Number One R&B Hits 1986

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Cameo - Word Up	8
Timex Social Club - Rumours	3
Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain	3
Ready For The World - Love You Down	3
Janet Jackson - Nasty	2
Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent	2
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately	1
Gregory Abbot - Shake You Down	1
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know	1
Lionel Richie - Say You Say Me	1
Jean Carne - Closer Than Close	1
Stephanie Mills - I Have Learned To Respect The Power of Love	1
Melba Moore with Freddie Jackson - A Little Bit More	0
Freddie Jackson - Tasty Love	0
LeVert - (Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind	0
Billy Ocean - Love Zone	0
Shirley Jones - Do You Get Enough Love	0
Eugene Wild - Don't Say No Tonight	0
El Debarge - Who's Johnny	0
Billy Ocean - There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)	0
Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald - On My Own	0
Rene & Angela - Your Smile	0
Meli'sa Morgan - Do Me, Baby	0
Dionne and Friends - That's What Friends Are For	0
Bobby Brown - Girlfriend	0

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:20 (twelve years ago)

An IMMENSE year, the last great one of the eighties. I omitted "Kiss" to stop a landslide (now I worry whether jokers will vote for "Who's Johnny"). If you haven't heard "I Have Learned To Respect The Power of Love" or "Your Smile," drop what you're doing.

My picks:

Nasty
I Have Learned To Respect The Power of Love
Ain't Nothin' Goin' On...
Shake You Down
Your Smile
The Rain
Love You Down
Tasty Loe
What Have You Done For Me Lately

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:23 (twelve years ago)

Meli'sa Morgan's "Do Me, Baby" is a cover of the Prince album track classic.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:23 (twelve years ago)

shit i have no idea how to vote

"The Rain"
"Shake You Down"
"Word Up" - probly not, the original is still pretty fresh but the patina of awful covers clings on there
"What Have You Done for Me Lately?"
"Nothin' Goin' On"
"Rumors"

one out of that lot i guess

― for many people a really special folder makes a huge difference (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

Def leaning towards Love,You Down (which I discovered thru rev playing Meshell Ndegeocello's cover in outloud) though I might not vite

― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)

Vote*

― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 30 June 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)

goddamnit soto - Hot Black Singles #1 Hits 1986

― balls, Sunday, 30 June 2013 19:00 (twelve years ago)

I didn't use "black" in my search. In any case, "Kiss" is out.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 19:03 (twelve years ago)

Rumors

― sup (billstevejim), Sunday, 30 June 2013 19:54 (twelve years ago)

^always wins these polls

― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 30 June 2013 20:44 (twelve years ago)

It's 'Word Up'...Blackmon's genius lives on...

― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Sunday, 30 June 2013 22:59 (twelve years ago)

Yea, Cameo gets a vote here too. Lots of gems throughout: Abbott, Janet, Whitney, Love Zone, Love You Down, Rene & Angela, etc.

― jetfan, Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:15 (twelve years ago)

"Love Zone" is the only tolerable Ocean ballad.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:17 (twelve years ago)

"Word Up"

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)

Wow, I've never heard of most of these! Was MTV still racist in 1986, or was my five-year-old self just not listening to the right radio stations?

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)

"What Have You Done For Me Lately" by a country mile.

― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:38 (twelve years ago)

"love you down"

― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)

7 year old me would like to put in an enthusiastic vote for "Who's Johnny"

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Monday, 1 July 2013 03:22 (twelve years ago)

(35 year old me will settle for anything that doesn't involve Michael McDonald)

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Monday, 1 July 2013 03:24 (twelve years ago)

Def leaning towards Love,You Down (which I discovered thru rev playing Meshell Ndegeocello's cover in outloud) though I might not vite

― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If u vote for "Love You Down", I can vote for "The Rain" with a clear conscience.

― The Reverend, Monday, 1 July 2013 04:19 (twelve years ago)

so, how in the christ have none of you jokers mentioned "how will i know" yet? it's only whitney's best single!

― k3vin k., Monday, 1 July 2013 09:34 (twelve years ago)

Its a deal

xp to Rev

― my super-power is to turn into a bowling ball (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:11 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 6 July 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 7 July 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

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