Dizzee Rascal Singles Poll

this is one of the easiest polls I've ever taken

voted dream.

i luv u (edit) is better than the album version just cos it omits the last unnecessary verse.

my top 6 -

I Luv U
Stand Up Tall
Dream
Off 2 Work
Pussyole (Old Skool)
Flex

i wish flex had done better.

I wish some of the BIDC album tracks had been singles! "Jezebel" and "Wot U On" would have made me rethink.

"I Luv U," followed by "Dream," but I loooove "Dirtee Cash."

voted dream.

i luv u (edit) is better than the album version just cos it omits the last unnecessary verse.

Doesn't that mean you loose: "that girl gives bj's at all times"?

Anyway, yes - easiest poll ever.

Yeah it's a Stand Up Tall no-brainer.

just cos it omits the last unnecessary verse

you mean the "i'm articulate i'm not an idiot" bit? that is SO necessary

nothing he does will top I Luv U for me anyway (runner-up is either Stand Up Tall or Flex)

"Stand Up Tall" and "Dream" are both pretty fucking excellent but it will always be "I Luv U" for me, now and always.

Stand Up Tall!

Oh wait no, Pussyole!

Oh how do I decide?

Pussyole might be my second choice actually, mostly because it's the most fun to dance to.

1. i luv u
2. flex
3. pussyole (old skool)
4. stand up tall
5. jus' a rascal
6. dirtee cash
7. fix up look sharp
8. dream
9. off 2 work
10. graftin'
11. sirens
12. bonkers
13. dance wiv me
14. holiday

has to be "i luv u," but i think "sirens" is getting underrated here.

"you mean the "i'm articulate i'm not an idiot" bit?"

yep thats the one. dunno what the point of that was.

It sounds really good?

it doesnt fit, yo.

Ah, memories from when we couldn't even spell his name right:

Dizzy Rascal - I Luv You

this is the edit on this vid -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntRTRkp2GY

this song is still so fucking i dont know what.

those old gabba-type bass plunges>>>

he was so skinny back then

what happened to that girl

dunno but shes dressed kinda weirdly for the video

shes from some freemans catalogue

hes from dark n cold

I Luv You prob the best argument for high school music lessons. Lex's ranking pretty close to how I'd do it, swap out the shit Jus A Rascal for Sirens and it could be any of those top five.

Who needs Gucci Mane when you've got this poll?

ilx needs a gucci mayne vs dizzee poll.

Stand Up Tall you guys! I mean I Luv U is amazing and a transmission from another planet and etc but it is also kinda hard to listen to all the way through, while Stand Up Tall is the one perfect pop rap record that really really does manage to keep all the best bits of both.

i luv u is sooooo not hard to listen to all the way thru

is is AWESOME to listen to all the way thru

dizzee = best singles artist of the decade.

voted "dream" but i think "learn" is my favorite off showtime.

"where da G's" wasn't a single?

"where da G's" wasn't a single?

Unfortunately, no. And I would consider voting for it if it was.

i-i-i poll u

1. jus a rascal
2. i luv u
3. fix up look sharp
4. pussyole
5. stand up tall

I like Stand Up Tall like Beavis&Butthead like Creep, except instead of offsetting a rock chorus w/a lame verse, Dizzee shows his superiority to Radiohead circa 1992 by offsetting the (great) verse using synth plucked strings which is kind of a Richard D James move, unexpected&more welcome than a shit bit. I heard Dizzee hid a Gucci diss in this song, the synth beep when he starts rapping is morse code but I can't work it out, anyone?

"where da G's" wasn't a single?

Thought they might have released it in the US but perhaps not. UGK have/had virtually zero profile over here and in any case they didn't release the Lily Allen collaboration despite her being a massive pop/tabloid star in this country.

not releasing the lily allen collab was just baffling.

POX dizz album trax!

1. stop dat
2. everywhere
3. 2 far
4. jezebel
5. hype talk
6. brand new day
7. road rage
8. live o
9. wot u on?
10. bubbles

this thread is reminding me that there is a ton of Dizzee shit I need to pick up

I've heard that "Road Rage" may be the next single...

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the moment when dizz switches to dancefloor mcing at the end of "stop dat" is def one of his finest moments ever

girls, ladies, do the butterfly
shake your batty low, shake your batty high
don't ask me who, where, when or why
wanna see your batty rise right up to the sky

yeah i'd assume "road rage" would be a single but, not yet

I think that by now Dizzee's just playing at how many successive number one singles he can release.

also essential - "creeper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9VmkX2BwE

Oh jesus do we even have to bring up Radiohead in a Dizzee thread???

"the moment when dizz switches to dancefloor mcing at the end of "stop dat" is def one of his finest moments ever"

so OTM

i wouldve voted the lilly collabo if they released it

the whole fallout with him and XL is kinda weird - they im guessing wanted him to keep doing weirder shit, and he knowing that weirder shit would only get him so far, wanted to go full on commercial. but they still could have released the song with lilly. if flex had done better, he might not have had to sink to collabos with calvin harris.

tho why there is a post about stop dat here i dunno cos it was never a single...

this is better than every single song mentioned on this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFqz81iSyzk

give u more with dee is 10 times better.

I really can't decide whether to go for I Luv U, Stand Up Tall, Dream, Pussyole, Flex...

No love for his recent singles?

im guessing wanted him to keep doing weirder shit, and he knowing that weirder shit would only get him so far, wanted to go full on commercial

the label encouraging the artist to make less commercial music against their will? doesn't make any sense at all

No love for his recent singles?

Honestly? I haven't heard them yet... :-(

i have no fucking idea why i just voted sirens.

POX dizz album trax!

1. brand new day
2. learn
3. respect me
4. sittin here
5. wot u on?
6. everywhere
7. graftin
8. bubbles
9. girls
10. stop dat

No love for his recent singles?

apart from "dirtee cash", the singles off the new album are TERRIBLE

maybe you are ok with calvin harris's existence but if so there are deeper issues to be addressing really

To me Dizzee hasn't "evolved," so that's a good thing.

lol @ ogmor's trolling

voted "Fix Up, Look Sharp" over "I Luv U", "Sirens", & "Pussyole"

"the label encouraging the artist to make less commercial music against their will? doesn't make any sense at all"

it doesnt (esp as its not like xl is above signing blatantly commercial stuff, ie adele) but how else would you explain the weird way his contract with them has ended up? he offered them dance wiv me but they turned it down, presumably because they thought it was either shit/too commercial? he gave them his biggest single to date, with a chorus from someone who was already chart-proven, but they didnt want it. i cant think of any other reason other than they werent interested in him anymore cos he wasnt making 'interesting' music.

he's definitely still got some sort of relationship with xl - at least, they've been handling his press for the new album.

that line of thinking would explain why the lily collab was never a single, i guess. if it's true then xl otm about "dance wiv me"

"Stand Up Tall you guys! I mean I Luv U is amazing and a transmission from another planet and etc but"
^ Grav Puz otm (up to here anyhow)

i think hes still cool with xl, prob uses their connections, he just doesnt release music through them anymore. quite odd. xl prob dont mind pop like adele but if its urban music they only respect/want it if its a bit 'different'. which dance wiv me, definitely isnt.

I think it's quite likely that Calvin Harris's people would let XL release a single with his name on it?

never said they wouldnt.

Sorry, I meant likely they wouldn't be able to release it.

Yeah down here at least "Dance Wiv Me" was billed as a Calvin single featuring Dizzee.

I can imagine XL not being against Lily Allen collab-os per se but feeling that it would clash with their overall marketing strategy for the album and "confuse" the market. Up to that point Dizzee seems to have had most commercial success with fairly aggressive singles. I can't remember now whether that album dropped before or after "Wearing My Rolex".

before. the Harris name vs other label shouldn't really be an issue - aren't trans-label collabs like this par for the course in the States? best explanation yet tho. i just figured XL were getting a cut via Dirtee Stank, handling distribution or something.

Voted for 'Bonkers', grime and Lex both sucks, as usual!

I'd forgotten how sweet and awesome "Dream" is

(still the correct answer is "I Luv U")

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'i luv u' is - if considered, like it utterly ought to be, as one with its remix - probably the single of the decade, but i voted 'fix up' for the fun of it. FLUSHIN MCS DOWN THE LOO, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME BRING YOUR POSSE BRING YOUR CREW

relieved to find the chorus of 'stand up tall' where it goes all dave kelly still as magical as ever, though.

FEEL FREE TO HATE CUZ I AIN'T TRYNA BE UR MATE

in these polls i always take as implied each single with its associated remixes. (also u&k: that remix of "i luv u" with vitalic's "poney part 1")

i love pulse x = beat of the decade

in these polls i always take as implied each single with its associated remixes. (also u&k: that remix of "i luv u" with vitalic's "poney part 1")

broadly speaking i disagree with this practice tbh; whenever i make this point about 'i luv u' it's to emphasise how singularly distinct the remix is from merely being a remix per se. to have called it "part 2" might have been better, but even then that doesnt quite capture the extent to which it runs parallel - is already entwined into - the original. it's a rare and precious thing.

funnily enough another great example of this came to mind reading deej on the sfj thread remembering sanneh breaking down jay-z wrt status vs hedonism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2AykmcsYow

(funny thing happens, with years of chasing money and hoes / and the only thing that's worse than getting old is not getting old , poignant today eh)

never totally got all the fuss over the i luv u remix compared to the original - do love the beat but wouldnt mind hearing those lyrics on the original beat. its a bit too simple cos theres so few words in each bar.

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

Results seem pretty much OTM. Top three are all pure brilliance.

Really surprised at the lack of "Pussyole" love!

lol

id say theres generally a high level of pussyole love on ilx.

That's what I thought. It wasn't reflected in the votes, though... :(

really everyone who seriously thinks "holiday" was the best of that selection needs to go fuck themselves for real, cloth-eared dolts

i would say that there is generally a lot of love for all parts of the pussy on ilx