A POLL Bizarre ~~~ It's the ILM 80's R&B TRACKS POLL ~~~ RESULTS THREAD!!!

Yeah, I also thought "Beat The Street" would be much higher. Such a key track at the time.

(argh! just noticed that, while I nominated "Let's Go All The Way," I actually forgot to vote for it! thanks to the five of you who picked up my slack!)

"every little step" was my highest ranking babyface/reid track, everything they do well done so sweetly and lightly

https://img.discogs.com/zcgGt3T4CBa8Mjq5MuVdkZFcRQQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3218584-1451215706-8356.jpeg.jpg
230. Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now
203 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/bRXnRwm-njM

Wtf at "Every Little Step" placing that low?!

wtf at "if you think you're lonely now" placing this low

a lot of my ballot getting cleared out early lol

https://img.discogs.com/NsdJ8TzP7DTGTiwnMmZ8Sq5URl0=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7141064-1434740522-9094.jpeg.jpg
229. Womack & Womack - Love Wars
205 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/hmda4Ccyz3Q

i love this song so much

Woah, figured that would be top 50 at least.

https://img.discogs.com/aGTN8e2shp4od_HYwy71uWVmcFY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2555200-1291160844.jpeg.jpg
228. Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
206 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/9f16Fw_K45s

https://img.discogs.com/HclCSa4XOGz_OFKlX-NAlFBMVoE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-767726-1242817673.jpeg.jpg
227. Whispers - Keep On Lovin' Me
208 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/d6aRvVTSC0I

'Symptoms of True Love' was #4 on my ballot. It's a tragedy that it placed so low, but if its appearance here elevates the profile of that gargantuan track, I'll take it.

Also voted for 'The Breaks'. Feel like Sugar Hill joints were often more a melange of subgenres than straight-up rap.

operation hell on earth, never forget

LOVE WARS an amazing album, all of it.

Kashif too low

https://img.discogs.com/sMorPx5DxZI4LaGHqSKS9sICvgo=/fit-in/600x606/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1495331-1249547981.jpeg.jpg
226. Irene Cara - Flashdance... What a Feeling
208 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/ILWSp0m9G2U

https://img.discogs.com/CA6p4JPbSzinzrwgZFWSxBKjuXE=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3430475-1338979687-3199.jpeg.jpg
225. Michael Jackson - Baby Be Mine
209 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/uaV4SSLaTs8

Wish more MJ followed this template...

'BABY BE MINE' TOO LOW! But I was worried about vote splitting wrt that album so I'm glad it's here at all (we probably should've just collectively agreed to give 'the complete '80s works of Prince' and 'the entire Thriller album except 'The Girl is Mine'' the top two spots and worked from there).

Old Lunch otm

https://img.discogs.com/l8NMO3qG6J4bk-4NfLDClmwIBQs=/fit-in/447x444/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3851307-1346868752-8360.jpeg.jpg
224. Michael Jackson - Thriller
214 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA

https://img.discogs.com/9nqaLbvNVioa-70gUbyspic17t8=/fit-in/600x607/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1214249-1201215699.jpeg.jpg
223. George Michael - Careless Whisper
215 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/izGwDsrQ1eQ

Sorry, wrong link:
https://youtu.be/ui_CNb4FUtQ

https://img.discogs.com/MGrUrx3DceMIkh99RtxJN_8D2ts=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2975070-1454211584-4056.jpeg.jpg
222. Teddy Pendergrass - Love T.K.O.
216 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/rV9VuPkIIv4

Teddy Pendergrass' beard was something else

Always feel like Thriller the song us way underrated

I don't dislike "Thriller," but I always kind of felt it existed mostly to soundtrack the video.

i guess it's appropriate that "love tko" placed this close to "love wars" since they're both womack & womack tunes but still TOO LOW

https://img.discogs.com/DkU6RpUMGsEBV2bNK3E-81WF_uI=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1725802-1356529275-4514.jpeg.jpg
221. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
216 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ

much as busting makes me feel good, too high

crazy low

if this means the six or seven other worthwhile RP Jr. songs outranked it, it's good

Last one for today:

https://img.discogs.com/66FajELmAJt95A-CfAccvoaaAEU=/fit-in/600x580/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7975687-1452769408-6443.jpeg.jpg
220. Michael Jackson - Another Part of Me
217 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/8vwHQNQ88cM

is Teddy's arm in a sling?

wow Princess is way way too low but then i didn't vote so mustn't complain. looking forward to the rest of this.

I'm fairly pleased by the results so far, especially the modest placements of tunes that weren't R&B as I knew it (white suburban teen listening to a "black music" radio station in the wee hours). Six voters ranking "Ghostbusters" as their 64th favorite R&B tune of the 80s (on average), however, calls for reeducation camps.

Lol

if this means the six or seven other worthwhile RP Jr. songs outranked it, it's good

I'm still upset that I didn't nominate Raydio's There's More Than One Way To Love a Woman for the 70s poll. I thought it came out in 80. That's his Stairway To Heaven.

I love 'Ghostbusters' for what it is, but it was never gonna make my ballot.

I wasn’t on the poster, I wasn’t in the trailer. I'm not surprised.

Shit, forgot to nominate Boz Scaggs. Judging by the 70's poll you savages don't care but I felt it needed to be mentioned. JOJO DIG THOSE SPINNING LIGHTS!

https://img.discogs.com/ViOzHxdM6vZwPaqeRFzoqoY5yS0=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-540570-1139377216.jpeg.jpg
219. George Michael - A Different Corner
217 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/IPWHkK-_a_A

https://img.discogs.com/dR85TWSZy7c4bdHms8Fb159Q02k=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-527423-1401814331-3918.jpeg.jpg
217 (TIE). Bobby Brown - On Our Own
218 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/DaIZvCDWAcQ

https://img.discogs.com/ZJ3Pak5jioaqQf2HoNZJClyVZpM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-56385-1116402563.jpg.jpg
217 (TIE). Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
218 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/MdC2jPPxAwk

https://img.discogs.com/X92imyXqZcWcANWCOtdMGNH9oW8=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8435252-1461535496-2701.jpeg.jpg
216. Madonna - Crazy for You
220 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/Zn5OJGucveg

I voted for "Let's Go All the Way". I always loved it. Saw the video for the first time today, they look as goofy as I imagined.

Also voted for it, also loved it, had only seen them once before (on Top of the Pops about 30 years ago), also saw the video for the first time at the weekend....they looked *much* goofier than I imagined

i know nothing about imagination and "changes" is quite something. will def be looking out for more of them.

i do find "thriller" the song underrated myself. i mostly experienced it separately from the video as a young'n and upon finally seeing the video didn't really understand what all the fuss was about (other than that it obviously cost a lot).

i do not consider "ghostbusters" good by any measure. i mean it was cute to see it pop up in the noms but that's about it.

please feel free to throw rotten veggies at me for saying this but i do hope the results are not too overrun by dubious fits recorded by white appreciator-appropriators

like it's good/cool to acknowledge that a lot of music in supposedly different formats of the commercial sector basically were indistinguishable from what r&b's innovators were producing. but to reward it over the people who basically had little choice but to innovate in order to be competitive in the marketplace? :\

anyway time to sleep, will be looking forward to more!

https://img.discogs.com/PLyX8OSMZMFVIfjk5eOysYX6htY=/fit-in/483x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6275441-1416492321-2926.jpeg.jpg
215. Klymaxx - The Men All Pause
221 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/34QVPwRLRKU

Excellent!