Released December 21, 1993 | Length 66:03 Release date 21 December 1993 | |
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Recorded July 1993 - September 1993 Producer Tim Dawg (exec.)Andre Harrell (exec.)Jodeci (exec.)Steve Lucas (exec.)Mr. DalvinDeVante Swing Genres Contemporary R&B, Soul music, Rhythm and blues, New jack swing Nominations Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album - Group, Band or Duo Similar Jodeci albums, Rhythm and blues albums | ||
Jodeci my heart belongs to you
Diary of a Mad Band is the second studio album from American R&B group Jodeci, released in 1993 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records. The album also featured the first ever album appearances from Timbaland and Missy Elliott (credited as Misdemeanor) and Sista two years before they became known in the music industry. New Jersey rapper Redman also makes a guest appearance on the album. It was Jodeci's second album to reach number-one on the R&B album chart where it stayed for two weeks. It spawned the #1 R&B hit "Cry for You"; the classic #2 R&B hit "Feenin'", and the Top 15 R&B hit "What About Us". Despite not being released as a single, the album's opening track, "My Heart Belongs To U", was also a hit. Song for song, this album is generally considered the group's best effort overall.
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Jodeci my heart belongs to you
Release and reception
Dimitri Ehrlich of Entertainment Weekly wrote that at times bested the group's first, stating that the songs on their sophomore effort "often transcend the formulaic histrionics that marred their debut." AllMusic critic Ron Wynn deemed the record "jarring" and "mismatched", preferring its sentimental love songs to the sexually explicit, hip hop-influenced "come-on numbers", which he found to be in poor taste. Rohan B. Preston from the Chicago Tribune found the lyrics clichéd and Jodeci "certainly not as funky as H-Town nor as stirring as Boyz II Men at their best". Robert Christgau was even less impressed and assigned it a "neither" symbol in his Consumer Guide book, indicating an album that "may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. Then it won't."
Singles
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Personnel
Information taken from Allmusic.
Songs
1My Heart Belongs To U5:03
2Cry for You5:02
3Feenin'5:11