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The first couple of bars remind me of the Law & Order intro theme/
Posted 1 month ago by RadioParadisio    [ Reply ]
I don't know why, but i get a strong Concrete Blonde vibe whenever i hear this song.
Posted 1 month ago by MonkeySock    [ Reply ]
My little nephew used to call her Tanita Tickle em..
He was only 3 years old!!
Posted 3 months ago by GingerandMe    [ Reply ]
 Edweirdo wrote:

It's an oboe, not a sax.  And it's bloody lovely.


Me thinks we need a new, wiser king . . .
Posted 3 months ago by tarry_all    [ Reply ]
Haven't heard this for years and it is a song that hasn't dated in my opinion. I think it's got better with age! 
Posted 4 months ago by adelaide68    [ Reply ]
 ckcotton wrote:

Not that I can imagine



Maybe thewiseking whining again... Excellent song!
Posted 6 months ago by hjhlarsen    [ Reply ]
what a nice coupla segues
Jeff Beck "Cause we ended as lovers"
Plăsi "Far from home"
This. 
Posted 7 months ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
Holy crap, this is from 1988? Dang! Seems like just yesterday.
Posted 8 months ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?


Not that I can imagine

Posted 10 months ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
What a great flash from the past!
Posted 1 year ago by sinead    [ Reply ]
Just so unlistenable. 
Posted 1 year ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
Just too much repetition.
Posted 1 year ago by Dahlia_Gumbo    [ Reply ]
Something remarkably attractive about that voice. 
Posted 1 year ago by bodinrichard1    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?




This ignorant comment deserves far more down votes.
Posted 1 year ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 timmus wrote:
Half the people read the papers
Read them good and well
 
Man, how times have changed.


Papers? What means this papers?
Posted 1 year ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 gypsy222 wrote:
I thought this was a man singing! Yikes! ;)



Time to pause and reflect on why that means so much to you.
Posted 1 year ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?



Do you also mistake your own instrument for something else?
Posted 1 year ago by johnfiva    [ Reply ]
Never get tired of this song.
Posted 1 year ago by johnfiva    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?


It's an oboe, not a sax.  And it's bloody lovely.
Posted 1 year ago by Edweirdo    [ Reply ]
 user4176 wrote:

True, and well spoken too. Adorno would be proud!

RP in itself is this little floating raft, beautifully held together by idealism and a sense of humanity, but frail and always on the brink of sinking in the harsh seas of a pityless, neoliberal exploitation system. The perfect, and quite possbly one of the last places left where music is played because of the music, not because of the profit margin one could scrape off of it. It saddens me that formats like this are under constant attack by the music industry. What a perverted world this has become.

I doubt this. Same songs are played over an over just like Grady radio stations.  Played because he likes them or promoting them or paid to play?
Posted 1 year ago by Rcallinjr    [ Reply ]
 Sofa_King wrote:




cat typing detected. 
I frequent a forum that cat and very young children often post for others.
Posted 1 year ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
 vanjkos659 wrote:

Nmmjumm.jmmmujkmmj6





Posted 1 year ago by Sofa_King    [ Reply ]
 Johnny_Alpha wrote:

I first met Tanita back in the 80s - I would just take the time to say she is still charming

Mellowed and matured, we are coaxing her back to a mic



Oh please do!
Posted 1 year ago by RodneyAjax    [ Reply ]
Just goddess-like. Still is after all these years. And what an album!
Posted 1 year ago by RodneyAjax    [ Reply ]
Play more of Tanita. this is a great song
Posted 2 years ago by skf1062    [ Reply ]
I love that voice. Great song.
Posted 2 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:

here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?



Love this song!  Hate Kenny G!  No comparison!
Posted 2 years ago by baddog8it    [ Reply ]
oh, wow, never knew she was Fijian!  awesome. 
Posted 2 years ago by NoEnzLefttoSplit    [ Reply ]
 maxvonevil wrote:

"Look my eyes are just holograms" πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜†

Holograms!?! I might be an aging 80's kid, but I'm pretty sure it's Hallowed Grounds.



I always thought it was "hollowed rounds". 
Posted 2 years ago by lccouch    [ Reply ]
 maxvonevil wrote:

"Look my eyes are just holograms" πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜†

Holograms!?! I might be an aging 80's kid, but I'm pretty sure it's Hallowed Grounds.



I always thought it was hallowed grounds too. Such a great heartbreak, moving on song. Got me through it back in the day!
Posted 2 years ago by misfitz    [ Reply ]
 Aazara wrote:

She was so young when she wrote and recorded this song. The album was released when she was 19 years old and I believe she wrote the song a couple of years earlier. Such a mature song for one so young.



Agree
Posted 2 years ago by tinypriest    [ Reply ]
She was so young when she wrote and recorded this song. The album was released when she was 19 years old and I believe she wrote the song a couple of years earlier. Such a mature song for one so young.
Posted 2 years ago by Aazara    [ Reply ]
One of my favorite 80s songs.  My dad beat it into me 😍
Posted 2 years ago by red04star    [ Reply ]
 hellsgardener wrote:

Twisting my sobriety and Hallowed Grounds not Holograms.. as far as I know




The second part yes, the first no.
Posted 3 years ago by MattRudely    [ Reply ]
Half the people read the papers
Read them good and well
 
Man, how times have changed.
Posted 3 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
hello  I'm Gianni from Italy listening to my favourite radio station after  all these years.
Good job friends  RP is always  a various radio station,easy and complete.
Tanita Tikaram  killed me a little  with this track but I was excited to hear this beatiful .
Rod Argent produced a miracle.
ps: I'm a radio dee jay from Italy( famous dee jay)
congrats.
Posted 3 years ago by giannideberard    [ Reply ]
Twisting my sobriety and Hallowed Grounds not Holograms.. as far as I know
Posted 3 years ago by hellsgardener    [ Reply ]
That line is nowhere near as clever as she thinks it is
Posted 3 years ago by weedyjoe    [ Reply ]
 Alastair wrote:


You're alone with that one. 


A Very young Elton.
Posted 3 years ago by Dr_Ross    [ Reply ]
It's really hard to twist to this.
Posted 3 years ago by Dr_Ross    [ Reply ]
 maxvonevil wrote:

"Look my eyes are just holograms" πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜†

Holograms!?! I might be an aging 80's kid, but I'm pretty sure it's Hallowed Grounds.


Exactly this.
Posted 3 years ago by sfoster66    [ Reply ]
I first met Tanita back in the 80s - I would just take the time to say she is still charming

Mellowed and matured, we are coaxing her back to a mic
Posted 3 years ago by Johnny_Alpha    [ Reply ]
This album was the soundtrack of my final year at Uni. 
Posted 3 years ago by adelaide68    [ Reply ]
 rocklandlove wrote:

Some songs really hold up. This is one of those. 

Also, how many New Wave hits featured a lead oboe solo? 



an oboe, not to be confused with a bassoon 
Posted 3 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
isn't it supposed to be twisting my sobriety? I could be wrong always thought that's what is was
Posted 3 years ago by rkerpel    [ Reply ]
This is now grinding on me; the oboe is getting a little Musaky. Are there other choices from this artist?
Posted 3 years ago by S-curvy    [ Reply ]
Always loved the melody of this song. A gem from the eighties.
Posted 3 years ago by IndyDoug    [ Reply ]
 joejennings wrote:

Nice! Somebody else that I never heard of before! Thank You RP!



You just aged yourself to be a younger generation than Generation X.
Posted 4 years ago by rklein    [ Reply ]
amazing album
Posted 4 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
Nice! Somebody else that I never heard of before! Thank You RP!
Posted 4 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 Cueburned wrote:

Sounds a bit like a young Elton John to me.  



You're alone with that one. 
Posted 4 years ago by Alastair    [ Reply ]
Sounds a bit like a young Elton John to me.  
Posted 4 years ago by Cueburned    [ Reply ]
 Johnny_Alpha wrote:


"neoliberal exploitation" - really?



With reference to what? Exploitation is what neoliberalism is all about. 
Posted 4 years ago by sunward    [ Reply ]


"neoliberal exploitation" - really?

Posted 4 years ago by Johnny_Alpha    [ Reply ]
"Look my eyes are just holograms" πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜†

Holograms!?! I might be an aging 80's kid, but I'm pretty sure it's Hallowed Grounds.
Posted 4 years ago by maxvonevil    [ Reply ]
Always remember this song. Perfect soundtrack for a drive I did through Eastern Germany on my way to Berlin West
Posted 4 years ago by joko63808    [ Reply ]
 rocklandlove wrote:

. . . how many New Wave hits featured a lead oboe solo? 


Played by a hobo; it was a hobo oboe solo.
No letters please.
Posted 4 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
one of those songs that stays with you, once you hear it, for the rest of your life.  First heard this when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana in 1990 and it has remained with me over these past 30 years.  
Posted 4 years ago by gregskrtic    [ Reply ]
Is this the only pop song with an oboe in it?   bright eyes from Simon and Garfunkel?
Posted 4 years ago by nu11    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?
 

Your musical appreciation is worse. Go back to sleep...nothing to see here.
Posted 4 years ago by mjbaumann    [ Reply ]
Still holds up....Prophetic in more ways than one...

Sobriety...What's that?
Posted 4 years ago by mjbaumann    [ Reply ]
 petersteward wrote:
How many fecking times can you play this?

I do like it but she did do other tracks as well.
 
Agree.  She is amazing. But I have noticed the same tracks are getting repeated (for many artists).
Try :
"World Outside your window"
"Cathedral Song"
Posted 5 years ago by acferrad    [ Reply ]
How many fecking times can you play this?

I do like it but she did do other tracks as well.
Posted 5 years ago by petersteward    [ Reply ]
This is totally "groovey" tune. Not that "groovey" is in common usage anymore but it definitely has a solid groove. Can't stop moving.....
Posted 5 years ago by billmce    [ Reply ]
I believe her name is pronounced Ticker im,  Not Tick arem.  Pronunciation is an interesting subject.  Either way, a great album.  Heard her first on the radio in London.
Posted 5 years ago by dougalbumski    [ Reply ]
 rocklandlove wrote:
Some songs really hold up. This is one of those. 

Also, how many New Wave hits featured a lead oboe solo? 
 
This.
Not enough oboe solos in modern music.
Posted 5 years ago by mariodrv    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
 
 
That's an oboe, you cretin.
Posted 5 years ago by k1j2cat    [ Reply ]
 OneinAUS wrote:

Your post
 

And it's an oboe, not a sax. 
Posted 5 years ago by Alastair    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?
 
Your post
Posted 5 years ago by OneinAUS    [ Reply ]
wow, i m really surprised to hear one of my favourite 80 s song on rp
great choice
Posted 5 years ago by Krid    [ Reply ]
Mellows me out every time I hear it!
Posted 5 years ago by whatsupdude    [ Reply ]
The oboe is a great contrast to the sultry voice.
Posted 5 years ago by okskyhi    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by Sofa_King    [ Reply ]
A great debut album!!!!!!!! Although Cathedral Song was a huge hit at the time, I think she didn't get the attention she deserved with her following albums... specially "Lovers In the City"
Posted 5 years ago by Edm23Rocha    [ Reply ]
I like this tune. Sax and all. Its got a killer groove. Reminds me of Maryanne Faithful.
Posted 5 years ago by billmce    [ Reply ]
here we go with that whiny Kenny G style sax again. Is there anything worse?
Posted 5 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I can hear Tom Jones singing sex bomb in the introΒ΄s phrasing
Posted 5 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
If we can fly to a Space Station & land on the moon how come we can't go back to the 80's?  A cure for Covid & a Time Machine are in order.
Posted 5 years ago by Rockit9    [ Reply ]
Ageless, and so is Tanita. A gf was into her in the 80's and she doesn't look any different now.
Posted 5 years ago by Silvervanman    [ Reply ]
So good, so long ago...where did the time go?....great tune RP ! 
Posted 5 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
 dwhayslett wrote:

Coincidentally, the word that came to my mind when I read your post starts with "semi-".
 
Well she has this tom boy approach to this song but it is  beautiful woman
Posted 5 years ago by Pilsenaaa    [ Reply ]
 ginger wrote:
This always reminds me of when I bought this album in a "record store" when they had just switched over to CDs. I typically bought 3 or 4 albums at a time, sound unheard, as was the case with this one. The checkout clerk complimented my selections that day, which of course made me feel like a superior being. At that store, they always commented positively on my choices, which just makes me wonder if they did so for everyone, all the time.   Anyway, I don't pull this one out so often anymore, but it's still really good!
 

Posted 5 years ago by Pilsenaaa    [ Reply ]
I hear this song so little but when I do what a trip
Posted 5 years ago by Pilsenaaa    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
These vocals fall to the level of Nico. Remember her? The whiny Kenny G style horns aren't helping either.
 
Read Nico's biography and all I could think of was the (purportedly) Chinese "curse",
"May you live in interesting times."

Tony in NJ
W.A.S.T.E.
Posted 5 years ago by tonyinnj    [ Reply ]
This always reminds me of when I bought this album in a "record store" when they had just switched over to CDs. I typically bought 3 or 4 albums at a time, sound unheard, as was the case with this one. The checkout clerk complimented my selections that day, which of course made me feel like a superior being. At that store, they always commented positively on my choices, which just makes me wonder if they did so for everyone, all the time.   Anyway, I don't pull this one out so often anymore, but it's still really good!
Posted 5 years ago by ginger    [ Reply ]
These vocals fall to the level of Nico. Remember her? The whiny Kenny G style horns aren't helping either.
Posted 5 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Sweet!
Posted 6 years ago by mortrates    [ Reply ]
Ende September 2019 Konzert in Augsburg, sehr sympathisch und mit guter Band.
Posted 6 years ago by ger-man    [ Reply ]
Years since I last heard this, what a blast from the past and doesn't it stand the test of time well!
Posted 6 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
 maboleth wrote:
Always thought it was a man singing it... now I hear semi-woman. Huh...
 
Coincidentally, the word that came to my mind when I read your post starts with "semi-".
Posted 6 years ago by dwhayslett    [ Reply ]
Always thought it was a man singing it... now I hear semi-woman. Huh...
Posted 6 years ago by maboleth    [ Reply ]
went from a 5 to an 8! love this one!
Posted 6 years ago by pontfarrer    [ Reply ]
I was in love at the time and she loved this song! It's a great song, always good to hear it again.
Posted 6 years ago by yoksa    [ Reply ]
Another genius segue... from Jesca Hoop to this... BRAVO!
Posted 7 years ago by rocklandlove    [ Reply ]
I played this song to death when it came out. Good singer-songerwriter stuff still. Sometimes I look back at the 80s songs I loved as a teenager and I think, yikes. This one still hits me.
Posted 7 years ago by ariadne223    [ Reply ]
twist
so
awesome
{#Bananajam}
Posted 7 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]
I love her music. Been a fan for years.
Posted 7 years ago by slowchair    [ Reply ]
Some songs really hold up. This is one of those. 

Also, how many New Wave hits featured a lead oboe solo? 
Posted 7 years ago by rocklandlove    [ Reply ]
this and Smooth Operator take me back
Posted 7 years ago by LaurieinTucson    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
 fredriley wrote:
That's what the winsome Kate Bush, with her lovely soft SE accent, was saying in an interview on a radio arts programme two evenings ago. She was lamenting that albums are a dying art form, and I share that lament. I can't help seeing it as akin to news items on TV being now condensed to 10-second 'sound bites', tweeting, texting and the like. Not 'dumbing down', as the reactionaries would have it, but a fragmentation of lived experience driven by an increasingly frenetic 24/7 'lifestyle' where we only have short snatches of time in which to 'consume' music or art or news, itself a product of individualistic atomisation driven by consumer and finance capitalism. Or maybe I'm abstracting too much and reaching for connections. Whatever, we seem to have less and less time to enjoy things.
To quote the cartoonist Steve Bell, himself paraphrasing the poet William Henry Davies:
What is this life, full of care
If we have no time
to stand around like farts in a trance, john

Fred, no time to read all this.
Pls edit down to 20 words or less, max 3-sylable words.
Thx
- OTB

 
That perfect comment, and the insightful observation it refers to, are each worth at least 10+... :-)


Posted 7 years ago by RazzCat    [ Reply ]
 luv4music wrote:

I believe that it's an oboe. 

 
Those are the mournful eyes done in oboe.....nice
Posted 7 years ago by Typical    [ Reply ]
I remember getting a taped recording of this album from my younger brother. I loved it. Great collection of songs with the right degree of over-earnest, singer-songwriter hubris.
Posted 8 years ago by GuiltyFeat    [ Reply ]
She was 18 when she record this song. Pretty amazing.
A solid 9.
Posted 8 years ago by Andres-7    [ Reply ]
 Chatto63 wrote:
Beautiful song, heard it first years ago when I was using drugs and it still resonates 21 years into recovery today
 
Hope you're now celebrating 22 years, and yes, it is a beautiful song.
Posted 8 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 passsion8 wrote:
It's that mournful clarinet that worms its way in. 

 
I believe that it's an oboe. 
Posted 8 years ago by luv4music    [ Reply ]
this is a damn fine "fuck y'all" to all those soft and porkies running too many things 
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
It's that mournful clarinet that worms its way in. 
Posted 8 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
 sine-quinn-non wrote:
CRAZY flash from the past.  I had gotten out of the habit of listening to radioparadise (despite owning quite a number of items purchased from the radioparadise store) and I need to git back to it!!!!
 

 
This post is so funny because I came back over yesterday for the first time in a long time. RP really shaped my music listening for a long, long time - and I am actually a regular supporter but have not listened a lot for the past year or so. Came over again today and heard this song which truly is a blast from my past days of listening to RP every day, all day at work. 
Posted 8 years ago by Darlington    [ Reply ]
CRAZY flash from the past.  I had gotten out of the habit of listening to radioparadise (despite owning quite a number of items purchased from the radioparadise store) and I need to git back to it!!!!
 
Posted 9 years ago by sine-quinn-non    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
That's what the winsome Kate Bush, with her lovely soft SE accent, was saying in an interview on a radio arts programme two evenings ago. She was lamenting that albums are a dying art form, and I share that lament. I can't help seeing it as akin to news items on TV being now condensed to 10-second 'sound bites', tweeting, texting and the like. Not 'dumbing down', as the reactionaries would have it, but a fragmentation of lived experience driven by an increasingly frenetic 24/7 'lifestyle' where we only have short snatches of time in which to 'consume' music or art or news, itself a product of individualistic atomisation driven by consumer and finance capitalism. Or maybe I'm abstracting too much and reaching for connections. Whatever, we seem to have less and less time to enjoy things.
To quote the cartoonist Steve Bell, himself paraphrasing the poet William Henry Davies:
What is this life, full of care
If we have no time
to stand around like farts in a trance, john

Fred, no time to read all this.
Pls edit down to 20 words or less, max 3-sylable words.
Thx
- OTB
Posted 9 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:

That's what the winsome Kate Bush, with her lovely soft SE accent, was saying in an interview on a radio arts programme two evenings ago. She was lamenting that albums are a dying art form, and I share that lament. I can't help seeing it as akin to news items on TV being now condensed to 10-second 'sound bites', tweeting, texting and the like. Not 'dumbing down', as the reactionaries would have it, but a fragmentation of lived experience driven by an increasingly frenetic 24/7 'lifestyle' where we only have short snatches of time in which to 'consume' music or art or news, itself a product of individualistic atomisation driven by consumer and finance capitalism. Or maybe I'm abstracting too much and reaching for connections. Whatever, we seem to have less and less time to enjoy things.

 
True, and well spoken too. Adorno would be proud!

RP in itself is this little floating raft, beautifully held together by idealism and a sense of humanity, but frail and always on the brink of sinking in the harsh seas of a pityless, neoliberal exploitation system. The perfect, and quite possbly one of the last places left where music is played because of the music, not because of the profit margin one could scrape off of it. It saddens me that formats like this are under constant attack by the music industry. What a perverted world this has become.
Posted 9 years ago by user4176    [ Reply ]
 Chatto63 wrote:
Beautiful song, heard it first years ago when I was using drugs and it still resonates 21 years into recovery today
 
Congrats glad to hear you find peace in music. 
Posted 9 years ago by EdHommersen    [ Reply ]
 Chatto63 wrote:
Beautiful song, heard it first years ago when I was using drugs and it still resonates 21 years into recovery today
 
I can see it still resonates...
Posted 9 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
Beautiful song, heard it first years ago when I was using drugs and it still resonates 21 years into recovery today
Posted 9 years ago by Chatto63    [ Reply ]
So bears a similarity, even if in my case it's a rarity.
Posted 9 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
I'm surprised I've never come across a cover of this.
 
Posted 9 years ago by oldman    [ Reply ]
One of the few albums I can honestly sounds better on vinyl.
Posted 9 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
A great voice presenting a wicked song of serious introspection with a "fuck off" tilt
Posted 9 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:

That's what the winsome Kate Bush, with her lovely soft SE accent, was saying in an interview on a radio arts programme two evenings ago. She was lamenting that albums are a dying art form, and I share that lament. I can't help seeing it as akin to news items on TV being now condensed to 10-second 'sound bites', tweeting, texting and the like. Not 'dumbing down', as the reactionaries would have it, but a fragmentation of lived experience driven by an increasingly frenetic 24/7 'lifestyle' where we only have short snatches of time in which to 'consume' music or art or news, itself a product of individualistic atomisation driven by consumer and finance capitalism. Or maybe I'm abstracting too much and reaching for connections. Whatever, we seem to have less and less time to enjoy things.

To quote the cartoonist Steve Bell, himself paraphrasing the poet William Henry Davies:

What is this life, full of care
If we have no time
to stand around like farts in a trance, john
 
Fred,
That's definitely the first time I have heard a SE accent described as "lovely soft" and I thank you for it.
Me Dad bought my pram in Bexleyheath after a 4 mile walk and in time I had to walk past St Jo's (KB's school) every day for years until i learned how to jump the fence and board the train for free.
The rest of your post is a tad esoteric and, well, perfect. So much so, that a T shirt with the poem is in the works!
Ta. 
Posted 10 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
 Grammarcop wrote:
I will always associate this song with the late Dave Dixon, who used to play this on his mid-day program on WDET here in Detroit. Dixon used to argue with himself on the air over the the pronunciation of the singer's last name. Was it TIK-a-ram or ti-KAR-am? Even funnier were his attempts to pronounce the name of another singer he used to play, Basia Trzetrzelewska.

 
Dave Dixon was a great DJ. WDET was a great radio station even though they fired Dixon for insisting to play tunes by the Butt Hole Surfers. WDET was still great right up until they changed formats in 2006 I think it was.
Posted 10 years ago by ScottD    [ Reply ]