TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL (voting deadline Saturday, September 10th at FIFTEEN AFTER THE HOUR midnight EST)

OK, everybody, let's keep this simple. Send in your top 10 favorite tracks from Timbaland's three solo albums, Tim's Bio: Life from da Bassment, Shock Value and Shock Value II. Songs from the 2011 "Timbaland Thursday" series of free online tracks are also eligible. Please do not vote for your favorite Timbaland & Magoo songs, as their discography will be given a separate poll next year.

I really want this poll to celebrate Timbaland's whole catalog, so I am allowing up to 40 tracks on your ballots (50 points for your #1, 11 points for your #40, and so on), any Timbaland production. So if you just want to vote for the big Missy/Jay-Z/Aaliyah/Justin hits and stop at 10 or 20, that's cool, but if you want to dig deep, I would love for this poll to help expose people to some of his brilliant lesser-known productions. There's a pretty complete-looking discography on Wikipedia, but if anyone knows a better resource, feel free to suggest it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland%27s_production_discography

E-mail ballots to shipley.al at gmail dot com by midnight EST on Saturday, September 10th. Vote for as many or as few songs as you like. If you want to be extra helpful, please arrange your list in the following format:

1. Shade Sheist - Money Owners (40)

But if you just throw an unranked list in an e-mail, I will rank them top to bottom from #1 on down, fyi.

A note about remixes: Timbaland-produced songs with remixes featuring essentially the same beat ("Get Ur Freak On" for example) will have votes toward the original and the remix counted together in one entry. Songs for which Timbaland produced different beats for the remix ("Hit Em Wit Da Hee" or "Luv 2 Luv U") will be counted seperately. And songs Timbaland did not originally produce but did remix (Nelly Furtado's "Turn Off The Lights") are eiligible.

Feel free to use this thread for campaigning for or hipping people to lesser known tracks -- I'm assuming we all know the big chart hits and won't need any reminders about those, but it'd be great if people use the next week to dig up awesome deep cuts and share them with each other, so that more people can feel inspired to send in great 40-song ballots. So go to town with YouTubes or Spotify playlists or whatever.

Presentation of the results will probably be pretty straightforward, unless anyone wants to suggest or volunteer some kind of cool method or set of graphics.

i messed up the example ballot btw, the #1 track gets 50 points as previously noted:

1. Jay-Z featuring Drake - Off That (50)

would it be possible to get some kind of list of all he's done...? I know there's no way I'll remember everything.

i linked a wikipedia discog in the OP -- like i said maybe there's a more complete or more helpfully formatted one elsewhere but that one seems like a good place to start. would it be good to c&p the whole thing itt? i'm afraid of cluttering things up with a giant list right off the bat.

"Pass At Me (ft. Pitbull & David Guetta)" for the win.

ha should this have a 'worst top 3' side poll like the Zep one?

yes! (to both poll and yr question.)

haha since i missed the prince poll this is the first one of these im really psyched for.

ha ok

ADDENDUM: You may also include a top 3 ballot for the WORST tracks produced by Timbaland poll, the results of which will be presented as a sideshow that will not effect the results of the main poll at all

al should we be using this thread to stump for tracks ala the others?

whoops duh you said that already

okay well i may or may not vote for any of these and not all of them are unknown or lesser-known but i would suggest everyone give them an airing first before they vote if they've never heard them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMfgL-ujm04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouFiXnwF6OM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnWS6MyTkrc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3zq_6MaPo

SWEET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJ94-TAnQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4n7L6H2UKc

the potion by ludacris is also great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vklBeJNh5Eg

also i should've said this earlier and it's no biggie but MAYBE it would be cool to put song titles next to youtubes, for those of us who turn off images and don't want to have to click every single one to know whether it's something we've heard or not

lol sorry, sorry

it's all good, just noting it before this thread fills up with dozens more

that jay-z one is awesome

so far: total - what the dealio; bubba sparxxx - bubba talk; missy elliot - whatcha gonna do; playa - don't stop the music; ginuwine - final warning; jay-z - it's hot/some like it hot; ludacris - fat rabbit; missy - hit em wit da hee remix

tim & magoo - up jumps da boogie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-YhUoOkj0

"whatcha gonna do" is so sick

it's going to be very hard for me to not fill up a huge amount of my ballot w/ Timbaland & Magoo's Welcome To Our World

total - trippin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqnPP0TgVI

petey pablo - get on dis motorcycle

the youtube would help there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtNOfx8Fl4

also petey pablo - the gun line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qbiJZXQteY

spotify:user:theshipment:playlist:7qDegv2zLVhWyo34ECFm8i

I started in on a spotify playlist yesterday, got about halfway through that wiki page so far. PLenty of stuff missing, but a good starter anyway. So subscribe and Ill post back when I get it done.

http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/7qDegv2zLVhWyo34ECFm8i

cee-lo - i'll be around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fns4L6wJHfs

^^^superdope

most of my ballot is gonna be pretty canon i think

nothing wrong with that! imo this is about celebrating and cementing the canon, and maybe adding to or diverting from it when possible

like we don't need any challop Timbaland equivalent of "Whole Lotta Love" outside the top 30 or anything

i knew what my no. 1 would be the minute the poll was announced way back whenever but the other 39 slots are gonna take some ordering

man how the hell did I forget about "Ching Ching"

also yeah if anything other than an aaliyah or missy single tops the list i will be pretty 0_o

Snoopy Track will be high up for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pd-64fHTXM

an allowance may be made for "pony" xp

cant beleive this hasnt been posted yet, petey pablo - i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1zr6wTnllg

goddammit what do I have to do to make people realize "Pony" specifically and Ginuwine in general are abominations

the dude has plenty of deep cuts and also recorded a lot of mediocre stuff from day one but i feel like this is a "maybe it IS 'when doves cry,' maybe it just is" thing

dan i suggest banned you on pure instinct for that.

(j/k)

make your own era-defining R&B hit? (xpost)

Snoopy Track is my outside bet to place high

haha this is fun, i may set aside certain predictions to feature later as "eerily prescient" or "hilariously wrong"

i dunno y'all p4k loving hipsters and my love was their #1 of... whatever year it was. do love that song even if timb has done much better.

snoopy track was my #1 but i think timb is such a great singles guy that an album track doesnt really have a chance

oh shit how did i forget it, it must be top 10 #2: oops (oh my)

about 1/5th of the top 50 is album tracks actually

yeah but for someone who oft. produced whole albums with people, getting 40-50 isn't really making me re-think that 'my love' will do better than 'best friends' or 'snoopy track' etc.

smh if tweets 'call me' isnt in the top 10

I will take either "Call Me" or "Oops (Oh My)"

gotta be oops
al, working on yer blurbs now

cool

anyone want to be my backup person to post results if i'm busy during the day this week? like i'd just e-mail somebody a chunk of the countdown to post one at a time over a few hours if i know i'm gonna be away from the computer for a while and want to keep the results coming.

i gotta hella busy day tomorrow unfortunately.

whereas i am p free tuesday and thursday.

ok cool, i will keep you in mind. i'm guessing you don't keep the same hours as the most American crowd that will be reading the thread though? so maybe it might be easier for a US poster.

hmmm yeah, mebbe. well, if you are really stuck...

yeah no i appreciate it! i mean part of me is tempted to just post the results around the clock whenever it suits me but people seem to like having results rollouts that entertain them during the 9-5 shift so i'm going to make an effort toward the latter before resorting to the former.

al i am free thursday and friday. (so far!) (i mean i should be doing freelance stuff those days but w/e.)

also doin yr blurbs now.

aight cool -- all i'm asking is that someone c&p from an e-mail into the results thread every 20 minutes if they're already on ILM posting all day, so not looking to inconvenience anyone it wouldn't be convenient for

song i'm most annoyed about not voting for: Sock It To Me. Those horns were soooooooo sick.

like at one point in my life i need to be at a party where Sock It To Me & Simon Says are played back to back and it would be the best night ever.

i love rap songs with big fat low end horn riffs like that but personally i'll take "Who Run It" or "Shut Up" over either of those

well they are also awesome songs and if i heard all 4 in one night i think i would just cry tears of joy (while dancing my tits off)

CRYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CLUB

omg @ at the realization 10 seconds in what that midi was

wld not be ashamed

i think i'm gonna unveil the WORST tracks now -- as in the two tracks that were selected twice on the handful of worst ballots i actually got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDKva-s_khY&ob=av2e

2. Timbaland featuring Katy Perry - "If We Ever Meet Again"

there may be no musician with a greater rift between the quality of their music overall and the quality of the content in their official VEVO than Timbaland

and now The Worst Timbaland Track Of All Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSM3w1v-A_Y

1. Timbaland featuring OneRepublic - "Apologize"

thats relatively more inoffensive than i was expecting.

not good or anything, just sayin

there's worse stuff on both Shock Value albums and the Chris Cornell album for starters but it's pretty understandable if people haven't heard them or don't want to subject themselves to it for the sake of this poll

the reason i will never understand peoples' love of "Say It Right" is the horrible idea of backup singing Tim displays on both that and "Apologize"

it doesnt sound like tim on say it right, it sounds like one of those barely-there vocal samples

it sounds just like him on lots of other songs and he lip syncs to it in the video so there's no way i could think of it as that

guys this is worse than both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHHUhcV2eVY

the dark side of low horn riffs

i think 4 minutes has a cool beat

in retrospect i really erred by not making my worst-of list all furtado

i enjoyed your worst ballot referring to her as 'nelly retardo'

i tried listening to some of Loose on the Spotify playlist the other day and really i pretty much hate everything about that record

man i still like most of that record -- promiscuous got overplayed tho w/ that cell phone commercial

tim's idea of singing also present on chris cornell's "ground zero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHAgB8FWbOU

"Promiscuous" IS a cell phone commercial

also here is the actual worst tim track, enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFArxS949U

Guys, diamond dogs guys

I don't count "Apologize" as a Timbo song. He just added "ehs."

and Timbo-in-a-can beatbox drums

I had forgotten that the original Tedder connection was dude contributing actually-decent backing vocals on Deliverance.

In Germany, the song was downloaded 437,000 times, making it the third best-selling download single of all time behind Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" and Lena Meyer-Landrut's "Satellite".

never should have given these people their own country back after the war imo.

I don't understand why "Satellite" is so beloved. Even by Germans.

The more often I heard it on the radio, the more I didn't mind "Apologize." It's a decent Enrique Iglesias ballad.

it's here: generation timbo: TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL RESULTS