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Top 10 Favorite Recording Artists Poll - Soul Train Edition
YellowSnow
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It’s time for Round # 2 of my big, gay, name your Top 10 most favorite recording artists polls. Last time we covered white people (rock) music and this round will be the Soul Train edition.
List your personal, ten most favorite soul, R&B, funk recording artists. Don’t worry about jazz, blues, hip hop, reggae, etc., as we can hit these at a later date. Each group or artist in your top 10 gets a 1 vote and I will tally up the results one week from today.
Mine in no particular order:
- Sam Cooke
- Prince
- The Meters
- James Brown (and all associated spin off acts)
- Otis (my man) Redding
- Wilson Pickett
- Parliament
- Fela Kuti (could fall into jazz or world music but close enough)
- Dr. John (token white guy)
- Marvin Gaye
Honorable Mention: Ray Charles, Al Green, anything from Daptone Records (e.g., Sharon Jones, Budos Band, etc), Stevie Wonder, Allen Toussaint, Sly Stone, Rick James
List your personal, ten most favorite soul, R&B, funk recording artists. Don’t worry about jazz, blues, hip hop, reggae, etc., as we can hit these at a later date. Each group or artist in your top 10 gets a 1 vote and I will tally up the results one week from today.
Mine in no particular order:
- Sam Cooke
- Prince
- The Meters
- James Brown (and all associated spin off acts)
- Otis (my man) Redding
- Wilson Pickett
- Parliament
- Fela Kuti (could fall into jazz or world music but close enough)
- Dr. John (token white guy)
- Marvin Gaye
Honorable Mention: Ray Charles, Al Green, anything from Daptone Records (e.g., Sharon Jones, Budos Band, etc), Stevie Wonder, Allen Toussaint, Sly Stone, Rick James
Comments
George Clinton
Boys II Men (ghey, I know, but they were the hitmakers when I was in middle school, still love most of their stuff)
Let's Get It On Gaye
Rick James Bitch
Ray Charles
Dock Of The Bay Redding
TLC (fuck off if you disagree, Creep is one of the most underrated songs of the 90s and even their overrated stuff is damn good)
John B (just kidding)
Chef Isaac Hayes
Stevie Wonder
Prince
Marvin Gaye
Barry motherfucking White
Smokey Robinson
Bill Withers
Aretha
Chaka Khan
Groups:
Earth Wind and motherfucking Fire
Ohio Players (more on the funk side than R&B)
Commodores
Gap Bank
Temptations
Kool & The Gang
Jackson 5
Spinners
O'Jays
DRS
Bell biv Devo
Micheal Jackson (before turning white)
New edition
TLC
Marvin Gaye
Prince
Kool and the gang
George Clinton
O'Jays
Spinners
Temptations
Sly & Family Stone
Supremes
Marvin Gaye
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Four Tops
On the new soul tip, Amy Winehouse.
Leon Bridges.
Fitz & Tantrums. Not all fits (lolololololo) but this song does.
Ray LaMontagne, more folk-ass boring songs than soul, but love this one.
Mynabirds - Numbers Don't Lie
Done. It gets no better.
Ray Charles
Boyz II Men
Alicia Keys
Commodores/Lionel Richie
Smokey Robinson
The Four Tops
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
The Temptations
Bill Withers
I can't really knock anybody off my list ... 11 it is
There's another doc on The Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians on all the great tunes out of LA in the 60's and 70s. Good watch.
Sly and the family stone
Smokey Robinson
Aretha Franklin
Stevie Wonder
The Jackson 5
Ray Charles
Otis Redding
Earth Wind & Fire
Prince
Tower of Power
Marvin Gaye
O Jays