Honestly, my Jill Jones pick would be Ryuchi Sakamoto's "You Do Me"
― it's just locker room treason (Sanpaku), Friday, 19 May 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
I was the only one to vote for "Mia Bocca"?! Don't you folks like Jill Jones?
― Tuomas
I voted for Violet Blue.
This was a great poll. Thanks for all your hard work ArchCarrier.
― kitchen person, Friday, 19 May 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
Wa Wa Nee getting more points than Housequake????
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Friday, 19 May 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
Scanning from the bottom of the thread up, I thought that was someone's 911 song ballot!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 May 2017 01:42 (six years ago) link
Thanks again, ArchCarrier! This has been amazing. And OMG, I see now what you mean about the point difference between the two clear leaders and the rest of the pack!
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 May 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Yes, and the voting stats of the rest of the top 10 are so close that they are practically tied. On any other day the order would have been slightly different.
The funny thing is that "Heartbeat" was sitting at number 1 until a day or two before the deadline. Only after the last five or six ballots came in it dropped to #5.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 19 May 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
Happy with #1, though I can't lie: I prefer the '79 Prince version of the sing. It's his 2nd album's "When U Were Mine"
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 19 May 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
Heartbeat was the highest of anything from my ballot to place
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 19 May 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
So glad 'I Feel For You' won. It was one of the first singles I owned - I would have been five, saw it on Top of The Pops and had my dad get it for me. I haven't listened to it that much in the last 30 years, somehow, but finding it on shuffle when I was listening to the nominations here was such a revelation - it's just so full of perfect moments which just pile up on top of one another. I can think of quite a few perfect pieces of music, but none that are so full of stuff. And I kind of knew that it would be #1 somehow.
(The Prince original I heard for the first time, and afraid I found it a big let-down, just sounds like a very minor work, sorry)
Thanks to ArchCarrier for running this poll, and to the voters for introducing me to so much I hadn't heard before, and so much I found I had known for years without knowing its name.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
nobody even nominated "Rocket 2 U," which i assume means everyone else, like me, completely forgot it existed when this poll was going on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkTMLMICR3Y
― korla pundit (crüt), Monday, 26 June 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
i love this song
― maura, Monday, 26 June 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
This is driving me insane...do any of my 80s R&B headz recognize the interpolation at the chorus where he sings the title??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnWTW6YXbE
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 17 March 2018 06:22 (six years ago) link
Several elements of the song sound like a de- and reconstruction of the Doobie Brothers' version of 'You Belong to Me':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHnVyAyJFU
If that's not quite it, it feels like the Doobies/Michael McDonald are a good first route of inquiry. That opening synth line is all them.
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
The chorus backing track sounds a bit like Wham "Everything She Wants" tbh.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 March 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
I was going to say the backing track sounds like “yah mo be there”
One of his recent hits interpolated Eugene Wild
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
I'm a little late to the Alexander O'Neal party, because I only just discovered that 'Criticize' is the best song ever written.
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 20 March 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link