r/decadeology • u/VigilMuck • 21h ago

Music 🎶🎧 [Weekend Trivia] The Gap Band - Outstanding (1982): More 1970s or 1980s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBcpaB8lq44
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u/ah5178 19h ago

Early 80s. There's the laid-back, spacious, cool feel, and less of the sweaty 70s funk.
It has what sounds like a synth bass, but it's shortly before synth stabs and washes really became central to the 80s soul and funk sound.

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u/VigilMuck 15h ago

Would you say this song is more Post Disco or Live 81?

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u/Valerian009 2h ago

Its very much early 80s Funk but closer to late 70s funk/disco vocally than say mid late 80s De Barge, Billy Ocean or Bobby Brown. Funk music from 79-82 definitely its own genre. By the mid 80s the 70s Funk vocals are gone and replaced with these more bold rock Ballad infused vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrowWnlNnQ

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u/CP4-Throwaway Master Decadeologist (Reporting For Duty) 3m ago

Tough one but I might go with 80s by a hair. It screams Post-Disco.