https://img.discogs.com/n0n3zZHF2_LJwg6h9BxO92efddY=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-214108-1360858441-4404.jpeg.jpg61. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out503 points, 10 voteshttps://youtu.be/zbYcte4ZEgQ
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
"I'm Coming Out" was my #62, so this is an acceptable position.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
Criticize far too low. Does that mean Fake won't place now? :(
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Pulling for "Saturday Love" still.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
That too
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
i love how the women's backing vox in the chorus sound, like a voice in your head or the ~truth descended from the sky
― dyl, Tuesday, May 16, 2017
well put!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
I voted for I'm Coming Out but I had My Old Piano much higher on my list. That's always been my favourite of the singles from that album.
Glad to see Criticize make it. I guess I'll have to give up on A Broken Heart Can Mend making it now?
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/ooPoc3Wcvj4Ecr7yNYtte78fQBk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1516399-1225455588.jpeg.jpg60. Ashford & Simpson - Solid509 points, 11 voteshttps://youtu.be/w3PoTnkLfxE
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
This song is 100% ridiculous but that is what makes it work.
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
solid!solid as a rock!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
Yay! One of the greatest a capella intros in pop music, and the rest of the tune is just as solid. I've never actually seen the video before, they're so cute in it! :)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Also, how many other pop hits there are which are odes to a long-term relationship and the work it takes to keep it working? This song is just so awesome in every way.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/HlBrd1RoSiExHCS_PaUg-GYqPjY=/fit-in/593x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-266321-1330602889.jpeg.jpg59. The Gap Band - Burn Rubber on Me516 points, 10 voteshttps://youtu.be/zSsXRWhfN3w
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
The first salvo in refining this (amazing) style, but I like some of the subsequent ones even better.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
this countdown has been a weird combination of songs I heard a million time during my childhood and things I've never heard before, not a lot of middle ground
― Moodles, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9v3sAck-QQ
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/CQr9Z_2vbV7dK5YHTZejMUwtn9o=/fit-in/560x566/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2976488-1337649992-9733.jpeg.jpg58. Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)524 points, 8 voteshttps://youtu.be/8tI1_KlO6xI
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
not sure what people's favorite culture club songs are but i hope they don't place a bunch this far up :\
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
There isn't a single Culture Club song I would consider to be R&B.
Now expecting "Hold Me Now" by Thompson Twins to crack the top 40.
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
"miss me blind" actually did cross over to the top 10 on the r&b charts
I'm pretty sure "Time"'s the favorite. Although I think "Church of the Poison Mind" is also a fantastic song and I wish it had placed somewhere in the top 250.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
(I just created and deleted a fake entry for "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz because I think everyone gets my position by this point)
xp: okay I can make an exception for "Miss Me Blind", I'd forgotten that song
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/rHFf2ezTaRAf2NkBR6fpDBDH5s0=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-323394-1222344197.jpeg.jpg57. Imagination - Just an Illusion526 points, 9 voteshttps://youtu.be/TnfHdZrmMAw
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
i'll be gladder if it doesn't re: "church of the poison mind"
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
becoming aware of imagination for the first time is my main discovery from this poll and i'm really glad about it
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
The all-time roller skating rink classic in my town.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
As I mentioned in the voting thread, I only just realized while preparing for this poll that 'Church of the Poison Mind' sounds an awful lot like something the Miracles could've recorded.
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
Not a fan of that culture club song regardless of genre but really
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Imagination are maybe my favourite band of the 80s, still hoping for one more in particular but not confident
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Body Talk is a lock surely.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
There are just some artists when you see them on a list of nominations you just know they're going to show up and ludicrously high at that.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/y5dPt_abuCYEhVj-JKQF1-Q3Dq8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-194021-1335400289.jpeg.jpg56. Prince - The Beautiful Ones528 points, 7 votes, 1 number one
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
TOO DAMNED LOW
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:40 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not that one
― i know kore-eda (or something), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
incredible song
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
Positive that #1 was mine. Glad I could do what I could do to push it as high as it got, being a non-single and all.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Will go to my grave believing this to be Prince's finest moment.
I remember coming to the Purple Rain soundtrack as someone who had played Controversy and 1999 on repeat, getting to "The Beautiful Ones" and going "OH WAIT HOLD UP WHAT" and then replaying the song 5 times in a row (this was on an LP)
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
i think i have burst into tears watching the segment of him performing this in purple rain the movie
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Me, countless times, just listening to it on my headphones.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
It's interesting that there were so many Prince songs nominated yet somehow When You Were Mine missed out. It won the Prince poll a few years ago. If I'd more time to get involved in the nominations process, I would have mentioned it.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Get an '80s new wave poll together.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Sure to have about 40% overlap...
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 1:45 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Download this Man With Hamburder And Mug (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Just looked back on my rushed ballot and didn't give nearly enough love for imagination. Just body talk way down near the bottom. Sorry people.
― wtev, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
Voted for lots of Prince but this was the highest of his in my ballot. My no3
― wtev, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/tOQd2mEo4GpjHNYReguTuwHgMhg=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-435284-1279267525.jpeg.jpg54. Ready for the World - Oh Sheila543 points, 9 voteshttps://youtu.be/wbL2lMn34Oo
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
^^^ this is the business
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
omg. good song but doesn't deserve to be above "love you down"
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link