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Your 10 favorite Gap Band songs Name your 10 favorite Gap Band Songs. Hard to do but let's make it work
1. Early In The Morning
2. Party Lights
3. Shake A Leg
4. I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance(Oops Upside Your Head)
5. No Hiding Place
6. Talking Back
7. Jam The Motha
8. Outstanding
9. Wednesday Lover
10. Lonely Like Me Don't laugh at my funk
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Oops Upside Your Head You Dropped the Bomb on Me Outstanding Burn Rubber On Me Yearning For Your Love Early in the Morning That's all I know, and I know that's not 10 ![]() | |
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In no order:
"Season's No Reason to Change" "Outstanding" "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" "Going in Circles" "Party Train" "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" "Early in the Morning" "Lonely Like Me" "Gash Gash Gash" "I Can't Get Over You" "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops Upside Your Head)" That's 11 but since "Going in Circles" is a cover, I felt the need to to +1. [Edited 10/16/20 17:47pm] | |
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Gash Gash Gash Nothing Comes To Sleepers Beep A Freak Are You Living (great Earth Wind & Fire impersonation) Outstanding The Way Humpin' Yearnin For Your Love Burn Rubber Seasons No Reason To Change | |
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Nothin' Comes To Sleepers You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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1.Outstanding 2.Burn Rubber 3.Early In The Morning 4.Yearning For Your Love 5.Humpin' 6.Oops Upside your Head 7.Party Train 8.Who Do You Call 9.You Dropped A Bomb On Me 10.Lonely Like Me | |
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”Early In The Morning” “Humpin” “Outstanding (12” version) “Yearning For Your Love” “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)” “Oops (I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance)” “Shake” “No Hiding Place” “Party Train” “You Dropped A Bomb On Me” | |
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Nobody has "I Owe It To Myself" in their top ten? Mellow, funky and smooth, with Uncle Charlie doing his best Stevie Wonder impersonation at the end. | |
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80s funk/R&B flashback: "Early In The Morning" by the Gap Band (1982)
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solo Charlie: Without You Hey Lover Infectious (feat. Snoop Dogg) You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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1. "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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I really like „The boys are back in Town“. | |
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I got a playlist I compiled for black music in 1983 with the Gap's Jammin' album from that year included. While I haven't heard it all the way through, some of its songs have been popping up on shuffle and geez... I had to turn on my phone to see if it was really them. The songs are just so generic compared to their previous works.
Definitely a big drop off from IV. [Edited 10/20/20 7:08am] | |
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The Gap Band were masters at stealing someone's sound and crafting their own hit records with it...
Are You Living = Earth Wind & Fire The Way = The Doobie Brothers & Mike McDonald Gash Gash Gash & Humpin = Parliament/Funkadelic and a few of their early ballads were Stevie Wonder ripoffs
Confunshun, The BarKays, The GAP Band....all of em talented bands and part time thieves [Edited 10/20/20 5:46am] | |
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RJOrion said: The Gap Band were masters at stealing someone's sound and crafting their own hit records with it...
Are You Living = Earth Wind & Fire The Way = The Doobie Brothers & Mike McDonald Gash Gash Gash & Humpin = Parliament/Funkadelic and a few of their early ballads were Stevie Wonder ripoffs
Confunshun, The BarKays, The GAP Band....all of em talented bands and part time thieves [Edited 10/20/20 5:46am] To be fair though, all of those songs were album cuts. The only time they lifted a style and it was a hit was "Oops Upside Your Head" (Parliament/Funkadelic) and that felt like more of a nod than a straight rip even though the ad libs and nuances were clear. | |
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Yes and Oops Upside The Head is note for note Brides Of Funkenstein DIsco To Go at the bridge. I enjoy some WGAP Funk from time to time though. I do agree, the Jammin' album left me cold at '83. I had a cassette of it on my way to college first year. There was a few songs on it. Jam The Motha. "Automatic Brain" was groovy off Gap VII. [Edited 10/20/20 12:40pm] | |
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No,"Automatic Brain" is not on the Jammin' album.
I have to pull that album out and give it a spin.Haven't played that one in awhile.
My favorite jams on that album are "Party Train" and "Jam The Motha".I think "You're My Everything" is nice and should have been a major hit. | |
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SoulAlive said:
No,"Automatic Brain" is not on the Jammin' album.
I have to pull that album out and give it a spin.Haven't played that one in awhile.
My favorite jams on that album are "Party Train" and "Jam The Motha".I think "You're My Everything" is nice and should have been a major hit. | |
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Uncle Charlie!!! Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! | |
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MotownSubdivision said: SoulAlive said:
No,"Automatic Brain" is not on the Jammin' album.
I have to pull that album out and give it a spin.Haven't played that one in awhile.
My favorite jams on that album are "Party Train" and "Jam The Motha".I think "You're My Everything" is nice and should have been a major hit. ![]() | |
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It’s interesting that the Gap Band didn’t have a lot of big slow jam hit singles.”Yearning For Your Love” is one of the best slow jams of the 80s.I figured that many more would follow.
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I saw somewhere that it was mentioned that Lonnie Simmons didn't really want ballads on the Gap Band albums at all. I don't remember where though, it was either an interview by Charlie or someone else involved with the group like Oliver Scott. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Some of y'all straight tripping about Gap Band V - Jammin Shake A Leg,I'm Ready(If You're Ready), Jam The Motha,and Party Train is the shit. You're My Everything didn't move the earth but was a nice slow jam. I also dug I Expect More and Someday. Gap Band 6 left a little something out to be desired. I loved Video Junkie and Disrespect and Beep A Freak. The rest was meh. The Gap Disrespect Outstanding with that weak I Found My Baby replay. Most of the song seemed like Charlie scatting. Don't laugh at my funk
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yeah,”I Found My Baby” is a weak rip-off of their own “Outstanding”. and you’re right about ‘Jammin’...it is a strong album.I think that,because of the previous album and it’s big hits,Jammin’ is often underrated and not appreciated as much. | |
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SoulAlive said: yeah,”I Found My Baby” is a weak rip-off of their own “Outstanding”. and you’re right about ‘Jammin’...it is a strong album.I think that,because of the previous album and it’s big hits,Jammin’ is often underrated and not appreciated as much. Gap Band 4 is definitely their tightest album. My 2nd fave behind that is Gap 2 Don't laugh at my funk
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Gap Band "Disrespect" video (1985)----looks like they have a message for Prince
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SoulAlive said: Gap Band "Disrespect" video (1985)----looks like they have a message for Prince
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The story behind that from what I read was The Wilson brothers spotted Prince at the AMA's I believe and wanted to go over at meet him but Prince had his bodyguard keep them from coming over to meet him and they weren't too happy about it and the video for Disrespect was born out of that. ![]() Don't laugh at my funk
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lol....I heard similiar stories from other celebrities.Apparently,back then,he was this way with alot of people | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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