I'm talking about the song by the Gap Band.

This is just one of their most funkiest songs. If you don't have The 12" Collection And More cd by Gap Band, go out and buy it. Dropping this bomb will make you get up and dance.

The cd has the following 12" songs on it:

You Dropped A Bomb On Me
Burn Rubber(Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
Early In The Morning
Party Train
Outstanding
I Don't Beleive You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops!)
Shake
Humpin'


Droppin' Bombs... by Tony Green

The offical history of funk is most often told through groups-the James Brown Band, P-Fink, Sly & The Family Stone, the Meters. It's just as easy, and in some ways, more illustrative, to see seventies and eighties funk not as a succession of bands,but as a succession of sonic developments, set in motion by some of the most accomplished players of the post-classic pop era. Larry Graham redirected the electric bass with his thunde-thumber work with Sly and Graham Central Station. Bootsy and Catfish Collins helped perform a system upgrade on the JB sound,arriving at an even more distilled,even more vamp-oriented, even deadlier version. And Bootsy's sometime partner in crime, keyboardist Bernie Worell, changed the tenor of funk with pioneering synth-bass work on hits like "Flash Light" and "Aqua Boogie."

Of all the groups that followed Worrell's low-end lead, few did it as convincingly and consistently as the Gap Band. The Oklamoma-bred Wilon brothers(Ronnie,Charlie, and Robert),who had at one time backed up singer songwriter Leon Russell, quicly turned the sound to their own advantage,setting it as the underpinning for a series of singularly funky house-party jams. Not that they lived and died by the synth-heavy approach. The loping 1982 classic, "Outstanding" and 1979's "I Don't Beleive You Want To Get Up And Dance" showed that the Wilsons were deadly funksters in any sonic guise. But few things got a eighties house party floor filled like the rumbling intro to "Humpin" or the revving motorcycle that kicked off the moster jam, "Burn Rubber."

Part of these jams' special appearl was how well they lent themselves to the extended 12-inch format. Whereas other tracks seemed to lost potency in extended form, gooves like "Party Train" and "Burn Rubber" gained momentum as they wore on, that irresistible bass line functioning as hook,rhythem track and melody all in one. Which made for more than a few transcendent basement jam moments. Few who were around during the Gap Band's heyday can forget the endorpin-fueled rush that kicks in midway through a 13-plus minute jam like "You Dropped A Bomb On Me."

People made babies to tunes like Quincey Jones' "Just Once" (or even the Gap's own "Yearin' For Your Love") buy they first got the notion somewhere near the middle of the Gap's taut,tight funk breakdowns. Not for nothing did George Clinton and others speak of extended dance grooves in unabashedly sexual terms(what do you think the downstroke,at least on one level, is anyways?).

Cool song...

use to be the Summer bar B Que Jam back in the day with the Ice Tea&corn on the Cobb.they were in the zone from 79-83 IMHO.82 was there Peak time IMHO.Love this Jam&this Whole Groove was very instrumental to New Jack Swing IMHO."My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown owes alot to the Gap Band Sound IMHO.

"Humpin'" sounds just like PFunk.

Supernova said:

yep that Whole Vamp.Good Call on that One.

"You Dropped a Bomb on Me" is one of the best funk/dance songs ever. It still grooves hard today. You can't sit down when this is playing. If you're driving, you can't sit still when it's blasting out of the speakers

The GapBand was great. I saw them in concert a couple of years ago and the lead singer sounded horrible. He started talking about his drug problem and I thought I was at a N.A. meeting they way he was testifying. Still love their songs though.

enjoyniki said:

HHAHAHAHAH!!! I experienced the same thing last year at the Oldies Soul concert, and it felt like I was at church, and the performace wasn't that good. Maybe I was worn out by then. A couple of years before that they put on a free show in S.F. and they were much better. Everybody was dancing and the funk was truly on. Timely title eh?

enjoyniki said:

Did that happen to be in Wingate Park, Brooklyn? Cuz I was there too. They just took up too much time with their extended jams, not giving enoguh time for...er...The Time.