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Music: Non-Prince "Greatest R&B Artist Of All-Time" List? Music: Non-Prince family, let's put our brillant minds together and come up with the utimate Greatest of All-Tim Rhythm and Blues Artist List. I think we can make a TOP 100 List.
R&B is the only genre that's get's forgotten on these Top 100 List. But here, it may be the most discussed music genre in his section.
This can go back from the beginning of R&B to the present time R&B (if you all think a few are worthy.)
All forms of R&B are welcome. Some early Doo-Wop and Rock-N-Roll, Soul, Funk, Quest Storm, New Jack Swing, ect. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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My list is on that thread about BET's lifetime achievement award future nominees | |
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WAR! Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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this is basically "the Stevie Wonder Appreciation Thread" "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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Here's some of my faves:
Minnie Riperton Sam Cooke Jackie Wilson Brand New Heavies El DeBarge J5 / The Jacksons The Temptations Gap Band The Time Johnnie Taylor Stevie Wonder James Brown Al Green Sade Chanté Moore Midnight Star Aretha Franklin George Benson (although technically jazz, a lot of his songs are R&B and pop) Shalamar The Whispers Teena Marie The Dramatics The Spinners Isley Brothers Marvin Gaye New Edition En Vogue The Emotions Teddy Pendergrass Donny Hathaway Earth, Wind, & Fire Rufus & Chaka Khan Average White Band Tammi Terrell Lisa Stansfield Cameo Kool & The Gang Tony! Toni! Toné! You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Nice we just need them ranked. How about something like this ...
8. Temptations 9. Supremes 10. Prince 11. Otis Redding 12. Sly and the Family Stone 13. Al Green 14. Curtis Mayfield 15. Parliament-Funkadelic 17. The Miracles 18. Isley Brothers 20. Impressions 24. The Drifters 25. Booker T and the M.G.s 28. Luther Vandross 30. Dionne Warrick 31. Joe Tex PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Awesome list, but to me Sly should be top five.
He taught the world to funk.   She has robes and she has monkeys, lazy diamond studded flunkies.... | |
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Wow
Must admit i can't argue with this list at all Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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You can argue, that's what I want. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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R&B isn't so much forgotten as much as it is prob. the hardest list to come up with. Usually they put all the names up until they have 400-500, maybe more, then whittle it down.
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michael jackson is not rnb... and isn't james brown... soul and funk?????
anyways.... bobby brown better be on the list... |
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The problem with categorizing the greatest R&B artist of All Time is the fact that R&B itself was never a genre of music that developed naturally as an outgrowth of black creativity rather, it was an umbrella term to categorize all of the 'jungle music' black folks made that wasn't blues or jazz. Ike Turner was considered R&B at the time and now he is one of the pioneers of rock n roll, same goes for fats domino, chuck berry, little richard all of those cats music virtually stayed the same when they garnered crossover appeal the only thing that changed was their pocketbooks(if that) and the term for their music being called rock n roll. IN fact at the hard of it I'd say between the 50's and the 70's the only major difference between rock and r&B was the subject matter and the audience that litened to it. Everything else, production standards, chord change preferences, instrumentation choices, conventional melodies used, preferred time signatures, were pretty similar. Moreover, I find little in modern r&b that resembles, say 50's doo wop, or 60's soul. So What is R&B? just "urban music"? Is funk R&B? because both funk and soul were played in the same format and stations despite the clear difference in approach, sometimes the two even overlapped.
However the cookie crumbles I am positive these few artist legacy on black popular music makes them shoe-ins as GOAT nominees:
Stevie Wonder James Brown Ray Charles Al Green MJ
Did Prince ever deny he had sex with his sister? I believe not. So there U have it..
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Cool, I always wondered what the liikes of Little Richard, Bo Didley, Fats, Chuck, ect would have been listed under. If they were more Rock N Roll or RnB PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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^^^^ UNDERRATED POST | |
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The Bobby Brown part or everything else?? PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Add: The dazz band Ohio Players Prince Frank Mccomb Mint Condition George Duke Eric Roberson Conya Doss Anita Baker Dangelo Raphael Saddiq Bootsy Lenny Williams One Way Charlie Wilson Barry White Michael Henderson Phillip Bailey Ashford & Simpson Jeffery Osborne Howard Hewitt Shalamar
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number one on my list forever is......
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Rick James dammitt! Andy is a four letter word. | |
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ALL of it! | |
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The rhythm and blues that began in the 1940s isn't the same because the genre kept giving birth to brothers and cousins but it's so confusing that everything is deemed "R&B" though it could be "rock and roll" or "blues" or "soul" or "funk".
It's as confusing as explaining rock and roll music since the rock of the 1950s wasn't the same as the 1960s or 1970s and so on and so on. | |
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Erica Wright Michael Joseph Jackson Janet Damita Jo Jackson DeBarge Elizondo Jackson (Dupri?) Ike Turner // Anna Mae Bullock Maurice White Philip Irvin Bailey Helen Folasade Adu Ann Lennox Michael Eugene Archer Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou Jill Scott
...everyone else... I'll leave it alone babe...just be me | |
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you done put up the gov'ment names! "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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I fully agree with you! There is music before SLY and music after and his influence was massive to say the least. A top five ranking at the very least should be considered.... | |
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Isn't this the same as Gap Band, Earth Wind & Fire, and Shalamar? You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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I'm actually surprised Sylvester Stewart, Samuel Cook and Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ain't on the list. | |
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Anyways, in terms of "R&B".
TOO FUCKING MANY TO CHOOSE FROM! Fuck that I ain't choosing! | |
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Thats whats fun about making a list.
I'm part of a basketball forum and it's fun and also a learning expierence making a 100 greatest players of All-Time list or a top 20 small forward list. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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How is a solo act the same as as group act? | |
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