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1981 Funk Album Releases
1980
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Jan 1
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Mambo Nassau
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(77)
Nov 14
Earth, Wind & Fire
Raise!
60
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(75)
Jan 15
Marvin Gaye
In Our Lifetime
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(70)
1981
Twilight
Still Loving You
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(25)
1981
The Sugarhill Gang
8th Wonder
60
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(19)
1981
Bernard Wright
'Nard
74
user score
(12)
1981
Material
Memory Serves
72
user score
(12)
1981
Roger
The Many Facets of Roger
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(10)
May 14
Teena Marie
It Must Be Magic
70
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(8)
Mar 1
Change
Miracles
80
critic score
(1)
62
user score
(7)
Apr 14
Funkadelic
The Electric Spanking of War Babies
80
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(7)
Oct 31
The Isley Brothers
Inside You
58
critic score
(2)
61
user score
(5)
Mar 21
The Isley Brothers
Grand Slam
52
critic score
(2)
59
user score
(4)
Jun
Kid Creole & The Coconuts
Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places
80
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(3)
May 5
Sylvia Striplin
Give Me Your Love
68
user score
(2)
1981
Charles Veal
Believe It!
65
user score
(1)
Oct 9
Haircut One Hundred
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
86
user score
(1)
1981
Frankie Smith
Children of Tomorrow
81
user score
(1)
Nov
Imagination
Flashback
Oct 16
Heaven 17
Penthouse and Pavement
1981
Isaac Hayes
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me / I'm So Proud
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