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

Not a fan. The rest of the top 100 tho is fantastic so far.

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89. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
262 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/WvRwR-hZDVY

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88. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
264 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/STs1QlyawpY

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87. The Rolling Stones - Miss You
266 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/hPrklRwn1HE

Thanks for that, ILM.

Two of the greatest r'n'b vocalists ever right there.

kind of feel we took a swerve to the yawnsome after we hit 100

Just in the 80s, thus far. "The Love I Lost" is great, but I hope "Bad Luck" is still in queue.

Superfly is obviously a classic. Hopefully there will be more Curtis to come in the higher reaches of the poll.

xp I think I had Bad Luck place second on my ballot and considering the six votes for The Love I Lost it's a safe bet.

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86. Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs
266 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/g1kDd6yBQZ4

Les Fleurs is way too low. I hope that's not it for Minnie in the list

Kind of hate Riperton but I can't deny this one.

At least it wasn't my fault: I had Les Fleurs at number 4...

I voted for Southern Nights. Though the vox on the studio version is a little grating, the live versions are all incredible

https://youtu.be/oGAFOz5GA8I

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85. Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness
269 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/2SFt7JHwJeg

tooooo low

another one where the live performances far outstrip the studio

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89. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
262 points / 3 votes
https://youtu.be/WvRwR-hZDVY

Twice?

The auto-posts still don't work.

Summer Madness is similar to the Timmy Thomas for me in that I love the later pop take on it too much to hear it on it's own.

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88. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
264 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/STs1QlyawpY

The machine has gone rogue!

Fingers crossed 87 gets fixed this time around.

Miss You is awesome in so many ways don't even start that!

Sorry! I was working in the garden.

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84. Aretha Franklin - Day Dreaming
269 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/Zw2v3g4AX84

I never got "Grandma's Hands," or how it could possibly beat out my #1 "Ain't No Sunshine."

Kind of hate Riperton but I can't deny this one.

― gospodin simmel, donderdag 13 april 2017 14:05 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How on earth can anyone *hate* Minnie?!

Day Dreaming is lovely--I could've voted for any track off that album

xp Plenty of people hate overtly whimsical stuff.

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83. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - The Night
271 points / 3 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/XsSoDsxB7Yo

Loved The Night when I first discovered it but it sort of wore off for me. Most Northern Soul does actually.

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82. Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
271 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/yioNn7XS-bw

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81. The Stylistics - You Are Everything
274 points / 5 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/ckWTYFK-66Y

Lush!

My number one.

Even just the intro ... the way the progression unexpectedly resolves against the strings. It's

... got me speechless apparently.

:)

The Diana Ross/Marvin Gaye version is nice too.

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80. Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
278 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/HKix_06L5AY

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79. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
281 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/sR9CRxY9Ne0

Nice work ArchCarrier and thanks for using my poll name suggestion. You Are Everything was in my top 10. I feel like the overriding story of 70s soul was the work of producers and arrangers like Charles Stepney, Arif Mardin, Maurice White, Gamble/Huff and my favourite, Thom Bell, who of course is responsible for YAE.

I'm pretty sure I left "Rainy Night in Georgia" and "Everybody is a Star" off my ballot after checking some dates and determining that they both existed a little too comfortably within 1969 for me to include, but I'm happy to see them place nonetheless.

Big YAYs for a bunch of things here: "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)," "Don't Leave Me This Way," "You Are Everything," "Just My Imagination," "Summer Madness," "Miss You" (sorry Eric), "Use Me" and esp "Grandma's Hands," which was one of two Withers tracks in my Top 10.

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78. William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You've Got
282 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/KDTXljIqxRE

TOO ... LOW!!!

I submitted unranked, but that would've been a definite contender for my #1 slot.

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77. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
283 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/niEYaeYa72U

I submitted unranked, but that would've been a definite contender for my #1 slot.

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76. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
285 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/43qB9FpfCR8