolson?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

haha

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

geir you like the neptunes! do you have any neptunes produced songs to suggest?

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Some more obvious ones for the pile:

Amerie - I Just Died
Nivea - Laundremat
Ms Jade - "Ching Ching"
Tweet - "Oops (Oh My)"

(Haha now I SEE, "why is Bryan asking me about Nivea, does Bryan like Nivea?!" < /in-joke for Minna>)

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah amerie!
amerie - why don't we fall in love & richcraft remix

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

donnell jones ft lisa left eye - u know what's up
usher - u don't have to call
kelis - get along with you, suspended, roller rink and just about everything else

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

lucy pearl - dance tonight, don't mess with my man
bilal - fastlane
d'angelo - untitled

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

lauryn hill - lost ones
ruff ends - no more
pras - blue angels (actually i can barely remember this one, its probably crap)
destiny's child ft timbaland - get on the bus
blackstreet ft janet jackson - girlfriend boyfriend
raphael saddiq ft q-tip - get involved

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

lauryn hill - everything is everything
whitney houston - its not right but its ok
gang starr ft total - discipline
destiny's child - bug-a-boo
jordan knight - give it to you

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Tweet - Call Me

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

michael moog - that sound (more housey i suppose but what the hell he's got a smooth voice)
honeyz - won't take it lying down
maxim - scheming (lyrically and vocally it fits at least)
sia - taken for granted
mary mary - shackles
pharoah monche - the light
louise - 2 faced
d'angelo - devil's pie
mos def - umi says
jill scott - getting in the way
erykah badu - bag lady, green eyes

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynden David Hall - Forgive Me
Mos Def - Umi Says
Mary J Blige - PMS
Mary J Blige - No More Drama
Handsome Boy Modelling School - The truth
Missy - Take Away
Mos Def ft. Talib Kweli & Mary J Blige - Beautiful
Jill Scott - Slowly, surely.
Mos Def/ jil Scott - Love Rain
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Angie Stone - Wish I didn't Miss you
Angie Stone - Everyday
Jill Scott/ 4hero - Another Day

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

hey trife what are the good toya songs?

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

other than 'i do!!' and 'no matter what'

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

As for Neptunes, the only thing I like about them is their sound. Never heard any good "songs" by them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hefner - dive into you (ok more jazz-funk but still very nice)
j lo - play
sunshine anderson - heard it all before
missy - step off
eve - who's that girl
eve ft gwen - let me blow your mind
nikka costa - like a feather, everybody got their something
mary j blige - family affair
brandy - what about us

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Eve - Satisfaction

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Minna - i ain't trife, but if you want a second opinion the whole toya album is great! other than singles my faves are:

- how can i be down
- book of love (feat. loon)
- the truth
- don't make me
- fiasco (feat. t.i.)
- i messed up

― Mind Taker, Monday, 1 September 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks mind taker im dling them now!

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ok i will retract my salt n pepa record if you ppl will please stop listing rap songs!

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

there's no song here where the rap is the dominant element tho

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

except dr dre feat xzibit-rap is the dominant element

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Timbaland feat. Tweet & Petey Pablo - Love Me
Janet Jackson - Someone to Call My Lover (+ So So Def rmx) / China Love
Beenie Man feat. Janet Jackson - Feel It Boy
Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills (Trackmasters Remix)
Mya feat. Jay-Z - Best Of Me (Trackmasters Remix)
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style
Jelena Karleusa - Gili gili (serbian turbofolk meets discofied asian-inflected R&B, this is SUCH an awesome track and EVERYONE should hear it!)

― Mind Taker, Monday, 1 September 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

J. Lo - I'm Real (Murder Remix) / Jenny From The Block
Ashanti - Happy / Leaving (Always On time pt II) / Voodoo
Christina Milian - When You Look At Me / AM to PM / Twitch
Chante Moore - Take Care of Me (imperious, icy stuttery-staccato track that by some reason got relegated to mere album-track status)
Christina Aguilera feat. Redman - Dirrty
Divas - Da ili ne
Sugar Jones - Days Like That / How Much Longer / Baby Boo
Jessica Simpson - Irresistible
Latrelle - Dirty Girl
Irv Gotti feat. all those people - Down 4 U
Jordan Brown - I Think I Like You
Mariah Carey - Honey

oh, and the whole Lina album, which is in my all-time top ten. (for some Polish Lina-aping action, check out Kasia Klich's "Lepszy Model"!)

― Mind Taker, Monday, 1 September 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me more about that Crooklyn Clan remix of Faith Evans' "Love Like This"!

― Mind Taker, Monday, 1 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

where's brandy?
tlc-creep
that song destroys waterfalls
dunno if it's in the timeframe though

― luke..., Monday, 1 September 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

mind taker i have been schooled!:
*** says:
its not the crooklyn clan rmx as u well know
*** says:
of faith evans
minna says:
fatman scoop
*** says:
its crooklyn clan FEATURING FATMAN SCOOP AND FAITH EVANS
*** says:

minna says:
haha!
minna says:
oh weird
minna says:
i could have sworn there was a normal version of 'love like this'
*** says:
there is
*** says:
but the crooklyn clan one just samples it
minna says:
aaah ok
*** says:
its called BE FAITHFUL

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Truth Hurts feat Rakim - "Addictive"
Brandy & Monica - "The Boy Is Mine"

― Nick H, Monday, 1 September 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway it's an excellent record! it jumped out on the save the last dance soundtrack (along w ice cube - you can do it) and they play it every single week at my work

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

usher - pop ya collar
usher - you remind me
usher - you make me wanna & timbaland rmx
craig david - 7 days
craig david - rendezvous blacksmith rmx
missy elliott - all n my grill

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

is that all there is?!

― minna (minna), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

for good stuff maybe yes...i never liked Foxxy Brown much but maybe someone wants to recommend something by her?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oh wait i liked the one that sampled Bob Marley, what was it called?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yes theres obviously a big rap/rnb crossover but looking over the list none of them apart from the one Ronan named are "rap" tracks.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"suspended" kelis

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

minna the whole amerie cd is really good!! ppl have named most of what i would say already, im not real deep into rnb still so i mostly just know all the big name hits but fuck it heres a not-mentioned-yet s trife top ten

1) tq - westside (this is the greatest song of all time!!)
2) janet jackson - nothing really matters
3) brandy - all or nothing
4) amerie - nothing like loving you
5) donnell jones - you know that i love you
6) isyss f jadakiss - day and night
7) brian mcknight - hold me
8) inoj - time after time
9) usher - my way
10) tatyana ali - daydreamin

― trife (simon_tr), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

oh!! and faith evans - i love you!!

― trife (simon_tr), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ignition (Remix). Best r&b song of the century.
Did anyone say D'Angelo?

― Shmuel (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

R&B Trainspotterizm!

Faith Evans - Burning Up (Just Blaze Remix ft. Missy Elliot)
Latrelle - Dirty Girl ("Fame" Remix)
Destiny's Child - Perfect Man; Hey Ladies
Aaliyah - One In A Million (Remix); It's Whatever; Never No More
Mya - It's All About Me (original and Miami Bass mix); Ride & Shake; That's Why I Wanna Fight; Again & Again
Pink - Private Show; Hell' Wit Ya; Is It Love?
Busta Rhymes ft. Janet Jackson - What's It Gonna Be?
Janet Jackson - Empty ('97 though); Who
Amerie - Need You Tonight
Ashanti - Rescue Me
Toya - I Do (Remix ft. Murphy Lee)
Usher - U Remind Me (Remix ft. Method Man and Blu Cantrell)
Blu Cantrell - Swingin'; Waste My Time
112 - Peaches & Cream + Remix (ft. Ludacris)
Lina - anything from her album
Tweet - Drunk; My Place; Always Will; Complain
Nicole - Make It Hot
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River; Rock Your Body
Whitney Houston - It's Not Right But It's Okay
Dream - This Is Me; He Loves You Not

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Toni Braxton - "He wasn't man enough"
Destiny's Child - "Survivor"
Britney - "Slave 4 U"
*NSYNC feat. Nelly - "Girlfriend"
TLC - "Unpretty"
Spice Girls - "Holler" (!)
Blaque - "Bring it all to me"
702 - "Where my girl's at?"
Deborah Cox - "Nobody's supposed to be here"
Macy Gray - "I try"
Missy - "Hot boys"
Pink - "You make me sick"
Tamia - "Stranger in my house"
Eve feat. Alicia Keys - "Gangsta lovin'"
Ms. Dynamite - "It takes more"
Sugarbabes - "Freak like me"
Whitney - "My love is your love", "I learned from the best"

― Seb, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I think "I Do!!" is the best single of the 00's

oh and my favorite Destiny's Child song is "So Good"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Montell Jordan, "Get It On Tonite"!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Area Codes" - Ludacris feat nate Dogg.

I know it's Ludacris but it sounds like a rapped RnB song rather than a hip hop song. And it rules.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson-'You Rock My World', 'Butterflies' (+rmx feat. Eve)
Britney Spears-'Boys' (+rmx w. Pharrell)
Kelis feat Pusha T-'Popular Thug'
Backstreet Boys-'The Call' Neptunes Rmx
Lauryn Hill-'Doo Wap (That Thing)'
Missy Elliot-'Back In The Day', 'Beep Me 911' feat. 702+Magoo
702-'Star', 'I Still Love You'
TLC-'Silly Ho', 'Dear Lie', 'Damaged'
Justin Timberlake-'Last Night'
Tweet-'Call Me', 'Dance Tonite'(I think)
Foxy Brown feat. Kelis-'Candy', feat. Dru Hill-'Big Bad Mama'
Usher-'U-Turn'

Stevem, the Foxy track's 'Oh Yeah'

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Brandy full moon
Jlo- (nas) im gonna be alright (ja rule) aint it funny
Nsync- Gone (and girlfriend)
Lisa left eye- block party
Mel B- i want you back
Angie stone- life story
Misteeq- all I want

― lid, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

J Lo - Play, I'm Real (Remix), Jenny From The Block
Brandy - Apart

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ginuwine -- differences
3lw -- no more
3lw -- more than friends
3lw -- players gonna play
3lw -- this goes out
j. lo and ja rule -- i'm real
j. lo -- jenny from the block
k. ci and jo jo -- crazy
eric sermon -- music
blaque -- 808
blaque -- 808 (remix)
other blaque trax i forget
vengaboys -- boom boom boom
the janet song is actually "doesn't really matter" and yeah it rules!
sugababes -- overload (also more from the first i forget)
dave hollister -- one woman man
dave hollister -- on the side

damn i guess this was a golden age.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Differences" is up there, yeah

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

sterl dotn try to school me on that janet song i put that shit on your tape like last year!!! oh and i forgot abt how much i love 808!!! and the remix though not as much, i dont know why that got all the radio play... the original is one of r kellys greatest outside songwriting jobs ever, its so gorgeous

― trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

sisquo -- thong song!!!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dru Hill - If I Could

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

As an aside, how do you pronounce "the 00s"? "The zeroes?" "The aughts?" It's not like this problem doesn't come around every hundred years or so. There must be an answer.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it the naughties?

― maree (maree), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hey minna. i did get quite few of those earlier tracks. now i gotta get these?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

haha gaz i am.
thanks everyone for your trainspotting! this thread has turned out very nicely, i have already downloaded a lot of amazing songs.

― minna (minna), Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Mention must be made of two of my favorite guilty pleasures:

Khia -- "My Neck, My Back"
Adina Howard -- "T-Shirt & Panties"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 September 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Minna I'd love to find out what you downloaded and liked and what you thought of them.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinnda - Don't Bring Sand To The Beach !

― Mind Taker, Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Tank -- Supa Sexy.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 7 September 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

probably the #1 best thing i downloaded was ginuwine - difference. thanks sterl!

also loved:
blaque - 808, and the remix works best turned way up loud.... and i downloaded some other blaque songs: probably the most interesting one other than 808 is a reworking of wanksta, with loungey staccato horns replacing the ringtone beat so it sounds like j walk - soul vibration! (put it on vibrate!)

i love the vocoder bit at the end of 'love me' by petey pablo & tweet

brandy - full moon - for some reason i hadnt heard this

i got the whole toya album which is great! and it has a ukg song on it?!

i also ended up dling the entire inoj album: loads of really good stuff here too: her cover of 'ring my bell'; 'love you down', 'all i want', 'moving on', and particularly 'precious love' which is so so sadly sweet, flooded w sugar, it's a bit like a dream i had about drowning in rasberry post-mix syrup... as a whole the album could be a bit overwhelming if it weren't for the ever present beats keeping things in check (the ballads without beats arent so great). 'i need to feel your love' is another winner, it is bittersweet like the others and also very dainty.... it's like small brittle sea creatures edging around the rock pool in pink mother-of-pearl shells ( haha sorry that was TWEE) and it reminds me of the jeremy jordan song from the 90210 soundtrack!

whitney houston - it's not right but it's ok - i had no idea it was whitney! but it's great!

janet jackson - doesn't really matter

christina milian - twitch: especially the breakdown at the end

mya ft sisqo - it's all about me = the best of the mya songs. i couldn't find the miami bass version. i want to hear it though! i also couldnt find the just blaze faith evans remix but i am intrigued!

that's all i can think of for now... i might come back and report some more later

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 September 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oh the jadakiss & isyss song is good. i hate the phrase 'farty bassline' but i love the way that bass rolls around

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 September 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

tim: i've always had a soft spot for 'it's whatever' too

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 September 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

aiee i wish i wd reread these posts before i posted them, all that inoj stuff is awful. but don't be discouraged, the album really is mostly good

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 September 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

that whitney song is great ('your love is my love' is like my fourth fave lauryn hill song)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 28 September 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

XXXX says:
xscape - my little secret wz never mentioned!
XXXx says:
4 shame

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

co-ed - roll with me

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

An open apology to Kiley Dean for not mentioning her 2 years ago.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

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