The Ultimate I Want You Back Poll

If this is too atomised for ya then feel free to discuss the relative merits of a) the bassline; b) the lead guitar; 3) the lead vocal; iv) the backing vocals; 5) other.

how about the merits of the Z-Trip remix?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kF887_JogE

I will check it out as soon as I'm done listening to this 1 1/4 hour La Monte Young drone.

Meh. Bog-standard Fatboy Slim type shenanigans. Beat is intrusive and ill-fitting. Remixes generally try to energise the song, this sounds weaker and emptier than the original. Why try to improve on perfection?

Mind you that tend to be my reaction whenever I hear one of these things. Sometimes I come round to them.

I vote for the great lost misheard lyric from the Graham Parker version:
"Forget about the car."

"weaker and emptier"

lol YouTube

download the full-fat version if you can find it and turn it up; it's one of the most joyous remixes i can think of - i love how it separates out all the difft elements you describe in the polll

this is the best bassline.

I'm inclined to agree. I also fucking love the way the guitar - I guess it's the rhythm guitar but it's more prominent than the lead - only plays one single goddamned chord.

i voted for the initial plaintive wail which i'm hoping is "Uh-huh huh huh huh"

you are correct.

Those pretty faces always made you stand out in a crowd

Don't really get this line. Whose faces?

i guess he's saying she's fugly?

I believe we had a discussion about the bassline before where it was revealed to have been played by a smooth jazz saxophone player named Wilton Felder.

i guess he's saying she's fugly?

that's what i decided. adds an interesting depth if true.

Wilton Felder

Jordan, did you look at the last link on the "Peg" thread with the real version of "Peg" on it? There's some funny stuff that reminds me of the discussion on the Wilton Felder thread.

i love the Partners N Crime rip of this ('We Don't Love Them Hoes')

no, i will.

(i voted "Bombadombadomba bom bom bom bom bom bom bom" assuming that's the main part of the bassline)

C-c-check it out http://www.ricksuchow.com/press-group-112.html
But my access is denied!

i love the Partners N Crime rip of this ('We Don't Love Them Hoes')

-- Jordan, Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:35 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

zshare plz

will do when i get home

I-IV-vi-iii-IV-I-ii-V-I forever

bump 4 zshare

still at work. ;_;

plz to zshare

(nyew ny-nyew nyew ny-nyew nyew) [guitar 1]

ok i will do it before 30 Rock if i remember

this song changed my life. I was 16 and had money for the first time ever (washing dishes - a two hundred dollar paycheck seemed like a king's ransom) and I bought LPs and cassettes as soon as I'd cashed it. One cassette was the best of the Supremes on one side (which was what I bought it for) and the best of the Jackson 5 on the other. The vocal performance on this song is so fucking perfect. I wonder whether it's comped from multiple takes or not - it feels so total, so engaged. Everything else about it is great too of course but Michael's response to the greatness of the song is what lifts it for me.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/107098994c85d710/

there's another version where the parts are re-played but that's not as good.

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See now, silly me, I thought this was going to be about....

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/476731.jpg

"Bombadombadomba bom bom bom bom bom bom bom" to win.

"All I need!"

Serious question: What was the last No. 1 hit as good as this?

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The bassline has it.