#oops upside your head

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Gintama

Episode 125

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The Gap Band: Oops Upside Your Head

Another song introduced by @musicmoreweirdthangood and no one else at all, this song was famously alluded to in Cannes D'Or award-winning series Everybody Hates Chris where Chris' white bully Caruso slapped upside the head while quoting this song. Truly, an iconic track.

Song Score: 160/10

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Remincing

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2735. The Gap Band - ‘Oops Up Side Your Head (I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance)’ (1979)

Pay attention now

from the album The Gap Band II

‘Oops Up Side Your Head (I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance)’ is often pointed to as an early example of hip hop elements invading the charts, and while it only vaguely resembles the genre as we know it today, it does what a great hip hop single should: it borrowed from popular culture, then gave back to culture in a manner that enriched all the work that followed in its wake.

'Oops’ is certainly an odd single, and an unlikely mainstream hit - indeed, in the US, it peaked outside the Hot 100. Charlie Wilson, The Gap Band’s leader, channeled his cousin and key Parliament-Funkadelic member Bootsy Collins for his eccentric interjections, as the rest of the band stuck to a relentless chant, offset only very occasionally by a melodic hook. On paper, it doesn’t seem like a recipe for success, but ‘Oops Up Side Your Head’ is as hypnotic as it is funny and inventive. Just as the decade of funk and disco was coming to a close, this track offered a new way of doing both, and although it wouldn’t be an immediate US hit outside of the R&B chart, it set The Gap Band up for a commercial breakthrough.

In the UK, ‘Oops Up Side Your Head’ had an even greater impact, becoming The Gap Band’s first hit, sailing into the top ten and even spawning a bizarre dance that involves sitting on the floor and rowing (I’m honestly not sure if the irony of sitting down during a song that demands you “get up and dance” is intentional or not). From here, The Gap Band would chart a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic, their songs would be endlessly sampled by artists of all genres, and Charlie Wilson would go on to become an R&B legend with astounding longevity (his most recent Urban AC #1 single was just last year). While it wasn’t their debut, all of that can be traced back to this moment - the iconic, and iconically absurd, ‘Oops Up Side Your Head’.

‘Oops Up Side Your Head (I Don’t Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance)’ audio:

Chart peak: UK #6

Written by Richard Eric, 23/8/18

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Daaaammmn.. Friday rolled around so fast it’s like ‘Oops Upside Your Head!’ Get up off your ass and dance to this groove by The Gap Band that’s been reworked, borrowed from and uh, ‘referenced’ countless times by other artists, including Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars in ‘Uptown Funk’ (who have to pay the Gap Band 17% royalties on that song). I do believe this one influenced Kool and the Gang’s ‘Get Down on It’ too. A classic.

☛8/19/2016

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