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

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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.

I love "Keep On"!

never heard the Larry Levan mix of "Changes" till this thread

Cool, didn't expect this one to place too! Pretty much all of D-Train's singles (except for that one cover song) follow the formula they came upon with "You're the One for Me", but what a great formula it is!

I was joking about 'Batdance' btw. I don't think any songs that directly reference summer blockbusters made it onto my list.

While I naturally hope that most of the stuff I voted for makes an appearance, I think it's super cool that so much stuff I've never heard or heard of has shown up. So many rad tracks to explore!

never heard the Larry Levan mix of "Changes" till this thread

― sexualing healing (crüt), Tuesday, May 9, 2017

CHAN-GEEESSSS!

lol @ "Celebration" placing so low

I love songs that are such a part of the firmament that it's easy to forget that someone still had to write and record them. Kool & the Gang might as well have written "Happy Birthday."

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199. Sheila E. - The Belle of St. Mark
230 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/d43sBOWYOc0

My favorite song on that album.

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198. Dennis Edwards feat. Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further
231 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/CH3rx8LhrQo

I love songs that are such a part of the firmament that it's easy to forget that someone still had to write and record them. Kool & the Gang might as well have written "Happy Birthday."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 9:02 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just thinking this yesterday upon hearing one of the songs on my ballot. There was a time when this thing didn't exist, and then someone actually made this happen. And then it became this thing which is difficult to imagine never having existed. Creation, it's a trip, man.

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197. Anita Baker - Caught Up in the Rapture
232 points, 5 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/wYYDaDPmqBs

Rapture is one of the greatest debuts in history.

A lot of people are weirdly dismissive of Anita but I'm very fond of her. I hope to see several appearances in these results!

I voted for "Same Old Love."

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196. Prince - Adore
235 points, 3 votes

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195. James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There
235 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/rBo2Kn8iBxA

who is weirdly dismissive of anita

i'm making an enemies list

Greil Marcus. And me probably. Her vocal mannerisms grate on me. Voted for Sweet Love in spite of that I think.

Greil Marcus' dismissal of Baker offended me so much that I didn't read him for years.

Marcus: I think Anita Baker is ridiculous. Any time you hear somebody bringing back this kind of genteel, effete black music--the same number the Pointer Sisters pulled in the early '70s when they gave concerts with "Black Tie Recommended" printed on the tickets--it's an incident in class politics that has nothing to do with music.

who the hell are you to dictate what music black listeners should appreciate at their appropriate income level?

lol that's gross greil

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194. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
237 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c

Yes, that's precisely what I'm talking about. This weird, seemingly anti-racist but actually very essentially racist notion that black artists who skew towards a smoother, adult contemporary, or more middle-class sound are somehow lacking authenticity. Because don't they know their place? Corinne Bailey-Rae is a more recent example of someone who's been unfairly criticized on those grounds.

Y'all act like Greil Marcus is never gross.

to be fair to Greil that comment he made 30 years ago. Also, he's a gentleman.

(So just out of curiosity...are we planning on doing a '90s R&B poll after this? Because I really need to get a jump start on that ballot, if so.)