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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Suga Foot on August 06, 2010, 09:10:43 AM

Title: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Suga Foot on August 06, 2010, 09:10:43 AM: Complex just put together this list.

http://best.complex.com/lists/the-50-greatest-vocoder-songs
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Triple OG Rapsodie on August 06, 2010, 09:20:09 AM: California Love and a couple Roger Troutman songs are the only times I've felt talk boxes were necessary.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Matty on August 06, 2010, 09:49:46 AM: how can you not gonna have a zapp/roger troutman track at #1. kind of decent list, a lot of old school hip-hop and electro, but i'd be choosing way more funk tracks than what's on there.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: westsiderider323 on August 06, 2010, 09:56:48 AM: damn shutterbug already on this?
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Davizz on August 06, 2010, 11:43:20 AM: "Black Superman" is the best Vocoder song ever.
Talkbox, that's a whole other story, best instrument known to man, God bless you Roger!
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Raiders4Life on August 06, 2010, 12:07:00 PM: Computer Love/More Bounce only 7th on this list? Wow.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: you gon always be my latin queen bitch on August 06, 2010, 12:28:15 PM: Roger was the first to use it?
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Fresco on August 07, 2010, 01:51:39 AM: Cool, thanks for the link, even if the ranking is contestable there must be some cool songs to discover
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: BakinSodaFree on August 07, 2010, 05:39:37 AM: Quote from: rapsodie is a hip hop elitist on August 06, 2010, 09:20:09 AM
California Love and a couple Roger Troutman songs are the only times I've felt talk boxes were necessary.

What about some DJ Quik songs? he uses it pretty good.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: MistaNova on August 07, 2010, 05:56:28 AM: Why the fuck is that Afrika Bambaataa "track" second or even on the list at all while Zapp is in seventh? Fuck that.

Still, lots of good tracks. Egyptian Lover, Battlecat, Mac Dre, Above The Law, New Order, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, and Grandmaster Flash can't go wrong there 8).
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: G-Funk on August 07, 2010, 06:00:31 AM: Quote from: Ancient Chinese Secret on August 06, 2010, 12:28:15 PM
Roger was the first to use it?
No I think he was one of the people to popularize it. Or rather, let it be known.
Then again there's been plenty who have used a talk box before him.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: Matty on August 07, 2010, 06:35:08 AM: and yeah Quik should definitely have some tracks in here, one of the nicest on the talkbox after Roger. I'd nominate Adina Howard's 'Freak And U Know It' as a classic talkbox track from him that plenty of people know.
Title: Re: The 50 Greatest Vocoder (and Talk Box) songs of all Time
Post by: 13th Duke on August 07, 2010, 04:31:28 PM: I think people need to notice that the Complex list actually just says Vocoder (not talkbox in brackets like this thread says), so thats probably why less West Coast stuff is on there. Some of the tracks are a bit rubbish on that list though and they should definitely have more funk records on there.

I'd like to see a strictly 50 best talkbox songs of all time list though.