Surface Thrills yielded two singles, the title track and "Love on My Mind Tonight", with only the latter being moderately successful. This is the last Temptations album to feature falsetto Glenn Leonard, who departed from the group after eight years. Leonard's replacement would be singer-songwriter Ron Tyson, who made his Temptations debut with the following album, Back to Basics, though the group had worked with Tyson when they were with Atlantic Records on the Hear to Tempt You album where Tyson co-wrote a majority of the songs.
All tracks produced by Dennis Lambert and Steve Barri except where noted.
Side one
"Surface Thrills" (Lambert, Harold Payne) – 4:30 a
"Love on My Mind Tonight" (Lambert, Peter Beckett) – 4:57 a
"One Man Woman" (Lambert, Beckett) – 5:13 a, b, c, d, e
"Show Me Your Love" (Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace, Ken Bell) – 4:02 c
Side two
"The Seeker" (Lambert, Michael Price, Dan Walsh) – 4:30 a
"What a Way to Put It" (Steve Dees, Ron Kersey) – 4:37 a (produced by the Temptations and Benjamin Wright)
"Bringyourbodyhere (Exercise Chant)" (Otis Williams, David English, Benjamin Wright, Louis Price) – 5:13 a, b, c, d, e (co-produced by the Temptations and Benjamin Wright)
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