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

xp - Madness. I have the first few beats of SotT as my ringtone. Such a brilliant song.

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147. Freeez - I.O.U.
304 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/WZ-1DYwaxrE

AND SOMETIMES YYYYY

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146. Rick James - Give It to Me Baby
305 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/1dNIQVYGXbM

Favourite find so far: Imagination - Changes
Too low: Rhythm Nation. Not a just a big production number, but a way of life
Surprise: Beat It at #174. Nobody else surprised by this? Guess everyone voted for Billie Jean instead. I know I did.
Digression: Nina Simone's cover version of Sign O' The Times is really worth a listen, but doesn't fit here as was recorded in the 90s.

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145. S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right)
305 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/lz1y2k4jDQw

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144. Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover
306 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/JkRKT6T0QLg

I don't like Nina Simone's vocal delivery in 'Sign o' the Times', but I let out a chuckle at "We'll call him Nate if it's a boy / We'll call her Nina when it's a girl".

Whoa, 'Take Your Time' wound up much lower than expected! A stone-cold classic!

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143. George Clinton - Atomic Dog
307 points, 8 votes
https://youtu.be/9NxyuM9Xctk

Yeah, "Sign o the Times" is the maybe the only Prince track I'd be fine with missing the countdown entirely/

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142. Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine
309 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/YWHj2SWGR0Y

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141. The Jets - You Got It All
310 points, 4 votes
https://youtu.be/sByNZekTwCI

huh "Walking Into Sunshine" is 2nd-tier Garage imo

I didn't include any Jets on my ballot but I listened to 'You Got It All' yesterday and regretted the omission.

huh "Walking Into Sunshine" is 2nd-tier Garage imo

fair enough, it is repetitive, but that bright & shiny synth riff is eternal and influential

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139 (TIE). Madonna - Like a Prayer
310 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/79fzeNUqQbQ

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139 (TIE). Sheila E. - A Love Bizarre
310 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/56gpwl6cohc

lol "you got it all" makes me cry. was in my top 20

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138. Irene Cara - Fame
311 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/o2jh7N7Fldk

ew

Yeah, I feel like there will be more than a few songs that coast into the final results on the strength of 'hey, I remember that song!' votes.

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137. Shalamar - A Night to Remember
312 points, 7 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/Qwvf2ilsogo

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136. David Bowie - Let's Dance
313 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/N4d7Wp9kKjA

Take Your Time (Do It Right) is way too low. That was top 10 for me.

what, 'fame' is great

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135. Odyssey - Use It Up and Wear It Out
314 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/-QrE6DsxXDA

Maura OTM

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134. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy
316 points, 6 votes
https://youtu.be/gI7YHZVc7mM

This song is charming (I didn't vote for it), but I have friends who recoil from it.

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133. Change - Paradise
319 points, 6 votes, 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ZoYxwucci2Q

I was stuck between "Paradise" vs "Miracles" vs "The GLow of Love."

A great place to be stuck.

Kind of a lot of nimby-pimby pop in the last spate tbh, but they're also songs I love so shrug.gif

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132. Herbie Hancock - Rockit
319 points, 7 votes
https://youtu.be/GHhD4PD75zY

Had to vote for Paradise *and* Glow of Love. Heard both of them out at the Liverpool disco festivalue at the weekend and they still slay

yeah i voted for both of those but agonized over their placement. i fucking love change

A Lover's Holiday and Searching were painful cuts too

the first Change album is a top 50 all time keeper in the Soto canon.

David Bowie's awful, wooden and unfunky attempt at R&B depressed me for a little while, but all the following 4 entries are stone gold classics, so yay! (Though maybe "Rockit" is a bit out of place in this poll?) Especially "Use It Up and Wear It Out"; like I said in the nomimation thread, it's an incredible and unique song in the disco canon, musically and lyrically.

But still, I'll never understand why some folks would vote for that Bowie song in a poll like this? It's just so... stiff, and unconvincing. It doesn't really sound like he wants to dance at all!

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131. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall in Love
322 points, 5 votes
https://youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc

spring '90 this one, no?

There will always be people who just vote for Bowie in everything. "Let's Dance" in an 80s R&B poll isn't among the more objectionable manifestations of this phenomenon afaic

Tho I prefer some of his Labyrinth songs tbh

"Underground"?

spring '90 this one, no?

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 10, 2017 8:11 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

single, yes. album came out in '89. i voted for it anyway

xp "As The World Falls Down" is pretty slinky iirc

The Jane Child album was released in late '89, fwiw.

I honestly think 'Don't Wanna Fall In Love' is maybe among the five best pop singles released in my lifetime. It feels like a bit of a stretch to call it R&B, so I couldn't put it at the top of my ballot, but it was very close.

The first half of 1990 was the epitome of radio pop music for me, so I'm cool making some allowances

young Eric blasting the cassingle of "I'll Be Your Everything"

Jane Child, who introduced the nose ring to young Lord Sotosyn