THE NEPTUNES SINGLES POLL!!!

Don't know what to choose, way too much amazing stuff...

"Like I Love You." I like my Justin fast. And late at night talking to me.

isn't Mariah's 'It's Like That' a Neptunes prod?

narrowed down to:
Busta Rhymes - Light Ya Ass On Fire
Kelis - Caught Out There
Kelis - Get Along With You
Kelis - Young, Fresh & New
Jay-Z - Excuse Me Miss
Mystikal feat. Nivea - Danger
Nelly - Hot In Herre
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Nothin'
Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot

Urgh...... I think i'll vote for 'Milkshake' but I'll have to think it over for a while.

Signs

Shame "Pop Shit" was never a single - my favorite thing they did by far.

One of these five. I'm leaning towards 1 or 5.

Baby - What Happened To That Boy?
Clipse - Grindin'
Kardinal Offishall - Belly Dancer
Kelis - Milkshake
Mystikal - Bouncin' Back

How the fuck does this list have 4 Beenie Man/Neptunes collabs but not the best, "Bossman"? I'd probably vote for that if it was an option. This is what I was able to narrow it down to so far:

Baby - What Happened To That Boy?
Babyface - There She Goes
Busta Rhymes - Light Ya Ass On Fire
Clipse - Grindin'
Clipse - When The Last Time
Kelis - Get Along With You
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
Justin Timberlake feat. Clipse - Like I Love You
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
LL Cool J - Luv U Better
Mystikal - Bouncin' Back
*NSYNC feat. Nelly - Girlfriend
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
Pharrell feat. Jay-Z - Frontin'
Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake & Charlie Wilson - Signs
T.I. feat. Beanie Man - I'm Serious
Usher - U Don't Have To Call

Note that there's maybe one song in there from later than 2003.

Milkshake

runners up: Grindin, Drop it Like It's Hot, What Happened to that Boy

I'm between Shake Ya Ass, Bouncin Back, I Just Wanna Luv U, and Grindin.

This is pointless. Why choose when they are all fantastic?

Well, not all, but when there are so many fantastic ones.

it's grindin, even with how incomplete this poll is

grindin', you know what i keep in the linin'

isn't Mariah's 'It's Like That' a Neptunes prod?

No, Dupri did it.

cross the border

N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug
N.O.R.E. - Superthug

Hard choice but I had to go with "Grindin"

Kelis - Get Along With You

^^ this too

yeah that one's definitely top 5 material for me.

loved that video in h.s.

goth goth goth

i move to include dope game by 504 boyz

and 10 lil crips by snoop

wait a minute where the fuck is GRIMEY

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:M1N2pODILAWKOM:www.anvari.org/db/cols/The_Simpsons_Characters_Picture_Gallery/Frank_Grimes.png
Nigga when that heat, is bustin off- GRIMEY!
And the ambulance come, and rush you off- GRIMEY!
And the witness like - we don't know dem boys- GRIMEY!
Me and my niggaz goin hey, hey, hey, hey-hey hey- GRIMEY!
Then we resume, hangin with stars- GRIMEY!
Then we live in fat houses and fat ass cars- GRIMEY!
Then we drive and scream nigga FUCK the law- GRIMEY!
Me and my niggaz goin hey, hey, hey, hey-hey hey- GRIMEY!

oh man yeah, I kept looking at the N.O.R.E. options and thinking "that's not all of them is it? right, there was 'Oh No' but it wasn't that great..."

their beats for nore were always the shit

'head bussa'

wheres 'excuse me mis's? wtf is this list from anyway?

mis's lol

wheres SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

well clearly some top 10 singles needed to be dropped from the list to make room for Harlem World album cuts.

incidentally, from Ma$e wiki:

That same year, Mase was featured on a poo of 112's "Only You," which instantly showcased the young rape's talent. In 1997, he recorded and released his first poo, Harlem World, which became a multi-platinum success, and featured the hit single "Feel So Good," which included a prominent sample of Kool & the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" and the chorus from Miami Sound Machine's "Bad Boy". Other successful Harlem World singles included "What You Want," "Lookin' at Me," and "24 Hours to Live." Notably popular among mainstream audiences, Mase became one of the label's premiere acts.

holy shit i didnt even see no southern hospitality

RE-DO THIS NOW

Ludacris - Southern Hospitality
Kelis - Caught Out There
Philly's Most Wanted - Cross The Border
Mystikal - Bouncin' Back
N.O.R.E. - Nothin'
Kelis - Popular Thug
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
Clipse - Grindin
Beenie Man - Girls Dem Suga

caught out there is a good song but pretty weak as a 'production'

"clipse and j. timberlake
now how heavy is that?"

uh.... not really heavy at all?

re "Caught out There":

What no way - the dying cathode lasers, the t-t-t-toc beat, the robots doing salsa beat too, it's a brilliant production.

No "Southern Hospitality" is a truly criminal omission.

Yeah the appeal of a lot of their earlier more barebones productions like "Caught Out There" is kinda shattered the first time you fire up a Triton or some other basic drum machine and the demo beat sounds like one of those songs. (xpost)

the appeal of superthug is never diminished

the appeal of many punk songs is also shattered when you learn to play three chords

^^^on point xp

being able to get a similiar tone as a punk band with a cheapo guitar pedal =/ being able to get the exact same drum sound as an internationally revered superstar production team with a bargain bin drum machine, at least in terms of ripping up one's illusions about said artists.

"Superthug"'s drum pattern is pretty ill and a little more creative than most of their other stuff from that era so I didn't really mean that one.

Tha Liks - Best U Can

underrated

^I was just thinking about that one. It's kind of a Neptunes phone-in and not even an album highlight, but still great.

hah thats a good way of putting it. i think if it was in everyone's top 5's i'd consider it overrated

this is a brilliant poll and i'm voting for "grindin'," but "girls dem sugar" is one of the 5 best songs on here.
i might be tempted to vote for "u don't have to call" if it was the remix, which has two of luda's best guest verses ever.

yeah true. likewise I'd be more likely to vote for "Girlfriend" if the option to vote for wasn't the remix.

although i remember thinking when i heard it that "what happened to that boy" beat was like the hardest thing i'd ever heard.

The problem with the "Girls Dem Sugar (Remix)" is that I'm not sure it's actually better than the original.

the more i look at these choices the more i boggle

i think i remember reading some bile re: "light ya ass on fire" somewhere 'round here (maybe an n.e.r.d. thread, maybe regarding someone saying that they could do the beat in like two seconds), but what an awesome song this is. oh and "pass the courvoisier".

GAH "HOLLA BACK (YOUNG'N)".

this poll is literally making me crazy. i'd pay someone like 25 bucks for a zip of all of these songs.

"Light Ya Ass On Fire" is great, but I'm not sure it's better than any of their other Busta tracks ("As I Come Back" is quite good? Was that not a single?)

"Light Ya Ass On Fire" is another one where I stumbled upon a similiar drum sound like 6 months before that song came out and was probably salty about it at first, but the way they used it was awesome and I give them mad respect for it.

"As I Come Back" wasn't really a single, although it was tacked on at the end of a video.

I show a 12" release on discogs. That qualifies as a single in my book.

this is what i posted to a "pick only 10" neptunes thread from FOUR YEARS AGO. even though i transposed the parentheses in two songs.

i think i'd mostly stand by it.

kelis - kaleidoscope
luda - "southern hospitality"
beenie man - "girls dem sugar"
fabolous - "young'n (holla back)"
phillies most wanted - "cross the border"
nore - "superthug"
clipse - "grindin (selector mix)"
p diddy - "d.i.d.d.y."
mystikal - "bouncin back"
jay-z - "give it to me (i just wanna luv u)"

-- jess, Friday, March 28, 2003

picking only ten from this list would make my head explode.
who else wants to talk about "holla back (youngn)"??

I was going to do this poll (and a Timbaland one), but I knew I'd screw up. Looks pretty good!

Narrowed down to:
Clipse - Grindin'
Clipse - When The Last Time
Kelis - Milkshake
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
Justin Timberlake feat. Clipse - Like I Love You
Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot
Snoop Dogg feat. Justin Timberlake & Charlie Wilson - Signs
Usher - U Don't Have To Call

Good to see "Cross The Border" is getting some love - best generic Neptunes groove ever.

I voted for "Got Your Money" 'cause ODB is one of my favorite recording artists of all time, but DAMN IT I LOVE "HOT IN HERRE."

I'm going to have to work on this. Probably for longer than this poll allows.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

#1's pretty obvious, but I'm pretty surprised that #2 and #3 placed there.

there is easily 10-12 songs on this list that are better than "signs."

No.

lol saw that coming.

two better snoop songs even.

No.

see you in the RONG thread, tape store.

No surprises that the first seven or so are all from late-2002 onwards (never mind that most of the absolute best Neptunes productions pre-date that)

Man, "Cross the Border" was the jam. Why doesn't that get played in clubs any more? The rappers are generic bang-bang gangsta but the Neptunes really dropped a gem with that production.

man stfu about phillys most but i do agree cross the border needs to get back on dj playlists

What the fuck ever happened to these guys?

Hit the Freeway is a great single, very overlooked.

Yes "Cross The Border" is amazing. But I always thought the rapping on it was pretty awesome. Esp. "I ain't tryna talk I'm tryna fuck" as the beat comes stomping in.

Does the rest of this record sound that good? Or is it all filler.

"Hit the Freeway" is really good! I still listen to that. is there a version of "What Happened To That Boy?" with less baby on it? the one I have.. the beat is great but every time he opens his mouth.. ugh

Mystikal - Bouncin' Back = awesome, I might have voted for that. Or Gwen "Wind it Up" which maybe no one else likes :)

"Wind It Up" weirdly grew on me after initially assuming I'd hate it as much as "Hollaback Girl."