Wanna Be POLLIN' Somethin' ~~~ It's the ILM 80's R&B TRACKS POLL! ~~~

Aleem - Get Loose
AM-FM - You Are The One
Arnie's Love - I'm Out Of Your Life
Barbara Mason - Another Man
Beggar & Co - (Somebody) Help Me Out
Betty Wright - Pain
Blaze - Can't Win For Losin'
Brass Construction - International
CeCe Rogers - Someday
Chanelle - One Man
Class Action - Weekend
Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey
David Joseph - You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me)
Dayton - The Sound Of Music
Dazz Band - Let It All Blow
Defunkt - Razor's Edge
Donald Banks - Status Quo
Exodus - Together Forever
Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
Fatback Band - Is This The Future
Frankie Knuckles ft Satoshi Tomiie - Tears
Freeez - Southern Freeez
Funky 4 Plus 1 - That's The Joint
Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling
Glenn Jones - I Am Somebody
Gwen McCrae - Keep The Fire Burning
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
I-Level - Minefield
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Larry Levan remix)
Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life
Joyce Sims - (You Are My) All And All
Joyce Sims - Lifetime Love
Konk - Your Life
Lavine Hudson - Intervention
Leo's Sunshipp - Give Me The Sunshine
Light Of The World - Time
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Lola - Wax The Van
Maze - Twilight
Mercy Mercy - What Are We Gonna Do About It
Michelle Wallace - Jazzy Rhythm
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
Osiris - War On The Bullshit
Patrice Rushen - Number One
Paul Simpson ft Adeva - Musical Freedom
Phase II - Reachin'
Planet Patrol - Play At Your Own Risk
Q - The Voice Of Q
Rodney Franklin - The Groove
Roger - I Want To Be Your Man
Serious Intention - You Don't Know
Shalamar - There It Is
Sharon Brown - I Specialize In Love
Sharon Redd - In The Name Of Love
Shirley Jones - Do You Get Enough Love
Shot ft Kim Marsh - Main Thing
Soul II Soul - Fairplay
Strafe - Set It Off
The System - Sweat
The System - It's Passion
The Temptations ft Rick James - Standing On The Top
Ten City - Devotion
Ten City - Right Back To You
Trouble Funk - Still Smokin'
Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine
Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector
Was (Not Was) - Out Come The Freaks
Wilton Felder ft Bobby Womack & Alltrinna Grayson - (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up To You
Xena - On The Upside
Young & Company ‎– I Like (What You're Doing To Me)
Zapp - It Doesn't Really Matter

Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Serge Gainsbourg - Love on the Beat
Material - Memories
Bootsy Collins - Party on Plastic (What's Bootsy Doin'?)
Wham! - Young Guns (Go for It)
Hot Chocolate - Tears on the Telephone
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

(surprised Slave to the Rhythm not nommed already - do people think it isn't R&B?)

Hey Mike! I was wondering whether you'd join us this time :)

Ditto, and awesome choices.

xxpost I think there's a lot of very obvious stuff that's still unnominated (e.g. my shocked realization that 'Come Back to Me' was missing until my previous post).

(surprised Slave to the Rhythm not nommed already - do people think it isn't R&B?)

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 21 April 2017 14:07 (two hours ago) Permalink

I thought I had nominated it and I'll be voting it v high

xp Yes, I just had time to do my nominations before going away for a few days - hence I haven't stepped forward to do the Spotify duties this time.

Not sure if it counts as R&B (RYM lists it as Hi-NRG), but it is awesome:

Deodato - S.O.S. Fire in the Sky

DeBarge - I Like It
DeBarge - Love Me in a Special Way
Kashif - I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
The S.O.S Band - Just the Way You Like It
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
One Way - Cutie Pie
Melba Moore - Keepin' My Lover Satisfied
Melba Moore - Falling
Quincy Jones - Becha Wouldn't Hurt Me
Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)
Maze - Before I Let Go
Babyface - Whip Appeal
The Jets - Curiosity
Cherrelle - You Look Good to Me
Inner Life - Moment of My Life
Inner Life - (Knock Out) Let's Go Another Round
Sade - Turn My Back on You
Imagination - In the Heat of the Night
Change - You Are My Melody
George Duke - Reach Out
Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk
Nona Hendryx - Transformation
Jeffrey Osborne - Stay with Me Tonight

Aww, Rockwell 'not found'.

ALSO NOT FOUND

Teena Marie - Lovergirl

it's in there

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

Too Seventeen-ish.

Ctrl-F'ers, make sure to display the whole thread when searching. Rockwell and Teena Marie are definitely in there.

My bad.

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too Seventeen-ish.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if y'all are talking about "lovergirl," gtfo

Marvin Gaye - Midnight Lady
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - I'm Corrupt
Xavier - Work That Sucker to Death
Parlet - Wolf Tickets

Anybody put together a playlist yet? I know it's early, just curious.

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too Seventeen-ish.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if y'all are talking about "lovergirl," gtfo

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, April 21, 2017

Eric got the gay thread joke.

Siedah Garrett - Taboo

Here's the list of nominations so far.

You have about 36 more hours to get your nominations in!

Frankie Knuckles/Jamie Principle - Your Love

I see people are nominating Kid Creole tracks, which wouldn't have occurred to me for some reason. But consideration of the Ze discography may have just made the nominating and voting an even more problematic endeavor for me.

Was about to nominate some Prince songs in honor of the day and just realized we already have 62 (not counting offshoots). This is going to be rough.

I have already decided that the way I'm gonna do my ballot is to make a non-Prince ballot, see where I'm at, and then fill in as many Prince songs as there are slots remaining. It's really the only way to keep my ballot nothing but Prince.

i'm not on the gay thread i don't get the jokes!

Syreeta - Can't Shake Your Love

Ohhhh shit, I didn't realize that Josh in Chicago's post upthread was just a radio playlist. I'd been ctrl+f-ing like a good boy and excluding that stuff from my nominations. More work to do, I see.

Bomb the Bass - Megablast
Bomb the Bass - Don't Make Me Wait
Chuckii Booker - Turned Away
Club Nouveau - Why You Treat Me So Bad?
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
Company B - Fascinated
Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Culture Club - Mistake No. 3
D-Mob - C'mon & Get My Love
Denise Lopez - Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make it Right)
Deodato - Happy Hour
Deon Estus - Heaven Help Me
Dino - 24/7
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Maladie d'Amour
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Madonna - Angel
Madonna - Dress You Up
Madonna - Lucky Star
Madonna - Borderline
Madonna - Burning Up
Madonna - Physical Attraction
Madonna - Holiday
Madonna - Crazy for You
Madonna - Causing a Commotion
Michael Jackson - Baby Be Mine
Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard
Prince - Party Up
Prince - New Position
Prince - Housequake
Quincy Jones - Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me)
Stevie B. - In My Eyes
Stevie B. - Spring Love
Tiffany - Could've Been
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Wham! - Careless Whisper
Whitney Houston & Teddy Pendergrass - 'Hold Me'

(xp)

I can include those tracks in the list, but I don't think all of them are from the 80's.
Old Lunch, if you want to nominate tracks from that list, just copy/paste the lines as they are. For me it's easy to format the lines the way I want them.

Oh, and I made a mistake yesterday; I must have thought it was Saturday already. You have about 36 hours left now.

I grant that there are important differences between r'n'b and dance-pop but Madonna was always comfortably in the former camp to me conventional wisdom be damned! Wasn't confident enough to actually nominate her though.

Madonna - Crazy for You

I love this song, but I don't hear any R&B in it. Other Madonna tracks, yes, but this one sounds more touchy to me than anything.

*torchy

Then again, shut my mouth:

The song reached number two on the Adult Contemporary Singles and 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Thanks, ArchCarrier, I think I plucked what I needed from Josh's list.

Yeah, I wavered on some of those less overtly R&B tracks but I figure the voting will ultimately decide what really counts.

Jellybean ‎– The Mexican

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk & Jessie Saunders - Love Can't Turn Around

BTW, I can recommend this delicious internet radio station called Disco Bonanza, based in the Netherlands. Most of the stuff I've been nominating in the last few days I heard there first.

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard

Released in 1978 (and number 17 on the 70's poll), so not eligible here.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 5:06 PM (four days ago)

Patti LaBelle - Release

Leon Haywood - Don't Push It Don't Force It

We need more Eddy Grant:

Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love?
Eddy Grant - My Turn to Love You
Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
Eddy Grant - Baby Come Back
Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo'anna

Wow, I'm glad I decided to come back to ILX after a break, this is one poll I definitely want to participate in!

And it seems a lot of great boogie tunes in particular are still missing from the list, so here are some nominations:

Al Jarreau - Roof Garden
Alisha - Baby Talk
Alisha - Too Turned On
Atlantic Starr - Silver Shadow
Baiser - Summer Breeze
Band AKA - Joy
Bandolero - Paris Latino
Barbara Mason - Don't I Ever Cross Your Mind
Billy Ocean - Stay the Night
Booker Newberry III - Love Town
Boule Noire - Super, Super Lady
Brenda Taylor ‎– You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Carol Jiani - Hit 'n' Run Lover
Carol Jiani - Touch and Go Lover
Carly Simon - Why
Chandra Simmons - Never Gonna Let You Go
Chaz Jankel - Glad to Know You
Coffee - Casanova
Collage - Do You Like Our Music?
Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonna Let
Companion - This Is a Test
Companion - There's a Way
Crown Heights Affair - I Struck Gold
Crown Heights Affair - You Gave Me Love
Cuba Gooding - Happiness Is Just Around the Bend
D-Train - Music
Double Disovery - Can He Find Another One?
Dynasty - Check It Out
Earlene Bentley - The Boys Come to Town
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let Me Talk
Earth, Wind & Fire - System Of Survival
Edmond Daniels - You Broke Your Promise
Evelyn King - Get Loose
Fonda Rae - Tuch Me
Forrest - Rock the Boat
Funkacise Gang - Funkacise
Gary Byrd & the G.B. Experience ‎– The Crown
Gary's Gang - Knock Me Out
Gary's Gang - Makin' Music
Geraldine Hunt - Heart Heart
Glass - Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat
Grady Harell - Belinda
Heaven & Earth - I Really Love You
Inez Brooks ‎– Chillin' Out
The Jacksons - Walk Right Now
Jamaica Girls - Need Somebody New
James Brown - Living in America
Jeanette "Lady" Day - Come Let Me Love You
Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Spank
Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair
Joanna Gardner - I Could Never Love Another Like You
Julius Brown - Party
Kashif - Stone Love
Kat Mandu - I Wanna Dance
Kenny G - Hi, How Ya Doin'?
Kinky Foxx - So Different
Kreamcicle feat. Paula Anderson - No News Is News
Laurice Hudson - Feel My Love
L.I.F.E. - You're All Played Out
Linda Lewis ‎– Class/Style (I've Got It)
Linda Taylor - You and Me Just Started
Love Club - Hot Summer Nights
Lydia Murdock - Superstar
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
Mantus - Boogie to the Top
Martina - Central Park
Mary Jane Girls - In My House
Marz - I Got a Boyfriend Now
Maurice Massiah - We Can Go to Your House
Maxine Singleton - You Can't Run from Love
The Men - Someone on My Side
Michael Henderson - Wide Receiver
Midnight Star feat. Ecstacy of Whodini - Don't Rock the Boat
Midnight Star - Wet My Whistle
Miquel Brown ‎– Close to Perfection
The Next Movement - Let's Work It Out
Nicole with Timmy Thomas ‎– New York Eyes
Nighthawk ‎– Eye Of The Tiger
Odyssey - (Joy) Know It
Pino d'Angiò - Ma quale idea
Positive Force - We Got the Funk
Quinella - Your Place or Mine
RAH Band - Clouds Across the Moon
Richard Valentine - Come Back Lover
Rod - Shake It Up (Do the Boogaloo)
Roni Griffith - (The Best Part of) Breakin' Up
Roshelle Fleming - Love Itch
Simplicious - Let Her Feel It
Sinnamon - Thanks to You
Sky's the Limit - Your Love Runs Free
Sparque - Let's Go Dancin'
Steel City - Kannattiko muuttaa yhteen
Stephanie Mills - The Medicine Song
Suede - Enough Is Enough
Sunbelt - Spin It
Suzy Q - Get on Up
Suzy Q - Harmony
Sweet Life - I Get Lifted
Sylvester - I Need You
Taana Gardner - No Frllls
A Taste of Honey - I'm Talkin' Bout You
A Taste of Honey - We've Got the Groove
Tina Fabrique - Alive with Love (A Love Letter)
Toney Lee - Love So Deep
Toney Lee - Reach Up
Touche - Just Like a Door Knob
Two Tons o' Fun - I Depend on You
Unique ‎– What I Got Is What You Need
Vera Brown - Little Did I Know
Victor Willis - Physical
Vin Zee - Funky Bee-Bop
Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Viola Wills - Up on the Roof
Visual - The Music's Got Me
Voyage - Follow the Brightest Star
Watson Beasley - Breakaway
Weeks & Co. - Go with the Fl
Weeks & Co. - Rock Your World
West Phillips - (I'm Just a) Sucker for a Pretty Face
World Premiere - Share the Night

Sorry, a couple of typos there, here's the correct titles:

Taana Gardner - No Frills
Weeks & Co. - Go with the Flow

Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Spank

And this one shouldn't be on my list, as it's from 1978.

Mmmmmm, I might have to take mild umbrage with the Patrice Rushen, ArchCarrier. The single was released in '79 (and its attendant album was released in late '79, so I'd suspect the same of the single, although I can't find its actual release date), and the info I have is that it didn't chart until 1980. It's iffy, I admit, and yours is the final ruling, but just wanted to put it out there because it's a fantastic song.

Well it ranked top 20 in the previous poll so it's a bit redundant to include it here.

"careless whisper" was already nominated as credited to george michael (as it was for the uk release)

(i mention this just b/c this case might be harder to detect automatically than other duplicate-nominations)

Here's a couple of Finnish R&B/soul nominations from the '80s:

Emilia - Satan in Love
Kirka - Hengaillaan
Maarit - Hiekka ja meri
Maarit - Jäätelökesä
Pave Maijanen - Lähtisitkö
Steel City - Kannattiko muuttaa yhteen