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

This is a genre where rinsed isn't a factor for me.

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8. Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child
589 points / 9 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/kmpU_73CXxU

My number one. Should be happy it made the top 10 I guess. So far it's in great company.

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7. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
606 points / 10 votes
https://youtu.be/A0F9lh8TiSM

Yes! Forgot about this one but voted it top 10 or 5. The prettiest song about loserdom ever.

GOING BACK TO FIND

D'oh! Was really hoping Gladys might surprise and top this poll.

(My #2, btw)

No love for the Dells?

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6. Freda Payne - Band of Gold
633 points / 11 votes
https://youtu.be/daxiMb0rITA

Give Me Just a Little More Time is a superior late HDH track imo.

I had Neither One of Us as my Gladys tune in my top 10. Midnight Train also on the ballot. v happy to see her represented. One of my favorite vocalists.

wtf @ this Freda Payne song. I've never even heard this before, and it sounds more like a 60s Motown track than anything else.

ha, xp - "Band of Gold" is the biggest surprise of this rollout for me. I never paid it any attention during the nominating process, and I must admit I still don't get the praise for it.

This is a genre where rinsed isn't a factor for me.

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I, like many people, I suspect, thought that "Band of Gold" was a Supremes song for years.

Top 25 in my ballot. Didn't know if its rep was strong enough to show up at this point, and delighted that it did.

yeah I don't get what people think is special about this one, esp compared to some of the monster classics/genre + period-defining tracks that placed behind it

xp

xxxxp It's by Holland–Dozier–Holland so you are right.

4 locks. 1 mystery song left.

This is a genre where rinsed isn't a factor for me.

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Yeah, I hastily assembled my bracket from memory. I didn't give myself enough of a chance to re-listen to everything. I'm sure I would've voted for songs like September if I did.

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5. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
693 points / 11 votes
https://youtu.be/pJV2pWFyfn4

Mystery solved?

Nice. Top 4 will be

XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXXX XXXXXX
XXXX XX XX

One of those songs I respect immensely but never actually play. Think I even left it off the ballot.

I hope its XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX or XXXX XX XX.

Really hope it's XXXXXXXXXXXX but I can't figure out XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX so I might be fine with that too.

Please save us ArchCarrier

I can figure out two of those from the top of my own ballot, the other two no(t yet).

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4. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
699 points / 12 votes / 1 number one
https://youtu.be/UOg_8hCC4u4

Move On Up, Family Affair, Superstition in a 3 way battle for ILM's Soul!!!

kornrulez otm

haha this song is good but come on it's not THAT good. Jackie Brown contingent overrating imo

xpost

HAHA yeah, I got that one right it appears

My #1 and one of my favorite songs of all time

Only one of the other three placed higher than that one on my ballot, so fingers crossed.

i was the third brother of five
doing whatever i had to do to survive

haha this song is good but come on it's not THAT good. Jackie Brown contingent overrating imo

"Across 110th Street" is phenomenal. That other song that placed only because of Guardians of the Galaxy, otoh ...

And yeah, another one I have Jackie Brown to thank for early exposure. Of course, it was originally the title theme from another film (which I've never seen).

Might actually be my favorite blaxploitation track but I don't love the genre actually. Missed my ballot. Now, let's end the Curtis and Riot beatification and do this thing justice!

What was the GotG song (never saw).

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3. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
796 points / 12 votes / 1 number one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFuCYNx-1g

*whew*

(sorry--I know I'm the only one not rooting for it)

What was the GotG song (never saw).

ooh child. it's even in the youtube link.

Ah. For me, its cinematic association remains Boyz N the Hood.

I was rooting for "Superstition" over the other two that are left, but this is a top 5 I take no issue over.

I'm not saying what I did was alright
Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day to day fight

ACROSS 110th STREET
PIMP TRYIN TO CATCH A WOMAN THAT'S WEAK

I'm getting kind of triggered by the Guardians of the Galaxy comment. Was it a joke? Hated the way the movie used it.

Superstition is great too, obviously

Half a joke, half not.

Ah. For me, its cinematic association remains Boyz N the Hood.

I think it's also in Crooklyn?

90s films loved this song lol

I want to say I'm cool with the idea of Marvel turning the kids on to some good music, thus perhaps even justifying their continued existence for me, but I get the feeling that the soundtrack of that film was used for LOLZ.

Superstition is the only truly great funk song not by James Brown imo. It's legit immortal. Everyone tried to ruin it by overuse but it just can't be done. That last dig of the horns at the end is sublime.