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Tag: R&B
James Brown – Star Time: #272 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I feel good, I knew that I would.
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black: #286 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I told you I was trouble – you know that I’m no good.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: Music From the Motion Picture: #302 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So I said I’m on the roam so I need a car, and I know that I’m getting alive.
KC & The Sunshine Band – KC & The Sunshine Band: #305 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight.
Mark Ronson – Here Comes The Fuzz: #323 of best 1,000 albums ever!
While y’all get it goin’, we’ll get it done.
Mark Ronson – Version: #363 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I like to wait to see how things turn out if you apply some pressure.
Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly: #364 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does it mean?
Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving: #377 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She’s just a cosmic girl, from another galaxy.
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Anthology: #406 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart.
James Brown – James Brown Live at the Apollo, 1962: #414 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m leaving you darling and I won’t be back. I found something better somewhere down the track.
Michael Jackson – Thriller: #435 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart.
Jamiroquai – Synkronized: #512 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know this boogie is for real.
Diana Ross – Diana: #529 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Upside you’re turning me, you’re giving love instinctively. Around and round you’re turning me, I say to thee respectfully.
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life: #562 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand, with an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands.
The Jackson 5 – ABC: #564 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop, the love you save may be your own! Darling, take it slow or someday you’ll be all alone.
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: #576 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Guys you know you better watch out – some girls are only about that thing, that thing, that thing.
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Going to a Go-Go: #608 of best 1,000 albums ever!
People say I’m the life of the party ‘cause I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty deep inside I’m blue.
En Vogue – Funky Divas: #621 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Free your mind and the rest will follow. Be color blind: don’t be so shallow.
Destiny’s Child – The Writing’s On The Wall: #645 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re all I think about and everywhere I look, I know it’s bad, but we could be so good.
Prince – Dirty Mind: #667 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Raw, grimy, funked up danceable R&B pop. Also: fun.
Kool & The Gang – The Very Best of Kool & The Gang: #682 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down, get DOWN.
Prince – Purple Rain: #685 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dearly beloved: let’s go crazy. Let’s get nuts.
Prince – 1999: #701 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.
Various Artists – Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968: #708 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Plug in and get supercharged anywhere you like with this massive 244 song compilation.
Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits: #744 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are very few bands that have better expressed the pure joy, the pure jubilation of music.
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth: #775 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you gonna learn?
Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul: #777 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Queen of Soul delivers some sweet impressions.
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis: #795 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If there is a hell below, at least we’ve got Curtis in the meanwhile in the here and now.
The Pointer Sisters – Break Out: #804 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You might just say that I’m so excited and yet I’m encountering a great deal of difficulty with regard to the prevention of obfuscating that emotional state.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now: #818 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let your mind go, let yourself be free.
Donna Summer – Bad Girls: #827 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why, it’s hot stuff.
Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis: #838 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sweet talkin’ – not to mention singin’ – pop-soul gem.
The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py: #843 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down with the funky miracle.
Ben L’Oncle Soul – Ben L’Oncle Soul: #878 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A seven nation army shouldn’t hold you back from checking out this retro soul gem.
Four Tops – Reach Out: #897 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Reach out for some fantastic old school Motown soul.
Etta James – At Last! #959 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spanning elegant, gorgeous pop, soul, and down and dirty blues.
Aloe Blacc – Good Things: #972 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I defy you to come away from this one without humming “I need a dollar, dollar, dollar that’s what I need…”
The Coasters – The Coasters: #976 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smooth, sexy, doo wop-y, rocking late 1950s vibes that project energy and fun.
Edwin Starr – War & Peace: #979 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“War” first and foremost, but make peace with the fact there’s also a lot of other great songs going down here.