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Still, even though this album may often get overshadowed by its predecessors, it has aged well and remains one of the best early-'80s funk albums. Listen to the hits Songs and Lyrics from Zapp & Roger here. The remaining songs are just that - songs - rather than jams. In the end, though, these two wonderful songs end up carrying much of this album's weight, mostly because of their epic stature and their obvious dancefloor emphasis. With both clocking near ten minutes in length, these songs never sound monotonous or dull in their entirety, as Troutman kept the grooves grooving and the hooks catchy, while forever focusing on the funk. 1 & 2" and "I Can Make You Dance" - that weren't as successful commercially as "More Bounce to the Once" or "Dance Floor" yet were nearly as effective in terms of dancefloor utility. The album's first side features two mammoth jams - "Heartbreaker, Pt. These latter songs such as "Spend My Whole Life" aren't necessarily bad, just uninspired. Roger's use of a talk box on the group's tracks gave the music a. Their hits would be sampled by numerous hip-hop artists, including legends like 2Pac and Dr. You are still strained to find any filler here, but the album's second side does pale considerably in relation to its first side, alluding to the possibility that group leader Roger Troutman may have finally begun struggling for new ideas at this point. Featuring the brothers TroutmanRoger, Larry, Terry, and LesterZapp & Roger produced some of the most memorable funk and boogie tracks of the early ‘80s. They had chart topping singles covering a span of 7 years. Where the first two Zapp albums were nearly flawless with their beginning-to-end knee-deep funk, Zapp III showed slight symptoms of becoming derivative. Their last appearance in the charts was 1986.