Lovers in the City

Tanita Tikaram | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MXS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #388,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Might Be Crying

2. Bloodlines

3. Feeding the Witches

4. Happy Taxi

5. My Love Tonight

6. Lovers in the City

7. Yodelling Song

8. Wonderful Shadow

9. Women Who Cheat on the World

10. Leaving the Party

Editorial Reviews

The singer/songwriter's 1995 album, easily Tikaram's most polished album to date. WEA. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Surprise, March 13, 2005

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Erik Meltzer (Braunschweig, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lovers in the City (Audio CD)

After an incredibly great and hugely successful debut album, Ancient Heart, it was my feeling that Tanita Tikaram's music was slowly detoriating over the subsequent three albums. That's why she faded from my view after her fourth, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Only just recently did I buy this, her fifth album. And boy, am I surprised.

Quiet it is, and melancholic. But that was to be expected. What I didn't expect was the degree of musicality and, yes, in places even groove. It's nowhere near dance music, but I caught myself snapping my fingers to the beat more than once. The singing is also much better than on previous albums, which in places sounded as if the lady was drugged or drunk.

And then along comes The Yodelling Song, whose title doesn't promise too much and which is positively funny. That alone was worth the album's price, in my opinion.

So, if you don't own Ancient Heart already, get that instead. But if you do, and like it, then consider this one as a second. Recommended.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Polished Product from Beginning to End, December 28, 2003

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Shenni (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lovers in the City (Audio CD)

Tanita Tikaram's voice reaches new heights of entrancement as her voice rises above the angelic choir at the beginning of her CD. Each track melds into the next, creating a journey into your own mind that is not complete until the faint strains of the final song have finally drifted away. With a deep alto voice that could be favorably compared to the 15-minutes-ago Marc Anthony or the more popular Rufus Wainwright set to gentle drum loops, and an intense trip through several genres that will astound even those with no musical knowledge, this album is a vital addition to any collection, and especially for a quiet afternoon / evening at home. Tikaram manages to be deeply inrtospective without becoming depressing or pretentious, a rare trend in music of the last fifteen years, when depression seems to sell.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 12, 2009

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V. Livaja "Blacklegion" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lovers in the City (Audio CD)

Man, what a brilliant album. If you like this one, check out her earlier ones, which may be harder to find these days. Ancient Heart is one of my favourite albums (& I have well over a 1000); every song is just flawless. I used to tell people she was the female Dylan, & I meant it. Many songs need several listens before you start to 'get' what she is saying. And when you don't get it yet, that makes it equally amazing, just in a different way altogether.
Give this a go, & then go to the earlier ones (Ancient Heart, The Sweet Keeper, Eleven Kinds Of Lonliness, Everybody's Angel).