Music : Ultimate Collection
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454809825
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Hip-O Records
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hip-O Records
Release Date: February 06, 2001
Sales Rank: 13164
Studio: Hip-O Records
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The Gap Band was a great funk/soul group of the 70's-early 80's. While this collection is nice, I personally would have liked to have seen more concentration on their 70's-early 80's songs and a little less of the late 80's-early 90's songs. Also, on those 70's-80's songs, it would have been nice to have gotten the full-length versions, on the ones that were cut short. That aside, overall this is a pretty comprehensive Gap Band compilation and I would still highly recommend it to any funk/urban/soul lover.
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The ultimate collection is indeed a good CD. This disc covers
their early material going all the way back to "Shake", which is
from 1979. Unfortunately, many of the good earlier songs like
"Burn Rubber" and Early in the Morning" are short edited single
versons instead of the longer and better album versions. For
longtime Gap fans this is somewhat of a disappointment.
However, what this CD does offer is some of their newer, later
material like "All of my Love", "We can Make it Alright" and
"Sweeter than Candy", which for a long time was NOT available
on CD anywhere. The newer songs are the album versions. The
disc itself sounds good and you can hear the guitars, drum
beats, and synthesizers/keyboards crystal clear. A nice Gap
Band compilation CD.
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All the classic Gap Band hits from the Mercury years are here (as expected), but this collection includes another half dozen of their Top 40 R&B hits not currently available on CD. The sound is superb, the liner notes enlightening, as expected from Hip-O. With all respect to 'reviewer 2255', the 12" versions of those handful of Gap Band classics are already available on several well done collections, the downside being you can only fit 8-12 songs on a CD when using the long versions. The Ultimate Collection song listing (both here at Amazon, and on the back of the CD) is quite clear that these are the single (hit radio) versions of many of these classic songs. As for me, I'm just thrilled to find the 19 biggest Gap Band hits on 1 disc (this puppy clocks in at 79+ minutes). This is truly influential stuff. Make mine the Ultimate!
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....to it's credit this collection has a few of Gap's later radio list hits like the theme to "I'm Gonna Get You Sukka". But, with those edits cut for singles, it leaves the listener wanting. Better to find the uncut, full time versions and 12" versions especially for "Burn Rubber On Me" and "You Dropped A Bomb on Me". That, again, is my humble opinion which I feel is from a buyer's standpoint.
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back in the day if you wanted a Summer Jam to Dance to you knew that the Gap Band would be one of the few Acts that would give up the Goods Yearly.they always had a Jam."Outstanding","Party Train","You Dropped a Bomb on Me",etc..the Sound here help pave the way for New Jack Swing.and so many Singers have made a Career off of Charlie Wilson's Signature Vocals.Grooves&Vocals that are still as Fresh now as when they came out.
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