PEOPLE... HOLD ON. It's the ~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~ results thread!

Too low on that Delfonics record!

Partly my fault. I listened to it again last night, and it should have been much higher on my list. The first side especially is great.

Barry White is on the border between complete shit and utter genius all the time. It's fascinating.

I have to admit I haven't found his genius side yet. Maybe I should try harder.

Next one is here because of Tuomas' campaigning:

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123 (TIE). Andy Bey - Experience and Judgment (1974)
32 points • 3 votes

Cool! Like I said in the nomination thread, this is my favourite music for fucking, it's even better than Meshell N'degeocello's Comfort Woman in that regard.

Such an unique world Bey inhabits here, too bad he never got to do a proper follow-up, and "Experience and Judgment" remains slept on. Though apparently he did have a comeback in the 1990s doing more straightforward jazz, has anyone heard that stuff?

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Andy Bey Album Highlight: 'Hibiscus'

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122. Margie Joseph - Margie Joseph Makes a New Impression (1970)
33 points • 2 votes

Album highlights: 'Punish Me' and her epic cover of 'Stop! In the Name of Love' (full 8:13 version sadly not on YouTube)

Happy to see a Barry White album make it. I had a couple of his other albums on my list. Hopefully they can squeeze in here too.

Love Margie Joseph. This and Phase II are fantastic records.

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119 (TIE). WAR - War (1971)
33 points • 3 votes

Nice!

Great album. War to Why Can't We Be Friends is one of my favourite run of albums ever. Deliver the Word is my favourite.

What's the rollout plan?

I don't really have a plan, but I just got home and tonight I'm going to post at least ten more albums. Here's the next one:

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119 (TIE). Ohio Players - Pain (1972)
33 points • 3 votes

Geez how many variants are there of that album cover

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119 (TIE). Commodores - Commodores [a.k.a. Zoom] (1977)
33 points • 3 votes

Delighted to see this Commodores album place. They have a bunch of good records but this one is by far my favourite. One of my favourite albums of all time.

Pain is a really good album. I can never choose which is my fave era junie/westbound or the mercury era. Both were superb. One of the most underrated bands of all time.

Mandrill aren't gonna make it now, are they? :(

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118. Bee Gees - Main Course (1975)
33 points • 4 votes

Mandrill aren't gonna make it now, are they? :(

― Cosmic Slop,

Mandrill Is will definitely place. It has supporters on here.

Wonder how many Ohio Players albums will place? If I'd voted for any of them, I would have gone for Honey. That's easily my favourite.

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117. Isaac Hayes - Shaft (1971)
33 points • 5 votes

Surprised how low this is.

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116. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975)
34 points • 5 votes

I just listened to this on my way home. I should have given it more points.

It also has one of my favorite albums covers of this poll.

I've never heard this album. The only album I have by them is a singles compilation. I really should investigate them further.

Good to see Up For The Down Stroke place. Skin Tight and Pain too low - I suspect Pleasure will place the highest of all the OP records.

Commodores were at their best pre-1977, IMO.

Not surprised Shaft is so low - I actually find it incredibly overrated. Hayes made far better records. The theme is all-time, though.

I'm hoping the first two Mandrill albums place.

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115. Parliament - Chocolate City (1975)
34 points • 6 votes

Hmm. I've always thought of Chocolate City as a minor album in Parliament's discography. Not as good as Up For The Down Stroke, IMO.

Three classics in a row

Teddy is among the greats so it's irritating that he has no true magnum opus album-wise. All of them, including the Blue Notes stuff, are pretty good though.

116. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975) is the one I voted for.

Chocolate City is probably my joint fave Parliament album.

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114. Syreeta - Syreeta (1972)
35 points • 2 votes

Chocolate City is a great album. Some days Together is my favourite song of theirs.

Syreeta! I love this woman.

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113. The Soul Children - Friction (1974)
35 points • 2 votes • 1 number one

xpost to Cosmic Slop: what, really!?

TOO LOW

(my #1)

Side 1 of Chocolate City is one of the best things P-Funk ever put to tape

Wow, someone's number one? I'm the other (unranked) vote for it. I appreciate concept albums that don't embarrass themselves and this one has a really fun dynamic to it with different vocals getting to express their own fucked up jealousy scenarios.

High five to the other vote for Syreeta.

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112. The Temptations - All Directions (1972)
36 points • 2 votes

High five to the other vote for Syreeta.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

I had this Syreeta album pretty high on my list. I put her second album even higher.

There is obviously some essential Whitfield stuff but I much prefer the Ruffin/Smokey period.

I voted for the 'other' Syreeta album!

Enjoying this Blue Notes album, though there is some filler on there. Don't know them as an albums band. The title track is, of course, magnificent.

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111. Jorge Ben - Negro é lindo (1971)
36 points • 3 votes

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109 (TIE). Lou Bond - Lou Bond (1974)
36 points • 4 votes