Wanna Be POLLIN' Somethin' ~~~ It's the ILM 80's R&B TRACKS POLL! ~~~

After the grand success of the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO TRACKS POLL, we're jumping into the next decade with the 1980s R&B TRACKS POLL!

Here's the deal: you have about a week to nominate your favorite R&B tracks that were released from 1980 to 1989. You have an unlimited amount of nominations, but please use some common sense. I'll start the voting and campaigning thread somewhere around April 25.

Here are Rateyourmusic's Top R&B Singles for every year of the decade to get you started:
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

(Just to be clear: reissues of older singles are not eligible for this poll.)

Let me start with these two guys, who released a couple of decent singles in the 80s:

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Michael Jackson - She's Out of My Life
Michael Jackson - Girlfriend
Michael Jackson - One Day in Your Life
Michael Jackson - The Girl Is Mine
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Michael Jackson - Human Nature
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
Michael Jackson - Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Michael Jackson - Another Part of Me
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl

Prince - Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
Prince - Still Waiting
Prince - Sexy Dancer
Prince - Bambi
Prince - Uptown
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Head
Prince - Do It All Night
Prince - Gotta Stop (Messin' About)
Prince - Controversy
Prince - Let's Work
Prince - Sexuality
Prince - Do Me, Baby
Prince - 1999
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - Delirious
Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married
Prince - Automatic
Prince - When Doves Cry
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - I Would Die 4 U
Prince - Take Me with U
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Prince - Paisley Park
Prince - Pop Life
Prince - America
Prince - Kiss
Prince - Mountains
Prince - Anotherloverholenyohead
Prince - Girls & Boys
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
Prince - U Got the Look
Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Prince - Alphabet St.
Prince - Glam Slam
Prince - I Wish U Heaven
Prince - Batdance
Prince - Partyman
Prince - The Arms of Orion
Prince - Scandalous!

First poll that's got me buzzing in ages

ahahaha oh shit

Cameo - Word Up
Commodores - Oh No
Curtis Mayfield - Baby It's You
George Michael - I Want Your Sex (Parts 1 & 2)
Janet Jackson - Nasty
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately
Janet Jackson - When I Think of You
Jeffrey Osborne - You Should Be Mine
Kool & the Gang - Celebration
Kool & the Gang - Stand Up and Sing
Madonna & Prince - Love Song
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Nona Hendryx - Keep It Confidential
Nona Hendryx - Living On the Border
Prince - Adore
Prince - Baby I'm a Star
Prince - Computer Blue
Prince - Darling Nikki
Prince - Electric Chair
Ready For The World - Love You Down
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Sheila E. - The Belle of St. Mark
Sheila E. - Holly Rock
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
The Special AKA - Free Nelson Mandela
Timex Social Club - Rumors
Vanity 6 - He's So Dull
Vanity 6 - If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Vanity 6 - Wet Dream
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

Prince - Electric Chair

Oh, and:

Commodores - Nightshift
Diana Ross - Upside Down
El Debarge - Who's Johnny
E.U. - Da Butt
The Jets - You Got It All

Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
Janet Jackson - Control
Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora - When the Rain Begins to Fall
Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
Lionel Richie - Hello
Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out
Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
The Jacksons - Can You Feel It
The Jacksons - Lovely One
The Jacksons feat. Mick Jagger - State of Shock
The Jets - Crush on You
The S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good to Me
The Valentine Brothers - Money's Too Tight (to Mention)
Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston - Love Will Save the Day
Whitney Houston - One Moment in Time
The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
The Pointer Sisters - He's So Shy
The Pointer Sisters - Jump (for My Love)
The Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance

I wanna see these tracks on your ballots:

Rene & Angela - I'll Be Good
Stephanie Mills - I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love
Luther Vandross - It's Over Now
Anita Baker - Sweet Love
George Clinton - Last Dance
Sheila E - A Love Bizarre
Junior - Mama Used to Say
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
The Gap Band - Outstanding
Aretha Franklin - Get It Right

As it happens I threw together an album list last night that'll help me with choosing singles.

Shannon - Let the Music Play
Ready for the World - Oh Sheila
George Benson - Give Me the Night
Midnight Star - Freak-a-Zoid
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
Diana Ross - My Old Piano

xp - Thanks for that list! So much I don't know... This poll is going to be a big discovery (again).

Alexander O'Neal – Criticize
Alexander O'Neal – Fake
Alexander O'Neal – Lovers
Aretha Franklin – Jimmy Lee
Ashford & Simpson – Solid
Babyface – It's No Crime
Bobby Brown – Don't Be Cruel
Brothers Johnson – Stomp
Change – Glow of Love
Culture Club – Time
D. Train – You're the One for Me
DeBarge – Rhythm of the Night
DeBarge – Stay With Me
Freddie Jackson – You Are My Lady
Gap Band – Burn Rubber on Me
Gap Band – Early in the Morning
Guy – Groove Me
Guy – I Like
Gwen Guthrie – Ain't Nothing Going On But the Rent
Inner City – Good Life
Janet Jackson – Let's Wait A While
Janet Jackson – Love Will Never Do
Janet Jackson – Miss You Much
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation
Johnny Kemp – Just Got Paid
Keith Sweat – I Want Her
Lionel Richie – You Are
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – I Wonder If I Take You Home
Lisa Stansfield – All Around the World
Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
New Edition – If It Isn't Love
Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
Pebbles – Mercedes Boy
Rick James – Ghetto Life
Rick James – Give It to Me Baby
S.O.S. Band – Take Your Time
Shalamar – A Night to Remember
Shalamar – I Can Make You Feel Good
Sheila E. – Glamorous Life
Simply Red – Holding Back the Years
Smokey Robinson – Being With You
Soul II Soul – Keep on Movin
Stephanie Mills – Never Knew Love Like This Before
Steve Winwood – Higher Love
Stevie Wonder – Rocket Love
Stevie Wonder – That Girl
Teddy Pendergrass – Love TKO
Teena Marie – Square Biz
Terence Trent D'Arby – Sign Your Name
Whispers – And the Beat Goes On
Womack & Womack – Teardrops

YES

Janet Jackson - Escapade
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Surface - Falling in Love
Richenel - Dance Around the World

Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain
Cameo - She's Strange
Cameo - Candy
Cherrelle - Fragile... Handle With Care
Luther Vandross - Sugar & Spice
S.O.S Band - S.O.S (Dit Dit Dit Dash Dash Dash Dit Dit Dit)
Change - It Burns Me Up
Jill Jones - Violet Blue
Nona Hendryx - B-Boys
Human League - Human
Alexander O'Neal - A Broken Heart Can Mend
Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neal - Saturday Night
Prince - She's Always In My Hair
Taana Gardener - Heartbeat (Larry Levan Remix)
Sylvester - Don't Stop
Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
Chic - 26
Sister Sledge - Pretty Baby
Slave - Dreamin'

What does Chic's 26 mean btw? Great call on Heartbeat and Human!

Slave - Watching You

George Benson - Love x Love
Mtume - Give It On Up (If You Want To)
Smokey Robinson - Wine, Women & Song
Zapp - Coming Home
Roger - A Chunk Of Sugar
Billy Ocean - Nights (Feels Like Getting Down)
Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Was Not Was - Carry Me Back To Old Morocco
The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt
Logg - I Know You Will
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby
Scritti Politti - Absolute
The Time - Onedayi'mgonnabesomebody
Freeez - I.O.U
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Wham - Everything She Wants
Wendy & Lisa - Are You My Baby?
Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss

Just realised on my first list of nominations that should be Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neal - Saturday Love not Saturday Night

Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music In The Streets
Imagination - Just An Illusion
Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait
Gwen Guthrie - Padlock
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down)
High Fashion - Feelin' Lucky Lately
The Jones Girls - I'm A Woman Here

Taana Gardener - Heartbeat (Larry Levan Remix)

"Gardner" not "Gardener"

Anyway, is this the same as "Heartbeat (Club Version)"?

Imagination - Music and Lights

"Beat It" is not an R&B song imo

Indeep - Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life
Odyssey - Going Back to My Roots
Odyssey - Inside Out
Soul II Soul - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
Soul II Soul - Get a Life
Neneh Cherry - Manchild
Chic - You Are Beautiful

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard
The Whispers - It's a Love Thing
The Jacksons - This Place Hotel
T.S. Monk - Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)
Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin'
Zapp - Be Alright
Imagination - Body Talk
Linx - Intuition
Rick James - Super Freak
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
The System - You Are in My System
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon
Womack & Womack - Love Wars
Cashmere - Do It Any Way You Wanna
Cherrelle - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
Escape From New York - Fire in My Heart
Alexander O'Neal - Innocent
Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
Chaka Khan - Eye to Eye
Colonel Abrams - Trapped
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo
Stephanie Mills - (You're Puttin') A Rush on Me

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard

Anyway, is this the same as "Heartbeat (Club Version)"?

What does Chic's 26 mean btw?

I know :) I'm asking about the lyric.

My baby's a 26 always sounded like innuendo to me.

Whatever we can do to get more ballots this time I'm all for.

Released in 1978 (and number 17 on the 70's poll), so not eligible here.

Whoops, my bad.

I've always thought I was more about '70s R&B than '80s, but already the nominees are telling me it's actually the reverse.

More accurately, I'm MOST into R&B from about 1976-1984.

^ just a fantastic era

Whatever we can do to get more ballots this time I'm all for.

Innuendo wtev I'm in. Gutted to miss the 70s one.

George Clinton - Atomic Dog
George Clinton - Free Alterations
Raydio - A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)
Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

I'm not nearly as familiar with this era as the 70s, so I'm looking forward to listening. I'll try to cobble a ballot together that isn't just "Here are all the best Prince songs"

Change - A Lover's Holiday
Sharon Redd - Never Give You Up
Sharon Redd - Beat the Street
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
Womack & Womack - A.P.B.
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter
Sade - Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Exposé - Point of No Return

Aurra – Such A Feeling
George Benson – Inside Love
The Limit – She's So Divine
The Whispers – This Kind of Lovin'
The Whispers – Keep On Lovin' Me

Morris Day & The Time - Jungle Love
Morris Day & The Time - The Bird
Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
Sade - Smooth Operator
Sade - Paradise
Sade - Is It A Crime?
Sade - Your Love is King
Sade - Never As Good As The First Time
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Prince - Strange Relationship
Prince - Condition of the Heart
Prince - Private Joy

Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Chaka Khan - Through The Fire

Chic - Rebels Are We
Funkadelic - Electro-Cuties

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Chic - You Can't Do It Alone

Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

Gayle Adams - Love Fever
Patrice Rushen - Feels So Real (Won't Let Go)
Chemise - She Can't Love You
Rainbow Brown - Till You Surrender
Fonda Rae - Over Like A Fat Rat
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls
Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters

Thank you for this

"Beat It" is not an R&B song imo

it went #1 on the r&b charts (tho yes, it scaled the pop charts first). charting at all on the r&b side is more than some other nominees, like exposé's "point of no return" (even tho freestyle is def part of the r&b realm sonically), can say.

in any case i feel like if the fit seems questionable to people voting, even if they really like the song, it won't tend to get enough votes to place. so there's probably no reason to revoke nominations except for release date.

not that charting history means that much anyways. mj's "human nature" also didn't chart r&b at all but today it would certainly be considered more r&b than "beat it" (and is also most likely to be played on r&b stations today).

anyways really excited for this, lemme throw some noms together :)

I'm barely keeping myself from nominating Holiday, which is probably my favorite disco ever but the world decided dance-pop isn't r'n'b at some point so whatever. Same with ABC.

Maybe the Holiday Rap? Best of both worlds :)

Gonna wait til this settles down and the spreadsheet is up and running before nominating but this is already impossible

1980s soul
A Taste of Honey - Rescue Me
Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love
Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
Bobby Womack - Tell Me Why
C-Bank - One More Shot
Cameo - Single Life
Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Crusaders w/ Bill Withers - Soul Shadows
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Dennis Edwards -Don’t Look Any Further
Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat
Defunkt - Avoid The Funk
Deniece Williams - It’s Gonna Take A Miracle
Donna Summer - State of Independence
ESG -You’re No Good
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two of Us
Inner City - Big Fun
James Brown - Don’t Stop The Funk
James Brown - Rapp Payback
James Brown- Bring It On
Junie - Rappin About Rappin
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy
Linx - You’re Lying
Manhattans - Shining Star
Marvin Gaye - Turn On Some Music
Material/Nona Hendryx - Bustin Out
Material - Memories
MFSB - Mysteries Of The World
Neville Brothers - Sister Rosa
Parliament - Trombipulation
Peech Boys - Life Is Something Special
Prince - How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
Professor Longhair - Cry To Me
Quincy Jones - Just Once
Roger - So Ruff So Tuff
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody
Skipworth and Turner - Thinking About Your Love
Smokey Robinson - Let Me Be The Clock
Syl Johnson - Ms. Fine Brown Frame
Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Tom Browne - Funkin’ For Jamaica
Tramaine Hawkins - Fall Down Spirit of Love
Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
Yarborough and Peoples - Don’t Stop The Music
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

A Taste of Honey - Rescue Me
Aretha Franklin - Sweet Bitter Love
Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
Bobby Womack - Tell Me Why
C-Bank - One More Shot
Cameo - Single Life
Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
The Crusaders w/ Bill Withers - Soul Shadows
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Dennis Edwards -Don’t Look Any Further
Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat
Defunkt - Avoid The Funk
Deniece Williams - It’s Gonna Take A Miracle
Donna Summer - State of Independence
ESG -You’re No Good
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus
Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Grover Washington Jr. - Just The Two of Us
Inner City - Big Fun
James Brown - Don’t Stop The Funk
James Brown - Rapp Payback
James Brown- Bring It On
Junie - Rappin About Rappin
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy
Linx - You’re Lying
Manhattans - Shining Star
Marvin Gaye - Turn On Some Music
Material/Nona Hendryx - Bustin Out
Material - Memories
MFSB - Mysteries Of The World
Neville Brothers - Sister Rosa
Parliament - Trombipulation
Peech Boys - Life Is Something Special
Prince - How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?
Professor Longhair - Cry To Me
Quincy Jones - Just Once
Roger - So Ruff So Tuff
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody
Skipworth and Turner - Thinking About Your Love
Smokey Robinson - Let Me Be The Clock
Syl Johnson - Ms. Fine Brown Frame
Teena Marie - Lovergirl
Tom Browne - Funkin’ For Jamaica
Tramaine Hawkins - Fall Down Spirit of Love
Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love
Yarborough and Peoples - Don’t Stop The Music
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce

Whoops sorry about that

Please use ctrl f people. There were some issues with double nominations and small spelling differences in the last poll.

In My House - Mary Jane Girls

so uh are we excluding rap titles from consideration here

like i want to nominate e.g. newcleus - jam on it

i know there's a tendency to separate r&b and rap based on their vocals but considering the two have basically coevolved thruout the latter's entire existence i feel it would be a ridiculous omission esp. since rap titles tended to percolate thru the same spaces (radio/venues/retailers etc.) commercially. the commercial format of r&b, which did include rap, is more easily pinned down than nebulous genre definitions of r&b anyhow.

(pretty much all of the rap songs i want to nominate were hits on the r&b charts btw)

This will become a significantly less interesting poll if we include rap (whereas it would become even more interesting if we include dance pop but that's just me).

Stevie Wonder - All I Do
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me
Debarge - Time Will Reveal
Debarge - A Dream
Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top (Give It All You Got)
Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed
Loose Ends - Hangin' on a String
Chic - Flash Back
Odyssey - Native New Yorker
Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up
Ednah Holt - Serious, Sirius Space Party

Well, "Rapper's Delight" made the '70s poll so ... ?

"Jam On It" reads as much electro R&B as it does rap, tho.

Native New Yorker is from 1977.

"jam on it" deserves to be nominated yes absolutely

"Jam On It" reads as much electro R&B as it does rap, tho.

this is what i mean by nebulous genre definitions (even tho i agree w/ the statement!). like where is the line drawn between electro r&b w/ largely rapped vocals (or no vocals) and actual rap? is it whodini's "friends"? j.j. fad's "supersonic"?

I'm the wrong one to ask, I think dance music is always at a disadvantage on ILM and if I can stack the deck in boogie's favor somehow, I'm likely to do it.

Rene & Angela - Your Smile
Pasadenas - Tribute (Right On)
Whispers - Rock Steady
Gavin Christopher - One Step Closer To You
ZZ Hill - Cheating In The Next Room
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'

I've had "Jam On It" on every list of the '80s I car eto name.

My go-to station on satellite radio is the Groove, which is basically this poll in real time. Random sample from earlier today:

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50 Chic Good Times 4/18/2017 8:42:34 PM
50 Chuckii Booker Turned Away 4/18/2017 8:36:56 PM
50 System Don't Disturb This Groove 4/18/2017 8:34:01 PM
50 Kashif I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn M 4/18/2017 8:27:53 PM
50 The Groove SiriusXM 4/18/2017 8:27:43 PM
50 Maze featuring Frankie Beverly Back In Stride 4/18/2017 8:23:45 PM
50 Jermaine & Michael Jackson Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming 4/18/2017 8:19:43 PM
50 Evelyn "Champagne" King Shame 4/18/2017 8:13:23 PM
50 Sade Paradise 4/18/2017 8:09:56 PM
50 O'Jays Give The People What They Want 4/18/2017 8:05:54 PM
50 Bobby Brown My Prerogative 4/18/2017 8:01:32 PM
50 Sirius XM The Groove 4/18/2017 8:01:11 PM
50 Jody Watley Real Love 4/18/2017 7:57:12 PM
50 K.C. & The Sunshine Band Get Down Tonight (Long Version) 4/18/2017 7:52:03 PM
50 D Train Keep Giving Me Love 4/18/2017 7:45:12 PM
50 Stevie Wonder Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing 4/18/2017 7:41:23 PM
50 Gerald Levert Just Coolin' ` 4/18/2017 7:38:01 PM
50 Gap Band You Dropped A Bomb On Me 4/18/2017 7:32:13 PM
50 The Groove Old School R&B 4/18/2017 7:32:02 PM
50 One Way Cutie Pie 4/18/2017 7:26:44 PM
50 Chaka Khan I Feel For You 4/18/2017 7:21:01 PM
50 Linda Clifford Runaway Love 4/18/2017 7:14:13 PM
50 The Groove SiriusXM 4/18/2017 7:14:02 PM
50 Commodores Sweet Love 4/18/2017 7:07:44 PM
50 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Let The Beat Hit'em (91) 4/18/2017 7:04:02 PM
50 Change Paradise 4/18/

And so on.

Junior - Mama Used To Say
Cheri - Murphy's Law
Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me
Al B Sure - Off on Your Own (Girl)

Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
Hall and Oates - I Can't Go For That
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
Chaka Khan - What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen

I listed "Mama Used to Say" upthread: a huge hit in England, #2 on te black chart, but like so many R&B hits of the era a dud on the pop chart.

Here's where I recommend The Blerb Radio Podcast, in which Thomas Inskeep and Michael Heyliger discuss every #1 and #2 of the eighties R&B chart.

http://blerdradio.libsyn.com/

Mtume – You Can't Wait For Love
High Fashion – Feelin' Lucky Lately
Starpoint – Satisfy Me Lover
Shalamar – I Owe You One
Imagination – Changes
D-Train – Keep On

George Benson - Turn Your Love Around
George Benson - Give Me The Night
Grover Washington - Just The Two Of Us

Egyptian Lover should count, no?

If so:

Egyptian Lover - I Cry (Night After Night)
Egyptian Lover - My House (On The Nile)
Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt

Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared of You
Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love
Jody Watley - Real Love
Rick James - Cold Blooded
Evelyn "Champagne" King - "I'm In Love"
Zapp - Computer Love
Zapp - Dance Floor
Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long)
Leon Ware - Rockin You Eternally
Sylvia Striplin - You Can't Turn Me Away
Sylvia Striplin - Give Me Your Love
Alicia Myers - I Want To Thank You

ok here are what i hope will be minimally objectionable noms (including "jam on it" since y'all seemed in favor)

The Deele - Two Occasions
Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got
Anita Baker - Just Because
Prince - Hot Thing
Prince - It
Prince - The Beautiful Ones
Force M.D.'s - Love Is A House
Force M.D.'s - Tender Love
Nocera - Summertime, Summertime
Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito - Piano In The Dark
Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
Bobby Brown - Roni
Freddie Jackson - Jam Tonight
New Edition - Can You Stand The Rain
Vanity 6 - Drive Me Wild
The Art Of Noise - Beat Box
The Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
Midnight Star - Slow Jam
Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
Al Jarreau - Mornin'
Al Jarreau - We're In This Love Together
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
The Time - 777-9311
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
The Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit Of Jazz
Luther Vandross - A House Is Not A Home
Luther Vandross - Here And Now
Luther Vandross - If Only For One Night
Luther Vandross - Superstar/Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love
Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
George Michael - Careless Whisper
George Michael - Father Figure
George Michael - One More Try
The System - Don't Disturb This Groove
Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
The S.O.S. Band - Tell Me If You Still Care
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Can't Get Over You
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Joy And Pain
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume
Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now
Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly
The Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
Cheryl Lynn - Encore
Change - Searching
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Shirley Murdock - As We Lay
Alexander O'Neal - Sunshine
Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling
James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Narada Michael Walden - I Shoulda Loved Ya
Levert - Casanova
Newcleus - Jam On It
Sybil - Don't Make Me Over
Surface - Happy
Janet Jackson - Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)
Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
Betty Wright - No Pain, (No Gain)
Deniece Williams - Silly
Mtume - You, Me And He
Laid Back - White Horse
Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
Shalamar - The Second Time Around
Klymaxx - The Men All Pause
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

Irene Cara - Fame
David Bowie - Fame

is "escapade" from the 80s? i guess the album's from 89 but it came out as a single in jan 1990 and got big after that

I played Rhythm Nation 1814 about a thousand times in the fall of 1989, so for me it's definitely '89.

fair enough

Delegation - It's Your Turn (Extended version)
Zapp - Heartbreaker (Part I, Part II)
The Whispers - Tonight
Frederick & Janice Dowlen - Gentle (Calling your name)
Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac
Kashif - Rumors
Change - Change of heart
Donna Allen - Serious (Extended Version)
Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan Remix)

Remove the extended versions/remix if it makes things simpler

David Bowie's Fame came out in 1976

or 75 idk

I am devastated to learn that Raydio/Ray Parker Jr's masterpiece, More Than One Way To Love a Woman came out in 79. It would have been in my top 10 for that poll.

Prince - Erotic City
Prince - Bob George
Prince - 17 Days
Prince - Starfish and Coffee
Prince - Irresistible Bitch
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April

Some of these are among my all-time favorite songs. So glad I had a chance to contribute (unlike the '70s poll that I completely slept on)!

After 7 - 'Heat of the Moment'
Al B. Sure! - 'Nite and Day'
Chaka Khan - 'Love of a Lifetime'
Chaka Khan - 'This Is My Night'
Chico DeBarge - 'Talk To Me'
DeBarge - 'Who's Holding Donna Now'
Deniece Williams - 'I Can't Wait'
Donna Summer - 'This Time I Know It's For Real'
Donna Summer - 'Dim All the Lights'
Donna Summer - 'Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)'
The Family - 'Screams of Passion'
Ivan Neville - 'Not Just Another Girl'
Janet Jackson - 'Don't Stand Another Chance'
Janet Jackson - 'Pretty Boy'
Jenny Burton - 'Remember What You Like'
Jesse Johnson's Revue - 'Be Your Man'
Jody Watley - 'Still a Thrill'
Johnny Kemp - 'Birthday Suit'
K.C. & the Sunshine Band - 'Give It Up'
Kiara & Shanice Wilson - 'This Time'
Kool & the Gang - 'Joanna'
Kool & the Gang - 'Too Hot'
Kool & the Gang - 'Get Down On It'
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - 'Head To Toe'
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - 'All Cried Out'
Mary Jane Girls - 'Candy Man'
Mel & Kim - 'Showing Out (Get Fresh At the Weekend)'
Merry Clayton - 'Yes'
Midnight Star - 'No Parking on the Dance Floor'
Midnight Star - 'Operator'
Milli Vanilli - 'Girl You Know It's True'
Morris Day - 'Oak Tree'
Natalie Cole - 'Jump Start'
New Edition - 'Candy Girl'
New Edition - 'Cool It Now'
New Edition - 'Mr. Telephone Man'
New Kids on the Block - 'Please Don't Go Girl'
Nolan Thomas - 'Yo Little Brother'
Nu Shooz - 'I Can't Wait'
Nu Shooz - 'Point of No Return'
Ollie & Jerry - 'Breakin'...There's No Stopping Us'
Paula Abdul - 'Knocked Out'
Pebbles - 'Girlfriend'
Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey - 'Easy Lover'
The Pointer Sisters - 'If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady'
Rebbie Jackson - 'Centipede'
Shalamar - 'The Second Time Around'
Shalamar - 'Dancing in the Sheets'
Sharon Bryant - 'Let Go'
Slave - 'Snap Shot'
Starpoint - 'Object of My Desire'
Ta Mara & The Seen - 'Everybody Dance'
Taja Sevelle - 'Love Is Contagious'
Teena Marie - 'Ooh La La La'
Tiggi Clay - 'Flashes'
Tracie Spencer - 'Symptoms of True Love'
Twennynine - 'Peanut Butter'
Vanessa Williams - 'The Right Stuff'
Wa Wa Nee - 'Stimulation'
War - 'You Got The Power'
War - 'Outlaw'
Whistle - 'Right Next To Me'

David Bowie's Fame came out in 1976

So, with the removal of 'Fame' we're at exactly 500 nominations! (xp, not counting Old Lunch's new batch).

Juicy - Sugar Free

I'll have others later, but that one must be nominated asap and I'm all too happy to do it.

Can't quite wrap my mind around Moments In Love as r'n'b. At that point we should include the Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

My list is composed almost exclusively of charting singles. I'm sure I'll have another long list to contribute once I dig into album tracks.

Not to mention freestyle tracks, which is a whole can of worms unto itself.

i included "moments in love" b/c (in the us) it charted only on the r&b charts (not highly but still) and b/c the only station i hear playing it nowadays is the classic r&b station (often but not always during quiet storm segments)

included nocera's "summertime summertime" despite being freestyle b/c it also charted r&b (#47 peak, compared to a #84 pop peak) which again is more than some other freestyle tracks nominated (like "point of no return") can say

should be noted that some of the michael jackson singles that were nominated without objection missed the r&b charts entirely

anyway i figure considerations of goodness of fit will inevitably creep into voters' decisions

Yeah, that's why I'm reluctant to genre-police. It's R&B if it gets a vote.

Bobby Womack - Love Has Finally Come At Last
Bonzo Goes To Washington - Five Minutes
Change - Paradise
Clark Sisters - You Brought The Sunshine
Earth Wind and Fire - Fall in Love With Me
Evelyn Champagne King - Betcha She Don't Love You
J. Walter Negro and the Loose Joints - Shoot The Pump
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
Kool and The Gang - Fresh
Kool and The Gang - Misled
Linx - Together We Can Shine
Luther Vandross - She's A Super Lady
Manu Dibango - Abele Dance
Material - I'm The One
Maze - Back in Stride
Michel'le - No More Lies
Neville Brothers - With God On Our Side
One Way - Give Me One More Chance
Raw Sex Pure Energy - Stop The War
Raw Silk - Do It To The Music
Redds and The Boys - Movie' and Groovin'
Smokey Robinson - Just To See Her
Smokey Robinson - One Heartbeat
Steve Arrington - Feels So Real
Temptations - Treat Her Like A Lady
Trouble Funk - Domp The Bomb
Womack and Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

Stevie Wonder - Ribbon In The Sky
Stevie Wonder - Front Line

Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice

uh what

Shannon - Give Me Tonight

xp Yeah, I know...but on the other hand when I used to DJ at a club in the early 80s it was a floor filler.

Adele Bertei - Build Me a Bridge
Colourbox - The Moon is Blue
Cherelle and Alexander O'Neal - Saturday Love
Cherelle - I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
J. Blackfoot - Taxi
Marcel King - Reach For Love
Lonnie Hill - Galveston Bay
Isley, Jasper, Isley- Caravan of Love
George Michael - A Different Corner
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life
Nuance feat. Vikki Love - Loveride
Randy Crawford - Someday I'll Fly Away
Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1
View From The Hill - No Conversation

For starters.

Break Machine - Street Dance
Marsha Raven - Catch Me
Evelyn Thomas - High Energy (!!!)

Rose Royce - R.R. Express
Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind
The Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band - Starlette
K.I.D. - Don't Stop

Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again
Booker Newberry III - Love Town
Aretha Franklin - Who's Zoomin' Who?
Rockers Revenge feat Donnie Calvin - Walking on Sunshine
Luther Vandross - Give Me The Reason
June Montana - I Need Your Love
Julia and Company - Breakin' Down (Sugar Samba)
James Brown - I'm Real
Stacy Lattislaw - Jump To The Beat
Terri Wells - I'll Be Around

Grace Jones - Nipple to the Bottle
James Brown - Gravity

Swear I'm gonna vote this time!

Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Funkadelic - Icka Prick
Zapp - Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)
Bootsy - Mug Push
P Funk Allstars - Hydraulic Pump (12" version)
The Jacksons - Wondering Who
Change - Miracles
Change - Paradise
Earth, Wind and Fire - Lady Sun
Shalamar - Sweeter as the Days Go By
Shalamar - Go For It
Shalamar - Make That Move
Marvin Gaye - Praise
Marvin Gaye - Heavy Love Affair
Stevie Wonder - Lately
Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover
Jacksons - Torture
George Clinton - Man's Best Friend/Loopzilla
P-Funk Allstars - Copy Cat
Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame - Weak at the Knees

Parliament - Agony of Defeet
Parliament - Crush It
Parliament - Let's Play House
DeBarge - All This Love
Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
War - Cinco de Mayo

"We Are the World" fits this poll, doesn't it? Basically a gospel song, produced by Quincy Jones, written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, standout vocal solos by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, etc.

can we bring non-usa stuff into this ?

Sure, go ahead! But make sure to promote your picks in the campaigning thread next week, otherwise they might not get noticed.

Gwen Guthrie - It Should Have Been You (Larry Levan remix)
Central Line - Walking into Sunshine (Larry Levan remix)
The S.O.S. Band - Weekend Girl
Sheila & B. Devotion - Your Love Is Good
Ron Rogers - Naughty Boy
Regina - Baby Love
Lio - Sage Comme Une Image
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Endicott
Sister Sledge - Easy Street
Sister Sledge - Reach Your Peak
Debbie Harry - Backfired
Chic - Chip Off the Old Block

Can't ctrl-f on my phone but gone through the thread twice and can't see any if these

Amii Stewart - friends
Princess - say I'm your number one
Vanity - romantic voyage
Missing Persons - surrender your heart
Thelma Houston - you used to hold me
Will Downing - a love supreme
Imagination - so good so right
Pointer Sisters - dare me
Mr Fingers - what about this love

After 7 - 'Ready or Not'
Anita Baker - 'Caught Up In The Rapture'
Anita Baker - 'Same Ole Love'
Apollonia 6 - 'Ooo She She Wa Wa'
Atlantic Starr - 'Always'
Bobby Brown - 'On Our Own'
Carl Carlton - 'She's a Bad Mama Jama She's Built She's Stacked'
Cheryl Lynn - 'Shake It Up Tonight'
Debbie Jacobs - 'High On Your Love'
Five Star - 'Can't Wait Another Minute'
Five Star - 'If I Say Yes'
Five Star - 'All Fall Down'

René & Angela – I Love You More
Marvin Gaye – My Love Is Waiting

Universal Togetherness Band - Ain't Gonna Cry

We're at 682 nominations now. I'll leave this thread open until Monday morning, then you can start campaigning for your favorite deep cuts.

Herb Alpert - 'Diamonds'
Jackson 5 - 'Can You Feel It'
Jackson 5 - 'Lovely One'
Jackson 5 - 'Walk Right Now'
Jane Child - 'Don't Want To Fall In Love'
Janet Jackson - 'Come Back to Me'
Janet Jackson - 'You Can Be Mine'
Janet Jackson - 'The Pleasure Principle'
Janet Jackson - 'Dream Street'
Janet Jackson - 'Alright'
Janet Jackson - 'Black Cat'
The Jets - 'Cross My Broken Heart'
Klymaxx - 'Meeting in the Ladies Room'
Klymaxx - 'I Miss You'
Lisa Stansfield - 'All Around the World'
Lisa Stansfield - 'You Can't Deny It'
Phyllis Nelson - 'I Like You'
Stevie Wonder - 'Master Blaster (Jammin')'
Stevie Wonder - 'I Ain't Gonna Stand for It'
Stevie Wonder - 'I Just Called to Say I Love You'
Stevie Wonder - 'Overjoyed'
Stevie Wonder - 'Go Home'
Stevie Wonder - 'You Will Know'
Taylor Dayne - 'I'll Always Love You'

Five Star - The Slightest Touch
Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong

Aleem - Get Loose
AM-FM - You Are The One
Arnie's Love - I'm Out Of Your Life
Barbara Mason - Another Man
Beggar & Co - (Somebody) Help Me Out
Betty Wright - Pain
Blaze - Can't Win For Losin'
Brass Construction - International
CeCe Rogers - Someday
Chanelle - One Man
Class Action - Weekend
Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey
David Joseph - You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me)
Dayton - The Sound Of Music
Dazz Band - Let It All Blow
Defunkt - Razor's Edge
Donald Banks - Status Quo
Exodus - Together Forever
Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'
Fatback Band - Is This The Future
Frankie Knuckles ft Satoshi Tomiie - Tears
Freeez - Southern Freeez
Funky 4 Plus 1 - That's The Joint
Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling
Glenn Jones - I Am Somebody
Gwen McCrae - Keep The Fire Burning
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
I-Level - Minefield
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Larry Levan remix)
Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life
Joyce Sims - (You Are My) All And All
Joyce Sims - Lifetime Love
Konk - Your Life
Lavine Hudson - Intervention
Leo's Sunshipp - Give Me The Sunshine
Light Of The World - Time
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Lola - Wax The Van
Maze - Twilight
Mercy Mercy - What Are We Gonna Do About It
Michelle Wallace - Jazzy Rhythm
Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
Osiris - War On The Bullshit
Patrice Rushen - Number One
Paul Simpson ft Adeva - Musical Freedom
Phase II - Reachin'
Planet Patrol - Play At Your Own Risk
Q - The Voice Of Q
Rodney Franklin - The Groove
Roger - I Want To Be Your Man
Serious Intention - You Don't Know
Shalamar - There It Is
Sharon Brown - I Specialize In Love
Sharon Redd - In The Name Of Love
Shirley Jones - Do You Get Enough Love
Shot ft Kim Marsh - Main Thing
Soul II Soul - Fairplay
Strafe - Set It Off
The System - Sweat
The System - It's Passion
The Temptations ft Rick James - Standing On The Top
Ten City - Devotion
Ten City - Right Back To You
Trouble Funk - Still Smokin'
Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine
Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector
Was (Not Was) - Out Come The Freaks
Wilton Felder ft Bobby Womack & Alltrinna Grayson - (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up To You
Xena - On The Upside
Young & Company ‎– I Like (What You're Doing To Me)
Zapp - It Doesn't Really Matter

Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Serge Gainsbourg - Love on the Beat
Material - Memories
Bootsy Collins - Party on Plastic (What's Bootsy Doin'?)
Wham! - Young Guns (Go for It)
Hot Chocolate - Tears on the Telephone
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

(surprised Slave to the Rhythm not nommed already - do people think it isn't R&B?)

Hey Mike! I was wondering whether you'd join us this time :)

Ditto, and awesome choices.

xxpost I think there's a lot of very obvious stuff that's still unnominated (e.g. my shocked realization that 'Come Back to Me' was missing until my previous post).

(surprised Slave to the Rhythm not nommed already - do people think it isn't R&B?)

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 21 April 2017 14:07 (two hours ago) Permalink

I thought I had nominated it and I'll be voting it v high

xp Yes, I just had time to do my nominations before going away for a few days - hence I haven't stepped forward to do the Spotify duties this time.

Not sure if it counts as R&B (RYM lists it as Hi-NRG), but it is awesome:

Deodato - S.O.S. Fire in the Sky

DeBarge - I Like It
DeBarge - Love Me in a Special Way
Kashif - I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
The S.O.S Band - Just the Way You Like It
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
One Way - Cutie Pie
Melba Moore - Keepin' My Lover Satisfied
Melba Moore - Falling
Quincy Jones - Becha Wouldn't Hurt Me
Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)
Maze - Before I Let Go
Babyface - Whip Appeal
The Jets - Curiosity
Cherrelle - You Look Good to Me
Inner Life - Moment of My Life
Inner Life - (Knock Out) Let's Go Another Round
Sade - Turn My Back on You
Imagination - In the Heat of the Night
Change - You Are My Melody
George Duke - Reach Out
Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk
Nona Hendryx - Transformation
Jeffrey Osborne - Stay with Me Tonight

Aww, Rockwell 'not found'.

ALSO NOT FOUND

Teena Marie - Lovergirl

it's in there

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

Too Seventeen-ish.

Ctrl-F'ers, make sure to display the whole thread when searching. Rockwell and Teena Marie are definitely in there.

My bad.

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too Seventeen-ish.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if y'all are talking about "lovergirl," gtfo

Marvin Gaye - Midnight Lady
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - I'm Corrupt
Xavier - Work That Sucker to Death
Parlet - Wolf Tickets

Anybody put together a playlist yet? I know it's early, just curious.

Always thought that song a little too Saved by the Bell incidental music-y.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too Seventeen-ish.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 21, 2017 10:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if y'all are talking about "lovergirl," gtfo

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, April 21, 2017

Eric got the gay thread joke.

Siedah Garrett - Taboo

Here's the list of nominations so far.

You have about 36 more hours to get your nominations in!

Frankie Knuckles/Jamie Principle - Your Love

I see people are nominating Kid Creole tracks, which wouldn't have occurred to me for some reason. But consideration of the Ze discography may have just made the nominating and voting an even more problematic endeavor for me.

Was about to nominate some Prince songs in honor of the day and just realized we already have 62 (not counting offshoots). This is going to be rough.

I have already decided that the way I'm gonna do my ballot is to make a non-Prince ballot, see where I'm at, and then fill in as many Prince songs as there are slots remaining. It's really the only way to keep my ballot nothing but Prince.

i'm not on the gay thread i don't get the jokes!

Syreeta - Can't Shake Your Love

Ohhhh shit, I didn't realize that Josh in Chicago's post upthread was just a radio playlist. I'd been ctrl+f-ing like a good boy and excluding that stuff from my nominations. More work to do, I see.

Bomb the Bass - Megablast
Bomb the Bass - Don't Make Me Wait
Chuckii Booker - Turned Away
Club Nouveau - Why You Treat Me So Bad?
Coati Mundi - Que Pasa/Me No Pop I
Company B - Fascinated
Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Culture Club - Mistake No. 3
D-Mob - C'mon & Get My Love
Denise Lopez - Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make it Right)
Deodato - Happy Hour
Deon Estus - Heaven Help Me
Dino - 24/7
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Maladie d'Amour
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Madonna - Angel
Madonna - Dress You Up
Madonna - Lucky Star
Madonna - Borderline
Madonna - Burning Up
Madonna - Physical Attraction
Madonna - Holiday
Madonna - Crazy for You
Madonna - Causing a Commotion
Michael Jackson - Baby Be Mine
Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard
Prince - Party Up
Prince - New Position
Prince - Housequake
Quincy Jones - Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me)
Stevie B. - In My Eyes
Stevie B. - Spring Love
Tiffany - Could've Been
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Wham! - Careless Whisper
Whitney Houston & Teddy Pendergrass - 'Hold Me'

(xp)

I can include those tracks in the list, but I don't think all of them are from the 80's.
Old Lunch, if you want to nominate tracks from that list, just copy/paste the lines as they are. For me it's easy to format the lines the way I want them.

Oh, and I made a mistake yesterday; I must have thought it was Saturday already. You have about 36 hours left now.

I grant that there are important differences between r'n'b and dance-pop but Madonna was always comfortably in the former camp to me conventional wisdom be damned! Wasn't confident enough to actually nominate her though.

Madonna - Crazy for You

I love this song, but I don't hear any R&B in it. Other Madonna tracks, yes, but this one sounds more touchy to me than anything.

*torchy

Then again, shut my mouth:

The song reached number two on the Adult Contemporary Singles and 80 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Thanks, ArchCarrier, I think I plucked what I needed from Josh's list.

Yeah, I wavered on some of those less overtly R&B tracks but I figure the voting will ultimately decide what really counts.

Jellybean ‎– The Mexican

Farley "Jackmaster" Funk & Jessie Saunders - Love Can't Turn Around

BTW, I can recommend this delicious internet radio station called Disco Bonanza, based in the Netherlands. Most of the stuff I've been nominating in the last few days I heard there first.

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard

Released in 1978 (and number 17 on the 70's poll), so not eligible here.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 5:06 PM (four days ago)

Patti LaBelle - Release

Leon Haywood - Don't Push It Don't Force It

We need more Eddy Grant:

Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My Love?
Eddy Grant - My Turn to Love You
Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
Eddy Grant - Baby Come Back
Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo'anna

Wow, I'm glad I decided to come back to ILX after a break, this is one poll I definitely want to participate in!

And it seems a lot of great boogie tunes in particular are still missing from the list, so here are some nominations:

Al Jarreau - Roof Garden
Alisha - Baby Talk
Alisha - Too Turned On
Atlantic Starr - Silver Shadow
Baiser - Summer Breeze
Band AKA - Joy
Bandolero - Paris Latino
Barbara Mason - Don't I Ever Cross Your Mind
Billy Ocean - Stay the Night
Booker Newberry III - Love Town
Boule Noire - Super, Super Lady
Brenda Taylor ‎– You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Carol Jiani - Hit 'n' Run Lover
Carol Jiani - Touch and Go Lover
Carly Simon - Why
Chandra Simmons - Never Gonna Let You Go
Chaz Jankel - Glad to Know You
Coffee - Casanova
Collage - Do You Like Our Music?
Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonna Let
Companion - This Is a Test
Companion - There's a Way
Crown Heights Affair - I Struck Gold
Crown Heights Affair - You Gave Me Love
Cuba Gooding - Happiness Is Just Around the Bend
D-Train - Music
Double Disovery - Can He Find Another One?
Dynasty - Check It Out
Earlene Bentley - The Boys Come to Town
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let Me Talk
Earth, Wind & Fire - System Of Survival
Edmond Daniels - You Broke Your Promise
Evelyn King - Get Loose
Fonda Rae - Tuch Me
Forrest - Rock the Boat
Funkacise Gang - Funkacise
Gary Byrd & the G.B. Experience ‎– The Crown
Gary's Gang - Knock Me Out
Gary's Gang - Makin' Music
Geraldine Hunt - Heart Heart
Glass - Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat
Grady Harell - Belinda
Heaven & Earth - I Really Love You
Inez Brooks ‎– Chillin' Out
The Jacksons - Walk Right Now
Jamaica Girls - Need Somebody New
James Brown - Living in America
Jeanette "Lady" Day - Come Let Me Love You
Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Spank
Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair
Joanna Gardner - I Could Never Love Another Like You
Julius Brown - Party
Kashif - Stone Love
Kat Mandu - I Wanna Dance
Kenny G - Hi, How Ya Doin'?
Kinky Foxx - So Different
Kreamcicle feat. Paula Anderson - No News Is News
Laurice Hudson - Feel My Love
L.I.F.E. - You're All Played Out
Linda Lewis ‎– Class/Style (I've Got It)
Linda Taylor - You and Me Just Started
Love Club - Hot Summer Nights
Lydia Murdock - Superstar
Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?
Mantus - Boogie to the Top
Martina - Central Park
Mary Jane Girls - In My House
Marz - I Got a Boyfriend Now
Maurice Massiah - We Can Go to Your House
Maxine Singleton - You Can't Run from Love
The Men - Someone on My Side
Michael Henderson - Wide Receiver
Midnight Star feat. Ecstacy of Whodini - Don't Rock the Boat
Midnight Star - Wet My Whistle
Miquel Brown ‎– Close to Perfection
The Next Movement - Let's Work It Out
Nicole with Timmy Thomas ‎– New York Eyes
Nighthawk ‎– Eye Of The Tiger
Odyssey - (Joy) Know It
Pino d'Angiò - Ma quale idea
Positive Force - We Got the Funk
Quinella - Your Place or Mine
RAH Band - Clouds Across the Moon
Richard Valentine - Come Back Lover
Rod - Shake It Up (Do the Boogaloo)
Roni Griffith - (The Best Part of) Breakin' Up
Roshelle Fleming - Love Itch
Simplicious - Let Her Feel It
Sinnamon - Thanks to You
Sky's the Limit - Your Love Runs Free
Sparque - Let's Go Dancin'
Steel City - Kannattiko muuttaa yhteen
Stephanie Mills - The Medicine Song
Suede - Enough Is Enough
Sunbelt - Spin It
Suzy Q - Get on Up
Suzy Q - Harmony
Sweet Life - I Get Lifted
Sylvester - I Need You
Taana Gardner - No Frllls
A Taste of Honey - I'm Talkin' Bout You
A Taste of Honey - We've Got the Groove
Tina Fabrique - Alive with Love (A Love Letter)
Toney Lee - Love So Deep
Toney Lee - Reach Up
Touche - Just Like a Door Knob
Two Tons o' Fun - I Depend on You
Unique ‎– What I Got Is What You Need
Vera Brown - Little Did I Know
Victor Willis - Physical
Vin Zee - Funky Bee-Bop
Viola Wills - Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Viola Wills - Up on the Roof
Visual - The Music's Got Me
Voyage - Follow the Brightest Star
Watson Beasley - Breakaway
Weeks & Co. - Go with the Fl
Weeks & Co. - Rock Your World
West Phillips - (I'm Just a) Sucker for a Pretty Face
World Premiere - Share the Night

Sorry, a couple of typos there, here's the correct titles:

Taana Gardner - No Frills
Weeks & Co. - Go with the Flow

Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Spank

And this one shouldn't be on my list, as it's from 1978.

Mmmmmm, I might have to take mild umbrage with the Patrice Rushen, ArchCarrier. The single was released in '79 (and its attendant album was released in late '79, so I'd suspect the same of the single, although I can't find its actual release date), and the info I have is that it didn't chart until 1980. It's iffy, I admit, and yours is the final ruling, but just wanted to put it out there because it's a fantastic song.

Well it ranked top 20 in the previous poll so it's a bit redundant to include it here.

"careless whisper" was already nominated as credited to george michael (as it was for the uk release)

(i mention this just b/c this case might be harder to detect automatically than other duplicate-nominations)

Here's a couple of Finnish R&B/soul nominations from the '80s:

Emilia - Satan in Love
Kirka - Hengaillaan
Maarit - Hiekka ja meri
Maarit - Jäätelökesä
Pave Maijanen - Lähtisitkö
Steel City - Kannattiko muuttaa yhteen

Ok, another one from Triumph, which is at least the third-best Michael Jackson album:

The Jacksons - Your Ways

One more:

Hector - Piironkinjalka

"Roof Garden" otm

Madame X-Just That Type Of Girl
Jeffrey Osbourne-Baby Stay With Me Tonight

Good to have you back, Tuomas! You would have loved the 70's tracks poll as well.

I love 'Haven't You Heard' as much as anyone, and I would gladly allow it if no one had voted for it in the previous poll, but because it did so well I'm going to disallow it. Put all your votes on 'Forget Me Nots' instead and see if we can get Patrice into the top 10!

Andre Cymone - M.O.T.F.
Angela Bofill - Too Tough
Chaka Khan - Pass It On (A Sure Thing)
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Save the Overtime (For Me)
Jocelyn Brown - Love's Gonna Get You
Larry Graham - Sooner or Later
Luther Vandross - Stop to Love
Nia Peeples - Trouble
Peabo Bryson - If Ever You're In My Arms Again
Pieces of a Dream - Mt Airy Groove
Shalamar - Right in the Socket
Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
Vaughan Mason and Crew - Bounce Rock Skate Roll
World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ

Whoops! 'Right in the Socket' is 1979.

'Gonna Get Along Without You Now' is also '79, unfortunately.

So it is, sorry about that.

Here's a few more nominations:

Adeva - Warning!
Charles B - Lack of Love
Chocolette - It's That East Street Beat
Curtis Mayfield - Love Me, Love Me Now
Frankie Knuckles - It's a Cold World
His Name Is Dime - Movin'
Jill Jones - Mia Bocca
Jonzun Crew - Space Cowboy
Ottawan - Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)
Patrice Rushen - Get Off (You Fascinate Me)
Planet Patrol - Danger Zone
Sharon Redd - Love How You Feel
Warp 9 - Light Years Away

Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Larry Levan remix)

Even though this is commonly credited as such, the track was not remixed by Larry Levan, and he wasn't even the one who discovered it. We've discussed it in this thread, and Red Bull Music Academy recently did a thorough article on the whole tangled history of the track, and why it's erroneously been thought to be a Levan mix. But the best-known version is not a remix of any kind; Tony Humphries did later re-record it with Phyllis Joubert's choir and mix it, but that version is not as well-known these days as the original.

I'm stripping remix credits and other version information from the tracks anyway. I'll try to note it if many people voted for a specific version.

Peter Wolf - Lights Out

Alisha - Nightwalkin'
Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter
Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers
The Bar-Kays - Freakshow on the Dance Floor
Billy Ocean - Suddenly
Billy Ocean - Lover Boy
The Boys - Dial My Heart
Brenda K. Starr - What You See Is What You Get
Brenda K. Starr - I Still Believe
Bros - When Will I Be Famous
Cameo - Back and Forth
Carol Lynn Townes - 99 1/2
Cheryl 'Pepsii' Riley - Thanks for My Child
Commodores - Lady (You Bring Me Up)
Con Funk Shun - Too Tight
Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love
Dionne Warwick - Deja Vu
Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker
Donna Summer - On the Radio
Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time
Eddie Murhpy - Put Your Mouth On Me
George Benson - 20/20
George Duke - Shine On
Herb Alpert - Making Love in the Rain
Jeffrey Osborne - On the Wings of Love
Jermaine Jackson - Dynamite
Jody Watley - Everything
Jody Watley - Some Kind of Lover
Jody Watley - Don't You Want Me
Junkyard Dog - Grab Them Cakes
Kool & the Gang - Emergency
Linda Clifford - Red Light
Lisa Stansfield - This is the Right Time
Milli Vanilli - Blame it on the Rain
Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
Milli Vanilli - All or Nothing
Morris Day - Fishnet
Natalie Cole - I Live For Your Love
Neneh Cherry - Kisses on the Wind
Nicolette Larson - Let Me Go, Love
Nona Hendryx - Why Should I Cry
Patti Austin - The Heat of Heat
Patti LaBelle - New Attitude
Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own
Ray Parker, Jr. - I Still Can't Get Over Loving You
Reddings - Remote Control
Regina Belle - Baby Come to Me
Regina Belle - Show Me the Way
Seduction - (You're My One and Only) True Love
Seduction - Two to Make it Right
Seduction - Could This Be Love
Shana - I Want You
Shirley Lewis - Realistic
Shirley Murdock - As We Lay
Siedah Garrett - K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
Sonny Charles - Put it in a Magazine
Soulsister - The Way to your Heart
SSQ - Shy Girl
Stacey Q - Two of Hearts
Stacey Q - Don't Make a Fool of Yourself
Stacy Lattisaw - Attack of the Name Game
Stephanie Mills - Sweet Sensation
Stephanie Mills & Teddy Pendergrass - Two Hearts
Stevie Wonder - Love Light in Flight
Surface - Shower Me With Your Love
Sweet Pea Atkinson - Dance or Die
Sweet Sensation - Take it While it's Hot
Terence Trent d'Arby - If You Let Me Stay
Terence Trent d'Arby - Dance Little Sister
The Time - Cool
Tina Turner - Two People
Tony! Toni! Toné! - Little Walter
Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom
Wa Wa Nee - Sugar Free
Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming
Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out
Was (Not Was) - Anything Can Happen
Will to Power - Fading Away
Will to Power - Say It's Gonna Rain

Nice list!

Suzy Q - Get On Up And Do It Again [not the same as "Get On Up" which Tuomas nominated]
Debbie Trusty - Searchin' For Some Lovin'
Terri Wells - I'm Givin' All My Love
Jackie Stoudemire - Invisible Wind

The Junkyard Band - Sardines

Larry Graham -One in A Million You
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect
Staple Singers - Slippery People

3 more tracks and we've got exactly 1100 nominations!

Someone wants to create a Spotify playlist before I start the voting thread tomorrow morning? You can make it collaborative so that you don't have to do all the work yourself.

The Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band – On The Beat
Heatwave – Lettin' It Loose
Letta Mbulu – Nomalizo

I knew I could count on someone to think of 3 more songs.

A few more noms while there's still time:

Adele Bertei - Build Me a Bridge
Cameo - Shake Your Pants
Cerrone - You Are the One
France Joli - Gonna Get Over You
The Gap Band - Humpin'
Jocelyn Brown - Picking Up Promises
Midnight Star - Victory
Village People - Sex Over the Phone

Midnight Star - Electricity

I'm compiling a Spotify playlist now. Here's the link:

https://open.spotify.com/user/thewufs/playlist/4jSmIgdwqmrxpDVi6wCPGi

Feel free to add as I've only gotten to the letter "D" on ArchCarrier's list from a few days ago.

Ok I'm throwing in a few more by Uncle Jam:

George Clinton - Get Dressed
George Clinton - One Fun at a Time
George Clinton - Nubian Nut

Alexander O'Neal - (What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me

Stanning for the funk:

Tom Browne - Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move)
Stone City Band - Freaky
The Bar-Kays - Freaky Behavior
Kabbala - Ashewo Ara
Zapp - Playin' Kinda Ruff
Ronnie Hudson and the Street People - West Coast Poplock
Bar-Kays - Do It (Let Me See You Shake)
Jermaine Jackson - Let Me Tickle Your Fancy
Tara - Fresh Flesh
D Train - You're the One for Me (Labor of Love Mix)
TZ - I Got the Hots For You
Westwood Cash - Psycho for your Love
D Train - Music
Prince Charles - Cash (Cash Money)
Bar-Kays - She Talks to Me with her Body
Caprice - 100%
Friction - Bar-B-Q
Circle City Band - Party Lights (Shake Your Body Get Loose)
Cat Miller - Ready or Not (UK Remix)
Val Young - Seduction
Andre Cymone - The Dance Electric
Maceo and the Macks - Cross the Track (We Better Go Back)
Deborah Allen - Telepathy (Club Mix)

BTW, I refuse to vote for ballads. Radio Behavioral Sink is 100% boogie.

Fuck it, 2 more from Victory:

Jacksons - Wait
Jacksons - Body

Herbie Hancock – Magic Number
Herbie Hancock – Gettin' To The Good Part
Brothers Johnson – Light Up The Night
Fatback Band – Double Love Affair
Fantasy – You're Too Late
Aurra – Send Your Love
Deodato – Skatin'
Johnny Gill – Super Love
Egyptian Lover – Freak-A-Holic

Alias - Shake
Ben E King - Street Tough
Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
The Jets - Make it Real
Sexual Harrassment - I Need a Freak

Tom Browne - Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move)

OMG, thank you for nominating this!

Fatback Band - Is This the Future?
Herbie Hancock - Lite Me Up
Klymaxx - Man Size Love

Boris Midney - A Child Is Born
Erotic Drum Band - Horny

Slave - Stone Jam
Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger Part I

Stacy Lattisaw - Let Me Be Your Angel

Earth Wind & Fire - And Love Goes On

--- NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED ---

And here it is:

Let's Hear It for the POLL: It's the ~~~ 80's R&B TRACKS POLL ~~~ voting & campaigning thread