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

My word what a run of albums. I Kendricks was my number two. 'Just Memories' destroys me.
Don't know the O'Jays at all, really. Damn this roll out is great.

Hooray for Syreeta. I'm tempted to say too low as it was my number one but honestly I never expected her to place this high. One of my favourite albums of any genre or any decade. A perfect album in every single way.

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19. Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974)
107 points • 6 votes • 1 number one

Yes.

Fresh is my favourite Sly album.

Forgot to mention an album highlight for Syreeta (my parents-in-law are visiting, and I have to sneak out every 15-20 minutes to post a new album), but the two opening tracks are so very good.

Here's a surprise:

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18. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (1974)
110 points • 8 votes

xp
also "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" is HEAVY

I was hoping that somehow Maggot Brain wouldn't end up being the highest P Funk album on the list but it's looking very likely now unless Mothership Connection can do it.

Oops, that's the cover of the reissue. Here's the original one:

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That is a surprise. I totally forgot about Shuggie being a contender even though I'm sure I voted for him.

i never really got the appeal of inspiration information, it's okay i guess but i don't really think is a 70s soul classic. the reissuing thing seemed to cement it as such but idgi

lol idk im listening now and it is kind of hitting the spot. been a while since i last played it

It's a rainy day in NYC, perfect conditions for some Shuggie

i think it was more like this standard reissue off-the-mark hype description of it as this "lost psychedelic soul rock classic" in the vein of jimi and it is actually a pretty sparse, spacious, and minimal soul album. maybe that's why i remember being not quite satisfied but listening now and taking it on its own terms it is pretty great

I tried to get into those Syreeta albums recently and was surprised that I didn't like them at all

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17. Bill Withers - Still Bill (1972)
111 points • 8 votes

I love and voted for Shuggie but it does feel like it exists in a different universe to all these great albums that people actually listened to in the 70s.

Donnie and Joe Emerson for #1?

17. Bill Withers - Still Bill (1972)
111 points • 8 votes

Beautiful record. I love this pastoral, angry R&B.

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16. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3 (1973)
117 points • 10 votes

I love the Shuggie album - particularly the reissue that includes the heavenly 13-minute 'Freedom Flight'.

prefer The Heat is On but mid '70s Isleys was a band of amazing consistency/

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15. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (1976)
124 points • 7 votes

^ surprised!!

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14. Parliament - Mothership Connection (1975)
124 points • 12 votes

Buzzard was number two on my ballot. Nothing like it.

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13. Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You (1972)
135 points • 9 votes • 1 number one

Are you finishing tonight?

Yes!

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12. The Stylistics - The Stylistics (1971)
164 points • 9 votes

^ my number 2.

Album highlights:
'People Make The World Go Round'
'Betcha By Golly, Wow'
'Country Living'
'You Are Everything'

Yay, Mandrill Is!

Good to see Standing On the Verge of Getting It On this high up - it was going to be my #1.

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11. Chic - C'est Chic (1978)
164 points • 10 votes

Album highlight:
'I Want Your Love'

We are firmly in the boring section now. I can think of nine shoo-ins which leaves one wildcard.

OK, boring pick #1:

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10. Al Green - Call Me (1973)
164 points • 11 votes

nothing boring about that album

Good album but I'm not sure why people prefer it to I'm Still In Love With You (if only slightly).

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9. Chic - Risqué (1979)
179 points • 13 votes

Prefer the highlights on We Are Family and C'est Chic but this is the Edwards/Rodgers album.

the best one that is.

The placebo syndrome strikes!

I like both of those Chic albums, but both are way too high.

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8. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
188 points • 11 votes

TOO HIGH

just right tbh dunno what all these revisionists are talking about

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7. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (1979)
236 points • 14 votes