Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience

P.M. Dawn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: V2 North America
• ASIN: B000005CEZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,366 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine

3. Paper Doll

4. To Serenade a Rainbow

5. Comatose

6. A Watcher's Point of View (Don't 'Cha Think)

7. Even After I Die

8. In the Presence of Mirrors

9. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss

10. Shake

11. If I Wuz U

12. On a Clear Day

13. The Beautiful

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That's the way it goes...I guess., August 19, 2005

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TrEE "The Realest" (Venice, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience (Audio CD)

I originally bought this album only hearing "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss". I also wanted to get the song which sampled Kraftwerk "If I Wuz U", being that I collect songs that sample Kraftwerk, so I went to Amazon.com and listened to the 30 second samples they had. I liked what I heard. So, I wait for the mail to arrive....

I got the album and it started off with "Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine" and I was floored. This was REAL HIP HOP, it reminded me of De La Soul, except more poetic. "Amazing" is the only word to describe it.

Following was "Paper Doll", such a beautiful song. Just the way everything comes together is perfect. I actually had no clue until I bought this album that Be did all the vocals singing/rapping. What a versitile man.

Basically, every track following this IS perfect. Except "Shake"...I don't know about that one, but other than that I couldn't ask for anything more in an album. I want to say ONCE AGAIN, THIS ALBUM IS DAMN AMAZING!

I really needed something as beautiful as this album in my world at this time of my, and I thank P.M. Dawn for it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars artistic masterpiece, May 16, 2005

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Tishauna Diana Delacroix Starr "the_scorpion" (LA and GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience (Audio CD)

lets say you take dream pop,and put spoken word type hip-hop vocals over the lush musical landscape and you get this masterpiece of an album.i was roughly 13 years old when i heard this album in 1991,and thought it was beautiful.it was a weird contrast to my N.W.A,GnR(guns-n-roses),public enemy,living color,ice-t,and geto boys album collection. eitherway its a great cd to have in my collection.

this album is just so smooth my fav tracks are paper doll,set a drift,and even after i die,this album is verry eclectic moody.when i was younger the album would just take me away.


the album isn't reallly ground breaking but it is verry well done enough to be considered a classic.i'm glad hip-hop didn't go in the direction of PM Dawn.because honestly that would make them obsolete in a world of simuler clones.besides theres enough room for all types of rap music.theres no neeed to follow one formula

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, April 2, 2002

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michael j mullins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience (Audio CD)

I got into these guys by accident. I got a remix of "Set adrift on memory bliss" on Red Hot and Dance, a compilation. I liked it so much I bought The Bliss Album, then Jesus Wept. That was years ago. Finally I went back and bought this, the first album. It is just as great as the others, perhaps more musically varied, since the others have a more consistent sound. I don't know why I didn't buy it sooner. But it is great. Personally I would never have bought a religion-inspired album by anyone. But I never knew their music was such because the religious message is so low key it can apply to any relationship, romantic or otherwise. The result is a rarity- meaningful lyrics that don't overpower the music. I'd compare them to what I've heard from Creed in that way.