What's on Your Mind

Naked Music NYC | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 23, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Om Records
• ASIN: B000006RA5
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,517 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude

2. It's Love

3. If I Fall

4. Too Late

5. What's On Your Mind?

6. 3 A.M.

7. Love Is Everything

8. Show Me

9. I'll Be Around

10. Through Tryin'

11. Live Today

12. It's Love (Orig.)

13. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lot of People Don't Get It...., March 24, 2005

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Ziontrain (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's on Your Mind (Audio CD)

This is a great album, but his is not an album for you to "listen" to. It's more of a chillout or romantic album. Jay Denes, (the creator of this album) has said as much in the liner notes, which include a quote of Catherine Russell (one of the featured singers): "Oh I understand, its a ---- record. OK, roll the tape".

In that light, the similar mood of the songs, the thick earthy vibe and the super-soulful sensual vocals are actually perfect. It creates a constant mood over the full time frame of the CD, so you can simply escape to a world of raw unbridled sensuality. Taken individually, only one or two of these songs are 5-stars. As a body of work - an album - they hold together impeccably and create the desired effect. You cannot assess them as "singles". That doesn't seem to have been the objective here. By the way the production is crisp and top-notch on every single track. You feel like you could have been in the studio with them, the sound has that much presense and life.

Jay Denes used a top notch crew of NYC funkateers, including Mark Anthony Jones (thefunkiestmanalive) on guitar, and Jonathan Maron (way, way underrated bass player from the Groove Collective). Bob Power (engineer/producer on Stetsasonic and De La Soul's classic album) appears here on guitat. Flutist Richard Worth of Groove Collective also appears on "Its love".

The singers (Ada Dyer and Catherine Russell) are not famous - but damn they SHOULD be. They give a master class here in deep soul singing. Not for them the rabid histrionics of Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey and a million misguided "Idol" contestants all over the world, but REAL modern soul singing, in CONTROLLED voice. if this were the 60's and not the MTV age, I suspect these women would be up there in fame with the Betty Wrights and Shirley Jones's.

I think they all did a perfect job for what they set out to do.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sad never felt so good, February 1, 2002

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Saul Boulschett "Anyway" (Dry land) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: What's on Your Mind (Audio CD)

True, the songs do sound a bit like one another, but maybe that's why I press 'repeat' and listen to it for hours. One guy pretty much wrote all the songs and did the programming. The songs are simple in their structure but not in their feeling or in their incomparable delivery. The two ladies who alternate on the tracks sing with that certain je-ne-sais-quois that only the soulfulest people have. This is one of those musical creations that make you realize to what extent the sensibility of the modern world as a whole has been shaped by afro-americans. These ladies sing not with their throats but with their wombs. A plangent - not to say bluesy - atmosphere pervades the whole Cd throughout...about love lost, hope remembered, ego surrendered, and peace attained. This music will speak to you if you've ever loved to the point of trembling with sadness. Music for real grown-ups, in other words.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't chill it...slow burn it!, July 8, 2001

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DXR "The Eyeful" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's on Your Mind (Audio CD)

Oh yeah, there's a difference. Slow burn = absolute soul 2001. No nonsense, straight ahead, deep and strong grooves. This CD features the amazing vocal prowess of Ada Dyer (mostly)overlaid like a veil of smoke on the down tempo grooves and sweet stuff of the Naked Music tribe from NYC.

The title song, borrowing respectfully from the 1970 Marvin Gaye classic "What's Going On", is too beautiful for words. And the rest is right there too.

Got soul? Want soul? GET THIS.