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

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221. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
216 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ

much as busting makes me feel good, too high

crazy low

if this means the six or seven other worthwhile RP Jr. songs outranked it, it's good

Last one for today:

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220. Michael Jackson - Another Part of Me
217 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/8vwHQNQ88cM

is Teddy's arm in a sling?

wow Princess is way way too low but then i didn't vote so mustn't complain. looking forward to the rest of this.

I'm fairly pleased by the results so far, especially the modest placements of tunes that weren't R&B as I knew it (white suburban teen listening to a "black music" radio station in the wee hours). Six voters ranking "Ghostbusters" as their 64th favorite R&B tune of the 80s (on average), however, calls for reeducation camps.

Lol

if this means the six or seven other worthwhile RP Jr. songs outranked it, it's good

I'm still upset that I didn't nominate Raydio's There's More Than One Way To Love a Woman for the 70s poll. I thought it came out in 80. That's his Stairway To Heaven.

I love 'Ghostbusters' for what it is, but it was never gonna make my ballot.

I wasn’t on the poster, I wasn’t in the trailer. I'm not surprised.

Shit, forgot to nominate Boz Scaggs. Judging by the 70's poll you savages don't care but I felt it needed to be mentioned. JOJO DIG THOSE SPINNING LIGHTS!

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219. George Michael - A Different Corner
217 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/IPWHkK-_a_A

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217 (TIE). Bobby Brown - On Our Own
218 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/DaIZvCDWAcQ

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217 (TIE). Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
218 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/MdC2jPPxAwk

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216. Madonna - Crazy for You
220 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/Zn5OJGucveg

I voted for "Let's Go All the Way". I always loved it. Saw the video for the first time today, they look as goofy as I imagined.

Also voted for it, also loved it, had only seen them once before (on Top of the Pops about 30 years ago), also saw the video for the first time at the weekend....they looked *much* goofier than I imagined

i know nothing about imagination and "changes" is quite something. will def be looking out for more of them.

i do find "thriller" the song underrated myself. i mostly experienced it separately from the video as a young'n and upon finally seeing the video didn't really understand what all the fuss was about (other than that it obviously cost a lot).

i do not consider "ghostbusters" good by any measure. i mean it was cute to see it pop up in the noms but that's about it.

please feel free to throw rotten veggies at me for saying this but i do hope the results are not too overrun by dubious fits recorded by white appreciator-appropriators

like it's good/cool to acknowledge that a lot of music in supposedly different formats of the commercial sector basically were indistinguishable from what r&b's innovators were producing. but to reward it over the people who basically had little choice but to innovate in order to be competitive in the marketplace? :\

anyway time to sleep, will be looking forward to more!

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215. Klymaxx - The Men All Pause
221 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/34QVPwRLRKU

Excellent!

"Somebody Else's Guy" is another one I would've expected to place in the top 40! Such a good tune with great lyrics, inspired performance by Brown, awesome sonics... No wonder George Michael sampled that synth riff on "Too Funky".

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213 (TIE). Hot Chocolate - It Started With a Kiss
221 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/L3pf7o-9OOk

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213 (TIE). Shannon - Give Me Tonight
221 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/6sKeV9VvoYg

"Somebody Else's Guy" is great, but I've exceeded some sort of maximum listening count, so it no longer does anything for me at all.

Because Let The Music Play and Give Me Tonight are basically the same song and that song is one of the greatest dance songs ever made I had to vote for them very high and right next to each other in my ballot, glad this one made it too

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212. Odyssey - (Joy) Know It
222 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/QEqE25Rk61E

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210 (TIE). Neneh Cherry - Manchild
222 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/OJ9VBMBS3qE

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210 (TIE). Odyssey - Inside Out
222 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/LIXK6u2bHTg

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209. Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
223 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/D00M2KZH1J0

Give Me Tonight and Let the Music Play were the only songs played on Miami stations between 1983 and 1984.

can you blame them

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208. Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music in the Streets
223 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/4beQrxHJI4o

Awesome!

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207. Patrice Rushen - Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)
224 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/j4flWcvUBl4

"Manchild" – the dawn of trip hop.

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206. Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)
224 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/tBWHTVMnut4

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205. Janet Jackson - Love Will Never Do (Without You)
225 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/dcNniKqfXIc

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204. Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before
225 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/FLbC0dRIjX0

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203. Chic - Rebels Are We
226 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/lF4GLd7_LGY

I hope we'll see more Stephanie Mills.

I love this Chic tune – Rodgers' solo!

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202. Kool & the Gang - Celebration
226 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M

uh

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201. Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
227 points, 3 votes
https://youtu.be/N2bTQXwGusQ

When this thing is all done, can someone please upload a downloadable folder somewhere with all the songs?

Wow, if even the fifth best single from SOTT made it this high, I guess half of the top 40 will be Prince tunes? I hope not, cos that would be boring.

Very possibly. I honestly thought about leaving him off my ballot altogether or only giving him a single vote but I think I ultimately gave him almost 10% of my votes.

I would've felt unclean if I denied 'Batdance' its due, y'know?

Batdance is cool shit, but it has little to do with R&B.

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200. D-Train - Keep On
228 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/6IqS3U2GUos

Okay, maybe the "Vicki Vale" section has, but that always felt like Prince tacked a whole different song in the middle of an awesome house track (and later reworked it into "Electric Chair"). Thankfully the remix single does the right thing and separates into two different tracks.