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

Voted Keep On but then saw D:Train do a live PA and realised I should've thrown my weight behind You're the One For Me

I get "I'm In Love" and "Love Come Down" in my head ALL THE TIME. My brain is on roller skates.

Enough clues to deduce #1.

"You're the One for Me" should've been higher, it created a template for so much great boogie music ie early '80s, and inspired a lot of house music too... Tho I'm partially to blame, because I gave my D-Train vote for "Music". Even though it's very obviously "You're the One for Me" part two, IMO that's where they perfected their formula.

The same with Evelyn King, I voted for "Get Loose" instead of "Love Come Down", because IMO it does the same sound even better and I love her energetic performance in it. But of course I'm happy to see this one here too, it's all good.

https://img.discogs.com/SQpfS_JP0Pocvne2yxg-1ahEetQ=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-202216-1378488487-6909.jpeg.jpg
23. Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain
731 points, 14 votes
https://youtu.be/9dZW1C3neao

yesssss

Cold busted

how have I never heard "Love Come Down" before

https://img.discogs.com/q01aTtAFkUcHM4FRyYOxQDDrByo=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-567749-1247768882.jpeg.jpg
22. Dazz Band - Let It Whip
767 points, 13 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ccvUstooIfw

the only perfect song

https://img.discogs.com/7elnl2sZQ6yPFYaZkcqsnVxRDgo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-127560-1143896523.jpeg.jpg
21. Soul II Soul - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
791 points, 15 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/TB54dZkzZOY

I am genuinely shocked by these results today (except for Dazz Band, which was a no-brainer). I thought for sure today would be yawn-inducingly predictable, but now I don't know WHAT to think.

ALL
THE
WAY
DOWN

Love 'Back to Life', but can't get my head around the idea that people thinks it's superior to 'Keep On Movin''.

I suppose it's been asked before but this thread is now too long to check it all !
Is there a spotify playlist of the results ?

Certainly, thanks to Moodles:

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

https://img.discogs.com/QS7XfhXUqStRYN9innfW7w9jC6I=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1217555-1201455067.jpeg.jpg
20. Prince - When Doves Cry
810 points, 14 votes, 1 number one

There are just so many great hooks. Plus that bridge is perfect. (xpost)

Wow only #20 !

I'm teaching Romeo and Juliet at the moment and the version of this in the Luhrmann film is quite a thing - the song has the presence of a revealed truth.

Thanks ArchCarrier !

Chaka can't have 2 in the top 20 can she?

Does every version of "The Rain" feature that long spoken word bit at the end? Or was there an edit?

I can't believe When Doves Cry is only 20.

https://img.discogs.com/do7_s4HMajRfqJmFYjD86wQ7jLw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-206392-1274370533.jpeg.jpg
19. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
822 points, 13 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/pNj9bXKGOiI

Does every version of "The Rain" feature that long spoken word bit at the end? Or was there an edit?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:32 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What lunatic would edit that bit out

i'm pretty sure the version on pop radio faded out the end

Wow, I was expecting the latest two entries to be in the top 10. Interesting to see who will make it there, besides MJ.

"Never Too Much" is of course perfect in it's smoothness, even if its "quit my job to just hang with my partner 24/7" scenario is a bit odd, even in the realm of love song lyrics.

Love 'Back to Life', but can't get my head around the idea that people thinks it's superior to 'Keep On Movin''.

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:38 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, 'When Doves Cry' @ 20 is CRAAAAAZY. That was my number two, and I wouldn't have been nearly as surprised as I am right now if it had won outright.

That was intended to be a 'me too' to Dan, there.

"never too much" is the song that gets immediately stuck in my head when i fall in love

https://img.discogs.com/gV04cz-QWi1ZMMltjyUmWEPCDWA=/fit-in/597x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-222835-1333826064.jpeg.jpg
18. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It
824 points, 16 votes
https://youtu.be/9nP4WE_-uqE

Yes, okay. Any chance for 'Walk Right Now' to still show up? I wouldn't (and didn't) put it above 'Can You Feel It' but it's certainly somewhere within the same orbit.

Too much to catch up on. Gtfo with this British start time!

The video for 'Can You Feel It' is, I feel, more terrifying than 'Thriller'. The thing feels apocalyptic, with the Jacksons as monumental demigods striding across the earth and manipulating the fabric of reality like clay. The ending, where the survivors of their rampage cower in fear as the sun is extinguished, is truly chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1fXL3s7bk

But amazing song!

https://img.discogs.com/MVynbTJLyWtTnRomGAnWUqTIn44=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-799801-1183283864.jpeg.jpg
17. The S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good to Me
832 points, 15 votes
https://youtu.be/RCcg7ctrC4w

Love come down would've been my number one if I voted

"The Rain" is the only song from today so far that doesn't really move me in any way.

Also sort of flabbergasted that "When Doves Cry" is all the way down at #20. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" was in the top 10, right?

"You're the One for Me" in the top 25 = Yesssss! I rank "Keep On" higher, but "The One" is definitely the enduring classic.

"Back To Life" was a far bigger crossover hit in the U.S. than "Keep On Movin," and I greatly prefer it.

I can not separate "Just Be Good To Me" from its cover art. Such a stately, slow-rolling, metallic song.

Wooooow, I figured 'Just Be Good To Me' was a lost cause at this point. Good show!

Have the Mary Jane Girls not shown up at all yet?!

I'm completely in the dark about what's still to come.

"In My House" way down. Still have fingers crossed for "Candy Man."

Ah, okay, guess I missed that.

There are still two songs by female solo artists who have yet to make an appearance which feel maybe too obscure to show up this late in the game but whose absence will be an absolute travesty of justice and a perversion of the cosmic order. Not to be hyperbolic or anything.

And they are?

https://img.discogs.com/Fi4i6YSoc_S4ZcLzOo5cMw-4Jmo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-202123-1273968833.jpeg.jpg
16. Diana Ross - Upside Down
837 points, 17 votes
https://youtu.be/4GtyMeEcPPE

xpost Cheryl and Jenny!

Sorry, '80s Diana Ross doesn't belong anywhere near the top 25.

That's just how I feel.

Would love to have a discussion after this is all done about where everyone is from and where/when they heard many of these songs for the first time (especially if you are old like me). I have a good friend here born and raised in the midwest who is relatively unfamiliar with, say, the Oran "Juice" Jones and Vandross tracks, but recognizes them via friends as regional hits from the east coast (where I am from). Dunno how accurate that is.