Could it be I'm POLLING in love? ~~~ ILM 70s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO TRACKS POLL ~~~ RESULTS THREAD!

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123. Inner Life - I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)
212 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/uq6HQG-cce0

Love that Belle has done so well. That's the album of his I come back to the most.

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122. Commodores - Machine Gun
216 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/ho_Od3o9OLg

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121. The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New
219 points / 3 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/dJm51jsRoo0

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119 (TIE). Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
221 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/FscIgtDJFXg

119 (TIE). Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
221 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/V5AztWseIdU

Great to see the roll-out. Regret missing the polling period - was moving across the country!

136. Patti Jo - Make Me Believe in You

TOO LOW!

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118. The Spinners - It's a Shame
221 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/3ZP3UQ0ESLc

Everything placing after Patti Jo is TOO HIGH

It's a shame that song didn't make the top 100!!

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117. Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know-It-All
222 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/94_snrtKGt0

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116. Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
223 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/Zu9a29UR2dU

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115. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
223 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/w2jYjUiulMQ

"It's a Shame" was just one of a ridiculous number of Spinners tracks I voted for, so I really hope there is more to come.

Yay for Manu Dibango!

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114. Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
224 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/CCSvNZWpXaM

I was the other voter for Reasons, had it in my top ten--spectacular guitar and fierce vocal creating that euphoria

― human music...I like it! (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 5:18 PM (two hours ago)

Excellent work. It's one of my favourite album openers ever.

Great to see Machine Gun make it. I had another Commodores song really high on my list but I'm almost certain nobody else will have voted for it.

Love I Need Somebody to Love Tonight by Sylvester. That and Don't Stop are his two best songs for me.

I was just listening to Sweet Thing. They're such an underrated group. I voted for that and Tell Me Something Good.

You Ought to Be With Me is my favourite Al Green song.

Lots of other songs I'm happy to see here too.. and James Brown.

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113. War - The World Is a Ghetto
225 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/ptIcert_Ra8

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112. James Brown - The Payback
225 points / 4 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/IST6qRfVqwY

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111. Raydio - You Can't Change That
226 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/4kxpsvW2gAE

I was the #1 voter for "You Make Me Feel Brand New". Airrion Love sets it up, Thompkins, Jr. knocks it out the park.

Jogging back even further, how have I never heard MJ's "I Wanna Be Where You Are" before? Were those late 1971 recordings his secret peak? There's this, "Got To Be There" and his masterly version of "Ain't No Sunshine" just for starters.

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110. Blue Magic - Sideshow
226 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/eamL5JBdcM8

i know a ton of these just for being alive this long

Two very surprising choices in a row.

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109. The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power
228 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw

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108. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
228 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/LwjsVD23Z3E

Misstra Know It All has always been my favorite Stevie Wonder song.

Ha, was I really the only #1 vote for "The Payback"? I guess I have no real concept of what is canonical here.

I didn't vote because I hate these kind of open-ended genre polls in general but um yeah, how is that song not in the top 10, it's like the apex of JB singles.

The randomness is such that even when there's only 5 slots left, I have no idea how to predict them.

, it's like the apex of JB singles

I felt that way about Super Bad, yet it finished at 199.

The World Is A Ghetto is amazing. I voted for two other War songs that were also title tracks to their albums.

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107. Four Tops - Still Water (Love)
231 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/6NASl6heM

Too low! One of my favourite songs of all time.

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106. Stevie Wonder - Another Star
233 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/K9KKBvWTdMQ

Super Bad is great but it's "washing machine" rhythm is so unusual and distinct from the general blueprint of so much 70s soul/funk/disco, to me it's off in its own JB-centric galaxy. Whereas The Payback is a straight-up 4/4 funk monster that epitomizes a lot about the era.

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Another Star was my number 3.

Talk about euphoria.

Gah! Now that one really IS too low!

you guys favor a different aspect of Stevie than I do, that's for sure

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105. Syreeta - I'm Goin' Left
235 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/HgRljMF6eCE

The As/Another Star diptych at the end of Songs is the thrilling climax to Stevie's unimpeachable 70s run. It's where his singing, composing, and arranging skills combine with his deep love of God, music, and human beings to create 16 of the greatest minutes in music history.

It's impossible for me to separate them or vote for them anywhere outside the top five of a poll like this

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104. Edwin Starr - War
238 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/dQHUAJTZqF0

too high

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103. The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
239 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/36yBERG6V4U

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102. Sly & The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight
240 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/uJZHm5_i1vI

Voted for that one.

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101. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
240 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/tIdIqbv7SPo

RECAP 101-200:

101. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine 240 points / 6 votes
102. Sly & The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight 240 points / 4 votes
103. The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get 239 points / 4 votes
104. Edwin Starr - War 238 points / 5 votes
105. Syreeta - I'm Goin' Left 235 points / 4 votes
106. Stevie Wonder - Another Star 233 points / 3 votes
107. Four Tops - Still Water (Love) 231 points / 4 votes
108. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl 228 points / 4 votes
109. The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power 228 points / 3 votes
110. Blue Magic - Sideshow 226 points / 5 votes
111. Raydio - You Can't Change That 226 points / 4 votes
112. James Brown - The Payback 225 points / 4 votes / 1 number one
113. War - The World Is a Ghetto 225 points / 3 votes
114. Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye 224 points / 4 votes
115. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa 223 points / 4 votes
116. Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star 223 points / 3 votes
117. Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know-It-All 222 points / 3 votes
118. The Spinners - It's a Shame 221 points / 5 votes
119 (TIE). Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby 221 points / 4 votes
119 (TIE). Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now 221 points / 4 votes
121. The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New 219 points / 3 votes / 1 number one
122. The Commodores - Machine Gun 216 points / 3 votes
123. Inner Life - I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair) 212 points / 4 votes
124 (TIE). Al Green - Belle 212 points / 3 votes
124 (TIE). Tavares - More Than a Woman 212 points / 3 votes
126. KC & the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight 210 points / 4 votes
127. Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame 209 points / 3 votes
128 (TIE). Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto 206 points / 4 votes
128 (TIE). Sylvester - I Need Somebody to Love Tonight 206 points / 4 votes
130. Rufus & Chaka Khan - Sweet Thing 203 points / 4 votes
131. Al Green - You Ought to Be With Me 203 points / 3 votes
132. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary 202 points / 3 votes
133. Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie 198 points / 5 votes
134 (TIE). Funkadelic - Get Off Your Ass and Jam 198 points / 4 votes
134 (TIE). Stevie Wonder - If You Really Love Me 198 points / 4 votes
136. Patti Jo - Make Me Believe in You 197 points / 4 votes / 1 number one
137 (TIE). Ann Peebles - I'm Going to Tear Your Playhouse Down 196 points / 4 votes
137 (TIE). Cymande - Bra 196 points / 4 votes
137 (TIE). James Brown - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing 196 points / 4 votes
140. The Emotions - Best of My Love 195 points / 5 votes
141. Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free 194 points / 3 votes
142. Minnie Riperton - Reasons 192 points / 2 votes
143. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There 191 points / 4 votes
144. Reggie Garner - Hotline 191 points / 2 votes
145 (TIE). Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 187 points / 4 votes
145 (TIE). Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) 187 points / 4 votes
147. The Chi-Lites - Stoned Out of My Mind 187 points / 3 votes
148. Cymande - Dove 186 points / 3 votes
149. MSFB - Love Is the Message 185 points / 3 votes
150. The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze 184 points / 4 votes
151. Sly & The Family Stone - Runnin' Away 183 points / 4 votes
152. Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby 183 points / 3 votes
153. War - Low Rider 181 points / 4 votes
154. Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are 181 points / 3 votes
155. Parliament - Bop Gun (Endangered Species) 180 points / 3 votes
156. Stevie Wonder - As 179 points / 2 votes
157. The Isley Brothers - Love the One You're With 177 points / 3 votes
158. MSFB - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) 176 points / 5 votes
159. Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner 176 points / 4 votes
160. Sister Sledge - Thinking of You 173 points / 3 votes
161. Sylvester - (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real 172 points / 3 votes
162. David Bowie - Golden Years 171 points / 2 votes
163. The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23 168 points / 6 votes
164. The 5th Dimension - One Less Bell to Answer 167 points / 2 votes
165 (TIE). The Honey Cone - Want Ads 165 points / 4 votes
165 (TIE). The Trammps - Disco Inferno 165 points / 4 votes
167 (TIE). Ashford & Simpson - Stay Free 165 points / 3 votes
167 (TIE). The Manhattans - Kiss and Say Goodbye 165 points / 3 votes
167 (TIE). Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From 165 points / 3 votes
167 (TIE). The O'Jays - I Love Music 165 points / 3 votes
171. Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This 164 points / 3 votes
172. Bill Withers - Lovely Day 163 points / 4 votes
173. The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can 162 points / 3 votes
174 (TIE). Aretha Franklin - Angel 161 points / 4 votes
174 (TIE). Chic - At Last I Am Free 161 points / 4 votes
176 (TIE). Smokey Robinson - Cruisin' 160 points / 3 votes
176 (TIE). The Supremes - Stoned Love 160 points / 3 votes
178. The Stylistics - Peek-a-Boo 159 points / 2 votes
179. The Jacksons - Blame It on the Boogie 158 points / 3 votes
180. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme 157 points / 3 votes
181. The Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop 157 points / 2 votes
182. Al Wilson - Show and Tell 156 points / 3 votes
183 (TIE). Chairmen of the Board - Finders Keepers 156 points / 2 votes
183 (TIE). Funkadelic - Red Hot Mama 156 points / 2 votes
185 (TIE). Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces 155 points / 3 votes
185 (TIE). Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 155 points / 3 votes
187 (TIE). Funkadelic - I'll Bet You 154 points / 3 votes
187 (TIE). Jackson Sisters - I Believe in Miracles 154 points / 3 votes
189 (TIE). Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive 154 points / 2 votes
189 (TIE). The O'Jays - Listen to the Clock on the Wall 154 points / 2 votes
191. Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star 153 points / 4 votes
192. Aaron Neville - Hercules 152 points / 3 votes
193 (TIE). The Dramatics - In the Rain 151 points / 3 votes
193 (TIE). Teddy Pendergrass - I Don't Love You Anymore 151 points / 3 votes
195 (TIE). Al Green - Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) 150 points / 3 votes
195 (TIE). Billy Preston - Outa-Space 150 points / 3 votes
197. Baby Huey - Listen to Me 149 points / 3 votes
198. Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around 148 points / 2 votes
199. James Brown - Super Bad 147 points / 3 votes
200. Machine - There But for the Grace of God Go I 147 points / 2 votes