Su-POLL-stition: It's the ~~~ 70s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO TRACKS POLL ~~~ voting & campaigning thread

You're right about 'Grazing', and it's my fault. It's the first song of the first volume of Soul Hits of the '70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!, and I didn't bother to check.

Consider it disqualified.

Are there more people who want to go with top 25 ranked, the rest unranked? This is easier for me to implement in my counting method than individual ranked/unranked ballots.

Jermaine Jackson "Let's Get Serious" is 1980: https://www.discogs.com/master/view/119752

Are there more people who want to go with top 25 ranked, the rest unranked? This is easier for me to implement in my counting method than individual ranked/unranked ballots.

Possibly - I'm still in the process of narrowing my shortlist down to 100. I definitely wouldn't have any objections to doing it this way.

Jermaine Jackson "Let's Get Serious" is 1980

My jam for the summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pwDbJKeSE

Forgot to nominate At Your Best You Are Love. Would consider voting for it. The Isleys are otherwise somewhat bland to me.

I forgot a bunch of songs and I'm irritated. Big Brother by Stevie Wonder being the big one.

On the plus side, I've learned that Teddy Pendergrass is fantastic.

Yes! There's an amazing Teddy song for every occasion. Bad Luck, I Don't Love You Anymore, Turn off the Lights, The Whole Town's Laughing At Me. He goes completely over the top and it becomes like a sermon. The best preacher in pop ever imo.

I'm excited to hear more Teddy.

Also, some killer Wilson Pickett 70s songs that I was not aware of. That man knows how to scream.

What Pickett does to the Archies is far sexier and grittier than what the CW is doing currently doing with the Archies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZluYnMJUY

Teddy Pendergrass "I Don't Love You Anymore" has to be the most joyful break-up song ever! The disconnect between the lyric and the music lifts it to greatness.

It ends up sounding sort of defiant. One of the best break-songs def.

Tried sending in my ballot and it bounced back--do those three symbols after "ilm70s" stand for something?

should be "ilm70s✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧"

Damn what, it did it to me too.. Should be ilm70soul

Yes, I always forget there's this email protection thing on new posts.

From the non-Spotify YouTube playlist I'd really like to big up Ace Spectrum's 'Don't Send Nobody Else'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuc5Ed-OJBw

"Don't Send Nobody Else" is a Northern Soul classic!

Grrrr! I missed the nominations. Leroy Hutson's "Lucky Fellow" and The Moments "Nine Times" weren't nominated. Those would be my #1 and #2.

I'd like to campaign for I'm So Glad That I'm A Woman by Love Unlimited. It's a classic for the bassline alone.

https://youtu.be/VDvtkKZZ6OI

One of my favourite Noerthern Soul songs is Hot Line by Reggie Garner. This will probably be in my top five.

https://youtu.be/Kr-lOgmEmJU

Noerthern Soul is actually just Northern Soul but with worse spelling.

Records I might have voted for, especially the Intruders one, but forgot to nominate them initially:

Isley Brothers - Voyage To Atlantis
Teddy Pendergrass - Close The Door
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Closer I Get To You
Average White Band - Love Of Your Own
Intruders - I'll Always Love My Mama

Re-sent my list. One thing I don't get: camouflaging e-mail addresses that are specifically set up for polls (and presumably not used once the poll runs). If it's your own personal address, I get that, but if a poll-only address gets deluged with spam from now till the end of time, does it matter?

Just realised that Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up is, to my astonishment, from 1980. Bah.

People let me tell you. If you have not heard Listen To Me by Baby Huey, please listen before you vote.

Listen To Me by Baby Huey is actually one of my big discoveries of this whole exercise.

I'm almost afraid to listen to new stuff because my cannot-cut-anymore list is at 110 songs. "Peter Brown - Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me" did surprise me today though.

Holy mackerel. Smokey Robinson Just My Soul Responding, where have you been all my life?

Are we getting confirmation mails?

Everyone knows this one, right? Not on Spotify it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sBQPVnKO_Y

^^^^^^ crucial!

Working my way through the list. Plenty of discoveries just in the Bs: Barbara Mason, Black Ivory, Bloodstone, and Brenda & The Tabulations. Gonna be hard to pare it down to 100.

i know the patti jo song b/c it's in that book that i didn't like much but finished anyway

I just sent out confirmation mails to all 3 voters, so if you didn't get a message please re-submit.

Patti Jo is great! Nice variation on 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone'.

And who knew that Meat Loaf made his debut on Motown? Killer track, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S-6Q5qSbd8

Just noticed, on the noms list, Marvin Gaye's "Ego Tripping Out," which is from 1981.

fabulous song

Voted. I really look forward to the results. It was nice to revisit the soundtrack of my teenage years. I considered adding a few discoveries from the noms, but in the end nostalgia won out, as I was transported back to some dodgy youth club disco in Finchley c. 1973.

Details please.

I can't access the Gmail account at the moment, but I'll send you a confirmation tomorrow. Also, consider the Gaye song disqualified.

Details? A Scout Hall in the park by Highgate Cricket Club off East End Rd. Ages 11 - 15 with some bored 18 year old spinning 45s on a single turntable. Boys shouting between selections for the usual glam stompers - Slade, Geordie, Bowie - and the outnumbered girls asking for the O'Jays and Diana Ross. The DJ played mostly chart soul from Motown and Philadelphia International and for the most part ignored the boys. Some Northern soul tracks would make the cut, the ones that made the charts like Archie Bell and the Drells' "Here I Go Again" or Robert Knight's "Love On A Mountaintop". I can't say I ever really had a good time there, but there was nothing else to do on a Friday night, and I'd go home with those songs in my head and try to tune in Radio Luxembourg on the transistor radio to hear them again.

The hardest part has been weighing tracks I've known for most of my life against new discoveries, especially as I've been on a massive discovery quest in the last year or so. My draft 100 seems to have found a decent balance, though; I first heard 32 of them in The Actual Seventies, and 23 in the last twelve months. Of those 23, 6 are brand new finds, plucked from the nominations list.

Having tons of fun going thru the noms list. new find for me that'll be on my list for sure: Cymande - Dove

Likewise. My find, so far, is War's "Summer," which feels like something that I must have heard before, but I don't remember it.

xxp - Interesting. Are there more people here who actually lived through this decade? I'm almost exactly as old as "I Feel Love" and only started getting into soul a couple of years ago.

new find for me that'll be on my list for sure: Cymande - Dove

Oh, and please post more of your discoveries in the coming week!

This is my main wheelhouse. I will vote this week & post a few favorites. Thanks for doing this poll. I'm looking forward to hearing some new jams!

I'm still finalizing my ballot/binging on the playlist, but for now, my potential write-ins:

Blondie – Heart of Glass
Dan Hartman – Vertigo/Relight My Fire
David Bowie – Young Americans
Machine – There But For The Grace of God Go I
Odyssey – Native New Yorker
Village People – YMCA
Willie Wright – Dressing For the Occasion
Willie Wright – I’m So Happy Now
Willie Wright – In the Beauty of the Night
Willie Wright – Indian Reservation
Willie Wright – Lady of the Year
Willie Wright – Nantucket Island
Willie Wright - Son, Don’t Let Life Pass You By

(I spun that Willie Wright record again yesterday for the first time in a while, and yeah, I'm having a hard time picking just one or two)

2 write-ins:

Stevie Wonder - Big Brother
Al Green - Take Me To The River

I've been very busy with non-musical things this week, but yes, the rollout will be next week. A little more than 48 hours to send your ballots!

Just voted

damn I totally forgot this was happening--will hastily assemble a ballot tonight and tomorrow

damn, did nobody nominate "Outstanding"?

sheeeit

No, because Outstanding was released in 1982.

Dont think i can participate as ive been ill the past 3 weeks (probably gastroenteritis just waiting on results from test) when does voting end?

Get well soon! :(

I'll vote for a lot of P-Funk to make up for it.

No, because Outstanding was released in 1982.

― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, April 8, 2017 3:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow, it was. seems very 70s.

voted

Will be voting shortly. Disco largely ignored on my ballot as we've done that poll; hoping others will do the same. Wanna give soul (and non-P-Funk funk) its due. My write-ins below, sorry there are so many. I wanted to pay more attention during the noms process but was too busy.

20th Century Steel Band - Heaven and Hell Is On Earth
Candi Staton - Mr and Mrs Untrue
David Porter - I’m Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
Emotions - Blind Alley
Fatback Band - Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)
Herman Kelly - Dance To the Drummer’s Beat
Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
Isaac Hayes - Joy
Jackson 5 - Hum Along and Dance
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It’s Just Begun
KC & The Sunshine Band - Queen Of Clubs
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear
Undisputed Truth - Ball Of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)

oh, and:

Freda Payne - Unhooked Generation

= also a write-in

OK, i have a 100 track ballot ready to go, but I also have 28 more hours of stuff to preview on Spotify (never even got to the YouTube playlist), so I'm sitting on this until tonight when it's due. Even looking over my list right now, I know I forgot some important stuff.

if i vote im doing a write-in for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Don't Leave Me This Way

one of the greatest tracks ever made and this 12" mix is astounding
https://youtu.be/krW3rOc0G3M

Nobody nominated Mandrill - Ape Is High? Best song of the 70s!
https://youtu.be/kr55GRDYpkg

Voted!

Any chance to send out ballot confirmations? I had wrong email the first time and not sure if mine went through

I threw a ballot together but not much thinking behind it. Wish I had been well enough to participate in noms and campaigning as quite a few of my fave songs weren't nominated but ah well.

Gutted that Ape Is High esp wasnt nommed

OK, I am absolutely not going to be able to turn a ballot in time. Please tell me this is going to be like all other ILX polls and the deadline is going to get extended a day or two.

I have my 100 ready to go, but I certainly wouldn't sneeze at having more re/listening time. Plus, I don't like the idea of this poll happening without Eric.

(voted, btw)

I don't think I'll be able to start the results today, so you've got until tomorrow morning (Euro time) to get your ballots in. Eric, please vote!

I just sent out confirmation mails to everyone who voted.

Ballot will be in today!

So far, the best song I've been introduced to from this poll has been BB King's Ain't Nobody Home.

just sent a ballot! hastily assembled, as promised, but it features some of my favorite songs of all time!

17 ballots in, about 10 more hours to vote!

VOTING CLOSED

Stand by for the final results...

Here we go:

Could it be I'm POLLING in love? ~~~ ILM 70s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO TRACKS POLL ~~~ RESULTS THREAD!