| Take Me to God | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Jah Wobble | |||
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Take Me to God is an album by the English musician Jah Wobble, released in 1994. [1] [2] It is credited to his Invaders of the Heart. [3] The first single was "Becoming More Like God". [4] Take Me to God peaked at No. 13 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] Wobble supported it with a UK tour. [6] He considered 1998's Umbra Sumus to be a sequel. [7]
Wobble used 12 guest vocalists on the album. [8] Dolores O'Riordan sang on "The Sun Does Rise". [9] Abdel Ali Slimani contributed vocals to the raï song "I'm an Algerian". [10] Natacha Atlas sang on the three songs that she cowrote. [11] Baaba Maal guested on "Angels". [12]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [13] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [14] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [15] |
The Guardian said that "Wobble sensibly allows a prodigious list of guests to lead the line, while his own Blakean declarations add a nutty metaphysics to a deliriously creative album"; the paper's Caroline Sullivan later listed the album as the seventh best of 1994. [16] [17] Trouser Press concluded that "the record takes on far too much to be thoroughly solid, but it is still recommended." [18] The Independent determined that "it's the rhythms that count: deep, unhurried and underpinned by the marvellous bass of Wobble himself." [19] The Times noted that "Wobble has evolved into a figure of almost buddha-like calm and authority as he threads his fat, languid bass lines through a cosmopolitan patchwork of musical styles." [20] The Oakland Tribune praised "the propulsive dance-rock rhythmic base." [21]
AllMusic wrote that "it's an interesting assortment of tracks combining currents flowing through mid-'90s alternative rock, world music, reggae, club beats, dub, and African pop, adding up to an extremely heterogeneous whole." [13] In 2024, Uncut listed Take Me to God as the 301st greatest album of the 1990s. [22]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "God in the Beginning" | |
| 2. | "Becoming More Like God" | |
| 3. | "Whisky Priests" | |
| 4. | "I'm an Algerian" | |
| 5. | "Amor" | |
| 6. | "Amor Dub" | |
| 7. | "Take Me to God" | |
| 8. | "The Sun Does Rise" | |
| 9. | "When the Storm Comes" | |
| 10. | "I Love Everybody" | |
| 11. | "Yoga of the Nightclub" | |
| 12. | "I Am the Music" | |
| 13. | "The Bonds of Love" | |
| 14. | "Angels" | |
| 15. | "No Change Is Sexy" | |
| 16. | "Raga" | |
| 17. | "Forever" |
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