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

This song is charming (I didn't vote for it), but I have friends who recoil from it.

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133. Change - Paradise
319 points, 6 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ZoYxwucci2Q

I was stuck between "Paradise" vs "Miracles" vs "The GLow of Love."

A great place to be stuck.

Kind of a lot of nimby-pimby pop in the last spate tbh, but they're also songs I love so shrug.gif

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132. Herbie Hancock - Rockit
319 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/GHhD4PD75zY

Had to vote for Paradise *and* Glow of Love. Heard both of them out at the Liverpool disco festivalue at the weekend and they still slay

yeah i voted for both of those but agonized over their placement. i fucking love change

A Lover's Holiday and Searching were painful cuts too

the first Change album is a top 50 all time keeper in the Soto canon.

David Bowie's awful, wooden and unfunky attempt at R&B depressed me for a little while, but all the following 4 entries are stone gold classics, so yay! (Though maybe "Rockit" is a bit out of place in this poll?) Especially "Use It Up and Wear It Out"; like I said in the nomimation thread, it's an incredible and unique song in the disco canon, musically and lyrically.

But still, I'll never understand why some folks would vote for that Bowie song in a poll like this? It's just so... stiff, and unconvincing. It doesn't really sound like he wants to dance at all!

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131. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall in Love
322 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc

spring '90 this one, no?

There will always be people who just vote for Bowie in everything. "Let's Dance" in an 80s R&B poll isn't among the more objectionable manifestations of this phenomenon afaic

Tho I prefer some of his Labyrinth songs tbh

"Underground"?

spring '90 this one, no?

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 8:11 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

single, yes. album came out in '89. i voted for it anyway

xp "As The World Falls Down" is pretty slinky iirc

The Jane Child album was released in late '89, fwiw.

I honestly think 'Don't Wanna Fall In Love' is maybe among the five best pop singles released in my lifetime. It feels like a bit of a stretch to call it R&B, so I couldn't put it at the top of my ballot, but it was very close.

The first half of 1990 was the epitome of radio pop music for me, so I'm cool making some allowances

young Eric blasting the cassingle of "I'll Be Your Everything"

Jane Child, who introduced the nose ring to young Lord Sotosyn

xpost Young Old Lunch right there beside him! I shoplifted some amazing cassingles that year.

I shoplifted "No Myth"!

I swiped a bath bead from Pier 1

is that what you did on Sunday?

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130. Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared of You
323 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/NAG-Ec4b-zw

eternal jam

xp danced to "Mercedes Boy"

I'l say it again: who needs Shoot Out the Lights when Love Wars exists?

that Levan comp released in 2006 was a key gateway for me

Yeah, I was already familiar with a lot of those tracks, but the comp helped crystallize the Levan aesthetic for me: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/larry-levan-journey-into-paradise-the-larry-levan-story

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129. The System - Don't Disturb This Groove
324 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/0wqUDylYcnY

such a perfect summer electrogroove. Don't disturb it.

TOO LOW

Voted for two System tracks off the first album, nearly went for a third. They are bang on the mark with everything I love from 1983.

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128. Fonda Rae - Over Like a Fat Rat
325 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/gQSFlZ2oXCA

Hey, I think a mistake was made. The ranking for 'Don't Disturb This Groove' has three digits, which is probably two more digits than it should have. You might want to reassess your methodology, thx!

Like, I can't even think of 128 songs from all of the songs recorded in the '80s that I prefer to 'Don't Disturb This Groove'. What is this world even.

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127. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy
325 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/fLf6MIdE1BE

I can't think of many lines as vicious as "Cause if I was in your blood, then you wouldn't be so ugly."

I'd have to double check, but I'm pretty sure I cut all of the Kid Creole from my final ballot (one track might have survived). Which was painful, because it's fantastic, but it just doesn't scan as R&B to me, for the most part.

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126. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force - I Wonder if I Take You Home
325 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/UJLhG8YKbII

I once did a karaoke version of "Annie..." Kick ass too.

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125. Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
327 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/xF77Y1JLScc

well i talk about it talk about it talk about it talk about it

how is "Don't Disturb This Groove" not in the top 50

ditto "Funkytown", "I Wonder If I Take You Home" (aka the BEST Lisa Lisa song) and "Let's Hear It For The Boy"

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124. Prince - Pop Life
327 points, 6 votes, 1 number one

Yeah, 'Let's Hear It For The Boy' is another that I'm shocked to see so low. I don't even know, man.

'Pop Life' though! I'm happy to see any Prince pop up anywhere it pops up, as I figured most of his stuff got vote split into oblivion.

Didn't realize there was such love for "Don't Disturb This Groove." Was a blind spot for me until now.