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

holy shit I just learned he's "Everlasting Love" guy

"Make Me a Memory (Sad Samba)" sounds like a song I ought to know way more intimately that I currently do.

https://img.discogs.com/quRmSaxxz9aYED9e-NFO0Yj08yw=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3303655-1388432682-5166.jpeg.jpg
96. Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
380 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM

that font is the most 1981 font ever

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I love "Lover's Holiday" a little less than some of y'all but this is a 5-for-5 top 100 so far.

I'm three for five among the top 100 thus far. This might be the rare poll where my votes align with the consensus.

https://img.discogs.com/kInXR0zymTakE-nWLk7AKmjWjJM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-215261-1364780399-1939.jpeg.jpg
95. Junior - Mama Used to Say
385 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/lepx24flhaI

xp I just meant they were all great songs ... not sure any of them actually got my vote

I used to confuse Junior for Matthew Wilder.

heads up, I'm pulling together a spotify list for this thread, should be available soon.

Super Single!

You guys have been waiting so long for me to finish; should I do a 2-day rollout to get it over with, or spread it out over 4 or 5 days?

I think 4 days of 25 sounds about right.

xp i was wondering about that; i guess it was just another way of saying 'maxi single'.

https://img.discogs.com/22ZXYG9nv6CcUo2Z44vZhZmaMv0=/fit-in/450x452/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2157625-1303949461.jpeg.jpg
94. Anita Baker - Sweet Love
389 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/CusyyV26p1I

oh god

way wayyyyy too low

https://img.discogs.com/U4KqO4jfM4zDesQ6XnGJM6he9es=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-39795-1472485427-2907.jpeg.jpg
92 (TIE). Inner City - Good Life
390 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/KJxJxr9RlKM

https://img.discogs.com/TztbYzQl1MEwq4WTpyZruDQdQfc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-209313-1329118037.jpeg.jpg
92 (TIE). Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
390 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/m3-hY-hlhBg

xp I feel the same

Sweet Love is peerless

Huh @ 'How Will I Know'. This poll helped me realize that I'm not crazy about any of the big Whitney singles with the exception of 'Greatest Love of All'. Maybe I voted for that? Can't remember. But I think the Whitney track I definitely voted for is a lost cause at this point, sadly.

https://img.discogs.com/zDeHNosv6kx3Unmiieg7gTFR8ao=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-110010-1313102849.jpeg.jpg
91. Art of Noise - Moments in Love
391 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/ux3u31SAeEM

Sure, why not?

Hmm

Hmm

― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, May 15, 2017

Sure, why not?

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, May 15, 2017 9:27 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmm

― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, May 15, 2017

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 15, 2017 11:46 AM (one minute ago)

A great single, but it has no place in an R&B poll, I really don't get why people nominated and voted for it?

RIP Slave and Jonzun Crew ;_;

https://img.discogs.com/gw9cvmBlPpiYvPAScjfj4leJCh0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1427761-1285320673.jpeg.jpg
90. Cherrelle - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
392 points, 9 votes
https://youtu.be/wmMwpi1iUUw

Here's the Spotify playlist, if you wish to listen along:

https://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/7fYWHyWjcMJF7MHAja1EKs

omigod it's Claire Huxtable!

Not "Sure, why not?" or "Hmmm" at all.

This is "100 percent OTM!"

Thanks, Moodles!

https://img.discogs.com/uv4di6jcZz5iemeCbJI755lgXx4=/fit-in/586x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1055810-1395050093-7249.jpeg.jpg
89. Terence Trent d'Arby - Wishing Well
393 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/ynIHsHYaig0

lol at y'all 'hmmmm'ing a track that only gets played on r&b radio in 2017 and has been a fixture of quiet storm sets for years

meanwhile voting in white women's hi-nrg tracks that didn't even chart r&b without so much as a shrug lol

Shrugs all around then.

Differing opinions of what constitutes R&B is a big reason why the rollout needed to be 250 songs long.

this stretch of the results has really been excellent tho :D

(including "moments in love" which I NOMINATED AND VOTED FOR)

I could only bring myself to make space for one TTD track ('Sign Your Name') but all of his nominated songs were worthy of inclusion among this pantheon imo.

As nice as it is to revisit him that's probably enough terence trent d'arby now xp

dyl at 8:40 15 May 17

meanwhile voting in white women's hi-nrg tracks that didn't even chart r&b without so much as a shrug lol

I've no idea what you're talking about here? And I never voted for anything like that.

Also, I don't understand what radio play has to do with, because few radio stations are strictly and exclusively one-genre only? The local rock station occasionally plays classic soul tunes, that doesn't mean they magically turn into rock music because of that. I can see R&B lovers loving "Moments in Love", but the tune itself is unarguably synth pop. Which is further away from R&B than hi-NRG (a disco offshoot) is.

https://img.discogs.com/_dY1bvRbVBDeFdUfmTYICQAIFMM=/fit-in/594x581/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-574672-1257063944.jpeg.jpg
88. Prince - 1999
393 points, 9 votes

lol at y'all 'hmmmm'ing a track that only gets played on r&b radio in 2017 and has been a fixture of quiet storm sets for years

― dyl, Monday, May 15, 2017 10:39 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well this is why i repeated the "sure, why not"

I can see R&B lovers loving "Moments in Love", but the tune itself is unarguably synth pop.

"That's all we have time for right now; thank you very much for tuning in! We'll see you all back here later for another episode of Tuomas Has Spoken."

i'm not pointing fingers at you all since i have no idea what anyone voted for other than me. just think this song is a much better fit than some of the others that have placed and didn't attract a bunch of complaints. admittedly my 'non-r&b-charting hi-nrg tracks by white women' was also not really about a specific track, just a snide remark i made based on some of the stacey q/madonna/george michael/freestyle ones that have shown up thus far (to clarify i think some george michael tracks are perfect fits and others aren't).

r&b stations tend to play only r&b, including the one where i've been hearing "moments in love" for years. that song has also been appearing on compilations that were otherwise entirely r&b for over 20 years now. if anything this distinction of "well actually it's synth-pop" is arbitrary considering that category isn't mutually exclusive with r&b either.

https://img.discogs.com/AxaQZEo7jUfOZk_i3CSEY318RhU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1149613-1474203283-7345.jpeg.jpg
76. George Michael - One More Try
426 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/bG5N3GC-m20

Shit! Sorry, please ignore!

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87. Imagination - Music and Lights
398 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/4iqevB7TNlQ