tracks worse than 'the time (dirty bit)'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z9_TGX7-E&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRQvs65XTwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-ipYpd53I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAJ9qkMHOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TataYXStVr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH04i4eTrJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Y1AE_c8KM&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mhaXSG7MN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFn5jz961E

DIRTY BIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpyrLTn1EaU

Critical response
Simon Vozick-Levinson of Entertainment Weekly praised the song's catchiness, but felt it failed to meet the standards of previous singles "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling".[9] Franke Previte, who won an Academy Award for co-writing "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", complimented The Black Eyed Peas' sample usage, saying, "It just reconfirms to me that the song is cross-generational. The song has now crossed over to the next generation in a huge way."[10] Willa Paskin of New York, however, criticized the choice of sample and was disappointed with the chorus, feeling it was "shoehorned into the rest of the song".[7] Todd Martens of the Los Angeles Times called "The Time (Dirty Bit)" "the most assertive party song of the year".[11] Digital Spy's Nick Levine gave a review of three stars out of five, disliking the many elements that constituted the song.[12] The Independent's Simon Price also criticized the sampling on the track, calling it a low quality attempt to satisfy listeners.[13]

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

Don't know about anyone else, but feel like I would appreciate a nakhchivan 'tracks better than (x)' thread (where x is something liked and not just another lol target) a lot more.

I concur, simply cuz I have nothing to contribute worse than the first track.

I love "Dirty Bit" and bollocks to y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilr9dbyxtV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-Y1XznltQ

is that a dress she's wearing or does her ass naturally resemble a carpet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqr7l8lrqUg&feature=related

I love "Dirty Bit" and bollocks to y'all

― The north-east's Number 2 children's party magician (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 March 2011 12:38 (7 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76gGKpH44V0

Don't know about anyone else, but feel like I would appreciate a nakhchivan 'tracks better than (x)' thread (where x is something liked and not just another lol target) a lot more.

― if, Saturday, 12 March 2011 09:50 (10 hours ago)

sort of wanted to do a thread about that song, and how it's really atrocious in certain respects but has redeeming facets such as the (alas too short) acid synth coda

then in the end i just thought lol will.i.am and did another slightly tired lol thread

the (alas too short) acid synth coda

fixed

Black Eyed Peas + Tod Dockstader - The Time (Dirty Bit) + Fourth Telemetry Tape

http://www.sendspace.com/file/h6291c

― Milton Parker, Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:59 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

yeah i god that already! is that your own edit?

godt

it's pointless to say, and you didn't hear that from me

schtum bruv schtum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gre4DZuA6k4

I would actually tend to think "I've Had The Time Of My Life" is worse. But then, part of the problem about "The Time (Dirty Bit)" is of course its very kitchy source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8RNl64LwIo

i saw a TV ad for Sandals resorts which featured a version of "The Time Of My Life" which basically sounded like an offbrand pastiche of "I Gotta Feeling" -- it was actually worst than "The Time (Dirty Bit)" but i am curious if they were biting that or if it came first and possibly even inspired will.i.am

I love the concept of this thread so much.

I still maintain that the parts of "The Time (Dirty Bit)" that aren't from "Dirty Dancing" are surprisingly avant garde clubby for a top 40 hit

i don't know, EVERYTHING on the radio is so squelchy and glitchy now, at some point it loses any novelty or artiness. if anything the tempo change at the end of "Just Can't Get Enough" is more avant garde clubby.

If you stripped out the vocal lines, you could probably convince ppl that "The Time (Dirty Bit)" was a lost Richie Hawtin track; I can't think of another mainstream hit that you could do that with.

"we r who we r"?

... maybe? You could pass that one off as a weak Speedy J ripoff maybe, but there is a very strong commercial house vibe to that even in the way that the main synth line is an easily-digestible melody that really isn't present in the verse music for "TT(DB)"

yeah i'm out of my depth here, just throwing out a guess, i kinda see what you mean but i still think it's a very slight outlier in a pretty ubiquitous trend

My argument is that the song is an outlier! I don't disagree with the idea that music that normally would have been solely club music is now all over the mainstream; I'm saying that I'm surprised BEP got away with going THAT clubby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JAxgFe4hpE

"All of Me"

best thread

If you stripped out the vocal lines, you could probably convince ppl that "The Time (Dirty Bit)" was a lost Richie Hawtin track; I can't think of another mainstream hit that you could do that with.

― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twqkObV7g88

idk hawtin that well but probably prefer that to the first plastikman track youtube suggested idk? the black eyed peas at least have the advantage of not naming any of their songs 'spastik'