the diabolical BIZ MARKIE singles poll

For me, this is most definitely "Vapors," the music video mix that they would play on Yo! in the '80s with the "Papa Don't Take No Mess" horn sample... Close second is "Toilet Stool Rap" which was coincidentally b/w "Busy Doing Nothing," probably the best double sided single this side of "Penny Lane" bw/ "Strawberry Fields Forever" fuiud

voted for "make the music"

what does tune-yards have to do with anything? they covered "just a friend"?

just shorthand for ppl who only know "just a friend" in the biz oeuvre, breh

that's...weird

like, seriously, do you feel some obligation to be incoherent because that's your rep now?

Yes it's totally weird not to be able to talk about "All Samples Cleared" with corny indie rock fans. YOU GOT ME

get on my level

that's clearly not what i meant. doing the poll w/o "Just A Friend" is prob a good idea. (xpost)

like, seriously, do you feel some obligation to be incoherent because that's your rep now?

otm

this is between Make The Music, Nobody Beats and Vapors obv. Maybe should be Nobody to rep the ~classic lineup~ inc Kane.

"just a friend" excluded to weed at all the lurker herbs and tUne-YaRds fans. True rap heads only.

I know you have this nervous tic but I just had to call you out on your hard posing here. I was at a Public Enemy show in 1989 - at the Palace, now the Avalon, in Hollywood - when the DJ spun "Just A Friend." know what the people who sang along gleefully, i.e. everybody in the building, weren't? "lurker herbs." Christ it must be exhausting to be completely incapable of just enjoying the music you enjoy instead of constantly, hourly, be worrying about whether somebody who likes music you don't like is also enjoying it

between "Vapors" and "Something For the Radio" in the remainder but jeez wtf everybody who loved rap in '89 loved just a friend...son

lurker herb safety e.g. 'nobody beats the biz'

The poll is way more interesting without JAF, regardless of the reasons. xp

yeah I can concede that but dude should be straight about it - "I'm leaving this one off because it's the most popular Biz Markie song and will win" not "because ~real rap heads~ wouldn't vote 'just a friend'" which is a laughable bullshit claim

anyway here's the vapors video this song was always great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOpwye66pEk

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I don't think your average tUne-YaRds fan even knows "Just A Friend"

clicked on this thread and immediately searched for "Just a Friend" then read Whiney's post. ;_;

voting for "let me turn you on" because i can't bear to see it get a goose egg

anyway here's the vapors video

great video, ty for posting

"Nobody Beats" just over "Vapors" but was pretty tempted to vote "Pickin' Boogers"

I was at a Public Enemy show in 1989 - at the Palace, now the Avalon, in Hollywood - when the DJ spun "Just A Friend." know what the people who sang along gleefully, i.e. everybody in the building, weren't? "lurker herbs."

That sounds awesome, but since 1989 and especially in the past 15 years, it's been commercialized to the point where the song is probably bigger than Biz himself.. The context surrounding it is a lot different now than when it was fresh.

TBH, I find more randoms know "Vapors" than "Just A Friend" these days due to Grand Theft Auto.

Voting for "Make The Music With Your Mouth, tUne-YaRdsBiz".

There's no way "Vapors" gets played at bar mitzvah's more often than "Just A Friend."

man biz must hate that, having real rap shit for rap heads like "just a friend" commercialized so

For the record, I love "Just a Friend" too.

i consider myself a real rap head but i'll go with "spring again".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_n02eT0q8

"Just A Friend" used to be the only song I knew by him but I heard Childish Gambino perform "Vapors" on an episode of Community and it was amazing! Haven't heard the original but I can't imagine it's better, voting for that anyway.

^ p good

I'm glad i invented being a hip-hop hardman on ILX. Also, notable that most of the goon crew besides capn-save-a-garbus didn't show up yet. too busy posting about TREE i guess

ooh, the grab bag of meaningless references has a new name in it

ooh

brb, have to go save a band i've never heard

for someone who spends every waking hour on ilx, you sure love to grumble that a lot of Goon 101 stuff is "meaningless."

blindly dissing people that aren't even the thread with some toothless "what does he listen to.....? oh yeah, that's a stupid name, i'll put it in all caps" shit is meaningless, yes

blindly dissing

My gun a go gun shot, In a dem blood clot

i realize that ad hominem and free association pop culture references are your 2 favorite ways to communicate, but you should learn at some point that they don't really go together that well

like you and posting

says the most banned poster in this board's 10 year history.

dr. shipley's posting lessons only on adhom.fm

like, i love you dude, seriously, but you choose to be horrible all the time and i'd love if it occurred to you at some point to stop trying to be horrible. gonna go have breakfast and maybe try to listen to some biz later, seeya.

sorry i made fun of of tune-yards fans and that makes me dr. horribles blog-a-log dogg

sorry i made fun of of tune-yards fans and that makes me dr. horribles blog-a-log dogg

in fairness to some dude, it is a tragedy of high order that now when you think of Biz Markie literally the first thing you think is "oh no Tuneyards" + I'd wager on the evidence this is true with a lot of good music for you - that literally the first thing you think about it is OH NOE DO THE INDIES LIKE IT WHAT IF THEY DO??

in fairness to Whiney his zings this morning are fucking hilarious and I'm looking forward to collecting mine

"Let Me Turn You On" but I'm a tUne-YaRds fan so proceed accordingly.

j0hn you shouldn't phrase things in such a way that it seems like you're laughing with him and not at him, it's cruel

yeah everyone's definitely laughing AT hipster usic getting a perfect storm of butthurt out of Roomrunner exploring his sub-Onion right to enjoy every piece of pop culture no matter how garbussy

like that, that's a hilarious post but not because it was clever and well-aimed

"Get On the Garbus"

had never heard of roomrunner before until just now, i guess that's a heads up that i should avoid them?

nostalgia wants me to vote "Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz"

I am not a true rap head, so I'm just gonna spam the hell out of this thread

make the music with your frog, bs

Roomrunner is a great band fwiw

oh ok cool i'll check them out

does tUne Yards cover Just a Friend or something?

could vote for any of the first dozen, really

can't believe Alone Again was not a single

yeah everyone's definitely laughing AT hipster usic getting a perfect storm of butthurt out of Roomrunner exploring his sub-Onion right to enjoy every piece of pop culture no matter how garbussy

I consider myself a pretty decent reader of prose and I literally have no idea what this could possibly mean

glad it wasn't just me lol

i was afraid his logorrhea was heading away from dennis miller and into mark leyner territory lately, but then he sprinted right past that into jagger country

how i babelfish it down to an extent
- whiney sees himself as a hipster version of ilx poster usic
- he considers some dude's posting itt as getting more and more butthurt
- refers to some dude as "Roomrunner", an obscure baltimore band reference
- "sub-Onion right to enjoy every piece of pop culture" - apparently some dude is guilty of something the Onion is notorious for i.e. enjoying all pop culture
- "garbussy" - 'garbagey' combined with something that probably refers to something else, some kind of "trending topic" perhaps

whiney, how'd i do?

guys, it's hard to write coherently when your eyes are running red with the narcissism of small differences. We've all been there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0oAMSzelw

'vapors'

garbus is the last name of the tune-yards lady, other than that i think you nailed it

i'm def "running red" with the calm and measured way that i post in all lowercase except for the ALL CAPS parts that make some dude cry real human being (no college) tears about his blood sugar. croup, you can feel free to join him in the butthurt brony brigade. the next time i CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG

oh noes adhom.fm how dare he

lol @ no college

my...blood sugar? am0n you got any guesses on that one, i'm lost

I think he just called you fat

that would be strange considering he's met me, but at this point i make no assumptions of logic

gonna go have breakfast and maybe try to listen to some biz later, seeya.

― some dude, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vapors over nobody beats the biz

though spring again is really awesome

i forgot about toilet stool rap lol

i was just explaining why i was leaving the thread in a matter of fact way so that it didn't seem like i was doing a dramatic ::storms out:: thing! i can't have breakfast?

hes making fun of your diabetes? i dunno

hard to pick between vapors and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSh6jJgnUVg

i'm def "running red" with the calm and measured way that i post in all lowercase except for the ALL CAPS parts that make some dude cry real human being (no college) tears about his blood sugar. croup, you can feel free to join him in the butthurt brony brigade. the next time i CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG CHANG

sorry i mistook you for anything other than calm and measured, whiney

thanks for trying m0n, any thoughts on 'human being (no college) tears'?

college students aren't human

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/ImNotAHumanBeing.png/220px-ImNotAHumanBeing.png

remember when wayne was taking classes at the university of houston?

was hoping the 'blood sugar' thing would resolve itself in a red hot chi peps reference later in the post tbh

thanks for trying m0n, any thoughts on 'human being (no college) tears'?

― some dude, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:11 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

college students aren't human

― lebron traveled (am0n), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or does it mean that college ppl cry all the time?

(citation needed)

or that 'human being' is a fancy pants college turn of phrase? i'm grasping at straws here

Whiney! I'm with you in Rockland
where you're madder than I am
I'm with you in Rockland
where you must feel very strange
I'm with you in Rockland
where you "run red" with the calm and measured way that you post in all lowercase except for the ALL CAPS parts that make some dude cry real human being (no college) tears about his blood sugar

guys, college is gay

still lolling @ am0n's perfectly placed "vapors" vote

kind of agree w/ sisi about "Spring Again" being a jam

the chorus of "spring again" is a little too much for me

I believe it was a reference to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8

jesus that's a deep rabbit hole to go down, mystery solved i guess

forgot how much i love "let me turn you on," what a great song

Built To Spill's "Twin Falls" has a weirdly similar vocal

whiney g ferlinghettin real in the BIZ MARKIE poll thread

Bennie & the Jets was a single, your poll is invalid, voted for Nobody Beats the Biz anyway.

your poll is invalid

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nic-cage-birdhair.jpg

Built To Spill's "Twin Falls" has a weirdly similar vocal

I see you working croup

Bennie & the Jets was a single

it was a flexidisc inside a magazine

...which is to say, a single.

a single is something that's eligible for the singles chart imo. I don't think a flexi is, as you're not buying the record, you're buying the magazine & you get the flexi with it. a flexi is its own thing. there's disparate us/uk rules that muddy the waters (your single is ineligible for the charts in the UK if it has more than one song per side) but I think "released as a standalone 7" is a fair enough rule for "single"

My jukebox full of the backs of cereal boxes begs to differ with you. But, as I said, I voted "Nobody Beats" anyway, despite the draconian music-business-insider pedantry of this poll. It is also a better song than Bennie, but by just a hair.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

No love for Pickin Boogers? I love that song.

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