SPIN: Best R&B Single of the '90s: 1996

[DANJ!]

So it's '96, that Bad Boy R&B sound is rollin', and Timbaland is gettin' off the ground, as is 'Neo-Soul'... what you got??

 

[brownsugah]

Lady is one of my favorite songs of all time so I voted for it.

Team D’Angelo here once again. ;)

 

[director_of_bands]

no diggity felt like the biggest song back then... but that maxwell withstood the test of time...only you was both so Ima vote only you

 

[a1pacino]

K Sweat - Twisted for me, although it was a good year in general, Only you/down low/touch me tease me all worthy contenders

 

[mobbinfms]

Jesus

 

[Newark88]

When I think of R&B in 96, No Diggity automatically comes to mind. Touch Me Tease and Only You remix comes tied in 2nd for me. Down Low remix>>>>. Honorable mentions include Isley Brothers's Float On remix and Gina Thompson The Things You Do remix. As @DANJ! said, Bad Boy really had 96 on lock with the R&B remixes.

 

[TheGregReaper]

 

[Olu Dara]

No diggity

 

[BiggWebb79]

This is a tough one for me, all was/are great songs.

 

[Wacky D]

TOUCH ME, TEASE ME gets my vote.

Aaliyah - one in a million was '97.
mary j blige's "not gon cry" should be on here, but she had a questionable entry already so its whatever.
I'm shocked nothing from "waiting to exhale" made it on here.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Gotta go with One in a Million. I remember watching that on Video Music Box, cuz we didnt have cable.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Lady or Ascension

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

TOUCH ME, TEASE ME gets my vote.

Aaliyah - one in a million was '97.
mary j blige's "not gon cry" should be on here, but she had a questionable entry already so its whatever.
I'm shocked nothing from "waiting to exhale" made it on here.

played that album two days straight just last week, not a weak link on there :justwow: it's clearly the GOAT r&b soundtrack, and i'd even say GOAT soundtrack period. babyface showed the fukk out. one thing that hit me tho, all those artists they put on there and didn't have monica do a track, that's weird, maybe there were label politics at play.

 

[smokeurobinson]

No Diggity

even tho D'angelo , R Kelly keith and Aaliyah had my world i have to be objective. No Diggity was the 96 R&B anthem

 

[JustCKing]

played that album two days straight just last week, not a weak link on there :justwow: it's clearly the GOAT r&b soundtrack, and i'd even say GOAT soundtrack period. babyface showed the fukk out. one thing that hit me tho, all those artists they put on there and didn't have monica do a track, that's weird, maybe there were label politics at play.

It is weird. There's a story where Monica talks about having to re-record what would become her sophomore album because her voice changed in the middle of recording. Maybe that had something to do with it.

This song might've been intended for the soundtrack, but didn't make the cut for whatever reason:



^^^ Sounds more fitting for Waiting to Exhale than Space Jam