Body Mind Soul

Debbie Gibson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000008FZZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,590 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

DEBBIE GIBSON Body Mind Soul (Deleted 1992 UK issue 11-track CD album including Shock Your Mama complete with lyric booklet picture sleeve)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Debbie Gibson's artistic pinnacle., February 18, 2005

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Mind Soul (Audio CD)

Body Mind Soul signalled the end of Debbie Gibson's chart life, but it's not the music's fault. This record was one of the casualties of the paradigm shift that had turned New Kids on the Block fans into Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and even Pantera fans -- a generation had started to grow up, and Gibson's music was left behind.

But this is one fine record. Even when I was a teenager back in 1993, this record sat in comfortably in my CD walkman along with Pearl Jam's Vs., R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People, and other songs by far more "respectable" artists. And this is the record on which Gibson didn't sound like a talented teenager, but a fully formed artist with depth and complexity. She'd just done an overhaul in her music, choosing new collaborators (Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, of Rythm Syndicate, which had one big hit in "P.A.S.S.I.O.N.") and a new, more grown-up image. Rythm Syndicate wasn't exactly the most respected band around, but Rogers and Sturken proved highly catalytic to Gibson as co-writers and co-producers.

Lead single "Losin' Myself" was possibly the sexiest single of that year. Maybe it wasn't a great idea for Gibson to play a stripper in the video, but the single is still a marvel, an engaging mix of dance song and ballad, a track that just keeps building up higher and higher rhythmically, with great backing vocals, a killer bassline, a bridge that Prince might've cooked up, and a varied, sensual lead vocal by Gibson. "Free Me" melds a heavy club beat to a great pop song and effectively caps off Gibson's artistic intent; "Do You Have It in Your Heart?" signals Gibson's new approach towards ballads. She now sounds fully mature and this song easily makes us forget the overt sentimentality of "Lost in Your Eyes"; and "How Can This Be?" harkens back to her older songs, but with more maturity and better lyrics. The only dud is "Shock Your Mama", which does nothing of the sort, pretty flat and uninteresting even as a joke.

This album fell into bargain bins about a year after it came out. But it's easily the strongest album in the Gibson catalogue, better than Gibson's plethora of semi-independent albums throughout the '90s, and a record that would be good by anybody's standards.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A solid album, January 31, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Body Mind Soul (Audio CD)

It's beyond me why some people choose to judge this immesely talented recording artist! There are not many people who have her skills & ability to create various songs and fabulous backing music! This album is everything a solid album should have. The songs are expertly written & produced, the vocals suit each song, there is consistency, the songs have good remixablity potenial & everything song sounds fabulous many years later! In my mind, she is every bit as talented & has good taste in music like Madonna. I love every songs on this CD. Recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gives Madonna & Janet a Run, October 16, 2000

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S. Foster (Moira, Co Armagh United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Body Mind Soul (Audio CD)

I will never understand why this cd is so overlooked. Debbie's 4th album outshines most album packages today by the sheer quality and dexterity of La Gibson's style and versatility. From the opening pop of Love or Money, which joyously celebrates her unconditional love of a smalltown boy - to the stonking Free Me, which has one of the catchiest corusses of the 90s. Co-written, as with the first 5 trax, with Sturken & Rogers (currently having worked on Anastacia's album), Free Me has the sass of a mature ....Baby One More Time. The public never 'got' the tongue-in-cheek Shock Your Mama, but again with a killer chorus and layered/harmonised rap, it has a groove and r'nb edge that simply oozes sex appeal & would leave Mariah in awe.

Debbie does not forgo her credibility as a performer-producer, for which she is famous. When I Say No chugs along with the emancipated condifence that the girl rejecting a boys come-on storyline tells, & Little Bird tweeks along with a cuteness & joy which raises the spirits and impresses with harmonies. Tear Down These Walls builds upon Deborah's proactive social commentary (with less kitsch than Electric Youth). The album's curtain song, Narada Michael Walden's Goodbye simply chills through the crystal clear production and the pain in Deborah's voice, as she bows out from a love gine wrong. It heralds the demise of teen pop Queen and the graduation to a mature arteest on the level of Gloria, Whitney or Celine.

The album is a perfectly polished, high budget affair. I own 2 copies - never want to lose this one. It is definitely worth an investigation, and outshines any of Debbie's more significant commercial successes by far. What this album does is lay testimony to the fact that fickle audiences listen to many artists because of their cred rather than their talent. If audiences operated conversely, Debbie would have had the likes of a Rhythm Nation or Ray of Light on her hands. Oh, yes THAT good. Seven Years Later & it still sounds as fresh, funky and mature. A cd I'm definitely not ashamed to play in the car.