Gap Band VII explained

Gap Band VII
Type:Album
Artist:The Gap Band
Cover:Gap Band VII.jpg
Released:December 9, 1985
Genre:R&B, funk
Length:42:07
Label:Total Experience (original release)
Big Break Records (expanded CD reissue)
Prev Title:Gap Band VI
Prev Year:1984
Next Title:Gap Band 8
Next Year:1986

Gap Band VII is the ninth album by the Gap Band, released in 1985 on Total Experience Records. The album includes the single from original Jerry Peters's song "Going in Circles". As AllMusic's Amy Hanson said in her review of the album, "The band was quickly back to business across the eminently catchy tunes "Automatic Brain" and "Ooh, What a Feeling," leaving both "L'il Red Funkin' Hood" and "Bumpin' Gum People," which features funkier vocals than listeners had heard from the band in quite some time, to round out the set with some good-old Gap Band sonics. Elsewhere, the band pulled a quiet storm trick out of their bag on 'I Know We'll Make It'." An expanded and remastered version of the album was released on April 29, 2013, by Big Break Records with six additional tracks.

Track listing

Title Writer(s) Length
1. Desire Jonah Ellis 5:35
2. Jerry Peters 4:30
3. Automatic Brain Anthony Walker, Charlie Wilson, Billy Young 5:01
4. L'il Red Funkin' Hood Anthony Walker, Charlie Wilson, Billy Young 5:26
5. Ooh, What A Feeling Jonah Ellis 4:17
6. I Want A Real Love Jonah Ellis 3:57
7. Bumpin' Gum People Charlie Wilson, Robert Lynn Wilson, Ronnie Wilson 4:35
8. I Know We'll Make It Raymond Calhoun 4:54
9. I Need Your Love Oliver Scott 3:42
10.* Desire (12" Special Remix) Jonah Ellis, Lamont Johnson, Lonnie Simmons 6:26
11.* Going in Circles (12" Long Version Remix) Jerry Peters 5:33
12.* Automatic Brain (12" Club Mix) Anthony Walker, Charlie Wilson, Billy Young 7:41
13.* Desire (12" Dub Mix) Jonah Ellis, Lamont Johnson, Lonnie Simmons 6:28
14.* Going in Circles (12" Instrumental with Harmonica) Jerry Peters 5:14
15.* Automatic Brain (12" Rap Version) Anthony Walker, Charlie Wilson, Billy Young 5:52

(*) Bonus tracks on the remastered version

Charts

Year-end charts

External links

Notes and References

  1. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1986. Billboard. June 22, 2021.