Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Crazy Cool
2. My Love Is For Real - (with Ofra Haza)
3. Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up
4. Love Don't Come Easy
5. If I Were Your Girl
6. Sexy Thoughts
7. Choice Is Yours, The
8. Ho-Down
9. Under the Influence
10. I Never Knew It
11. Get Your Groove On
12. Missing You
13. It's All About Feeling Good
14. Cry For Me
| | Details | | Playing time: | 59 min. | | Contributing artists: | Color Me Badd, Dallas Austin, Grant Geissman, Ofra Haza, Peter Lord, Sandra St. Victor, Tim Miner, V. Jeffrey Smith | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Paula Abdul, Ofra Haza (vocals); Rhett Lawrence, Dallas Austin, Arnold Hennings (various instruments); Oliver Leiber (guitar, electric sitar, drums, percussion, programming); Harihar Rao (sitar, tamboura); Grant Geissman (banjo); Cleto Escobedo (tenor saxophone); Daniel Savant (trumpet); Karl Messerschmidt (tuba); Paul Peterson (Wurlitzer electric piano); V. Jeffrey Smith, Peter Lord (keyboards); Tim Miner (keyboards, bass, background vocals); Howie Hersh (keyboards, bass, programming); Iki Levy (drums, percussion, programming); Mike Patterson (programming, sound effects); Robb Boldt, Daryl Simmons (programming, background vocals).
Background vocals: Sandra St. Victor, Valerie Davis, Marva King, Robbie Brown, Heidi Wanser, Mona Lisa Young, Debra Killings, Cha'n Andre, Marv Gunn, Bruce Deshazer, Worthy Davis, Tanya Smith, Cindy Cruse, John Cruse, Janice Cruse.
Color Me Badd: Sam Watters, Kevin Thornton, Bryan Abrahms, Mark Calderon (background vocals).
Producers: V. Jeffrey Smith, Peter Lord (track 1); Rhett Lawrence (tracks 2, 5, 12); Elliot Wolff (track 3); Howie Hersh, Iki Levy, Robb Boldt, Da' Count, Eric Monsanty, Cha'n Andre (track 4); Howie Hersh, Iki Levy, Robb Boldt (tracks 6, 11, 13); Dallas Austin, Arnold Hennins (track 7); Elliot Wolff, Howie Hersh (track 8); Oliver Leiber (track 9); Daryl Simmons (track 10); Tim Miner (track 14).
Engineers: Peter Moshay, Jeff Smith, Thom Russo, Jr. (track 1); Thom Russo, Jr., Mike Becker, Rhett Lawrence, Cal Harris, Jr. (tracks 2, 5, 12); Thom Russo, Jr. (tracks 3, 11); Martin Hornburg (track 4); Thom Russo, Jr., Scott Blockland (tracks 6, 13); Michael Patterson, Thom Russo, Jr., Leslie Brathwaite (track 7); Thom Russo, Jr., Charlie Paakkari (track 8); Bobby Summerfield, Keith Lewis (track 9); Thom Kidd (track 10); Tim Kimsey, Frank Salazar, Jona Lake, Mike Vazquez (track 14).
Recorded at Capitol Studios, Record One, Larrabee Studios, Conway, Oakshire, River Sound NY, Neptune Factor Studios, A-Pawling Studios, Sony Studios NY, Ollywood, A&M Studios, Rumbo Recorders, Howie & Iki's Place, Encore.
Paula Abdul's third album trades in the slick dance-pop of her first two releases for a slinky modern-pop sound which pretty much swallows up the four years that have passed between albums two and three.
That's to say, HEAD OVER HEELS brings her up to date, to pop's new sleek and sassy edge--the bouncy hip-hop of TLC and Salt 'N Pepa, the sex grooves of Janet Jackson, even a bit of post-modern cut and paste. And then it bounces right on past and reintroduces the sitar to commercial pop. In "My Love Is For Real," which matches an uncharacteristically sultry-voiced Abdul with a Prince-like melody and a haunting Middle-Eastern presence, an acoustic sitar presages the arrival of Yemenite singer Ofra Haza; and an electric sitar kicks off "Under The Influence" in an unmistakable tribute to mid-'60s Beatles.
But wherever HEAD OVER HEELS goes--Motown soul, light rap, Latin pop ("Love Don't Come Easy" is a happy version of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana")--it always comes back to the undeniable pop hooks that Abdul and her producers have always delivered. There are surprisingly few ballads here--"Missing You," at track 12, is the first one--but a plethora of potential dance anthems.
| | Editorial reviews | 7 (out of 10) - ...it's formula-rama all the way, but hey, let Oasis cast the first stone. It's the odd formula digressions like 'Love Don't Come Easy,' a pumpin' En Vogue sex-romp which squeezes in a weird Latin middle eight...which make HEAD OVER HEELS worth your time...
NME (06/24/1995)
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