Could it be I'm POLLING in love? ~~~ ILM 70s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO TRACKS POLL ~~~ RESULTS THREAD!

but i did rush out a ballot inbetween bouts of ill so i have an excuse!

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123. Inner Life - I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)
212 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/uq6HQG-cce0

Love that Belle has done so well. That's the album of his I come back to the most.

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122. Commodores - Machine Gun
216 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/ho_Od3o9OLg

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121. The Stylistics - You Make Me Feel Brand New
219 points / 3 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/dJm51jsRoo0

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119 (TIE). Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
221 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/FscIgtDJFXg

119 (TIE). Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
221 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/V5AztWseIdU

Great to see the roll-out. Regret missing the polling period - was moving across the country!

136. Patti Jo - Make Me Believe in You

TOO LOW!

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118. The Spinners - It's a Shame
221 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/3ZP3UQ0ESLc

Everything placing after Patti Jo is TOO HIGH

It's a shame that song didn't make the top 100!!

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117. Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know-It-All
222 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/94_snrtKGt0

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116. Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
223 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/Zu9a29UR2dU

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115. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
223 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/w2jYjUiulMQ

"It's a Shame" was just one of a ridiculous number of Spinners tracks I voted for, so I really hope there is more to come.

Yay for Manu Dibango!

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114. Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
224 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/CCSvNZWpXaM

I was the other voter for Reasons, had it in my top ten--spectacular guitar and fierce vocal creating that euphoria

― human music...I like it! (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 5:18 PM (two hours ago)

Excellent work. It's one of my favourite album openers ever.

Great to see Machine Gun make it. I had another Commodores song really high on my list but I'm almost certain nobody else will have voted for it.

Love I Need Somebody to Love Tonight by Sylvester. That and Don't Stop are his two best songs for me.

I was just listening to Sweet Thing. They're such an underrated group. I voted for that and Tell Me Something Good.

You Ought to Be With Me is my favourite Al Green song.

Lots of other songs I'm happy to see here too.. and James Brown.

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113. War - The World Is a Ghetto
225 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/ptIcert_Ra8

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112. James Brown - The Payback
225 points / 4 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/IST6qRfVqwY

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111. Raydio - You Can't Change That
226 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/4kxpsvW2gAE

I was the #1 voter for "You Make Me Feel Brand New". Airrion Love sets it up, Thompkins, Jr. knocks it out the park.

Jogging back even further, how have I never heard MJ's "I Wanna Be Where You Are" before? Were those late 1971 recordings his secret peak? There's this, "Got To Be There" and his masterly version of "Ain't No Sunshine" just for starters.

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110. Blue Magic - Sideshow
226 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/eamL5JBdcM8

i know a ton of these just for being alive this long

Two very surprising choices in a row.

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109. The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power
228 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw

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108. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
228 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/LwjsVD23Z3E

Misstra Know It All has always been my favorite Stevie Wonder song.

Ha, was I really the only #1 vote for "The Payback"? I guess I have no real concept of what is canonical here.

I didn't vote because I hate these kind of open-ended genre polls in general but um yeah, how is that song not in the top 10, it's like the apex of JB singles.

The randomness is such that even when there's only 5 slots left, I have no idea how to predict them.

, it's like the apex of JB singles

I felt that way about Super Bad, yet it finished at 199.

The World Is A Ghetto is amazing. I voted for two other War songs that were also title tracks to their albums.

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107. Four Tops - Still Water (Love)
231 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/6NASl6heM

Too low! One of my favourite songs of all time.

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106. Stevie Wonder - Another Star
233 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/K9KKBvWTdMQ

Super Bad is great but it's "washing machine" rhythm is so unusual and distinct from the general blueprint of so much 70s soul/funk/disco, to me it's off in its own JB-centric galaxy. Whereas The Payback is a straight-up 4/4 funk monster that epitomizes a lot about the era.

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Another Star was my number 3.

Talk about euphoria.

Gah! Now that one really IS too low!

you guys favor a different aspect of Stevie than I do, that's for sure

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105. Syreeta - I'm Goin' Left
235 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/HgRljMF6eCE

The As/Another Star diptych at the end of Songs is the thrilling climax to Stevie's unimpeachable 70s run. It's where his singing, composing, and arranging skills combine with his deep love of God, music, and human beings to create 16 of the greatest minutes in music history.

It's impossible for me to separate them or vote for them anywhere outside the top five of a poll like this

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104. Edwin Starr - War
238 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/dQHUAJTZqF0

too high

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103. The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
239 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/36yBERG6V4U

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102. Sly & The Family Stone - Luv N' Haight
240 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/uJZHm5_i1vI

Voted for that one.

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101. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
240 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/tIdIqbv7SPo