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

"Rumors" is great but "Why You Treat Me So Bad" is superior in every way

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174. Michael Jackson - Beat It
259 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/oRdxUFDoQe0

fuckin love "Trapped"

"Rumors" is great but "Why You Treat Me So Bad" is superior in every way

― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, May 9, 2017

my man

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173. Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It
260 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/oGpFcHTxjZs

^^^^ Tina Turner is a goddess

I voted for Typical Male but this song is inexorable.

I am mad that my first reaction was "Consolidated is neither R&B nor 80s"

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171 (TIE). Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy
261 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/4CIKNOiajU4

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171 (TIE). Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
261 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/eH3giaIzONA

ahhh "He's So Shy" -- one of my songs influenced by "What a Fool Believes."

Clouds Across the Moon is such a gorgeous oddity

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170. Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
269 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/PivWY9wn5ps

Clouds Across the Moon is such a gorgeous oddity

― i know kore-eda (or something)

Yeah, Clouds Across the Moon is so great. It's such an incredibly sad story and vocal performance. I was playing it obsessively this time last year.

I played my copy of "Promised Land" to a friend last year, without telling her what I was putting on. As soon as the bassline kicked in, she burst into tears.

^^I did the same when Derrick May dropped it at Bugged Out around 15 years ago

"promised land" is perfect. i cut it of course

"i wanna dance with somebody" being this low is encouraging

Clouds Across the Moon is an incredible tune; airy, sad, pretty, groovy, all in one otherworldly melange. The album it's from is pretty great too, though obviously nothing on it else can quite touch Clouds...

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169. Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long) aka Tuch Me
269 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/-a4LaNhtePk

too low

i'm on a plane, someone link to the dance scene from nightmare 2

I can't decide whether I like this version as much as Cathy Dennis'.

PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP) at 12:29 10 May 17

I am mad that my first reaction was "Consolidated is neither R&B nor 80s"

There's a Grace Jones cover version of that Consolidated tune that could possibly fit the '90s version of this poll.

Wow, Fonda Rae too! Looks like half of my ballot is placing in this stretch of the list. I guess it's better than not placing at all, but I still hope the top 100 won't be all dominated by big name artists.

i ranked big name artists highly because their music is better

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168. Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)
275 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/14b-BASNVdI

Really? What a weird argument. Of course I think, say, Prince is better in general than the Joubert Singers, or Jones Girls, or the RAH Band, or Fonda Rae, because he's released more great songs than any of them. But the individual tunes in this poll by those artists are still just as good as anything Prince did.

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all I'm saying is the Gap Band is awesome and I've never heard of the Joubert Singers

gettt freshhhhh at the weeeekend

Brad, are you on plane wi-fi??

Racing through a lot of titles I half-expected to place in the top 40 (Pointers, Tina, MJ, Whitney).

Find it rather odd that in some parts of the world hi-NRG is considered R&B.

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167. Indeep - Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life
276 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/GtfZbj4J71A

Fun tune and it's funny to play when you're DJing, but kinda too noveltyish in the long run. It certainly shouldn't have ranked higher than some of the stuff right below it.

MEL. AND. KIM. That song is massive and just amazing.

i'm on a plane, someone link to the dance scene from nightmare 2

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, May 9, 2017 4:58 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuuuuuuuuuck, how did I fail to realize that's what that song was?

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166. Prince - Baby I'm a Star
280 points, 4 votes

i'm on a plane, someone link to the dance scene from nightmare 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkSO7FOtYaY

Fucking hell, I love this decade.

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165. Company B - Fascinated
280 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/-b-6ksMdkrU

hard for me to hear "Fascinated," as great as this is, as R&B.

It would make the top ten if not five of my freestyle list though

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164. Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
281 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/Xu-gYmOyRi4

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163. Prince - I Would Die 4 U
281 points, 6 votes, 1 number one

My #1. WTF people?

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162. Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven
282 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/UMpACxYoPEM

I ended up cutting "I Would Die 4 U" from my ballot, but I still voted for 6 Prince songs.

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161. Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
283 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/a2vdI5I7VvY

I didn't vote for this because of some arbitrary inclusion criteria I made up but obv it's classic

The Levan mix of Seventh Heaven (dunno if I've heard the original) is amazing

It passed my criteria and I voted for it.

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160. Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle
283 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/Q-gu1KETjVY

The only Janet song I voted for, although I suppressed my enthusiasm.

"Seventh Heaven" is transcendent, like when you're on your bike and it feels like flight