Round Trip Tracklist
Released in 1989, Round Trip is the 12th studio album released by the Gap Band. The album is a product of its time, blending “new jack swing” influences (popularized by Teddy Riley) on songs like “All of My Love” (one of the album’s singles) and traditional pop influences from bands like Prince + The Revolution on songs like “No Easy Out”. The songs have a allusion of popular Guy songs, which group was at that time their “supposed impostor”. “All Of My Love”, “I Like It” are puns to some of Guy’s songs. Especially “Jam” is based off “Teddy’s Jam”, which also contain lyrics on dissing Guy and other “clones of The Gap Band”.
Round Trip spent 7 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at #189 on December 30, 1989, falling behind albums like Eazy-E’s Eazy-Duz-It (1988) and Prince’s Batman (1989), and 188 spots behind the #1 album at that time, Phil Collins’s …But Seriously (1989).
