MC TUNES - TRACKS POLL

Because you people demanded less nish and more clish.

Here's how it works: you can vote for up to 25 tracks, and your ballot must be ordered. 1st place gets 25 and so on down to 1 point for 25th. You can vote for less than 25 Tunes tunes if you must. Send your ballots to noodlevague at g00glem4il dot c0m before 18th June.

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NB: Votes for Dust Junkys tracks cannot be accepted, I'll be polling them later on.

You can use this thread to campaign for favourites, remind people of classic lost tracks etc.

Fair enough on saving Dust Junkys for their own well-deserved poll - tbf he was going by "Nicky" then iirc? - but is this to be kept to strictly Tunes tunes, or is 808 State featuring MC Tunes included in this poll's remit?

yeah will allow anything "featuring MC Tunes" cos it's hard to work out who those records shd be primarily credited to imo, and I don't think the extra tracks will make the poll unmanageable.

What a fool I am! it was MC Tunes VERSUS 808 State - first billing gets him counted, IMO. How could I have forgotten:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/a.jpg

now that's graphic design

i'll be fixing the poll so "Tunes Splits the Atom" wins btw

I'm gonna make a bunch of socks so "The Only Rhyme That Bites" wins.

"The Only Rhyme That Bites" has a great cowboy sample and one of Tunes' best raps but it doesn't have bleep bloops on it nor does it perform the frankly alchemical miracle of having the Stone Roses on something that isn't boring shit.

thinking I shd've done a poll to see whether I shd do a poll

This is kind of tough, but I'd be happy to vote in the albums poll.

0 ballots in so far, people. C'mon!

[edit] Sampling

Fatboy Slim sampled the track "Beatbox Wash" for "Gangster Trippin" on the You've Come a Long Way, Baby album. The single garnered much success. One of Tunes biggest complaints is that he still hasn't been paid for this sample...

[edit] Personal life

Tunes still lives in Manchester.

Are you trying to imply that Tunes edited his own wiki page? Maybe Noodle Vagues could get him to vote in this poll?

Probably a busy guy though

Would vote in a poll of Tunes' biggest complaints.

think shingles is on that list

bleep bloops on it

possibly the finest miming in the history of musical telly performances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XoJcbXgLI

this thread is like a long version of markers' tapes n tapes jpg

4 ballots already, keep 'em coming folks

should rly pick up now the americans have had lunch

I knew my decision to do Tunes before I do Credit to the Nation was justified.

POLL It What You Want

17 polls in now and some surprising tracks doing well

i only have the album and a few extra bits-n-bobs on ztt compilations, so have been wondering, are there really 25 tracks that feature Tunes ?

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Might top up my ballot with a bit of Ya Kid K tbh

1. Unknown track (white label)
2. Unknown track #2 (white label b-side)
3. A capella untitled track (home camcorder footage)
4. Unknown track #3 (rumoured white label)
5. Intro (mixtape made for friend, 1989)
6. Unknown track #4 (rumoured white label, also claimed by Fun-da-mental)
7. Tunes rapping to friend (captured on off-licence cctv, 1998)
8. Happy Birthday to You (kids' birthday party, 2008)
9. Happy Birthday to You (808 State remix)
10. Abusive message left on voicemail (British Gas out-of-hours customer service, 2011)
11. Unknown track #5 (prospective white label, never pressed)
12. Own voicemail message (various versions, 2005-present)
13. Unknown track #6 (demo, 1992)
14. Unknown track #7 (demo, 1992, partly recorded over with Mark Goodier's Evening Session)
15. Conversation with Stan Collymore, TalkSport phone-in (2009, partly obscured by end credits music)
16. Unknown track #8 (1995, Tunes swears it's him but bears strong resemblance to Apache Indian 'Boom Shak A Lak')
17. Outtake from audition for Leigh amateur dramatic society (2002)
18. Artist being removed from dramatic society premises (2002, guest verses by security)
19. Unknown track #9 (1992, unrecorded)
20. Unknown track #10 (?, unwritten)

I've tried to avoid the obvious tracks on here, hoping we can make this a bit less boring than every other Tunes countdown.

DUDE NO SPOILERS

I was talking to my mate John Robb the other day who assures me that Tunes has recorded some 'bangin' new material.

Great poll. Possibly the best. And if anyone says otherwise I'm gonna sue them for "liable".

I have the world's best MC Tunes story... just trying to work out what the chances are I'll get sued for "liable" if I recount it here...

don't leave us to chill like a fridge in a meat van

I can't help it - I'm a rap maniac.

Day and a half to go folks, keep those ballots coming in

can i vote for remixes separately? ie can I vote for The Only Rhyme that Bites and TORTB (Optical remix)? feel like there's some west lothian shit going on regardless of whether you treat them as one or split them up, but can't work it out.

Nah I'm counting remixes as separate tracks cos the production is such a big element of the Tunes' catalogue.

I don't know any MC Tunes songs, can I fill up the ballot with votes for other bands instead?

Far be it from me to tell anybody how to use their ballot.

Do I have to put my reservation for a Cleopatra poll here btw?

Only if the poll is comin' at ya

You could fill up your ballot with tracks by other musicians who look like they're made from Spam.

Okay the poll is now closed. I'll spend a day compiling the results and start rolling them out on Monday.

Fuck. Completely missed this.

blogged my ballot here: http://mcfoodie.squarespace.com/mctunes/

set my alarm clock for 4am in case the roll-out starts early

on second thoughts i've changed it to midnight, I can't take the risk

like i'm getting up at that time of the morning

Whenever I see the name of this partic artist I always think of some promotional cartoon rock band designed for Happy Meal commercials and toys

found my original Japanese CD of North At Its Heights, with kanji lyric sheet and obi, last night. Can't wait to get it up on ebay to capitalise on the frenzy the poll roll-out will be creating.