I need a change

Anybody into pop or R&B? If yes, please recommend me a few inspirational artists/albums/songs. I can guarantee nothing more than reputation.

'Pop': Beatles, Police, Led Zep, Genesis, Radiohead, Queen, Stones, Doors...

'R&B': Big Bill Broonzy, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, (Jools Holland?)....

Well, I'm looking for stuff similar to the following song by R. Kelly:



Sorry, I was too lazy to post it before.

Try these if you havnt already:

Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston
Apologize - One Republic
In Da Club - 50 cent

I dont have a very good range of this kind of music as you can see But thats all I have, youve probobly heard them all already

XKillerX

The Who: Maximum R&B.

Annaeus:
'Thats Not Pop' I heard you cry (From the rep). Yet it is. You could possibly remove Led Zep, due to the lack of singles releases, yet all else is all pop. It might be older than current Kylie&Co sugar coated junk, but in it's day it was as pop as it got.
Also, the R&B list are all respected giants in the genre that is Rhythm & Blues. R Kelly and all manner of other trivial rubbish does not deserve any capitalisation, never mind trying to actually steal the name of a perfectly good genre for themselves. I guess it speaks volumes of the originality of the style to not have a name resting on others laurels....

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I really like this song at the moment.




But if you want stuff like I Belive I can Fly, gimme 2 mins and ill find something.

Oh, come on fellas...

OUTKAST.

The Love Below/Speakerboxxx is completely ideal for what you're after.

Also Prince, since he's clearly the influence behind the album.

Pharohe Monch! Though I doubt he'th what you're looking for...

Check out Mercy by him.

Thimilarily, just google 'top 100' for 2007 and thee what turnth up.

Also De la Soul.