The Best of Tanita Tikaram [IMPORT]

Tanita Tikaram

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea Int'l
• ASIN: B0000074HJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #143,311 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
All of the acclaimed German singer/ songwriter's greatest from 1988-1996, including two versions of her smash 'Twist In My Sobriety', plus 'Cathedral Song' and 'World Outside Your Window'. 1996 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Best Of Tanita, May 1, 2000

By	L. Sandbergen (Europe) - See all my reviews

With 1988's `Ancient Heart' Tanita received critical and commercial acclaim. She was not even twenty years old, but the album showed her maturity as a songwriter. The singles `Good Tradition' and `Twist In My Sobriety' became hits in Europe and Tanita would sell over four million copies of this promising debut disc. After that her releases gradually became weaker and record buyers lost interest. In 1995 she returned with the strong `Lovers In The City' but the album did not create a Tanita revival. In 1996, before splitting with EastWest/Reprise/Warner, this compilation was released. This 17-track anthology looks back on her achievement between 1988-1996. The opening track `Twist In My Sobriety' has became a classic. `Good Tradition', `World Outside Your Window' and Cathedral Song' - other tracks drawn from `Ancient Heart' - are also still very strong. `Only The Ones We Love', taken from `Everybody's Angel', is hauntingly beautiful and, arguably, the highlight of this compilation. Unfortunately the song selection is not as good as might have been expected: too many songs have been drawn from 1992's `Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness' and even though `Lovers In The City' was a wonderful record, five songs from this album is a bit too much. Several songs from her second release `The Sweet Keeper' are left out and it's surprising that her 1990 minor hit `We Almost Got It Together' isn't anywhere to be found. The concluding dance remix of `Twist In My Sobriety' is also a weak asset. Her rendition of `E Penso A Te' - the only completely new track - is, on the contrary, excellent. `I Might Be Crying' is also a very good song. Having sold over seven million records worldwide it was not too soon for a compilation. But as a performer, Tanita doesn't really come to right on this rather incomplete collection.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ...about "You Make the Whole World Cry"..., July 31, 2003

By	Dario Margeli (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just wanted to write a review of this CD because of the song "You make the whole world cry". Tanita's first album was a big hit in the late 80's, but then her second album felt a bit dissapointing, making one fear that she is one of those artists that say all they have to say on their first album and little after that. But then came 1992 (around her third lp) and the song "You make the whole world cry". It is gorgeous. Its an epic song, and the productio and arrangements are grandiose to match it. It feels like one of thos italian pop songs of the early 70s with huge orhcestra's or one of those Phill Spector producctions or something fit of Rafael trabucchelli or Jean Bouchety. Except it has an urgency to its performance and music. Not too many people know that song. Even I found it just browsing through the discount bins. So thats why I felt obliged to write this review so you know there is such a jewel out there. And she wrote and produced it herself.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a singer........, October 30, 1999

By	J. Bilby "littlebibs" (Kingston, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just can't seem to get enough of this voice and the way she delivers her songs. Great music and allot of STYLE! It took me so many years and spins on ramdon before I realized how mesmerizing she is to listen to and she has such deep, sensual voice and her taste in music is way out there (away from pop radio) so many great little numbers here.