Mind on the Moon

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Mind on the Moon
Snowmindmooncover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 10, 2000 (2000-10-10)
Recorded1999–2000
Studio Metalworks Studios (Mississauga, Ontario)
Long View Farm (North Brookfield, Massachusetts)
Deep Sound Studio (Scarborough, Ontario)
Genre
Length44:03
Label EMI
Producer
Snow chronology
Cooler Conditions
(1999)
Mind on the Moon
(2000)
Two Hands Clapping
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
JAM! Music (mixed) [1]

Mind on the Moon is an album by Canadian reggae musician Snow, released in 2000. Despite being his fifth album, this was the first disc since his 1993 debut 12 Inches of Snow that Snow returned to the pop charts and received mainstream airplay on both radio and television.

Contents

The album's lead single, "Everybody Wants to Be Like You" received the most radio airplay, reaching #2 on Canada's Top Singles chart. The album's second single, "The Plumb Song", also received significant radio airplay and its music video received heavy rotation on MuchMusic. Three singles from the album ("Everybody Wants to Be Like You", "The Plumb Song" and "Joke Thing") were among the top 100 most played radio tracks in Canada in 2001. [2]

The album was nominated for "Best Pop Album" at the Juno Awards of 2001.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Joke Thing"
  • O'Brien
  • Patterson
  • Justin Gray
3:25
2."Everybody Wants to Be Like You"
Michael Tucker3:20
3."The Plumb Song"
  • O'Brien
  • Glenn Rosenstein
  • Moltke
Gray3:46
4."Nothin' On Me"
  • O'Brien
  • Patterson
  • Tucker
  • Dave Greenberg
  • Tucker
  • Greenberg
3:38
5."Scrub Off"
  • O'Brien
  • Gray
  • Patterson
Gray3:25
6."Everything's Fine"Nori3:57
7."Little Did They Know"
  • Simon Head
  • O'Brien
  • Moltke
  • Tucker
  • Greenberg
3:14
8."Anti-Love Song"
  • O'Brien
  • Gray
  • Patterson
Gray4:06
9."Jimmy Hat"
  • O'Brien
  • Moltke
  • Rosenstein
Gray3:47
10."Funky Martini"
  • O'Brien
  • Patterson
  • Jackson
  • O'Brien
  • Patterson
  • Jackson
  • Greenberg
  • Graham Brewer
4:03
11."Crazy Feeling"
Injeti3:37
12."Someday Somehow"
  • O'Brien
  • Rosenstein
  • Moltke
  • Tucker
  • Greenberg
3:45
Notes

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes of Mind on the Moon. [3]

Vocals
Musicians
Production
Artwork

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References

  1. Sterdan, Darryl (October 20, 2000). "Album Review: Mind on the Moon". JAM! Music. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "Top 100 top played radio tracks in Canada in 2001". Archived from the original on 26 July 2002. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
  3. Mind on the Moon (booklet). Snow. EMI. 2000. 7243-527778-2-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)