Those My Bobby Valentino Singles and EP's

can't decide between: Blackberry Molasses, Slow Down, and Pimpin' All Over The World
also worthy of a few votes: Tell Me, Anonymous
everything else kinda sucks, but I didn't realize he had so many decent songs!

god yeah he is ridiculously forgettable!

'tell me' = soooo overrated imo, and i might even have said similar about 'slow down' if the chorus hadn't leapt right back into my head as soon as i saw the title. THEREFORE IT IS CLASSIC. still can't recall a thing about the beat tho. fucking tim&bob!!

i quite like 'anonymous' now.

might give it to 'blackberry molasses'? on the uniquely depressing vote.

yeah "Anonymous" has really really grown on me, it kinda leaps out of the radio in a way that most new Timbo stuff doesn't, to my ears.

i'm still weirdly hesitant to flat-out support it, but nobrainerwise it's a/ chirpier than most things on the radio and b/ you can have a cracking singalong to it. i guess that should be enough?!

perhaps it is just the whole pulling against timbaland's massively boring gravitational pull thing, yeah

"Tell Me" is obviously the best one. That song is 10/10 classic.

WEEEEEaaawwww--WEEEEEEEEAWWWW
WEEEEEaaawwww--WEEEEEEEEAWWWW
WEEEEEaaawwww--WEEEEEEEEAWWWW

balls!

HATER.

anonymous is excellent but im going with slow down. a+ beat, you generic behind the scenes beat guys who have somehow sold 1 zillion records.

I went with "Blackberry Molasses," guys. Incredible song.

Wait, are they really saying "the sun don't rain all the time"!?!? What a stupid lyric, I want to change my vote.

pimpin all over the world

Anonymous. My fave RnB track of 2007. So far.

RTC NOT OTM shocker - "Tell Me" is excellent. However I like "Give Me A Chance" most of all I think ("Pimping All Over the World" is brilliant and best but it's more Luda than Bobby) - then "Rearview Ridin" I think.

"Slow Down" and "Hey Babe" (his duet with Shareefa) are also great.

What is annoying about Bobby V is that his crap stuff sounds exactly like his fabulous stuff - faced with the difficulty of explaining the difference, it's easy for the brain to just shut down and dismiss it all.

i like that timbo is making beats for him. for timbo's sake not bobby's that is.

t/s anonymous v. ice box

haha i knew i'd get a shoeing for that.

I've been deferring to your opinions all week so it was inevitable. If it makes you feel better I kind of go on a pro-generic kick in my Amerie review.

seriously tho, i could never fathom why that little timbobland era captivated people so when it seemed like just the most banal conclusion to years of cosy ethnofetishistic mood music wibbling. tho strangely it's actually not that explicit in its easternism when you listen to it - in this and many other respects (not least in them both getting my goat) 'tell me' is pretty much the rnb 'get to poppin', or at least the version if it before it successfully went back to the drawing board.

i just demand more from my terraformed dreamscapes ok!

The Lex RIP

on the subject of pixelballs i have to say tho, that one chance 'look at her' megamix is too, too ridiculous not to love.

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For me, the appeal of the Tim&Bob productions I really like is not so much their eastern promise as how they bring the drama - "Tell Me" is just ridiculously OTT, especially given his lyrics, while on "Give Me A Chance" that etheral pipe sound they use isn't so much evocative of exoticism as it is a kind of hyper-mystical purity, like Bobby is the God of the Rising Sun, come to redeem you for all your past neck-snapping.

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anyone wanna zshare the "tell me" rmx for me??

which is what i would vote for if this poll was happening right now

http://www.zshare.net/audio/620854531f4f1b/

I never saw this thread. "Blackberry Molasses" is just about the most classicest thang-thang ever.

I went with "Blackberry Molasses," guys. Incredible song.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:29 (4 months ago) Link

Wait, are they really saying "the sun don't rain all the time"!?!? What a stupid lyric, I want to change my vote.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 27 August 2007 04:33 (4 months ago) Link

tnx rtc

Maybe it's "The sun don't reign all the time"?