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

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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

Let me guess: this would've been a definite contender for your #1 slot?

No, but in the mix for #17.

Still, TOO ... LOW!!!

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75. The Crusaders - Street Life
289 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/-iVR7WLsvAg

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74. Eddie Kendricks - Girl, You Need a Change of Mind
291 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/WcdAuxmohv8

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73. Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just a Little More Time
292 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/gzIAiyxS-nk

girl you need a change of mind is wayyyy tooooo looooooowwwww

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72. Al Green - Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
293 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/aTpDFXhgGjM

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71. Rufus & Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good
296 points / 7 votes
https://youtu.be/OB4JDJiet5M

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70. Dionne Warwick & the Spinners - Then Came You
297 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/uOViqvRsIgo

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69. Michael Jackson - Rock With You
297 points / 6 votes
https://youtu.be/5X-Mrc2l1d0

Tell Me Something Good has been in so many ads that it barely even feels like a real song anymore, but it's got an awesome wah-wah guitar sound and a fairly classic progression into that famous chorus.

"Rock With You" is one of those songs that is so familiar by now that it becomes easy to underestimate it. Just looking at my ballot again (#62), I'm stunned at how I could have placed such a lovely, classic song so low.

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68. Hall & Oates - She's Gone
298 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/jpR8r0D2EyY

No comment.

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67. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go
300 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/x1xmXOP3lhM

That's more like it.

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66. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
302 points / 4 votes
https://youtu.be/H6SS7JDVRo0

I don't get She's Gone and (Don't Worry). Especially ahead of legit number one contenders like Girl You Need a Change of Mind, Give Me Just a Little More Time and Rock With You. Voted for the Stylistics and Spinners as well of course.

Shit, and Lost In Music. Is that it for Sister Sledge? They got robbed.

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65. Bill Withers - Lean on Me
302 points / 5 votes
https://youtu.be/KEXQkrllGbA

Zzzzz.