Wanna Be POLLIN' Somethin' ~~~ It's the ILM 80's R&B TRACKS POLL! ~~~

What does Chic's 26 mean btw?

I know :) I'm asking about the lyric.

My baby's a 26 always sounded like innuendo to me.

Whatever we can do to get more ballots this time I'm all for.

Released in 1978 (and number 17 on the 70's poll), so not eligible here.

Whoops, my bad.

I've always thought I was more about '70s R&B than '80s, but already the nominees are telling me it's actually the reverse.

More accurately, I'm MOST into R&B from about 1976-1984.

^ just a fantastic era

Whatever we can do to get more ballots this time I'm all for.

Innuendo wtev I'm in. Gutted to miss the 70s one.

George Clinton - Atomic Dog
George Clinton - Free Alterations
Raydio - A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)
Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

I'm not nearly as familiar with this era as the 70s, so I'm looking forward to listening. I'll try to cobble a ballot together that isn't just "Here are all the best Prince songs"

Change - A Lover's Holiday
Sharon Redd - Never Give You Up
Sharon Redd - Beat the Street
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
Womack & Womack - A.P.B.
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter
Sade - Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Exposé - Point of No Return

Aurra – Such A Feeling
George Benson – Inside Love
The Limit – She's So Divine
The Whispers – This Kind of Lovin'
The Whispers – Keep On Lovin' Me

Morris Day & The Time - Jungle Love
Morris Day & The Time - The Bird
Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
Sade - Smooth Operator
Sade - Paradise
Sade - Is It A Crime?
Sade - Your Love is King
Sade - Never As Good As The First Time
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Prince - Strange Relationship
Prince - Condition of the Heart
Prince - Private Joy

Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Chaka Khan - Through The Fire

Chic - Rebels Are We
Funkadelic - Electro-Cuties

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Chic - You Can't Do It Alone

Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

Gayle Adams - Love Fever
Patrice Rushen - Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)
Chemise - She Can't Love You
Rainbow Brown - Till You Surrender
Fonda Rae - Over Like A Fat Rat
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls
Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters

Thank you for this

"Beat It" is not an R&B song imo

it went #1 on the r&b charts (tho yes, it scaled the pop charts first). charting at all on the r&b side is more than some other nominees, like exposé's "point of no return" (even tho freestyle is def part of the r&b realm sonically), can say.

in any case i feel like if the fit seems questionable to people voting, even if they really like the song, it won't tend to get enough votes to place. so there's probably no reason to revoke nominations except for release date.

not that charting history means that much anyways. mj's "human nature" also didn't chart r&b at all but today it would certainly be considered more r&b than "beat it" (and is also most likely to be played on r&b stations today).

anyways really excited for this, lemme throw some noms together :)

I'm barely keeping myself from nominating Holiday, which is probably my favorite disco ever but the world decided dance-pop isn't r'n'b at some point so whatever. Same with ABC.

Maybe the Holiday Rap? Best of both worlds :)

Gonna wait til this settles down and the spreadsheet is up and running before nominating but this is already impossible

1980s soul
A Taste of Honey - Rescue Me
Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love
Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
Bobby Womack - Tell Me Why
C-Bank - One More Shot
Cameo - Single Life
Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Crusaders w/ Bill Withers - Soul Shadows
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Dennis Edwards -Don’t Look Any Further
Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat
Defunkt - Avoid The Funk
Deniece Williams - It’s Gonna Take A Miracle
Donna Summer - State of Independence
ESG -You’re No Good
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two of Us
Inner City - Big Fun
James Brown - Don’t Stop The Funk
James Brown - Rapp Payback
James Brown- Bring It On
Junie - Rappin About Rappin
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy
Linx - You’re Lying
Manhattans - Shining Star
Marvin Gaye - Turn On Some Music
Material/Nona Hendryx - Bustin Out
Material - Memories
MFSB - Mysteries Of The World
Neville Brothers - Sister Rosa
Parliament - Trombipulation
Peech Boys - Life Is Something Special
Prince - How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
Professor Longhair - Cry To Me
Quincy Jones - Just Once
Roger - So Ruff So Tuff
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody
Skipworth and Turner - Thinking About Your Love
Smokey Robinson - Let Me Be The Clock
Syl Johnson - Ms. Fine Brown Frame
Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Tom Browne - Funkin’ For Jamaica
Tramaine Hawkins - Fall Down Spirit of Love
Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
Yarborough and Peoples - Don’t Stop The Music
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

A Taste of Honey - Rescue Me
Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love
Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
Bobby Womack - Tell Me Why
C-Bank - One More Shot
Cameo - Single Life
Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Crusaders w/ Bill Withers - Soul Shadows
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Dennis Edwards -Don’t Look Any Further
Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat
Defunkt - Avoid The Funk
Deniece Williams - It’s Gonna Take A Miracle
Donna Summer - State of Independence
ESG -You’re No Good
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two of Us
Inner City - Big Fun
James Brown - Don’t Stop The Funk
James Brown - Rapp Payback
James Brown- Bring It On
Junie - Rappin About Rappin
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy
Linx - You’re Lying
Manhattans - Shining Star
Marvin Gaye - Turn On Some Music
Material/Nona Hendryx - Bustin Out
Material - Memories
MFSB - Mysteries Of The World
Neville Brothers - Sister Rosa
Parliament - Trombipulation
Peech Boys - Life Is Something Special
Prince - How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
Professor Longhair - Cry To Me
Quincy Jones - Just Once
Roger - So Ruff So Tuff
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody
Skipworth and Turner - Thinking About Your Love
Smokey Robinson - Let Me Be The Clock
Syl Johnson - Ms. Fine Brown Frame
Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Tom Browne - Funkin’ For Jamaica
Tramaine Hawkins - Fall Down Spirit of Love
Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
Yarborough and Peoples - Don’t Stop The Music
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

Whoops sorry about that

Please use ctrl f people. There were some issues with double nominations and small spelling differences in the last poll.

In My House - Mary Jane Girls

so uh are we excluding rap titles from consideration here

like i want to nominate e.g. newcleus - jam on it

i know there's a tendency to separate r&b and rap based on their vocals but considering the two have basically coevolved thruout the latter's entire existence i feel it would be a ridiculous omission esp. since rap titles tended to percolate thru the same spaces (radio/venues/retailers etc.) commercially. the commercial format of r&b, which did include rap, is more easily pinned down than nebulous genre definitions of r&b anyhow.

(pretty much all of the rap songs i want to nominate were hits on the r&b charts btw)

This will become a significantly less interesting poll if we include rap (whereas it would become even more interesting if we include dance pop but that's just me).

Stevie Wonder - All I Do
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me
Debarge - Time Will Reveal
Debarge - A Dream
Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top (Give It All You Got)
Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed
Loose Ends - Hangin' on a String
Chic - Flash Back
Odyssey - Native New Yorker
Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up
Ednah Holt - Serious, Sirius Space Party

Well, "Rapper's Delight" made the '70s poll so ... ?

"Jam On It" reads as much electro R&B as it does rap, tho.

Native New Yorker is from 1977.

"jam on it" deserves to be nominated yes absolutely

"Jam On It" reads as much electro R&B as it does rap, tho.

this is what i mean by nebulous genre definitions (even tho i agree w/ the statement!). like where is the line drawn between electro r&b w/ largely rapped vocals (or no vocals) and actual rap? is it whodini's "friends"? j.j. fad's "supersonic"?

I'm the wrong one to ask, I think dance music is always at a disadvantage on ILM and if I can stack the deck in boogie's favor somehow, I'm likely to do it.

Rene & Angela - Your Smile
Pasadenas - Tribute (Right On)
Whispers - Rock Steady
Gavin Christopher - One Step Closer To You
ZZ Hill - Cheating In The Next Room
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'

I've had "Jam On It" on every list of the '80s I car eto name.

My go-to station on satellite radio is the Groove, which is basically this poll in real time. Random sample from earlier today:

Search results 1 to 50 of 711 total matches Next
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Channel Artist Title Date Time
50 Chic Good Times 4/18/2017 8:42:34 PM
50 Chuckii Booker Turned Away 4/18/2017 8:36:56 PM
50 System Don't Disturb This Groove 4/18/2017 8:34:01 PM
50 Kashif I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn M 4/18/2017 8:27:53 PM
50 The Groove SiriusXM 4/18/2017 8:27:43 PM
50 Maze featuring Frankie Beverly Back In Stride 4/18/2017 8:23:45 PM
50 Jermaine & Michael Jackson Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming 4/18/2017 8:19:43 PM
50 Evelyn "Champagne" King Shame 4/18/2017 8:13:23 PM
50 Sade Paradise 4/18/2017 8:09:56 PM
50 O'Jays Give The People What They Want 4/18/2017 8:05:54 PM
50 Bobby Brown My Prerogative 4/18/2017 8:01:32 PM
50 Sirius XM The Groove 4/18/2017 8:01:11 PM
50 Jody Watley Real Love 4/18/2017 7:57:12 PM
50 K.C. & The Sunshine Band Get Down Tonight (Long Version) 4/18/2017 7:52:03 PM
50 D Train Keep Giving Me Love 4/18/2017 7:45:12 PM
50 Stevie Wonder Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing 4/18/2017 7:41:23 PM
50 Gerald Levert Just Coolin' ` 4/18/2017 7:38:01 PM
50 Gap Band You Dropped A Bomb On Me 4/18/2017 7:32:13 PM
50 The Groove Old School R&B 4/18/2017 7:32:02 PM
50 One Way Cutie Pie 4/18/2017 7:26:44 PM
50 Chaka Khan I Feel For You 4/18/2017 7:21:01 PM
50 Linda Clifford Runaway Love 4/18/2017 7:14:13 PM
50 The Groove SiriusXM 4/18/2017 7:14:02 PM
50 Commodores Sweet Love 4/18/2017 7:07:44 PM
50 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Let The Beat Hit'em (91) 4/18/2017 7:04:02 PM
50 Change Paradise 4/18/

And so on.

Junior - Mama Used To Say
Cheri - Murphy's Law
Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
Al B Sure - Off on Your Own (Girl)

Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
Hall and Oates - I Can't Go For That
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
Chaka Khan - What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen

I listed "Mama Used to Say" upthread: a huge hit in England, #2 on te black chart, but like so many R&B hits of the era a dud on the pop chart.

Here's where I recommend The Blerb Radio Podcast, in which Thomas Inskeep and Michael Heyliger discuss every #1 and #2 of the eighties R&B chart.

http://blerdradio.libsyn.com/

Mtume – You Can't Wait For Love
High Fashion – Feelin' Lucky Lately
Starpoint – Satisfy Me Lover
Shalamar – I Owe You One
Imagination – Changes
D-Train – Keep On

George Benson - Turn Your Love Around
George Benson - Give Me The Night
Grover Washington - Just The Two Of Us

Egyptian Lover should count, no?

If so:

Egyptian Lover - I Cry (Night After Night)
Egyptian Lover - My House (On The Nile)
Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt

The Junkyard Band - Sardines

Larry Graham -One in A Million You
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect
Staple Singers - Slippery People

3 more tracks and we've got exactly 1100 nominations!

Someone wants to create a Spotify playlist before I start the voting thread tomorrow morning? You can make it collaborative so that you don't have to do all the work yourself.

The Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band – On The Beat
Heatwave – Lettin' It Loose
Letta Mbulu – Nomalizo

I knew I could count on someone to think of 3 more songs.

A few more noms while there's still time:

Adele Bertei - Build Me a Bridge
Cameo - Shake Your Pants
Cerrone - You Are the One
France Joli - Gonna Get Over You
The Gap Band - Humpin'
Jocelyn Brown - Picking Up Promises
Midnight Star - Victory
Village People - Sex Over the Phone

Midnight Star - Electricity

I'm compiling a Spotify playlist now. Here's the link:

https://open.spotify.com/user/thewufs/playlist/4jSmIgdwqmrxpDVi6wCPGi

Feel free to add as I've only gotten to the letter "D" on ArchCarrier's list from a few days ago.

Ok I'm throwing in a few more by Uncle Jam:

George Clinton - Get Dressed
George Clinton - One Fun at a Time
George Clinton - Nubian Nut

Alexander O'Neal - (What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me

Stanning for the funk:

Tom Browne - Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move)
Stone City Band - Freaky
The Bar-Kays - Freaky Behavior
Kabbala - Ashewo Ara
Zapp - Playin' Kinda Ruff
Ronnie Hudson and the Street People - West Coast Poplock
Bar-Kays - Do It (Let Me See You Shake)
Jermaine Jackson - Let Me Tickle Your Fancy
Tara - Fresh Flesh
D Train - You're the One for Me (Labor of Love Mix)
TZ - I Got the Hots For You
Westwood Cash - Psycho for your Love
D Train - Music
Prince Charles - Cash (Cash Money)
Bar-Kays - She Talks to Me with her Body
Caprice - 100%
Friction - Bar-B-Q
Circle City Band - Party Lights (Shake Your Body Get Loose)
Cat Miller - Ready or Not (UK Remix)
Val Young - Seduction
Andre Cymone - The Dance Electric
Maceo and the Macks - Cross the Track (We Better Go Back)
Deborah Allen - Telepathy (Club Mix)

BTW, I refuse to vote for ballads. Radio Behavioral Sink is 100% boogie.

Fuck it, 2 more from Victory:

Jacksons - Wait
Jacksons - Body

Herbie Hancock – Magic Number
Herbie Hancock – Gettin' To The Good Part
Brothers Johnson – Light Up The Night
Fatback Band – Double Love Affair
Fantasy – You're Too Late
Aurra – Send Your Love
Deodato – Skatin'
Johnny Gill – Super Love
Egyptian Lover – Freak-A-Holic

Alias - Shake
Ben E King - Street Tough
Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
The Jets - Make it Real
Sexual Harrassment - I Need a Freak

Tom Browne - Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move)

OMG, thank you for nominating this!

Fatback Band - Is This the Future?
Herbie Hancock - Lite Me Up
Klymaxx - Man Size Love

Boris Midney - A Child Is Born
Erotic Drum Band - Horny

Slave - Stone Jam
Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger Part I

Stacy Lattisaw - Let Me Be Your Angel

Earth Wind & Fire - And Love Goes On

--- NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED ---

And here it is:

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