Mind If We Make Love to You

Mind If We Make Love to You
Studio album by The Wondermints
Released	September 10, 2002
Recorded	2002, Studio Thru Inner Space, Los Angeles, California, United States
Genre	Power pop
Length	43:49
Language	English
Label	Smile
Producer	The Wondermints
The Wondermints chronology
Bali (1998) Mind If We Make Love to You (2002) Kaleidoscopin': Exploring Prisms of the Past (2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	(4/5)[1]
Pop Matters	(Positive)[2]
Uncut	[3]

Mind If We Make Love to You is an album by the American power pop group The Wondermints. It was released in 2002 on record label Smile Records. The unusual album title, with its intentional lack of punctuation, is a take-off of Mind If I Make Love To You, an album of 1950s cocktail instrumentals in Darian Sahanaja's record collection.^[4]

On September 20, 2002, Wondermints performed a concert to promote the album at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles,^[5] featuring special guests Brian Wilson and Evie Sands.

Multiple configurations of the album have been released in different parts of the world. Some pressings contain outtakes from the album sessions^[6] as well as Wondermints' cover of The Beatles' "Getting Better," ^[7] which was originally submitted for use in a Philips commercial; the submission was rejected in favor of Gomez's version.^[8]

Track listing

1. "On the Run" – 3:10
2. "Ride" – 4:18
3. "Shine on Me" – 4:00
4. "Time Has You" – 3:05
5. "Another Way" – 3:37
6. "Project 11" – 3:41
7. "Out of Mind" – 3:47
8. "Sweetness" – 4:20
9. "If I Were You" – 3:44
10. "Something I Knew" – 2:55
11. "Listen" – 3:27
12. "So Nice" – 3:47

Rev-Ola 2002 reissue bonus tracks

13. "Out of Mind" – 2:47
14. "Ride" – 4:18

Personnel

The Wondermints

• Mike D'Amico – percussion
• Darian Sahanaja – keyboards
• Nick Walusko – guitar

with

• Probyn Gregory – multiple instruments

Additional musicians

• Marc Daten – upright bass
• Colin Garner – viola
• Todd Jaeger – theremin
• Ana Lenchantin – cello, "Easter Island girl"
• David Nolte – bass guitar
• Heidi Rodewald – oboe
• Evie Sands – background vocals on "Shine on Me"
• Debbie Shair – harp and recorder
• Martin St-Pierre – viola
• Brian Wilson – background vocals on "Ride" and "So Nice"

Production

• Ramón Bretón – Oceanview digital mastering
• Mark Linett – Additional recording

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Pop Matters review
3. ^ Uncut review
4. ^ I Like Striving for Something Timeless FUFKIN.com article by Robert Pally. Retrieved on 2008-07-21.
5. ^ Pop Tomes LA Weekly article by Dan Epstein. Retrieved on 2008-07-21
6. ^ [1] amazon.com entry for UK reissue. Retrieved on 2008-07-21
7. ^ [2] amazon.com entry for Japan reissue. Retrieved on 2008-07-21
8. ^ Smart, Very Smart? RollingStone.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-21