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SoulAlive

SoulTracks did a poll of the Top 100 greatest slow jams of all-time (here's the results)

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Hey SoulTrackers! Well, you did it again. You all came out in force for our most recent poll, with thousands of votes for the Greatest Slow Jams of All Time And what great choices you made! Luther Vandross topped the charts, but there are some really great choices that sound just right for an evening of romance. So sit back and check out this awesome collection.

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1 A House Is Not A Home - Luther Vandross
2 Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye
3 The Closer I Get To You - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
4 Fortunate - Maxwell
5 Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
6 Fire & Desire - Rick James and Teena Marie
7 Reasons - Earth Wind & Fire
8 Let's Stay Together - Al Green
9 You're All I Need to Get By - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
10 Pretty Wings - Maxwell
11 Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
12 Ribbon In The Sky- Stevie Wonder
13 Love Ballad - LTD
14 Sweet Love - Anita Baker
15 Always and Forever - Heatwave
16 Between the Sheets - Isley Brothers
17 Turn Off The Lights - Teddy Pendergrass
18 Loving You- Minnie Riperton
19 Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce
20 For the Love of You - The Isley Brothers
21 If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
22 Sweet Thing - Rufus & Chaka Khan
23 Here and Now - Luther Vandross
24 Love TKO- Teddy Pendergrass
25 The Secret Garden - Quincy Jones
26 Close The Door - Teddy Pendergrass
27 My My My - Johnny Gill
28 Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics
29 Just My Imagination - Temptations
30 Just To Be Close To You - The Commodores
31 If Only You Knew - Patti LaBelle
32 You Are My Starship - Norman Connors
33 Betcha By Golly Wow - The Stylistics
34 A Song For You - Donny Hathaway
35 Giving you the Best That I Got - Anita Baker
36 Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
37 You Are My Lady - Freddie Jackson
38 Through the Fire - Chaka Khan
39 Ooh Baby Baby- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
40 You Make Me Feel Brand New - Stylistics
41 Zoom - The Commodores
42 Neither One of Us - Gladys Knight & the Pips
43 My Girl - The Temptations
44 Me and Mrs Jones - Billy Paul
45 Love Won't Let Me Wait - Major Harris
46 Stairway to Heaven - O'Jays
47 If You Think You're Lonely Now - Bobby Womack
48 When A Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
49 Lady in My Life - Michael Jackson
50 Sara Smile - Hall and Oates
51 Superstar / Until You Come Back to Me - Luther Vandross
52 You Are Everything - Stylistics
53 Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Rose Royce
54 After The Love Is Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
55 No Ordinary Love - Sade
56 At Last - Etta James
57 Cause I Love You - Lenny Williams
58 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
59 This is for the Lover In You - Shalamar
60 In the Rain - Dramatics
61 La-La Means I Love You - Delphonics
62 Purple Rain - Prince
63 Still In Love With You - Al Green
64 Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
65 Yearning For Your Love - The Gap Band
66 Feel the Fire - Peabo Bryson
67 Don't Say Goodnight - Isley Brothers
68 Love Calls - Kem
69 Kiss and Say Goodbye - Manhattans
70 Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat
71 One in a Million - Larry Graham
72 Can You Stand the Rain - New Edition
73 Groove With You - Isley Brothers
74 Love Don't Love Nobody - Spinners
75 End of the Road - Boyz II Men
76 Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
77 I'll Be There - Jackson 5
78 All This Love - DeBarge
79 Stay in My Corner - The Dells
80 If You Were Here Tonight - Alexander O'Neal
81 Tender Love - Force MD's
82 Joy And Pain- Maze
83 Wildflower - New Birth
84 Going In Circles - Friends of Distinction
85 This Masquerade - George Benson
86 Love on a Two Way Street - The Moments
87 Oh Girl - Chi Lites
88 Your Body's Callin - R Kelly
89 On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
90 Ain't No Way - Aretha Franklin
91 Spend My Life With You - Eric Benet with Tamia
92 Human Nature - Michael Jackson
93 Since I Lost My Baby - Temptations
94 Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) - Mint Condition
95 You Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys
96 I'll Make Love to You - Boyz II Men
97 Just Once - Quincy Jones with James Ingram
98 Still - The Commodores
99 Sideshow - Blue Magic
100 You Put a Move On My Heart - Quincy Jones feat. Tamia

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Reply #1 posted 02/09/11 2:47am

PANDURITO

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wave Michael McDonald is white. Is that a mistake?

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Reply #2 posted 02/09/11 2:47am

SoulAlive

PANDURITO said:

wave Michael McDonald is white. Is that a mistake?

no no no! lol

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Reply #3 posted 02/09/11 3:13am

MJJstudent

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i see purple rain, got to be there and i'll be there as more sentimental than 'slow jams'. 'lady in my life', 'adore', 'break of dawn'- now THOSE are more in the slow jams arena.

they should compile a list of steppers' jams. that would be really cool to see.

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Reply #4 posted 02/09/11 3:13am

MJJstudent

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PANDURITO said:

wave Michael McDonald is white. Is that a mistake?

WOOOOOOOOOOOW...

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Reply #5 posted 02/09/11 4:16am

Cotontige

This looks like a grown people list. I'd like to do that on website with different demographics.

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Reply #6 posted 02/09/11 4:22am

Dancelot

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PANDURITO said:

wave Michael McDonald is white. Is that a mistake?

well, it's a Soul list after all smile

on lists with the 100 gretaest Metal, Punk or Country tracks, do you expect more racial diversity than here hmmm

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Reply #7 posted 02/09/11 7:22am

vainandy

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There's a lot of good stuff in that list but that bullshit from 1985 on up to the present doesn't deserve to be in there.

Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #8 posted 02/09/11 7:28am

Graycap23

Who did they poll? I'd change about 50% of this list.

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Reply #9 posted 02/09/11 8:01am

pzlyprk

They seriously have a list of greatest slow jams WITHOUT Midnight Star's "Slow Jam"?!? I've read throught that list three times and haven't seen it on there. Unbelievable.

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Reply #10 posted 02/09/11 8:07am

rialb

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Is "Human Nature" a slow jam?

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Reply #11 posted 02/09/11 9:12am

daPrettyman

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rialb said:

Is "Human Nature" a slow jam?

Not to me. Neither are Midnight Train To Georgia, My Girl, or Joy and Pain. I think the list is a good representative of all of the Urban AC stations throughout the country and what has been fed to society as "old school" music.

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Reply #12 posted 02/09/11 9:55am

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I'm a little suprised to see one of my favorite Maxwell cuts so high on the list. "Fortunate" is number three! Very cool. We could debate the order but this is a better list than many of the "best of" R&B lists I usually see.

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Reply #13 posted 02/09/11 10:01am

UncleGrandpa

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BlaqueKnight said:

I'm a little suprised to see one of my favorite Maxwell cuts so high on the list. "Fortunate" is number three! Very cool. We could debate the order but this is a better list than many of the "best of" R&B lists I usually see.

I caught that as well, Maxwell has two songs in the top ten. That speaks well to how good R.Kelly and Max write songs in the present time that they would rank as high as they did. This is a list made for the mature over 36 crowd, I don't have a problem with it.

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Reply #14 posted 02/09/11 10:36am

Unholyalliance

rialb said:

Is "Human Nature" a slow jam?

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on that list.

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Reply #15 posted 02/09/11 10:44am

BlaqueKnight

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Unholyalliance said:

rialb said:

Is "Human Nature" a slow jam?

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on that list.

Yes it is. Its not a fast song. Since the vocals are in a ballad style rather than that of a faster song, it falls into the ballad category.

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Reply #16 posted 02/09/11 10:58am

Unholyalliance

BlaqueKnight said:

Unholyalliance said:

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on that list.

Yes it is. Its not a fast song. Since the vocals are in a ballad style rather than that of a faster song, it falls into the ballad category.

When I think of a 'slow jam' song, adult contemporary songs don't usually pop into my head even though a slow jam can also be classified as adult contemporary. Example, I don't think that anyone really considers Jewel's 'Who Will Save Your Soul' to be a slow jam or r&b. Usually, when someone classifies something as a 'slow jam' it's a sub-genre of r&b, rather than being classified as a 'slow jam' simply because it's slow or a ballad.

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Reply #17 posted 02/09/11 11:04am

Free2BMe

rialb said:

Is "Human Nature" a slow jam?

I would replace "Human Nature" with either one of these Michael slow jams;"Butterflies", "I Can't Help It", "Break of Dawn" or "Heaven Can Wait".

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Reply #18 posted 02/09/11 11:05am

BlaqueKnight

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Unholyalliance said:

BlaqueKnight said:

Yes it is. Its not a fast song. Since the vocals are in a ballad style rather than that of a faster song, it falls into the ballad category.

When I think of a 'slow jam' song, adult contemporary songs don't usually pop into my head even though a slow jam can also be classified as adult contemporary. Example, I don't think that anyone really considers Jewel's 'Who Will Save Your Soul' to be a slow jam or r&b. Usually, when someone classifies something as a 'slow jam' it's a sub-genre of r&b, rather than being classified as a 'slow jam' simply because it's slow or a ballad.

Human Nature is R&B. When it was out, it was on the R&B charts. Human Nature is considered a ballad-tempo song. It really falls on the line but its there.

I understand the point you are trying to make but I also know that songs like Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgetting" also fall under the heading of ballad because when you have to choose what to mix it with in a playlist, it HAS to go with the slower songs arther than with the fast songs. Such is also the case with Human Nature.

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Reply #19 posted 02/09/11 11:08am

HotGritz

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doh! WTH is this ish? All great choices but that list is in serious need of rearranging. Aint no way in hades that "A House Is Not A Home" deserves the #1 slot. Fuck that list!

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Reply #20 posted 02/09/11 11:12am

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Hmm. I can't say I have an issue with the songs selected; I'm not sure "A House Is Not A Home" would be my number one but . . . shrug

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Reply #21 posted 02/09/11 11:20am

trueiopian

WTF...

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Reply #22 posted 02/09/11 11:21am

Graycap23

Adore -Prince

Do me Baby - Prince

Pink Cashmere - Prince

As in I love u - Bootsy

Where is the Dazz band?

Where is the Ohio Players?

more Anita Baker?

Angela Bofield?

Phillis Hyman?

Gap Band?

Charlie Wilson?

Sam Cooke?

more Isley Brothers?

More Donny Hathaway?

Lalah Hathaway?

Take away my your space - 2 tons of fun

Computer Love - Roger

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Reply #23 posted 02/09/11 11:26am

Ville

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UncleGrandpa said:

BlaqueKnight said:

I'm a little suprised to see one of my favorite Maxwell cuts so high on the list. "Fortunate" is number three! Very cool. We could debate the order but this is a better list than many of the "best of" R&B lists I usually see.

I caught that as well, Maxwell has two songs in the top ten. That speaks well to how good R.Kelly and Max write songs in the present time that they would rank as high as they did. This is a list made for the mature over 36 crowd, I don't have a problem with it.

Probably has something to do with thelatestmaxwellnewss tweeting quite a lot about the poll to their 2975 followers. If I remember correctly at one point Fortunate was number one and Pretty Wings number two.

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Reply #24 posted 02/09/11 11:27am

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PANDURITO said:

wave Michael McDonald is white. Is that a mistake?

Soul (or R&B) are genres, not a race or ethnicity.

...As far as the actual list goes, I don't get why "Got to Be There" by MJ is on there - they should've swapped that out and put "Butterflies" there, instead.

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Reply #25 posted 02/09/11 11:27am

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This is just a list of overplayed radio songs. lol Where's the Black Ivory, Tyrone Davis, Johnnie Taylor, Enchantment, etc.?

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Reply #26 posted 02/09/11 11:34am

TD3

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Graycap23 said:

Adore -Prince

Do me Baby - Prince

Pink Cashmere - Prince

As in I love u - Bootsy

Where is the Dazz band?

Where is the Ohio Players?

more Anita Baker?

Angela Bofield?

Phillis Hyman?

Gap Band?

Charlie Wilson?

Sam Cooke?

more Isley Brothers?

More Donny Hathaway?

Lalah Hathaway?

Take away my your space - 2 tons of fun

Computer Love - Roger

I was just 'bout to ask, What's missing Graycap. lol Agreed, tho' I can do without anything by Anita Baker. smile

Allow me to add.

Patrice Rushen

Patti Austin

Peabo Bryson eek

Free Life

T-Connection

Switch

More Earth, Wind, & Fire

for me. biggrin

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Reply #27 posted 02/09/11 11:44am

HotGritz

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For Starters

1. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

2. I Want to Get Next to You - Rolls Royce

3. Fire & Desire - Rick James and Teena Marie

4. Twisted - Keith Sweat

5. Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) – Mint Condition
6. Disco Lady - Johnny Taylor

7. Let's Get It On - Marvyn Gaye

8. The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey & The Miracles

9. Ex-Factor - Lauryn Hill

10. Until You Come Back to Me - Aretha Franklin

11. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White

12. Let's Do It Again - Staples Singers

13. You Are Everything - Stylistics

14. Can You Stand The Rain - New Edition

15. For Your Love - Stevie Wonder

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Reply #28 posted 02/09/11 11:47am

trueiopian

UncleGrandpa said:

BlaqueKnight said:

I'm a little suprised to see one of my favorite Maxwell cuts so high on the list. "Fortunate" is number three! Very cool. We could debate the order but this is a better list than many of the "best of" R&B lists I usually see.

I caught that as well, Maxwell has two songs in the top ten. That speaks well to how good R.Kelly and Max write songs in the present time that they would rank as high as they did. This is a list made for the mature over 36 crowd, I don't have a problem with it.

R. Kelly wrote 'Fortunate'.

But this list is all types of wrong lol Most of these songs aren't even slow jams.

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Reply #29 posted 02/09/11 11:54am

MickyDolenz

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HotGritz said:

6. Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor

That's more of a funk tune, not a ballad or slow jam. Better choices for JT would be:

Time After Time

I Believe In You (You Believe In Me)

Stop Doggin' Me Around

Just Because

Hello Sundown

If You're Looking For A Fool

This Masquerade

Play Something Pretty

Your Love Is Rated X

Try Me Tonight

If She Stops Asking

I Worry About You

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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