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

Look, I love a lot of these songs but ... how much more corny and further away from, like, René & Angela is this going to get?

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 10:56 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh?

HUH. I totally missed that Carly Simon song in the nominations, I guess, because I considered nominating it myself. I really don't like her for the most part, but that song has a dece groove, at least. BUT...wtf is it doing that high in the results, people.

it's a great chic org track

https://img.discogs.com/EjYb6A2dc7vEXUGMgDxI0x4lByY=/fit-in/539x527/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-579080-1361659235-5444.jpeg.jpg
119. Mary Jane Girls - In My House
332 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/0jhf0NeyRfE

i mean i didn't vote for it but

"in my house" however, whew, what a song

I voted for all three of the big Kid Creole hits. Tropical Gangsters is one of the most underrated albums ever.

I'm surprised Absolute is so low. It was my number four. One of the best produced songs I know.

https://img.discogs.com/hLjqZqLFFimWOeOCkIt-a0JHXU4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7690671-1446822344-3754.jpeg.jpg
118. Prince - Dirty Mind
334 points, 6 votes

i excised all scritti from my ballot on a whim of "i feel weird prioritizing them in this particular poll"

hope "perfect way" will do good anyway

xp OK, can't argue that one, tho I did end up cutting it.

https://img.discogs.com/gSgtoPA3aQogVfoBX66Xs-KxbRs=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7804614-1449135525-4441.jpeg.jpg
117. Midnight Star - Freak-a-Zoid
340 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/5wJWuaPR0Lo

HOW IS THIS NOT IN THE TOP 50

dammit I should have voted

my fav midnight star song

https://img.discogs.com/3uYSBV94-SvPAia9ZHZNbT3V6VY=/fit-in/576x566/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-40702-1208017160.jpeg.jpg
116. The Time - Jungle Love
340 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/N2FPQvwhSDY

I'll be your freak-a-zoid, come on and wind me up!

Incredible tune, this one and Warp 9 were the only electro I think I voted, cos they feel more R&B than, say, "Rockit".

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Oh no, actually I also voted for Planet Patrol, the most trad R&B of electro acts.

https://img.discogs.com/JpcC8u6ohb1lnDI_eVmmg1rbn5o=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-397038-1378933121-5864.jpeg.jpg
115. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
341 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/HWZisnZ-RGE

lol i love this song and forgot to vote for it

https://img.discogs.com/0EFrb2kXy-0hRVt_8PKkGKzaw70=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2266977-1316158890.jpeg.jpg
114. Odyssey - Going Back to My Roots
348 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/99p35Dk8EV4

https://img.discogs.com/3n9Vbg5Q74wYYkvwYWbgsxxYt6I=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-569874-1336854563-6268.jpeg.jpg
113. Prince - Mountains
349 points, 5 votes

one of the two prince songs i voted for. was in my top five

https://img.discogs.com/d-ItwLisBRD72-IjeRAbJF_hObM=/fit-in/400x402/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1549546-1227652928.jpeg.jpg
112. Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
349 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/-1YjmXSyHa8

Hell of a cover on that single.

On the days 17 Days isn't my favourite Prince song Mountains is. Love the video too

https://img.discogs.com/TCVPPJ96skY6MODs6z7zHUWqkM0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-517436-1294420643.jpeg.jpg
111. Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
350 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/6bqtKEiKZQQ

The main reason why Parade is my favorite Prince album is because from Kiss onwards it is 100% fire, on a level I don't think he sustained on any other release. (Before anyone goes there, the first half of the album is on par with the overall level of his imperial time period; everything on the second half is on another planet altogether at a level he hits on other releases with selected songs but doesn't maintain for the entire side.)

https://img.discogs.com/SneF5EYGF05QYKtfVjIlA36Qquk=/fit-in/582x581/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-83690-1194974465.jpeg.jpg
110. Yarbrough and Peoples - Don't Stop the Music
350 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/9tbS73I1N-I

OMG YES @ THE LAST TWO, except that they're both clearly top ten, wtf. Amazing amazing amazing songs.

Parade is also my favorite Prince album. Because it is inarguably the best.

iiiiii just wanna rock you
alllll night long

"Fantastic Voyage" and "Don't Stop the Music" are the first tunes in the rollout that I'm really upset aren't in the top 100. Utter classics of real black radio.

https://img.discogs.com/7LDyMXLPciiAFqqLB97_HnhMzrM=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-145771-1375487227-2974.jpeg.jpg
109. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done for Me Lately
350 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/r9uizdKZAGE

damn that's low for that song. i assume there's a ton of janet to go tho

https://img.discogs.com/hYlyg7R3JCuWz4KbXsMBbNvvS78=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-440142-1374767987-2667.jpeg.jpg
108. Newcleus - Jam on It
354 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/zEmg5GaAHbk

https://img.discogs.com/tUYlPUu0nW2HYdB7X_xI9zqGX0o=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2350480-1493846965-8734.jpeg.jpg
107. Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
360 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/5cDLZqe735k

The problem here is that there are about 200 songs that should reasonably be in the top 50

https://img.discogs.com/jArE0o2_8aOZFrzWpYnHISbUh3g=/fit-in/600x515/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2270803-1273573835.jpeg.jpg
106. Brenda Russell - Piano in the Dark
361 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/H7u5GtSIC5k

way too low

also djp otm

https://img.discogs.com/V_vT20cVh82Qhd2H4wDjL_EopQA=/fit-in/597x572/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-324845-1407364876-7565.jpeg.jpg
105. Force M.D.'s - Tender Love
362 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/pW_vpwbERBo

TOO. LOW

NO. KIDDING.

Injustice is just going to be running rampant from here on out, I feel.

Piano in my top ten

I just wanna go back real quick and pay major respect to the tightrope that Yarbrough and Peoples's 'Don't Stop the Music' walks, inasmuch as it's basically a contemporaneous tribute to the amazingness of Yarbrough and Peoples's 'Don't Stop the Music' as it's being performed and recorded. It's like the ultimate act of hubris, and yet it's impossible to disagree with their assertion. The music really is so satisfying, it's true. And I am in agreement that I don't really want it to stop, uh uh.

Loooove 'Piano in the Dark'. I was a little aghast when I realized that Russell's 'Get Here' wasn't on the nominations list until I realized I was thinking of Oleta Adams's more popular cover.

I don't think I've seen 'Piano' on a karaoke playlist yet but I am ready to fully embody that sucker if ever I do.

https://img.discogs.com/Z0q2HuFcOfz7poX-e2XmTw3DlXw=/fit-in/590x588/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3949121-1351439716-8292.jpeg.jpg104. Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
362 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/CnjEzx7Glr8

Calling it now. "I Can't Go For That" gets #1 in this poll.

The support for Hall and Oates is ilm's biggest challop.

Hall & Oates at least have the virtue of topping the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. I'm not sure Michael McDonald ever appeared.