LET'S GET IT ON! It's the ~~~ 1970s SOUL ALBUMS POLL ~~~ NOMINATIONS AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

There's so many funk albums I want to nominate!

The Brothers Johnson:

Look Out for #1
Right on Time
Blam!

Bo Diddley – Big Bad Bo (1974)

Checking this out now. I didn't know there was this side to him. It's great stuff.

JF: I was thinking Riot, which won't vote-split.

the omnipresence of that Donnie joe album is starting to scare me... is there backmasking involved or something?

if you change the title btw to soul/funk then there will be no arguments :)

I dont know the Donnie and Joe Emerson – Dreamin' Wild (1979) what have i missed?

Rita Coolidge and Charlie Rich on this list seems weird, but eh (I like both of those albums, too).

I dont know the Donnie and Joe Emerson – Dreamin' Wild (1979) what have i missed?

It's a "long lost" (read: private press album nobody ever heard until a few years ago) that's some pseudo-Hall & Oates shit hipsters love.

What do others think about Elis Regina, Larry Jon Wilson and Stories? I wouldn't call any of them "soul" myself, but maybe I'm missing something.... Fantastic list!

Nominations:
Howard Tate Reaction 1970
Esther Phillips Burnin' 1970
Esther Phillips Confessin' the Blues 1976
Allen Toussaint Life, Love and Faith 1972
The Dells Like It Is Like It Was 1970
Mel & Tim Starting All Over Again 1972
The Miracles City of Angels 1975
Clarence Reid On the Job 1976
Charlie Whitehead Raw Spitt 1970
Junior Parker I Tell Stories Sad and True, I Sing the Blues and Play Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky 1972

Rita Coolidge and Charlie Rich on this list seems weird
Good call, I removed them from the list.

It's a "long lost" (read: private press album nobody ever heard until a few years ago) that's some pseudo-Hall & Oates shit hipsters love.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 17 September 2016 22:25 (fourteen minutes ago

ahhhh, ilxors

Updated nominations up to here.

What do others think about Elis Regina, Larry Jon Wilson and Stories? I wouldn't call any of them "soul" myself, but maybe I'm missing something....

If something really sticks out I can always remove it, no problem. On the other hand, if it doesn't feel like soul you can just ignore it when voting starts.

The RYM chart was just an easy way to get this poll started.

Discovering Southern Nights last year was a revelation.

yeah that list has just about anything you could want, really. only thing i can think of to add is "mystic syster" by the equals which is, you know, not something i expect to get a hell of a lot of votes.

if we're talking about culling the list, i love that kim jung mi album but it's _not_ when i think of when i think "'70s soul". but if anyone else was planning on voting for "ga na da ra ma ba, my loving korean alphabet", you know, pipe up.

I have one nom left then but got loads I'd like to nominate but I guess we need some Cameo in here

Cameo - Cardiac Arrest

Hope somebody will nominate James Brown's Sex Machine since I managed to miss it.

Could we not have 25 noms or something? you said you could be bribed..... :)

Hold on, I'll PM you my Amazon wishlist.

Why don't you post some YouTubes? They might inspire someone else to nominate your stuff!

Well I'm pretty sure the Betty Davis albums will get nommed at least

is it really necessary to have nominations when you've already curated a list from which people can choose?

just have people vote for their 25 or however-many favorite from this list (or, if they really want to, another record) and count the votes

nominations are needed so everyone has the same correct spellings of the albums otherwise tabulating is a nightmare

Will follow this thread closely I think. I finally read Turn The Beat Around early this year and the chapter on 70s soul (as a precusor to disco) was maybe my favourite section.

it's not a nightmare, it's just ... There are ways to make it not a big deal. But it's more fun to list

How hard could it be to just look out for misspellings, it's not like there are hundreds of ballots, argh why do I care

*whispers* also the list of albums the voters are going to copy and paste from is right at the top of this thread

why does it bother you?

People have their own faves they want to vote for.

Having nominations allows discussion on albums before voting and might lead to people discovering albums to vote for.

the reason why people need to nominate albums is because a.) this list doesn't contain "off the wall," b.) it does contain "osmium" which is like the most psychedelic and rock-oriented album in the p-funk universe that isn't actually by funkadelic and it's also the ONLY parliament album, c.) rate your music is not an infallible source (you got a buncha jorge ben albums on there and no milton nascimento...so which '70s m.p.b. artists are "soul" and which aren't? etc etc), and d.) come on, now.

I finally read Turn The Beat Around early this year and the chapter on 70s soul (as a precusor to disco) was maybe my favourite section.

Lol same here

What book is that?

i misunderstood k3vin k's post + my posts were stupid, forgive my shitposting

jorge ben doesn't make sense on here to me, either

xp T

xp Turn The Beat Around by Peter Shapiro

Yeah, I'll definitely vote for this.

Having nominations allows discussion on albums before voting and might lead to people discovering albums to vote for.

^ this! I put the word CAMPAIGNING in the title for a reason, you know. I'd love to see videos of deep cuts or cool tracks you discovered from the album list.

Just by randomly searching for names and titles I already found these gems that I wouldn't have heard otherwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFbS5pJc1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUD4KSnR5v8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9lZG91cyY
(see, nominations DO work!)

Now That's What I Call Poll!

Of course this board has jumped on all the big cracks in the master list already, I would struggle with 10 new nominees at this point but I've got one off the top of my head that I will gleefully embed selections from presently

Edwin Birdsong - Supernatural (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhlUYCqCMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5r2fTKASY

if you only have a minute and twenty-one seconds to spare please spend it on that first cut, the chorus will convince you otherwise

wow @ mystic syster just upthread, wtf eddy grant who knew

This is legit one of my favorite songs of the 70s in any genre by any artist, and it's completely unheralded...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8_E_WRN2w

(Feel free to listen to and fall in love with Black Ruby, and then vote for it.)

Would be better if everyne used the shortened urls so they dont embed otherwise this thread will be impossible to open for some

Baby Huey - Hard Times
https://youtu.be/FFZ58rJiE4k

Linda Jones - Your Precious Love

https://youtu.be/ZY7fZ95XfMY

Prophecy fulfillment:

Betty Davis - Betty Davis
Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
Betty Davis - Nasty Gal

3/10

I'm curious as to how rigidly "soul" is being defined here. As with Off the Wall, I'm wondering how Donna Summer's first two records count as "soul" but her disco ones do not. I (or someone else) could easily nominate them, I suppose, but how strictly do *we* want to enforce a definition of "soul," is basically what I'm asking.

would it be disappointing if, hypothetically, a disco or funk record won the soul poll?

Yeah, maybe it should be a 1970's r'n'b albums poll?

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
Elvis Presley - That's the Way It Is
Chic - Risqué
The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas

5/10

Couldn't see these on the nominations list:

The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
The Jimmy Castor Bunch featuring The Everything Man - E-Man Groovin'
Beautiful Bend - Make That Feeling Come Again!
USA-European Connection - Come Into My Heart
Caress - Caress
First Choice - So Let Us Entertain You
Pleasure - Accept No Substitutes
Pleasure - Joyous
Fern Kinney - Groove Me
Donna Summer - Bad Girls

xxp I always lump Syreeta in with Minnie Riperton as a sort of spiritual soul that's just not for me. But I will relisten to that album before voting for sure. Digging Lou Ragland and Ace Spectrum from that list. Inner Spectrum is moving up the ranks of my hyperfalsetto favorites.

~~~ Nominations updated ~~~

I've given up on trying to listen to everything, because there's just SO MUCH good music here. I'm happy to have found some great albums already because of this thread, and voting hasn't even started!

Speaking of voting: I'm thinking of ballots with a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 100 albums.
Would it be OK if the top 25 of every ballot was weighted (say, #1 gets 30 points #2 gets 29... all the way to 6 points for #25) and everything below that unweighted, so that all the other votes on a ballot get 5 points?

I'm not sure what the consequences would be for the final results, but it would make counting definitely easier for me. Any thoughts?

Fine with that. Ranking after 25 in genre polls usually is sort of random. I like voting only for core favorites so the initial plan was to go just top 10 but I can see now that core favorites in this case really is 25 at minimum.

On the other hand, larger ballots might mean boring results. Don't know.

Yeah, larger ballots mean people will put consensus "classic albums" in the lower ranks instead of just listing their personal favourites... And with votes from everyone the consensus albums will rise to the top, and #1 will probably be "What's Going On", which does sound boring (and wrong).

Well, that happens with every big poll: the bottom 75% is usually much more interesting than the top 25%. And by having a minimum of 25, the people who only own five classic soul albums won't be able to vote.

I'm going to set up the voting form right now. Nominations close in less than an hour!

It's going to happen... Here's the

~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~ VOTING THREAD

I feel bad that I didn't get back here to nominate James Brown's Hot Pants. Great album. :(

Three more days to send in your ballot! Voting closes Sunday night.

VOTE HERE

And we're rolling:

PEOPLE... HOLD ON. It's the ~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~ results thread!

I know there were only a handful of original members there, but I really enjoyed the Valentines Soul Jam concert I saw February 12th with the Stylistics, Dramatics, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, and Intruders. Oh I got there a bit late and missed Cuba Gooding Sr.

Some great falsetto, harmonies and group choreographed dance moves. Stylistics and Blue Notes were the most impressive.

TRAX POLL

After the emo poll is done, OK?

sweet :)

And here it is:

Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL