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

Delighted to see this Commodores album place. They have a bunch of good records but this one is by far my favourite. One of my favourite albums of all time.

Pain is a really good album. I can never choose which is my fave era junie/westbound or the mercury era. Both were superb. One of the most underrated bands of all time.

Mandrill aren't gonna make it now, are they? :(

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118. Bee Gees - Main Course (1975)
33 points • 4 votes

Mandrill aren't gonna make it now, are they? :(

― Cosmic Slop,

Mandrill Is will definitely place. It has supporters on here.

Wonder how many Ohio Players albums will place? If I'd voted for any of them, I would have gone for Honey. That's easily my favourite.

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117. Isaac Hayes - Shaft (1971)
33 points • 5 votes

Surprised how low this is.

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116. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975)
34 points • 5 votes

I just listened to this on my way home. I should have given it more points.

It also has one of my favorite albums covers of this poll.

I've never heard this album. The only album I have by them is a singles compilation. I really should investigate them further.

Good to see Up For The Down Stroke place. Skin Tight and Pain too low - I suspect Pleasure will place the highest of all the OP records.

Commodores were at their best pre-1977, IMO.

Not surprised Shaft is so low - I actually find it incredibly overrated. Hayes made far better records. The theme is all-time, though.

I'm hoping the first two Mandrill albums place.

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115. Parliament - Chocolate City (1975)
34 points • 6 votes

Hmm. I've always thought of Chocolate City as a minor album in Parliament's discography. Not as good as Up For The Down Stroke, IMO.

Three classics in a row

Teddy is among the greats so it's irritating that he has no true magnum opus album-wise. All of them, including the Blue Notes stuff, are pretty good though.

116. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975) is the one I voted for.

Chocolate City is probably my joint fave Parliament album.

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114. Syreeta - Syreeta (1972)
35 points • 2 votes

Chocolate City is a great album. Some days Together is my favourite song of theirs.

Syreeta! I love this woman.

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113. The Soul Children - Friction (1974)
35 points • 2 votes • 1 number one

xpost to Cosmic Slop: what, really!?

TOO LOW

(my #1)

Side 1 of Chocolate City is one of the best things P-Funk ever put to tape

Wow, someone's number one? I'm the other (unranked) vote for it. I appreciate concept albums that don't embarrass themselves and this one has a really fun dynamic to it with different vocals getting to express their own fucked up jealousy scenarios.

High five to the other vote for Syreeta.

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112. The Temptations - All Directions (1972)
36 points • 2 votes

High five to the other vote for Syreeta.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

I had this Syreeta album pretty high on my list. I put her second album even higher.

There is obviously some essential Whitfield stuff but I much prefer the Ruffin/Smokey period.

I voted for the 'other' Syreeta album!

Enjoying this Blue Notes album, though there is some filler on there. Don't know them as an albums band. The title track is, of course, magnificent.

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111. Jorge Ben - Negro é lindo (1971)
36 points • 3 votes

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109 (TIE). Lou Bond - Lou Bond (1974)
36 points • 4 votes

If you haven't heard 'To the Establishment' yet, please drop everything NOW and take the next 11 minutes and 19 seconds to listen to this masterpiece. It's the single best thing I've discovered through this poll and I would never have heard it otherwise. So thank you to whoever mentioned Lou Bond on the nominations thread.

Next entry in 11:19...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7psjsGe6A3g

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109 (TIE). Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby (1975)
36 points • 4 votes

Damn forgot to vote for that Lou Bond album...

Last one for today:

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108. The Spinners - Pick of the Litter (1975)
36 points • 5 votes

Lovely album.

RECAP:

108. The Spinners - Pick of the Litter (1975) 36 points • 5 votes
109 (TIE). Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby (1975) 36 points • 4 votes
109 (TIE). Lou Bond - Lou Bond (1974) 36 points • 4 votes
111. Jorge Ben - Negro é lindo (1971) 36 points • 3 votes
112. The Temptations - All Directions (1972) 36 points • 2 votes
113. The Soul Children - Friction (1974) 35 points • 2 votes • 1 number one
114. Syreeta - Syreeta (1972) 35 points • 2 votes
115. Parliament - Chocolate City (1975) 34 points • 6 votes
116. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975) 34 points • 5 votes
117. Isaac Hayes - Shaft (1971) 33 points • 5 votes
118. Bee Gees - Main Course (1975) 33 points • 4 votes
119 (TIE). Commodores - Commodores [a.k.a. Zoom] (1977) 33 points • 3 votes
119 (TIE). Ohio Players - Pain (1972) 33 points • 3 votes
119 (TIE). WAR - War (1971) 33 points • 3 votes
122. Margie Joseph - Margie Joseph Makes a New Impression (1970) 33 points • 2 votes
123 (TIE). Andy Bey - Experience and Judgment (1974) 32 points • 3 votes
123 (TIE). Barry White - Can't Get Enough (1974) 32 points • 3 votes
125. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - I Miss You (1972) 32 points • 2 votes
126. The Delfonics - The Delfonics (1970) 31 points • 5 votes
127 (TIE). Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke (1974) 31 points • 4 votes
127 (TIE). Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan (1975) 31 points • 4 votes
129 (TIE). Earth, Wind & Fire - Gratitude (1975) 31 points • 2 votes
129 (TIE). Nina Simone - Emergency Ward! (1973) 31 points • 2 votes
131. The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get (1972) 30 points • 5 votes
132. Curtis Mayfield - Back to the World (1973) 30 points • 4 votes
133. Ohio Players - Skin Tight (1974) 30 points • 3 votes
134. Al Jarreau - We Got By (1975) 30 points • 1 vote • 1 number one
135. Caston & Majors - Caston & Majors (1974) 29 points • 3 votes
136. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - Maze (1977) 29 points • 2 votes
137. Van Morrison - Moondance (1970) 28 points • 2 votes
138 (TIE). Love Unlimited Orchestra - Rhapsody in White (1974) 28 points • 1 vote
138 (TIE). Noir - We Had to Let You Have It (1971) 28 points • 1 vote
138 (TIE). Ruby Andrews - Black Ruby (1972) 28 points • 1 vote

The Spinners are the same as Teddy with me. Top tier artist with no top tier albums. Gave them all the unranked vote. Honest I Do from this one is all time.

The Spinners' self-titled record is as top tier as it gets for me. It's nearly a Greatest Hits record all by itself.

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106 (TIE). Ohio Players - Pleasure (1972)
37 points • 2 votes

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106 (TIE). Ashford & Simpson - Is It Still Good to Ya (1978)
37 points • 2 votes

Bonus album highlight: the 12 inch mix of 'Flashback'

xxp cryptosicko

I want to agree with you but can't. The Green Grass cover is a mistake, the filler is not great and How Could I Let You Get Away was always a weird melody and lyric to me. The highlights are crazy high of course but it's not a top tier album imo.

Is It Still Good to Ya was top 5 on my list and this feels outrageously low. Had So So Satisfied in my top 10 as well but it seems unlikely to place now. I always liked Ashford and Simpson but it took relistening for this poll to make me realize I LOVE them. Sure, they are plenty histrionic and a bit Broadwayesque and I usually hate that but on those two albums it simply works. A husband and wife duo who are professional r'n'b songwriters just dedicating albums to their love. It's really unique. Shit like It Seems to Hang On and Maybe I Can Find It is overwhelmingly beautiful. The one album I can think of that is a kindred spirit is The xx debut. The background relationships are completely different obviously but that's a great "couple" album.

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105. Ohio Players - Fire (1974)
37 points • 3 votes

I just found out that Pleasure also had a great fold-out cover. Here it is:
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Any others I missed?

xxp myself

Womack and Womack is an obvious parallel but they are way more toxic. Same goes for Richard and Linda, the Go-Betweens, Fleetwood Mac and X. Delaney and Bonnie come the closest.

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104. The Meters - Fire on the Bayou (1975)
37 points • 4 votes