Erykah Badu singles poll

why no 'you got me' if rahzel and shit be here?

You Got Me is there

my top 10: Tyrone, You Got Me, Next Lifetime, Love Of My Life, Didn't Cha Know, On & On, Window Seat, Honey, Otherside of the Game, Soldier

bag lady
next lifetime
didn't cha know
soldier
love of my life
on & on
back in the day (puff)
other side of the game
honey
you got me

kinda forgot how sweet & composed 'on & on' is, tempted to throw it a vote

top five would probably be: healer, didnt cha know, bad lady, on & on, honey

way too many of these I haven't heard; I didn't get into Badu until Mama's Gun and never backtracked...

Healer is top 5 of decade for me so that...

Voted "Honey". Song is like a ray of sunshine.

I quite like Apple Tree but I went with On and On. Played that record a lot.

why no 'you got me' if rahzel and shit be here?

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You Got Me is there

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lol my inability to read properly.

I quite like Apple Tree but I went with On and On. Played that record a lot.

― Hinklepicker

I always mishear the "artsy friends" line in "Apple Tree" as "nazi friends"

SO tough, this

between "on & on", "appletree" and "danger" for me - think will vote for the last one, it's so underrated but just such a tightly performed and crafted portrayal of a character & a situation

me and this baby
gon be up all night long
walking this wood flo'
til my man gets home
i'm at the front do'
i'm listenin' by the phone
but i'm gon be here
with my make-up on

like, the rhythm & rhyme scheme of that first verse...you just totally visualise her pacing endlessly back and forth, returning to the same place over and over again

totally. thinking of voting "danger."

Glancing at her singles from end to end, I can't escape the impression either that she's got one fantastic comp in her, and by those lights "On and On" or "Next Lifetime" define her as fully as any of the later albums.

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Finally voted for "Cleva."

^good man

I didn't even know that song was a single

Me neither.

Like heaps of these, but fully expect to be the only person who votes for "Turn Me Away".

let's hope you're the only person that rong

It was a stormy night, you know the kind where the lightning strike
And I was hangin out with some of my artsy friends

<3

One of these five:

On & On
Tyrone (live)
Didn't Cha Know?
Back In The Day (Puff)
Gone Baby, Don't Be Long

Guess I don't have much time to deliberate. Decisions, decisions.

didn't cha know vs gone baby vs bag lady (cheeba sack) vs window seat vs tyrone vs soldier

fuck idk... i'm gonna vote didn't cha know, tho could be soldier depending on how i'm feeling

y'all are underrating "Honey" imo

maybe that's nothing new

"honey" is amazing, yeah - i think all the singles off the last two albums work best as part of their parent albums though

most of her singles do!

poll was inspired by hearing "Tyrone" on the radio recently and god it is just perfect, the way the audience is hearing the song for the first time and reacting to every line, and then is singing along by the 2nd chorus. that and Jodeci's "Lately" are probably the only live recordings that are R&B radio perennials, says a lot.

Oh god, I've been putting this off because every time I look at the thread I want to vote for something else.

for me this is "Otherside of the Game" vs "Healer"

what a fucking astonishing stretch of songs, tho

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Good spread.

Jump Up in the Air (Stay There) 4

Rilly tho?

WTF

i voted jump in the air. poll again in a month and my answer will change.

I'll do a tiebreaker poll in a month

WHAT THE FUCK

HATE YOU ALL

oh man
i would have voted 'didnt cha know' & broken the tie if i saw this thread earlier

also yeah eff 'jump'

and to think i added "jump" to the list from wikipedia as a halfhearted gesture towards completism

oh well, its still better than 'love of my life'

lobotomized com verse aside i like that song -- cool production, sneakily catchy melody

i don't how the fuck you can have been alive in the late '90s and not have some serious love for the Baduizm singles and "Tyrone" though

"looking for cheese, that don't make her a hoodrat" is one of my favorite awful common lines

ha and the way she ad libs "rat" in the background

"looking for cheese, that don't make her a hoodrat" is one of my favorite awful common lines

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poll

too many options!

Yall better check out "Hydraulic Pump" by the P-Funk All-Stars if you love "Jump Up in the Air and Stay There" so much. All 4 of you, I mean. Source material for both "Jump Up" and the Coup's "5 Million Ways to Kill A CEO." Features both George Clinton AND Sly Stone (give it up for freebase cocaine). The line swiped by Badu was originally sung by ex-Spinners singer Phillipe Wynne, who collapsed and died while performing with P-Funk two years later. Anyway, bonkers song. Make sure it's the 12" version you're listening to, not the edit that appears on the Urban Dancefloor Guerillas album.

Could be that those voting for "Jump" actually have familiarity with (and love for) "Hydraulic"? I didn't vote for it, but I'm amused at the results here. Thought I was seriously the only one on ILX who actually liked "Jump" better than "Window Seat."

Seriously, tho. Fuck the fact this poll didn't have 100 votes.

i probably should have voted "tyrone"--i put it on every mix i made for like five years--but i voted "cleva" bc i wore mama's gun out

surprised window seat got 0 -- im guessing thats just bcuz of burnout?

"jump up in the air" IS great, but...

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― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

real niggas is hard to find like a remote......................
..................CONTROL

renders poll unnecessary i think

i bet we can find something worse

*flounces to ohhla*

lol before i even load ohhla I think

"my daughter found nemo i found the new primo"

should rank

Standin in front of the judge with no honor
Barack stick, knight the people like Obama

what does this mean? am i missing something

is there a drinking game in chicago for whenever common says something stilted and awkward

how else do they keep warm?

I still love "Window Seat"

</ /3

"jump up in the air" is really great, i don't begrudge it its position here, especially as its absence of the album means it'll probably end up relatively forgotten

surprised that on & on only got 1 vote

1!

on & on is really great yah

Poll idea: On & On vs. ... & on

The overall number of votes on this poll dissapoints me. Also thought On & On was an iLM staple.

Yep. If Nu AmErykah can top the half-decade poll, then this should've gotten at least 50 votes.

"jump up in the air" should not have co-won this but i'm still annoyed it never got a proper release (or even a HQ mp3 out there)

How are you supposed to only choose one. I would have been stuck between Danger, Get Munny and Soldier

For me, it would've been a contest between:

Didn't Cha Know
The Healer
Tyrone
Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)
Cleva
Soldier
On & On
Back In The Day (Puff)
Gone Baby, Don't Be Long
Window Seat

Good list.

Bag Lady. I once drunkenly attempted this song at karaoke. Unwise.

all the Baduizm singles are a must, "Next Lifetime" and "Other Side of the Game" are amazing

srsly weighing whether to put my name in to run an ballot poll on her

Back in the Day is such a jam

there isn't a song on this list (with badu as lead artist) that i don't consider essential

and yet thinking about badu singles still seems to barely scratch the surface of her discography

there isn't a song on this list (with badu as lead artist) that i don't consider essential

badu deep cuts pox:

the cell
out my mind (just in time)
green eyes
certainly
telephone
booty
twinkle
penitentiary philosophy
that hump
i want you

a.d. 2000
master teacher
that hump
cell
me
umm hmm
the grind
twinkle
my life
orange moon

xp Most of that list matches mine.

The Cell
Green Eyes
Love
I Want You
Master Teacher
That Hump
Out My Mind, Just in Time
My Life
My People
A.D. 2000

Change in ...& On for The Grind. Not sure why I put a Dead Prez song on there, even tho it works great on Worldwide

The Cell
Bag Lady (Single Mix)
Umm Hmm
Next Lifetime
Clevah
Me
Didn't Cha Know
Gone Baby, Don't Be Long
On and On
Master Teacher
Tyrone
Drama
Green Eyes
Kiss Me On My Neck

and yet thinking about badu singles still seems to barely scratch the surface of her discography

definitely. for me, she's an albums artist, inasmuch as if I hear a song of hers I want to hear the whole album, the context matters, the standard of material is dizzyingly high.

You all better be around when the ballot poll I just volunteered to run kicks off in 3 years.

my top 5 in some order are probably

tyrone, clevah, bag lady, window seat and next lifetime

shit, in 3 years we may even have another Badu album, if we're lucky

I was thinking the same thing.

Supposed to be one this year isnt there?

I was not looking for no love affair

My eyes are green.

Window Seat

how did "next lifetime" not receive any votes???

i ran something about erykah for her birthday last week :)
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/02/the-best-erykah-badu-songs/

kudos for the high placing for i want you

That is a rad list right there, some dude

thanks!