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Track Listing
1. Leave a Message - (remix)
2. You Don't Have to Worry
3. My Love
4. Real Love
5. What's the 411?
6. Reminisce
7. Mary & Andre
8. Sweet Thing
9. Love No Limit
10. You Remind Me
11. Changes I've Been Going Through
12. I Don't Want to Do Anything - (with K-Ci Hailey)
Album Notes
Personnel: Mary J. Blige, Buttnaked Tim Dawg, Sean "Puffy" Combs (vocals); Darryl Pearson (various instruments); Dave "Jam" Hall (keyboards, drums); Mark C. Rooney (keyboards, drum programming); Gordon Pickett, Mark Morales, Cool Rah (drum programming); Billy Lawrence, Tabitha Brace, Terri Robinson, Tiffany Hailey (background vocals).
Original producers: Sean "Puffy" Combs, Edward "DJ Eddie F" Ferrell, Buttnaked Tim Dawg, Dave "Jam" Hall, Mark Morales, Mark C. Rooney, DeVante Swing.
Remix producers: Buttnaked Tim Dawg, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Daddy-O, Teddy Riley, Jesse West, Mark Spark, Vincent Hurbert.
Original engineers include: Mario Rodriguez, Edward Ferrell, David Kennedy.
Remix engineers includes: Joe Quinde, Pat Dillett, George Mayers.
The opening track 'Leave A Message' is an immediately intriguing hook for the listener. A series of answering machine messages over a funky drum beat does not fail, even though most callers insist on saying 'peace' instead of 'goodbye' at the end of every call. The artist first appears on track two, and stays in control throughout an album of high-quality urban R&B/soul. Highly commercial, yet it never sinks to the blandness of some other 90s female pop acts. Tracks such as 'Real Love' lend more to the best of Aretha Franklin pop flirtations than to 90s R&B. Blige is Aretha's heir apparent.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #30 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Village Voice (03/02/1993)
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