Cinnie said:

No need Cinnie. It's all good.

The groups I listed made slow jams also but they were good slow jams, the bedroom type. None of that dull adult contemporary type stuff that peoples' parents could get into. They also made fast jams too, something that the artists in the original post made very little of, if any.

Music should be made for either the dick or the ass. Bedroom jams for the dick and dance floor jams for the ass. If a song doesn't fit either of these purposes, it serves no purpose and shouldn't be made.

Martinelli said:

same here

vainandy said:

HA! you're funny; in a very very gay way.

PFunkjazz said:

I certainly hope so.

vainandy said:

I have to admit I agree with you. Aside from Peabo and Stephanie Mills, I wasn't feeling much of them at all. The 80's is so much more exciting than those ballads, and though I love ballads and appreciate them, the music was produced in such a way that the melodies were second priority and I couldn't sing along to them. That's not to say I'm shunning 80's r&b completely, I could sing along to Muscles, Between the Sheets, and many others, but I wasn't feeling much of these. Even your girl Shitney moves me more, and she doesn't always have emotion although she inspires me vocally on a technical level only.
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Cinnie said:

Damn you Art Of Noise!!!

neoretro7 said:

I miss Billy Ocean & Sade, but not the songs you mention.

neoretro7 said:

I love the Stephanie Mills version of "Home". She should have been Dorothy in "The Wiz". I hated Diana Ross in that film.
--> Me <-- Diana Ross.

I miss the sound of real 70s soul...

I do. But moreso the early 90s R&B.

neoretro7 said:

Dude, the overproduced clichéd MOR crap you just listed is some of the most boring, insipid 'music' ever made

TonyVanDam said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:

i wassent around in that time but i wished people would start to make music like that again i love 70s soul

i agree early 80z was cool..

PFunkjazz said:

Sir, those comments reflect you treading on shaky ground. Those New Wave groups did a great job with their soul influences in the 80's.

I might have to ponder this for a minute, but on first impulse I think I probably miss songs from the first half of the 80's After '86 things started getting a little shakey bakey after that...

Flowerz said:

I liked them alot. Then I remember going to really great concerts as a young teen in the early 80's like Midnight Starr, Atlantic Starr, ect. They were excellent groups....I'm stll thinking of who else I liked...my memory is a little off today . But I remember music being such a huge part of home and school life, there really are a lot of groups that take me straight back to happy times being age 12 or 14 or so

NWF said:

I like bands like ABC and Culture Club

Ottensen said:

I agree,things went downhill after 1985.By then,rap was taking over,soon to be followed by New Jack Swing That's why I prefer early 80s R&B.

I love the singers of the 1980s, but I didnt like the mid80's - early 90's production of all keyboards and loops.

neoretro7 said:

I miss R&B period but this list is pretty weak.

that's my favourite musical era, I miss music from the 80s so much, today's music is a nightmare for me!

Adult contemporary is what was taking over. There were a few artists jamming in the late 1980s like Ready For The World, The Jets, Jesse Johnson, Jody Watley, Trinere, The Bronner Brothers, etc. However, the adult contempary shit like Shitney Houston, Anita Baker, Freddie Jackson, Mikki Howard, Regina Belle, etc. was getting far more airplay and things were becoming extremely dull.

As for the rap of the 1980s, actually, a lot of it was faster than the scarce funk at the time. There were folks like The Egyptian Lover, LA Dream Team, Gigolo Tony, 2 Live Crew, Afro Rican, Freestyle, etc. who were shaking the asses just as hard as the funk acts during that time and getting airplay on mainstream R&B stations.

Unfortunately, there was a much slower tempo much duller rap brewing underground. I remember the only Salt and Pepa song played on our local mainstream R&B stations at the time was "Push It" and I can see why. Everything else didn't really sound good enough to be played alongside and fit in with the funk at the time except for "Push It". There were a ton of rap groups that were underground in the late 1980s that I used to hear on one of our stations that played a mix on Saturday afternoons which was 30 minutes of rap and 30 minutes of house music (which was underground also). I would tune in for the house and fast rap. However, sometimes they would get stuck on that boring ass slow rap and wouldn't get off it. The shit hop that took over in the 1990s sounded like that underground rap of the late 1980s....the type that was too slow and dull to fit in with the funk on the mainstream R&B stations.
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neoretro7 said:

These are mostly adult contemporary versions of soul music, what I call "conservative R&B." I mean, if you're going that route how can you overlook Luther Vandross?

When I think of the '80s sound of soul music, I'm thinking of these songs:

Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce
Patrice Rushen - Forget-Me-Nots
Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid
Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
Skyy - Call Me
Slave - Watching You
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
The Dazz Band - Let It Whip
The System - You Are in My System
Rick James - Give It to Me Baby
Klymaxx - The Men All Pause

Particularly in the earlier half of the decade, the songs had a catchy rhythm arrangements with an emphasis on sythesizers taking the place of most other instruments.

neoretro7 said:

These are mostly adult contemporary versions of soul music, what I call "conservative R&B." Whitney Houston was more of a pop/crossover artist then. I mean, if you're going that route how can you overlook the most dominant such artist in the '80s, Luther Vandross?

When I think of the '80s sound of soul music, I'm thinking more in the line of these songs (not saying these are perfect and the only examples, by any means):

Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce
Patrice Rushen - Forget-Me-Nots
Midnight Star - Freak-A-Zoid
Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage
Skyy - Call Me
Slave - Watching You
Howard Johnson - So Fine
Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
The Dazz Band - Let It Whip
The System - You Are in My System
Rick James - Give It to Me Baby
Klymaxx - The Men All Pause

Particularly in the earlier half of the decade, the songs had a catchy rhythm arrangements with an emphasis on sythesizers taking the place of most other instruments.
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