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Singer/songwriter Tanita Tikaram's debut album, Ancient Heart, stands as one of the most underappreciated albums of the 1980s, and she, along with Tracy Chapman, preceded the 1990s' onslaught of female singer/songwriters by almost a decade. Tikaram, who was only 19 when this album was released, created a melancholy and wistful work, mature beyond her years, of startling originality and honesty. While this album may be considered folkish and artsy, it never stoops to the clichés that dominated those styles of music in the later Lilith Fair years. Her near perfect signature song "Twist in My Sobriety" is a stark, sinuous, desperate torch song that managed to garner a bit of radio and video airplay in its day and sounded like nothing else then or since. Other highlights include the lovely and more upbeat "Cathedral Song," "World Outside Your Window," and "Good Tradition"," as well as the jazzy "For All the Years" and the haunting "I Love You" and "Valentine Heart" -- the latter being one of the album's true highlights. Ancient Heart is a smoky, world-weary album, that, years after its initial release, does not sound one bit dated and has effortlessly stood the test of time. The definite highlight of Tanita Tikaram's career. ~ Jose F. Promis
Live RecordingRolling Stone - 3 Stars - Good Tanita Tikaram Ancient Heart Songs | 1. | Good Tradition | |
| 2. | Cathedral Song | |
| 3. | Sighing Innocents | |
| 4. | I Love You | |
| 5. | World Outside Your Window | |
| 6. | For All These Years | |
| 7. | Twist in My Sobriety | |
| 8. | Poor Cow | |
| 9. | He Likes the Sun | |
| 10. | Valentine Heart | |
| 11. | Preyed Upon | |
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Ancient Heart Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  A great voice
A great voice but I wonder what happened? Did she get tired of the music biz? People with a quarter of her talent have gone on to have longer careers. Her voice has a great mysterious quality. Maybe this will help, if you like Michelle Shocked the chances are you will like this, of course if you know who Michelle Shocked is you have probably already heard this!
Submitted by a reviewer (Oyster Bay, NY) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Classic.....
One of a kind Tanita Tikaram continues
to record(2005) and has 6 collections
over the years but this stunning first
record put her on the map, made her a
big star. When this was released(late 80's) remember the state of music, specifically women singer/songwriters/musicans. Soon
after this collection was released or right around
this time, the likes of Tracy Chapman, Sinead O'Connor, Toni Childs, burst on
the music scene and the talents of
Bonnie Raitt(2nd life) & Tori Amos's genius would follow in the next year or two. This was a perfect time for
this 1st Tanita record to break in and
that it did, all over the world, and with the help of music video stations
we all got to see this dark beauty and
a just a pup.(age 18?) With a voice as husky &
sensual and older than her years and
some really eccentric musical styles,
she gave us a gem of a record. The big hit "Twist
in my sorbriety" opened her up to the
world but this collection was full of
other smoking, sultry gems. Wordy at
times and filled with a wonderous travelouge of a life she breathed new
life into the singer/songwriters of
the 70's and helped open the door to
the quality music that was to come.
Although she did not match the impact
of the first one, over the years she
still is well worth seeking out her
back catalouge as there is always gems
in every collection. Check out her
best of set!
Submitted by littlebibs (Kingston, NH USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  For all these years
"For all these years" is the highlight of this ancient cd, released 15 years ago. A tune with a haunting flugel horn in the background. "Twist in my sobriety" is a bit more upbeat. Definitely worth buying.
Submitted by carey c (KC, MO USA)
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 A great tradition.
The mysterious and very beautiful Ms Tikarem came into our lives in the late
1980's, made the world a much better place for a few years and then quietly
left the music biz to make babies and
grow vegetables (l guess).
"Ancient heart" was her best-est effort,
her unique, dry and husky voice pumping
quality-music into a world filled with Stock-Aitken-Waterman sh*te. "Good tradition" is a fabbo tune; listen to this album- you won't be disappointed.
Submitted by Tim (...somewhere in England.)
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Purchase Ancient Heart CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon CD (1973)
Ancient Heart
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DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was a benchmark record. It turned the musical world on its ear with a hitherto unseen combination of sounds, and changed things considerably for Pink Floyd. For this project, Pink Floyd resurrected older and unfinished numbers, some of which came from the multitude of soundtracks the band members had previously worked on. The film ZABRISKIE POINT, a study of American materialism from a foreigner's perspective, provided "Us and Them" (originally titled "The Violence Sequence"). Waters rewrote "Breathe" after its appearance on his and avant-garde composer Ron Geesin's score ...
| | Best Of Tanita Tikaram CD (1996) (Import) Import; Argentina
Ancient Heart
$22.35
This best-of collection from Tanita Tikaram includes her hit "Twist in My Sobriety."
The Best of Tanita Tikaram sums up the singer/songwriter's first five albums, with a little too much emphasis on material from Lovers in the City and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, and not enough from Everybody's Angel and Sweet Keeper (only one song from each album made it onto this set). Still, this is a lovely collection from start to finish, and showcases Tanita Tikaram as a singer who deserves much more attention than she has received. The album contains all of her U.K. hit singles, including four from her stellar debut, Ancient Heart, among those the sublime "Twist in My Sobriety," easily one of the greatest songs to have come out of the 1980s (an additional dance remix of that song closes out the album). Other highlights include the astounding, heartbreaking "Only the Ones We Love" (quite possibly the best song on this collection), the Phil Spector-ish "You Make the Whole World Cry," and the haunting "I Might Be Crying." Another ...
| | Hard To Find 45'S On CD, Vol. 8: 70'S Pop Classics CD (2002)
Ancient Heart
$13.49
Numerous hit-oriented collections have focused on various styles of '70s music from disco to classic rock, but Hard to Find 45's on CD, Vol. 8 is devoted to that decade's commercial pop in the broadest sense. Where else could you find Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting," Pilot's "Magic," and Hurricane Smith's "Oh, Babe, What Would You ...
| | Art Garfunkel Everything Waits To Be Noticed CD (2002)
Ancient Heart
$22.09
Making his technical debut as a songwriter (technical in that his prose poems serve as a lyric source on several tracks), Art Garfunkel takes top billing in what actually qualifies as a collaboration with two other singer/songwriters, Nashville's Buddy Mondlock and L.A.-based Maia Sharp; producer/songwriter Billy Mann plays an essential creative role as well. For all the diverse input, this remains a Garfunkel project at heart. His airy, delicate singing, remarkably identical in quality to his earliest recordings some 40 years earlier, provides the essential textural reference; Mondlock's vocals uncannily replicate Garfunkel's from the opening moments of "Bounce" and elsewhere throughout the album. Only two of these songs were written by outsiders, and these -- the self-consciously buoyant "Young and Free" and uncomfortably precious "What I Love About Rain" -- don't match the rest in either ...
| | Essential Donovan CD (2004) Remastered
Ancient Heart
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| | Michele Lee Taste Of The Fantastic/L. David Sloane CD (1999)
Ancient Heart
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| | OBK Donde El Corazon Nos Lleve CD (1996)
Ancient Heart
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| | Corrosion Of Conformity America's Volume Dealer CD (2000) DualDisc
Ancient Heart
$15.19
Additional personnel includes: John Custer (guitar); Warren Haynes (slide guitar); Doug Wilson (piano); Teresa Williams, Chen Chapman (background vocals).
This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other.
Few contemporary hard rock ...
| | Angie Miller Play CD (2005)
Ancient Heart
$13.25
| | Various Artists Kabul 107.9 Aniversario CD (2005) (Import) Argentina
Ancient Heart
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| | Coil Ans CDs (2007) (Import) Import; Boxed Set
Ancient Heart
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| | Voyager: Europe: National Anthems CD (2007)
Ancient Heart
$6.25
Columbia River Entertainment presents a budget-priced album of 18 European national anthems, performed by the sort of wind and percussion ensemble that is customarily employed at official functions. Little or no regional ethnicity ...
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