Mojo – The 70 Best Soul Albums Of The 70’s

1. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
2. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
3. Sly And The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Going On
4. Isaac Hayes – The Isaac Hayes Movement
5. The Temptations – Sky’s The Limit
6. Bobby Womack – Understanding
7. Aretha Franklin – Sprit In The Dark
8. James Brown – There It Is
9. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
10. Chic – C’est Chic
11. Barry White – Can’t Get Enough
12. The Commodores – Machine Gun
13. Millie Jackson – Caught Up
14. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
15. Earth Wind And Fire – I Am
16. Parliament – Motor Booty Affair
17. Eddie Hinton – Very Extremely Dangerous
18. The Isley Brothers – 3 + 3
19. Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces Of A Man
20. Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
21. Al Green – Call Me
22. Ann Peebles – Straight From The Heart
23. Donny Hathaway – Extension Of A Man
24. Gladys Knight And The Pips – Imagination
25. The Detroit Spinners – Spinners
26. Lady Hutson – Hutson
27. Bill Withers – Still Bill
28. War – The World Is A Ghetto
29. Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel
30. Shaggie Otis – Inspiration Information
31. Johnnie Taylor – Taylored In Silk
32. Terry Callier – What Colour Is Love?
33. Labelle – Nightbirds
34. The Soul Children – Friction
35. Teddy Pendergrass – Teddy Pendergrass
36. Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Aah..The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
37. Wilson Picket – In Philadelphia
38. Shirley Brown – Woman To Woman
39. Syreeta – Stevie Wonder Presents
40. Laura Lee – Woman’s Love Rights
41. Tyrone Davis – Turn Back The Hands Of Time
42. Chaka Khan – Chaka
43. Chairman Of The Board – Skin I’m In
44. Sister Sledge – We Are Family
45. Ohio Players – Skin Tight
46. Willie Hutch – The Mack
47. The Last Poets – This Is Madness
48. 24 Carrt Black – Ghetto: Misfortune Wealth
49. Allen Toussant – Southern Nights
50. Esther Phillips – From A Whisper To A Scream
51. Kool And The Gang – Light Of The World
52. The O’jays – Ship Ahoy
53. Smokey Robinson – A Quiet Storm
54. Denise Lasalle – Trapped By A Thing Called Love
55. Donna Summer – Bad Girls
56. Maggie Joseph – Makes A New Impression
57. Honey Cone – Sweet Replies
58. Lee Dorsey – Yes We Can
59. Rose Royce – Car Wash
60. Sam Dees – The Show Must Go On
61. Roberta Flack – Chapter Two
62. Billy Paul – War Of The Gods
63. Barbara Mason – Give Me Your Love
64. Betty Davis – Nasty Gal
65. The Staples Singers – City In The Sky
66. Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free
67. The Jacksons – Destiny
68. Lee Moses – Time And Place
69. Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse
70. Cymande – Cymande

Compilations

1. Phillybusters: The Sound Of Philadelphia
2. Atlantic Black Gold
3. Wattstax: The Living World
4. Motown Chartbusters Volume 7
5. All Platinum Gold

Since they limited to one album per artist, they should have called it 70 Of The Best Soul Albums of the 70s. Ranking Isaac Hayes, Commodores and Millie Jackson well above Curtis Mayfield's masterpiece, and Al Green, is madness. Madness! Nitpicking aside, there's a lot I haven't heard yet. I downloaded the selections for Temptations, Gladys Knight, Lee Moses, Eddie Hinton and James Brown (I have most of the tracks) last night and listening at work. Put ones by Laura Lee, Honey Cone, Barbara Mason, Smokey Robinson, Chairmen of the Board and Pendergrass on hold at Dusty Groove.

i've heard like 50 of them. weird list. it is a list of 70 soul albums though. can't argue with that. and, yeah, most of it is fine stuff. i expect more from mojo for some reason.

do they call margie joseph maggie in the u.k.?

Do they have something against disco? (Just curious -- I realize there are a few disco albums up there.)

XXP: At least they didn't have What's Going On at number one. It's all personal taste but I've always found this album to be a bit prissy compared to Let's Get It On and ranking him (as Fastnbulbous rightly says) above Curtis is insane. Except I would have had either Back To The World or Curtis Live instead of the self-titled album, as good as it is.

James Brown... well you could be here all day but surely The Payback or Get On The Good Foot are preferable.

I've got to say though... there's barely a bad album in there and if I got in tonight and found mint condition copies of all of these had been left in my front room I would be one very happy prick.

Omissions are unavoidable, but one jumps out at me right away: Stylistics. (I guess the rationale being that single-artist compilations aren't allowed, and no Stylistics non-compilation is strong enough. Still.)

Ditto Chi-Lites.

There's actually way more disco on that list than I expected (i.e. I Am over That's the Way of the World; Chaka over Rags to Rufus)

they do represent disco with Chic's "C'est Chic," but I'd pick "Risque" over that one. Sister Sledge is a good choice. No Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band either, and the Trammps made good records. The Stylistics' first album is really good all the way through and would've made my list. Earth, Wind & Fire's "Open Our Eyes" belongs on there. I woulda picked Brown's "Sex Machine," and Bobby Womack's "My Prescription" sounds better to me than "Understanding." Almost all the '70s Esther Phillips records are B+ or better, but I'd go with "Black Eyed Blues" over "Whisper to a Scream." I'd go with "Pick of the Litter" over "Spinners." I'd go with "Love, Life and Faith" over "Southern Nights," which is not a very good Allen Toussaint album. Stuff like Betty Davis, Cymande, Terry Callier and Shuggie Otis seem way off base to me--good for isolated moments maybe. Margie Joseph is pretty marginal in my book. Ditto Eddie Hinton. Candi Staton's self-titled album on Fame is decent, but apart from a few moments on her disco albums, she's marginal as well. And I'd pick "Superfly" over "Curtis." And right, Chi-Lites' "(For God's Sake) We Got to Give More Power to the People" is a great album.

Motorbooty is hip but where's the Mothership??

xp Yeah, seems in some cases they went with recently unearthed cult items (25-Carrot Black and Shuggie Otis, for instance, and maybe Eugene McDaniels?) in lieu of major artists who had plenty of actual -- and, in the Stylistics' and Chi-Lites' case, really really great -- hits. Not sure where Lady Hustson, Soul Children, Lee Moses, and Sam Dees -- none of whom I've ever even heard of before, I don't think -- fit in; are they really better than, say, Sylvester, or the Trammps, or even KC and the Sunshine Band (who maybe didn't count because the singer is white, I'm not sure)? Not trying to nitpick, but I get the idea there's some connection here to a certain obscurantist Brit "Northern Soul" crate-digger sensibility that I never quite understood.

(I could quibble over individual selections, too, but I'd be here all day.)

But as far as I'm concerned, KC and the Sunshine Band (who more or less updated the Sly and the Family Stone template) are at least as much "soul music" as, say, the Last Poets (who I have nothing against, but they're also an art band, way out of the soul mainstream, by definition.)

"The Isaac Hayes Movement" is far from Ike's best album, what's it doing at #4 or in the list at all?

Glad to see the Soul Children up with the canon, sad to see no Eddie Kendricks "My People...Hold On".

Chuck, you gotta hear Lee Moses.

This list is seriously insane. Really weird ordering in some spots.

Re The Soul Children: I discovered them via a Mojo piece about 10 years ago, so I guess they have at least one big fan on staff. I can take or leave their almost-hits like "Hearsay", but "Friction" is all over-the-top orchestral Stax magic (which may be an acquired taste):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQMhi10JAw

71. Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine
72. Betty Wright - Danger! High Voltage
73. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
74. O'Jays - Backstabbers
75. Rance Allen Group: A Soulful Experience

needs something fusion-y too, like Ramsey Lewis - Sun Goddess or Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

There are ZZ Hill, Joe Tex, and Johnny Bristol LPs I would definitely have included too, fwiw. And if we're gonna get all weird and cultish, why not Swamp Dogg's Total Destruction To Your Mind -- that's 1970, right? (I'd also include an album by Boney M, though I can see how Mojo folks might think they stretch the definition of "soul." Ditto Hot Chocolate, who definitely should count as soul, though what I listen to myself is their excellent best-of LP from 1977; not really sure how good the albums it's culled from are.)

isaac hayes movgement's a pretty great LP, imho... Hot Buttered Soul was technically a 60s album, so that's why it didn't get chosen.

I finally heard Hot Chocolate's Cicero Park on Rhapsody. must've been a double LP , it just thumped on and on after awhile. I'm sticking to their greatest hits.

I would have picked different choices for a lot of the artists too, like Gaye, Green, Withers, Riperton, Temptations, Hathaway, Franklin and Womack.

Other artists I would have included:

O.V. Wright - A Nickel And A Nail And The Ace of Spades 70
The Meters - Rejuvenation 74
Doris Duke - I'm A Loser 70
Gloria Jones - Share My Love 73
Clarence Carter - Patches 70
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff 70
Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever 70
Freda Payne – Band of Gold 70
Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black? 70
Fontella Bass - Free 72
The J.B.'s - Food For Thought 73
Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind 70
The Impressions - Check Out Your Mind! 70

no meters is insane

It's hard without knowing exactly what their disco/soul and funk/soul distinctions are...

Yeah, K.C. ought to be near the TOP of that list. Betty Wright's Danger High Voltage is one of the primer examples of the T.K. thing. Swamp Dogg's Total Destruction rates; Christgau and a few other sources say it's 1969, David Chance, I think his name is, has a totally obsessive Dogg discography that says '70. But Gag a Maggot is another great one I'd put in there, and Cuffed, Collared has some of Williams' best songs. For that matter, I enjoy Little Beaver, Clarence Reid and the other Miami folks as much as lot of the crate-digging Mojo has done. But as far as late Stax goes, the 24 Carat Black thing is quite excellent, and I too am a fan of "Hearsay" by the Soul Children. I'd also be bereft without Johnnie Taylor's Greatest Hits and Howard Tate's 1972 Howard Tate.

And probably the album-as-album list doesn't do justice to disco anyway--what fan of '70s soul should be without "Kiss Me Again" in which the soul-diva concept gets goosed into service of something entirely new. It's also a crate-digger thing to favor a lot of that stuff over essential albums by the Meters Look a Py-Py has always been my favorite of the Josie stuff, but I can see Rejuventaion as a reasonable compromise; The Wild Magnolias and The Wild Tchoupitoulas; for that matter, Ernie K-Doe's '70 Ernie K-Doe a.k.a. Here Come the Girls!] is a great album. Nolan Porter got some Northern Soul action, but I finally heard most of those 2 albums he did in the early '70s {ace Randy Newman cover} and they're certainly way up there, and signify " '70s" very well, as does this Charles Bevel album on A&M I heard also recently, pretty hard to find, and it's blues morphing into soul and beyond into some kind of pop. And right, Z.Z. Hill, Joe Tex, Freddie North, Impressions, and maybe O.V. Wright, altho am I wrong to think he did his best work in the '60s? Kinda lost his voice as time went on, on those last coupla Hi albums?

Lee Moses is good; definitely good, but kind of second-line. And for the most part I'm never impressed by the crate-digger stuff or the etiolated Motown that they call Northern Soul. It's good, and some of the Northern Soul things do sorta bridge soul, disco and flat-out schlock-MOR quite interestingly, but I have to be in the mood, and since I don't stay up all night doing speed...well, anyway. But as far as crate-digging goes, Marie Queenie Lyons' '70 album is indeed ace--she is or was one of the LOUDEST soul singers ever, and real good too. And as far as obscure Hi/Willie Mitchell that certainly belongs on that list if Shuggie Otis does, Johnny Robinson's 1970 Memphis High is as good an example of the Hi aesthetic as anything you could hear, and even the covers are great, and they rework Wilson Pickett into something called "Funky Feet" and it's incredible.

Sure, The Isaac Hayes Movement is a cool album, but to me it's much less substantial than Hot Buttered Soul (which I had forgotten was '69) or even Black Moses. After HBS established the Ike template, TIHM doesn't really bring anything new to the party. I guess I object more to its superhigh placing than its being the Isaac Hayes album on the list.

Cosign with above folks on Syl Johnson/OV Wright/Howard Tate, and lack of Meters is inexplicable.

"Lady Hutson" is Leroy Hutson, right? Never heard of him before. Ditto Laura Lee, Denise Lasalle and probably some others.

Laura Lee's record is awesome. Can't see voting Staple Singers' City in the Sky over Be Altitude: Respect Yourself. Some of these albums strike my memory as "one or two clasic cuts and some other stuff."

Yes, no Meters is nuts.

Shaggie Otis Zoinks!

"one or two clasic cuts and some other stuff."

Ha ha, that is exactly how I'd describe Be Altitude: Respect Yourself -- Two great singles, and then, uh.... (I just played it a couple times last month; not sure I'd heard it before then. What else on it do people thing is on the level of the big hits?)

Will definitely vouch for Lasalle's Trapped By A Thing Called Love (which I also never heard before this summer), though.

And agree with Edd (in fact, was going to say this myself) that disallowing best-of LPs with '70s soul (especially disco) just doesn't make sense.

Yeah, I didn't phrase that quite right. I was trying to say Be Altitude had the two MEGA hits; City In The Sky had...um...

I don't think either is a deathless LP, and I pretty much put on the Best Of CD when I want to hear The Staples.

Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind 70

― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 7:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

RAT ON! or CUFFED COLLARED AND TAGGED for my money, but it's the thought that counts!

Sorry for the typos, I copied the list from rocklist.net because I didn't have time to do it myself at work. Really enjoyed Lee Moses - Time And Place, nice raw stuff, love "Bad Girl" and "Time and Place." Gladys Knight - Imagination was kind of boring. Johnnie Taylor - Taylored In Silk is nice, though I prefer earlier stuff. Commodores, meh. Eddie Hinton is fun, but too derivative to merit top 20. Also re-listening to Lee Dorsey, Denise LaSalle and Bobby Womack since it's been a while.

the only Staples album-as-albums I have are City in the Sky--very late Stax, from '74--and the Let's Do It Again LP, which I bought for its great cover art. Be Altitude isn't a very good record beyond the hits, as I recall; and I just went with the best-of to cover the rest of it. City is a really good, consistent album. As a disco album that's great, I'd have to mention Cory Daye's Cory and Me, which is just definitive, and she was a far more significant vocalist than, say, Candi Staton. Or Bettye LaVette. But I always really liked Laura Lee--in fact I went back and listened to a couple of the classic Ann Peebles Hi albums. Good, and "Can't Stand the Rain" is of course epochal, but Lee had more vocal personality, I think.

No list of '70s soul albums would be complete without, of course, the Miracles' City of Angels or Gaye's Here, My Dear--the greatest of all Motown albums, and yeah, I'm being half-serious and am aware of Stevie Wonder. But the former is the definitive soul concept record and, like the best disco, is unafraid to experiment...the old world meets the new world and looks in vain for a ribshack amidst the disco bars and drag clubs and drifting copies of underground newspapers and leaflets advertising singles nites. I listen to it all the time. And Gaye's record is the work of a weirdo and impressionistic soundscape composer the equal of Miles hisself.

but let's be fair to the poor British folks, they got some things totally right--Maggot Brain and their greatest moments, the one-two punch of the title track and "Can You Get to That" and Aretha's Spirit in the Dark. Altho I've developed a real jones for Young, Gifted and Black recently. Roberta Flack always seemed asleep to me, the ultimate middlebrow soul experience, and Billy Paul just didn't cut it vocally. As for Minnie Ripperton, I prefer her stuff with Rotary Connection, in the '60s. Never heard Lady Hutson or Sam Dees, and while I love "Woman to Woman," I can't imagine the LP could be that good.

The one album per artist is weird; can't imagine them doing that with a rock list.

Billy Paul just didn't cut it vocally.

Production on that War of the Worlds is some kinda nuts, though...

Curtis Mayfield's debut should've been #1 obviously. "C'est Chic", "I Am", and "Maggot Brain" are not bad albums, but rating them above "Curtis" is just wrong. Especially since they're not really soul - disco and funk are different genres. And choosing that Donny Hathaway album over "Everything Is Everything" seems weird - it's a good album, but "Everything Is Everything" is still better, plus more soul-y. As for Minnie Riperton, personally I rate "Come into My Garden" and "Adventures in Paradise" over "Perfect Angel", but I can see why they chose that one, as the song material on it is more consistent than on any other of her albums (plus it has her biggest hit).

And I agree with Fontella Bass' "Free" should be on the list. It seems to be kind of an overlooked album, even though it was reissued a few years ago, but it has a really strong set of songs and impressive, poignant lyrics too.

"I agree with Fastnbulbous"

I'm listening to Here, My Dear for the first time, can't believe I've never heard this before! I don't think I'd rate it over What's Going On but maybe I'll change my mind...

It seems they've gone for one album per artist, which is fair enough in terms of representing as many different people as possible, but still, no Superfly, Songs In The Key Of Life, Fresh etc...

Curtis Mayfield's debut should've been #1 obviously. "C'est Chic", "I Am", and "Maggot Brain" are not bad albums, but rating them above "Curtis" is just wrong. Especially since they're not really soul - disco and funk are different genres.

Yeah, I think Curtis is a good Mayfield album, but Super Fly is his moment. As for funk, disco and soul, I guess Chic deviates a bit more from what most people would call soul music, since they really invented their own style. But maybe disco is already post-soul (and a lot of other things too) and Chic fits into soul that way. Plus, they definitely extended the very soul-music idea of the rhythm section/auteur theory in the tradition of Booker T., the American Studios house band, the Muscle Shoals bands, the Meters. Sister Sledge's Rodgers/Edwards productions fit into soul too--the whole idea of "We Are Family" is a kind of soul mode. And I hear a lot of soul in Funkadelic's vocalizing and in the song forms, reminiscent of their roots in Detroit soul. But yeah, there are things in there that are...different. That's also part of soul, the inadvertent experimentation and the crucial contribution of producers looking for sonic identity for vocalists who often need just that. And soul and funk are pretty inextricably bound, at least in the Southern soul I know. That said, I think you make a valid point and worth thinking about.

yeah this is one case where one album per artist makes no goddamn sense

Curtis is better than his moment, though.

yeah this is one case where one album per artist makes no goddamn sense

but the feature is 70 best soul albums of the 70s - if it wasn't one artist one album, there'd be even more exclusions.

They could have just called it the 70 greatest soul artists, then mention their top 2-5. Sneaky way of mentioning a good 200-300. Those who have the actual magazine will see that they do have a "SEE ALSO:" at the end of the blurb. Most only mention one additional album, though for Wonder they mention Talking Book and Songs In The Key of Life, and Roots and Superfly for Mayfield, Stand! for Sly and Let's Get It On for Gaye. Gaye has at least three other albums I like better than What's Going On. The magazine is still on the stands, at least in the U.S., it's a good issue.

xp - Funk and soul are two peas in a pod. Disco is like the autistic sibling. Don't get me wrong, I like some disco, grew up with Saturday Night Fever, Disco Duck, Thank God It's Friday. But when I crave soul, I sure as heck don't listen to disco.

Roberta Flack always seemed asleep to me, the ultimate middlebrow soul experience,

man Roberta is awesome

so's Dionne, who belongs on this list - Then Came You is tremendous

yeah, chapter two and quiet fire are all time great for me. they reward deep listening. so amazing. but i love all her 70's stuff. s/t, blue lights, and feel like makin' love especially. feel like makin' love is so inspiring and anyone who hasn't heard it needs to quick.

and the album with donny too. so much great stuff.

Yeah, I don't know, Robert Flack isn't terrible, and as a kid I was fascinated by that single she did with Hathaway, "Where Is the Love." But I never could get with it. I also have a limited thing with Hathaway, who I do think was great in a way, kind of the lost Billy Strayhorn of soul you could say. Probably need to go back and spend more time with both, and Dionne belongs on a '60s soul list, altho I really like some of her '70s stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BopX81qvdcI

been playing this like crazy lately:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC41K6lL6GY&feature=related

That Dionne album's been sitting in a shop here for a while - i need to get it. I love Roberta Flack's First Take: don't have Chapter Two....

I agree with Tuomas about Curtis, it's by far my favourite soul album of all time it's just perfect.

The comments about Issac Hayes are spot on, it's a fine album but Shaft, Black Moses and especially Chocolate chip are much better. Seeing that album so high seems really odd just because he has much stronger albums.

Some other albums that should have made it.

Brick-Brick
Slave-The Concept
The Four Tops-Nature Planned it
Tom Brock-I Love You More & More
Cameo-Cardiac Arrest
Greg Perry-One For the Road
The Delfonics-The Delfonics
Mandrill-Is
Dusty Springfield-A Brand New me
Stairsteps-2nd Ressurection
Love Unlimited-From a Girl's Point of View
Gloria Scott-What am I Gonna do?
and I'll definitly second The Meters-Rejuvination

So, there's no 'what's that doing on the list?' entries?

not bad going then.

Some of the placings and choices of albums by those artists are a bit off but yeah it's a pretty good list overall.

Well, beyond the top 10 or 5 or whatever, all the rest could place anywhere on that list.

There is no way that Superfly is better than Curtis. That is just crazy talk. I find the Superfly soundtrack, good as it it, is overwhelemed by that one song whereas Curtis has many goodies.

little child runnin wild, pusherman, freddie's dead, superfly - it's anything but a one song album. maybe sags a little bit in the middle, but every bit as good as curtis, imo. easily my favorite CM.

Def. not a one song album - it's Curtis Mayfield after all

Results of my 70s soul binge inspired by the article and this thread:

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/70s_soul.htm

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/70s-soul.jpg

I listened to pretty much all the remaining ones I had not yet heard. For the most part my instincts were right in

25. The Detroit Spinners – Spinners 72
I prefer 2nd Time Around (1970) that has "It's A Shame." This is a little too smoove MOR for me, with "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" bringing unpleasant easy listening flashbacks from my childhood.

26. Leroy Hutson - Hutson 75
I don't know man, a lot of stuff from 1975 seems tailored a bit too much for supperclubs/Love Boat type settings for my taste. I like Smokey Robinson's Quiet Storm, and this seems to be along those lines, but I can only take a certain amount of this stuff.

33. Labelle – Nightbirds 74
"Lady Marmalade" suffers from the over-familiarity, though it is a good tune. I just don't need to hear it again, which is why it's taken me so long to listen to more Labelle or Nona Hendryx. It's a pretty solid, energetic fusion of funk, disco and rock, but not a huge fan.

34. The Soul Children – Friction 74
I've had a couple of their earlier albums for years and never play them. They're a pretty minor act, and though the cheatin' soul here is fairly well crafted, I find it depressing and don't think it belongs in any top 70 list.

38. Shirley Brown – Woman To Woman 74
I couldn't make it the whole way through the album. Too bland for me.

49. Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights 75
I usually love New Orleans soul, but this has some weak cuts. I agree that Life, Love and Faith (1972) is far superior. Would be better if he used the Meters like he did with Lee Dorsey.

60. Sam Dees – The Show Must Go On 75
This is actually kind of nice. It might be crazy to say it's way better than Gaye's What's Going On, but I enjoy it more, probably because it isn't so infuriatingly overrated like that album. His testifyin' vocals give some convincing weight to the concerns behind message songs like "Troubled Child" and "Child Of The Streets," while the music makes it sound like he could be from Chicago rather than Alabama. A good mix.

62. Billy Paul – War Of The Gods 73
With four cuts ranging from 6:11 to 10:03, this Gamble & Huff production is a bit different than the normal Philly International stuff in that it's sprawling, spacey and spiritual. The two shorter tunes are more standard, poppy fare that sound somewhat out of place.

Stuff not on the list that I also heard recently - Laura Lee - I Can't Make It Alone (1974), Danny Woods - Aries (1972), Freda Payne - Contact (1971), The Chi-Lites - A Lonely Man (1972), Syl Johnson - Total Explosion (1975), Lou Bond (1974), Eddie Kendricks - S/T (1973)/Boogie Down (1973), Esther Phillips - Black-Eyed Blues (1973), The Delfonics (1970), The Stylistics (1971), Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972).

...instincts were right in that I wasn't gonna love most of these.

I am loving everything by Esther Phillips and Eddie Kendricks though.

Quiz question, anyone know what tune the phrase "Tryin' to run my game on ya" is from, and which album the cover of my mix is taken from?

This list is seriously insane. Really weird ordering in some spots.

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