/r/OldSchoolRNB
a subreddit for old school R&B music!
old school R&B from back in the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sidebar has been archived for the time being
and lots of other sidebars have been archived too
so hang in there, before we re-populate the sidebar with more select sub listings, since an agreement was made over a year ago to list subs in the sidebar, but the list has been moved to a post in /r/AnyKindOfMusic until further ideas are brainstormed.
other subs:
/r/NewSchoolRnB, a sub for newer R&B trax
⚠️list under construction⚠️
all other subs archived in the old sidebar archive
regarding off-topic posts: if you post off-topic, you can post in /r/TruckStopBathroom if anything silly wacky awesome weird is your first idea for a Reddit post before any R&B, or music in general is.
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I have been trying to find out the name of the song and artist for years! It is a male artist and he kinda sounds like Stevie Wonder a bit. It is an 80s or possibly a 90s r&b song with the lyrics:
If you feel like I feel then you know my love is real and real is what you said you’re looking for. I don’t believe in wasting time, I’ve got to say what’s on my mind. I’m in love with you, just thought I’d let you know.
Chorus: Even if you think I’m crazy, excuse me if I act a fool I just can’t help it, baby. I’m so in love with you.
1984 / Junko Ohashi
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After thinking about it, I decided, well, time to add some flairs indicating subgenres of R&B. But in my personal opinion, I think of R&B more as the Supergenre of the genres, rahter than the genre of the subgenres, but the typical R&B fans think subgenres when hearing terms like Soul, Funk, Motown, etc.
anyway, here's the subgenres added to the flairs...
#SUBGENRES
a "placeholder" flair which serves as a line separating music genres from other categories for flairs.
#Rhythm & Blues
R&B started off as an abbreviation of this phrase!
#R&B
Some people think of R&B without hearing the phrase "rhythm and blues" in their mind.
#Funk
lots of funk songs are in the "R&B" category.
#Disco
a genre related to funk, you might think of it as a subgenre of funk, so that makes it a sub-sub-genre of R&B, even though I think of it as a super-funk-sub type deal.
#Soul
sometimes used interchangeably with "R&B"
#Rap
considered a R&B subgenre since many early rap songs sampled songs from R&B subgenres.
#Hip Hop
one might use the term interchangeably with rap.
#Electro
electro tracks, such as Newcleus, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, etc.
electronic music, sometimes called "electrofunk".
#New Jack Swing
upbeat 90s music, one might call it "dance music", which is part of the R&B genre.
examples: Bobby Brown, Keith Sweat, Guy, Color Me Badd, Vanessa Williams, Teddy Riley, etc.
tracks from the New Jack City soundtrack are some examples to also refer to.
#Oldies
A term used to refer to tracks released between the 1950s and the 1970s, which spans many genres such as really early rhythm & blues (R&B's namesake), some jazz, doo-wop, motown, rock and roll, The British Invasion, psychedelic, and more.
many tracks that are considered oldies also fall into the category of being part of the Billboard charts during the era, so one might think that R&B also stands for "radio & billboard", since lots of tracks from the billboard charts tend to be from some subgenre of R&B, especially if you consider the earliest for of it to be the stylistic origins of the genres.
#Motown
Motown from the 1960s
examples being The Temptations, Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, etc.
#Doo-Wop
a 1950s era genre.
#Rock & Roll
according to a history book I read, it says that Rock & Roll's formation started from that of some older versions of the country, blues, and gospel genres, so one might see it as a R&B subgenre, since the blues also belong to "rhythm and blues".
#Soft Rock
might sound like a blend of pop rock and contemporary R&B.
#Classic Rock
what we think of as "classic rock" is late 60s to early 80s chart topping rock music hits.
For example, War's song Low Rider has appeared on both R&B radio playlists, and classic rock radio, in addition to some Santana and Steely Dan which might also qualify as R&B and classic rock.
So, for that reason, I consider classic rock another R&B subgenre.
#Rock
a genre that evolved from Rock & Roll, by dropping the "and roll" part when it got more modernized.
#Reggae
a genre from Jamaica.
I was convinced that it was a subgenre of R&B when reading about it on Wikipedia.
#Ska
similar to reggae
#Blues
an old timey music genre which was a genre that had "and blues" added after it as the genre evolved.
#Chicago Blues
a really famous form of blues from Chicago
#Delta Blues
an old timey subgenre of blues from the Mississippi delta
example: Robert John
#Jazz
Sometimes mentioned with "and blues" after it
#Gospel
some music which sounds like a church choir type music, some might think it sounds like "blues", and was one of the stylistic origins of rock and roll, according to some school history book I read.
#Smooth Jazz
a smoother variant of jazz, which might overlap with R&B.
#New Wave
A British genre of music which one might think is a subgenre of rock, or pop, or R&B, or some others, with a synthesizer type sound to it.
#Pop
a general term for music from the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
So, sometimes I might say that R&B stands for "radio & billboard" since lots of "R&B" tracks also fall into the Billboard Hot 100 category of radio tracks.
The "pop" genre may have started off as a subgenre of R&B.
#Dance Pop
dance music also in the pop genre.
#90s Eurodance
might also include music from the R&B charts of the 90s.
#EDM
electronic dance music, which genres like Eurodance and dance pop is part of.
#Techno
an electronic genre which is sometimes used interchangeably with "dance music".
#MISC SUBGENRE
R&B has so many different subgenres, so this flair was put here in case you might find a subgenre that isn't listed.
In conclusion.
the term "R&B" is sorta an umbrella term for many genres, which is why flairs have been created.
I was listening to rnb in the car with my dad and a song came on and it went like “doo doo baby my love is true, doo doo until the sky is bluee” or something and it was a boy singing and it was amazing someone please help me