Mind If We Make Love to You
| Mind If We Make Love to You | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 10, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Studio | Studio Thru Inner Space, Los Angeles, California, United States | |||
| Genre | Power pop | |||
| Length | 43:49 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Smile Records[1] | |||
| Producer | The Wondermints | |||
| Wondermints chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Uncut | [4] |
Mind If We Make Love to You is an album by the American power pop group Wondermints.[5][6] It was released in 2002 on Smile Records.[7] The album title, with its intentional lack of punctuation, is a take-off of Mind If I Make Love to You, an album of 1950s cocktail instrumentals in Darian Sahanaja's record collection.
Multiple configurations of the album have been released, in different parts of the world. Some pressings contain outtakes from the album sessions as well as Wondermints' cover of The Beatles' "Getting Better", which was originally submitted for use in a Philips commercial; the submission was rejected in favor of Gomez's version.
Critical reception
[edit]PopMatters wrote that the songs "are more celebration than innovation, simple pleasures arranged in complex manner that delight the ear."[8] The Sun Sentinel wrote that the band sounds "like a cross between Cheap Trick and the Beatles due to their love of power-pop harmonies and trippy lyrics."[9]
Track listing
[edit]- "On the Run" – 3:10
- "Ride" – 4:18
- "Shine on Me" – 4:00
- "Time Has You" – 3:05
- "Another Way" – 3:37
- "Project 11" – 3:41
- "Out of Mind" – 3:47
- "Sweetness" – 4:20
- "If I Were You" – 3:44
- "Something I Knew" – 2:55
- "Listen" – 3:27
- "So Nice" – 3:47
- Rev-Ola 2002 reissue bonus tracks
- "Out of Mind" (Alternate version) – 3:47
- "Ride" (Instrumental) – 4:18
Personnel
[edit]- The Wondermints
- Mike D'Amico – percussion
- Darian Sahanaja – keyboards
- Nick Walusko – guitar
with
- Probyn Gregory – multiple instruments
- Additional musicians
- Marc Daten – upright bass
- Colin Garner – viola
- Todd Jaeger – theremin
- Ana Lenchantin – cello, "Easter Island Girl"
- David Nolte – bass guitar
- Heidi Rodewald – oboe
- Evie Sands – background vocals on "Shine on Me"
- Debbie Shair – harp and recorder
- Martin St-Pierre – viola
- Brian Wilson – background vocals on "Ride" and "So Nice"
- Production
- Ramón Bretón – Oceanview digital mastering
- Mark Linett – Additional recording
- Darian Sahanaja with Steve Stanley – Art Direction|Design
- Taro Yoshida, Robert Matheu, & Shad Sluiter – Photography
References
[edit]- ^ "Smile Records Home Page". smilerecords.homestead.com.
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love To You". July 31, 2004.
- ^ "The Wondermints | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "Pop Tomes". LA Weekly. September 18, 2002.
- ^ "Declarations of Independents". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. August 31, 2002 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Wondermints: Mind If We Make Love to You". PopMatters. August 22, 2002.
- ^ Hodges, Paul L. "HOT TICKETS". Sun-Sentinel.com.
