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

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.

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

i love this song

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

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.

The chorus backing track sounds a bit like Wham "Everything She Wants" tbh.

I was going to say the backing track sounds like “yah mo be there”

One of his recent hits interpolated Eugene Wild

I'm a little late to the Alexander O'Neal party, because I only just discovered that 'Criticize' is the best song ever written.