Singles ranker: OutKast

[halo19]

One I think that could be done that hasn't yet already. And this is out of what I'm aware of being singles.

01. B.O.B.: A+[/color]
02. Hey Ya!
03. Ms. Jackson
04. So Fresh, So Clean: A[/color]
05. Skew It on the Bar-B
06. GhettoMusick
07. Rosa Parks
08. Elevators (Me & You)
09. The Whole World
10. Player's Ball
11. Jazzy Belle: A-[/color]
12. Roses
13. ATLiens
14. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
15. Prototype
16. Git Up, Git Out
17. Da Art of Storytellin'
18. The Way You Move: B+

Anything Idlewild: nfe.

Man, Nick, you keep on pwning me.

[a Nick O!]

There's a few you missed.

01. Ms. Jackson A+
02. ATLiens
03. Hey Ya!
04. Elevators (Me & You) A
05. So Fresh, So Clean
06. B.O.B.
07. Rosa Parks
08. Jazzy Belle
09. Skew It on the Bar-B
10. Player's Ball A-
11. Roses
12. Da Art of Storytellin'
13. The Whole World B+
14. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
15. Git Up, Git Out
16. Prototype
17. Morris Brown
18. Idlewild Blue (Don't Chu Worry 'Bout Me)
19. Mighty O
20. The Way You Move
21. Land of a Million Drums
22. GhettoMusick B

[mtm4319]

A	01. Hey Ya!
	02. Ms. Jackson
	03. The Way You Move
	04. Roses
A-	05. So Fresh, So Clean
	06. GhettoMusick
B+	07. B.O.B.
B	08. Prototype
B-	09. Rosa Parks
	10. The Whole World
C	11. Morris Brown
	12. Idlewild Blue (Don't Chu Worry 'Bout Me)
C-	13. Land of a Million Drums
	14. Mighty O

I don't know/remember:
ATLiens
Elevators (Me & You)
Jazzy Belle
Skew It on the Bar-B
Player's Ball
Da Art of Storytellin'
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Git Up, Git Out

[halo19]

Okay, so the only one of those I even knew was a single was "Prototype," so I don't feel too bad for "leaving out" others.

Re: Everything else: I was lucky to know all 3 singles of the debut, since I didn't even follow music at that point, but thanks to TV networks and Music Choice channels, and looking at what's used at record stores, I knew 'em as singles. As for ATLiens, I wasn't really following music that big, and if the pop radio stations didn't play it then I likely didn't hear it. I caught the music videos for the title track and "Elevators" and also realized how that one had a remix tacked to the end of the album. But I never knew anything about "Jazzy Belle" being a single. I actually was following music when Aquemini was out, yet without any sort of urban radio station and no cable TV at the time, in addition to never hearing the song as a gold/recurrent (as with the others I missed).

[a Nick O!]

"Jazzy Belle" was always one of my favorites from ATLiens, but at some point maybe 3 or 4 years ago, I saw its video (the song, like the Slick Rick version of "Storytellin'," was a remix of the album version) on BET, probably on some artist's Top 25 Countdown that they do on Saturday afternoons. I thought, "Wow! That was the third single then! Couldn't have picked a better one, except for maybe "Wheelz of Steel.")

"Skew It on the Bar-B" was the lead Aquemini single. I remember seeing it once or twice on Yo! (MTV Raps) that fall. They kind of rushed out "Rosa Parks," much like "Ms. Jackson" quickly followed "B.O.B." two years later.

I later found out about "Storytellin'" before I knew about "Jazzy Belle," but it was in a similar fashion, on some specialty show on MTV2, I believe.

"Land of a Million Drums" was a CHR/Rhythmic/Urban single from the Scooby-Doo soundtrack in the late spring/early summer of '02.

[halo19]

Wow, that's news to me about "Skew" and now I feel slow. I mean, before I moved up to the urban-free area in OK, I listened to a radio station close enough in the format (how I heard "RP," the first OutKast song I knew).

I think I remembered seeing a topic of "Million Drums" in the R&R board days, but I never heard that one.

[a Nick O!]

I can upload "Drums" on the FTP site at some point. Because it's on the Scooby-Doo soundtrack, I'm not guessing there's an unedited version of it. For instance in the chorus, they say "take yo' dead ass home," but instead of "ass," it has Scooby making his noise.

(By the way, when I discovered "Storytellin" was a single, I thought that was a great choice, too.)