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Best R&B Song of All Time

AZ_Gato
AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
edited February 8 in Chit-Chat
Started this discussion on my FL...the nominees:

Donna Summer - On The Radio
Bill Withers -
Maxwell - This Woman's Work
PM Dawn - I'd Die Without You
Smokey Robinson - Being With You
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Diana Ross - Love Hangover
Floaters - Float On
Ben E King - Stand By Me
Al Green - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

What's your vote for best R&B song of all time?

Edited to add nominees:
Blackstreed - No Diggity
Bell Biv Devoe - Do Me
Bill Withers-Lovely Day
Earth, Wind, & Fire-Let's Groove Tonight
Prince-I Would Die 4 U
Sade-Paradise
Isley Brothers-Between the Sheets
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On, Sexual Healing,
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Chaka Khan - Cant Choose just one....
Candy Girl, If It Isn't Love - New Edition
Secret Garden - Barry, El, James, Al B
Tenderoni - Bobbi Brown
Motown Philly and End of the Road - Boys II Men
Diamonds and Pearls - Prince
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
One In a Million - Aaliyah
Forever My Lady - Jodeci
You're All I Need - Mary J & Method Man
Sade - No Ordinary Love & Sweetest Taboo
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
The Four Tops- Standing in the Shadows of Love
The Four Tops- All their work
The Delfonics- Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time
Marvin Gaye- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
The Stylistics- People Make the World Go 'Round
112- Anything by them
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
Ray Charles - Come Live With Me
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
Mary J. Blige - Real Love
Al Green - Simply Beautiful (one of my wedding songs)
Prince - Most beautiful Girl in the World
After 7 - Ready or Not
Ready for the World - Let me Love You Down
Method Man and Mary J Blige - You're all I need
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
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  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    Blackstreet - No diggity

    I have more, but this fits my mood for today.

    Edit because I'm listening to it now.
  • Cali_Chica
    Cali_Chica Posts: 895 Member
    Bel Biv Devoe - Do Me

    Classic.
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    Blackstreet - No diggity

    I have more. But this is what I can come up with this AM.

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    Best all time? GTFO
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    don't hate, I love the song.

    wait.. maybe it's because I was born 88

    I might not know the songs you're talking about haha
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
    A few suggestions, non-exhaustive.....

    Bill Withers-Lovely Day
    Earth, Wind, & Fire-Let's Groove Tonight
    Prince-I Would Die 4 U
    Sade-Paradise
    Isley Brothers-Between the Sheets

    With these artists, I could have picked many other songs.
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  • brandynot
    brandynot Posts: 88 Member
    Old and New Skool:
    Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On, Sexual Healing,
    Let's Stay Together - Al Green
    Chaka Khan - Cant Choose just one....
    Candy Girl, If It Isn't Love - New Edition
    Secret Garden - Barry, El, James, Al B
    Tenderoni - Bobbi Brown
    Motown Philly and End of the Road - Boys II Men
    Diamonds and Pearls - Prince
    Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
    One In a Million - Aaliyah
    Forever My Lady - Jodeci
    You're All I Need - Mary J & Method Man



    and the list could go on and on and on and on...
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    A few suggestions, non-exhaustive.....

    Bill Withers-Lovely Day
    Earth, Wind, & Fire-Let's Groove Tonight
    Prince-I Would Die 4 U
    Sade-Paradise
    Isley Brothers-Between the Sheets

    With these artists, I could have picked many other songs.

    Prince...When Doves Cry is one of my favorite all time. For some reason never really have been turned onto EWF..although Reasons is excellent. Bill Withers...Lovely Day...yes, that's worthy of being way up there.
  • brandynot
    brandynot Posts: 88 Member
    Oh wait...how could I forget Sade

    No Ordinary Love and Sweetest Taboo
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    I forgot Nina Simone - Feeling Good...I deserve eternal damnation for forgetting her.
  • mikeyboy
    mikeyboy Posts: 1,057 Member
    Stevie Wonder, Superstition. If that doesn't make you get up & dance, check your pulse!
  • brandynot
    brandynot Posts: 88 Member
    I forgot Nina Simone - Feeling Good...I deserve eternal damnation for forgetting her.

    Agreed!
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    I'm not sure but it would likely be something by 112. I think this is something dependent on age because your list is a whopping pile of meh for me.
  • Desterknee
    Desterknee Posts: 1,056 Member
    The Four Tops- Standing in the Shadows of Love

    Screw it. Anything by The Four Tops

    The Delfonics- Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time

    Marvin Gaye- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You

    The Stylistics- People Make the World Go 'Round
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    I'm not sure but it would likely be something by 112. I think this is something dependent on age because your list is a whopping pile of meh for me.

    I could sit here and give you a full run down of current R&B...but I can summarize today's R&B lyrics into the following "Please baby let me bang you." I'm a huge fan of all music, include the begging music that is now referred to as R&B. 112 has some great songs though.

    So to you I say, "Your face is a pile of meh." Have a great day sir.
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    Looks like I'll have to listen to a few of these "recommended" songs.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    I'm not sure but it would likely be something by 112. I think this is something dependent on age because your list is a whopping pile of meh for me.

    I could sit here and give you a full run down of current R&B...but I can summarize today's R&B lyrics into the following "Please baby let me bang you." I'm a huge fan of all music, include the begging music that is now referred to as R&B. 112 has some great songs though.

    So to you I say, "Your face is a pile of meh." Have a great day sir.

    Rawwr.

    I would agree with you on today's stuff...These whipper snappers have no imagination these days. My sweet spot is late nineties early 2000's.

    And while I might find new songs today and enjoy them, they will never hold the same nostalgic place in my heart as the music I grew up loving in my youth. I think for the most part we are all this way in some respects (maybe not though)
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    I'm not sure but it would likely be something by 112. I think this is something dependent on age because your list is a whopping pile of meh for me.

    I could sit here and give you a full run down of current R&B...but I can summarize today's R&B lyrics into the following "Please baby let me bang you." I'm a huge fan of all music, include the begging music that is now referred to as R&B. 112 has some great songs though.

    So to you I say, "Your face is a pile of meh." Have a great day sir.

    Rawwr.

    I would agree with you on today's stuff...These whipper snappers have no imagination these days. My sweet spot is late nineties early 2000's.

    And while I might find new songs today and enjoy them, they will never hold the same nostalgic place in my heart as the music I grew up loving in my youth. I think for the most part we are all this way in some respects (maybe not though)

    Check out this 90's playlist I built a few weeks ago. Is real popular on 8tracks.

    http://8tracks.com/az_gato/the-ultimate-90-s-r-b-hip-hop

    Music snob right here.
  • emjaycazz
    emjaycazz Posts: 330 Member
    I personally would put "I Put a Spell On You" over "Feeling Good" for Nina Simone. It may be because: 1.) I hear the latter too much in commercials/covers, or 2) I like Nina's more pensive/darker stuff.

    However, I am a sucker for "Come Live With Me" by Ray Charles--it's sentimental but honest.
  • AprilMae1975
    AprilMae1975 Posts: 726
    There are so many, most of my favorites have been mentioned.
    A few of my favorites

    Mary J. Blige - Real Love
    Al Green - Simply Beautiful (one of my wedding songs)
    Prince - Most beautiful Girl in the World
    After 7 - Ready or Not
    Ready for the World - Let me Love You Down
    Method Man and Mary J Blige - You're all I need
    Michael Jackson - Rock With You
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    I'm not sure but it would likely be something by 112. I think this is something dependent on age because your list is a whopping pile of meh for me.

    I could sit here and give you a full run down of current R&B...but I can summarize today's R&B lyrics into the following "Please baby let me bang you." I'm a huge fan of all music, include the begging music that is now referred to as R&B. 112 has some great songs though.

    So to you I say, "Your face is a pile of meh." Have a great day sir.

    Rawwr.

    I would agree with you on today's stuff...These whipper snappers have no imagination these days. My sweet spot is late nineties early 2000's.

    And while I might find new songs today and enjoy them, they will never hold the same nostalgic place in my heart as the music I grew up loving in my youth. I think for the most part we are all this way in some respects (maybe not though)

    Check out this 90's playlist I built a few weeks ago. Is real popular on 8tracks.

    http://8tracks.com/az_gato/the-ultimate-90-s-r-b-hip-hop

    Music snob right here.

    Blocked at work...Will check out when I get home.
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    I personally would put "I Put a Spell On You" over "Feeling Good" for Nina Simone. It may be because: 1.) I hear the latter too much in commercials/covers, or 2) I like Nina's more pensive/darker stuff.

    However, I am a sucker for "Come Live With Me" by Ray Charles--it's sentimental but honest.

    I thought about putting a Spell over You above Feeling good for that same reason, but I can't late radio diminish the worth of that song. Now Ray Charles...I Got a Woman is just too good. I think it trumps Come Live With me.
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
    H-Town-Knockin Boots

    Swv-weak

    Jagged Edge-Promise

    Mary J. Blige-Real Love

    Xscape-Just kickin in

    Sade-Cherish the Day, No ordinary love, is it a crime

    The Chi-lites-Have you seen her

    The Stylistics-Betcha by golly wow

    Rose Royce-Wishing on a star

    Barry White-Never Never gonna give you up

    Rick James and Teena Marie-Fire and Desire

    Eddie Holman-Hey there lonely girl

    The Delfonics-Hey love

    Smokey Robinson and the miracles-Ooh baby baby

    That's just off the top of my head..

    I could go on and on, I love and appreciate all music but oldies Motown I grew up on. As a little girl my Mom would blast it while she was having some drinks, and I remember it used to annoy me back then but now as an adult I find myself doing the same thing when I'm home alone. I also love 50's Doo Wop thanks to my Wela, and old school Puerto Rican salsa music but that's another thread..:wink:
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On
    EW&F - Just about all their songs
  • michelefrench
    michelefrench Posts: 814 Member
    how about the Brothers Johnson - Stomp...or ANYTHING by Bill Withers
  • dirty_dirty_eater
    dirty_dirty_eater Posts: 574 Member
    Completely UnPossible to pick "best" out of all of the great stuff out there.

    A few that come to mind:

    Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations
    Use Me Up - Bill Whithers
    Sinnerman - Nina Simone
  • emjaycazz
    emjaycazz Posts: 330 Member

    I thought about putting a Spell over You above Feeling good for that same reason, but I can't late radio diminish the worth of that song. Now Ray Charles...I Got a Woman is just too good. I think it trumps Come Live With me.

    Definitely a good point re: "Feeling Good" and radio/covers. I'll have to re-listen. Still partial to Come Live With Me (for the same reason I like Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me"). I have yet to hear much from the 80/90's that evokes the same type of emotion--and I listened to my fair share of 90s R&B.

    Edit to add--"Sinnerman" also a good choice. I'm not sure there's anything from her catalog that I DON'T like.
  • ZombieGeezUs
    ZombieGeezUs Posts: 476
    Hmmmm

    If I ever fall in love- shai

    Water runs dry- boys II men
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    dafuq?! What the crap is a dude doing singing "This Woman's Work?!" What next? "The Kick Inside?!"

    Pshhht... guess I'm just old. Most of this crap ain't R&B. OK, I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch, but this is as far as I could narrow it down right now.

    Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
    Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG’s
    Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
    Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
    Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
    (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Oh. I see. You guys are confusing "Contemporary R&B" with actual R&B.
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