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

Super up for tracks - the nominations playlist alone is going to be a keeper

I'd be up for tracks provided the results don't just turn out to be P-Funk's "Greatest Hits" plus some other stuff. ;)

the nominations playlist alone is going to be a keeper

One thing I learned with putting together my Spotify playlist of 70s favorites is that soul is super underrepresented on there in comparison to other genres. Big names and Numero comps, sure, but smaller/forgotten artists in the genre are absent whereas their rock/pop colleagues are well represented. Sad.

Thanks so much for putting this together ArchCarrier. It was a lot of fun with a brilliant outcome. Curtis was my number three and I'm delighted to see it win.

There was lots of P-funk that didn't place!

I would vote in a tracks poll

just realized Osmium wasn't nom'd, or I'd have voted for it

thanks for running this! surprised how much of my ballot placed (having funk and disco count helped)

Yay! Curtis number one! All in all that is a great top 20.

If I had to do a personal top 10 out of those top 20 albums I'd pick:

1. Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You
2. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
3. Bill Withers - Still Bill
4. Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
5. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
6. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
7. Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta
8. The Stylistics - The Stylistics
9. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
10. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

I do not like Stevie Wonder as much as everybody else but I do like his work with Syreeta.

Fabulous poll. Feel like I've learned a whole bunch. If nothing else, I've gone on a totally unexpected quiet storm jag, so thank you for that. I'm off out in the morning to buy myself a Smokey rollneck.

Thanks for the poll Arch. Great work! Definitely up for tracks next.

i think you should let this poll breathe and do a tracks poll at a later date, like the shoegaze poll did...

Hm, I actually want to keep the momentum of the albums poll and stay in this genre for a while longer.

Also, feel free to post your ballots! Here's mine. A ★ in front of an album means I hadn't heard it before I started this poll (I'm totally serious).

Note: first 25 albums ranked/weighted, the rest unranked/unweighted.

★ The Stylistics - Round 2 (1972)
★ The Stylistics - The Stylistics (1971)
★ Noir - We Had to Let You Have It (1971)
★ Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (1972)
★ The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People (1971)
★ Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever (1970)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
★ Stairsteps - 2nd Resurrection (1976)
The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (1972)
★ Lou Bond - Lou Bond (1974)
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)
★ Di Melo - Di Melo (1975)
★ Blue Magic - Blue Magic (1974)
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (1979)
★ Fontella Bass - Free (1972)
Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (1974)
Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye (1975)
★ The Spinners - New and Improved (1974)
★ Betty Davis - Nasty Gal (1975)
★ The Equals - Mystic Syster (1978)
★ Roy C. - Sex and Soul (1973)
★ Caston & Majors - Caston & Majors (1974)
★ The Stylistics - Rockin' Roll Baby (1973)
★ Andy Bey - Experience and Judgment (1974)
★ Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (1975)
Sister Sledge - We Are Family (1979)
Al Green - Al Green Gets Next to You (1971)
★ Barrabás - Wild Safari (1972)
★ Bobby Womack - Understanding (1972)
★ Cymande - Cymande (1972)
★ Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything (1970)
★ Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All (1977)
★ Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (1971)
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (1978)
★ Jorge Ben - Negro é lindo (1971)
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear (1978)
Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel (1974)
★ O.V. Wright - A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades (1971)
★ Raydio - Raydio (1978)
★ Roberta Flack - Chapter Two (1970)
★ Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps (1973)
Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm (1975)
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972)
★ T.N.T.H. - Let's Go Children of the Country (1972)
★ The Blackbyrds - The Blackbyrds (1974)
★ The Delfonics - The Delfonics (1970)
★ The Dramatics - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get (1972)
★ The Meters - Rejuvenation (1974)
★ The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy (1973)
★ The Spinners - Pick of the Litter (1975)
★ The Temptations - Sky's the Limit (1971)
★ Heatwave - Too Hot to Handle (1976)
★ The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)
★ Syl Johnson - Total Explosion (1976)

I'm off out in the morning to buy myself a Smokey rollneck.

― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski)

In related news:
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1338-curtis-mayfield-finally-gets-a-definitive-biography-what-took-so-long/

Oh man, I did not need to learn that Curtis Mayfield physically abused his wives/girlfriends... I'd always imagined he'd be different in that regard to Marvin Gaye and James Brown; I guess I was naively basing my opinion on the sort of gentler masculinity he conveys in his music, but of course the two don't necessarily rule out each other.

It's happening...

Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL

Voting is open until April 9.

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