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: MORE »
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And Now It Can Be Revealed: The Final Chapter Of Idolator’s Top 100 R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom)
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Idolator Counts Down The Top 100 R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom) Part Five
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 penultimate installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we learn how hard it is to be a grade school record store owner way before the advent of the MP3, discover an operatic taste for the work of DMX, and find out just how much Google rankings mean to preserving family unity. Sadly (well, not sadly for me) we do not learn the “truth” about my conception just yet: MORE »
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Idolator Counts Down The 100 Greatest R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom) Part Four
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 third installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we discover the secret origin of my sister’s name (she’s the one who looks like an adorable chipmunk in that picture there), learn that it’s okay to let 10-year-olds dance with robots at a nightclubs, and are teased with this tantalizing (and slightly disturbing) bit of foreshadowing: “(Jess: Sly will appear again in the top 10. And the event of your true conception will be revealed then!)” MORE »
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Idolator Counts Down The 100 Greatest R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom) Part Three
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 third installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we learn about her plans to take over for Bob Geldof, find out about her secret hippie roots, and discover that wine can turn a woman into a rabid Philadelphia partisan: MORE »
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Idolator Counts Down The 100 Greatest R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom) Part Two
In case you missed our first installment: 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 our second installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we learn about her “intense British connection,” why you should just say no to drugs, and how she feels about a certain pied piper of R&B: MORE »
Idolator Counts Down The 100 Greatest R&B Songs Of All Time. With My Mom.
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): MORE »
