A few months ago, Idolator's
Michaelangelo Matos sent out an email to a handful of his associates with a proposition: Give me a list of your 100 favorite R&B songs. While there were some basic guidelines regarding chronology (nothing before a certain date) and genre (no hip-hop, no house, etc.), the request was pretty simple—just 100 great R&B songs to be later compiled together and ranked into a master list. Well, those months went by and the only person to turn in a completed list was...my mother. Needless to say, she was not pleased and has been persistently nagging me to publish the list ever since, even going so far as to write capsule reviews of each entry (at my request). And so, after the jump, I present the first installment of Kathleen Turner's 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links):
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In case you missed our earlier installments: A few months ago, Idolator's Michaelangelo Matos sent out an e-mail to a handful of his associates with a proposition: Give me a list of your 100 favorite R&B songs. Well, those months went by and the only person to turn in a completed list was...my mother. In the final installment of Kathleen Turner's 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we come to the end of the road, what we've all been waiting for, the moment of truth, the head-scratchingly contestable conclusion—the Top 10 greatest R&B/funk songs of all time as hand picked by my inimitable mother:
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