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.

Always turn this one up!

I'd forgotten all about TT and this song. Thanks for bringing this one back to me. Such haunting oboe ~ love it!

this strikes me as very Grace Jones-ish

 amoreena wrote: 

AND........ ?????

 Nadine wrote: 

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
yes. mine too. so simple this song and still so outstanding. and even after 20+ years having passed.

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
and mine also.

 scott_bruce wrote: 
And a Happy Father's Day to you sir.

 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: 
. . . my cup of tea

Used to play this song back in 1988 at Sunshine Radio on the Cote D'Azur. Did an 8 PM till midnight shift. Always got good feedback on it. 

not my cup of tea...

When this song was out in early 1988, I was living in Scotland and my daughter was just learning to talk. My wife and I overheard my daughter singing to herself one day, and after a bit figured out that she was singing "More than a twist of my so-br-i-e-ty..." over and over, and my wife and I had a good hard laugh as we knew that she had no idea what she was saying, but was mimicking the sounds! This song will always have a special place in the heart of this father...

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Don't think I've heard it since 1988. So it was okay today. Has that 80s cheese factor to it. Is that a clarinet or a synthesizer?

 Nice 
DaveInVA wrote: 

Haven't heard this in years.. nice. Wonder where she is now....

 ozzie1313 wrote: 
Congrats!

Wow...flashback.  Was my "theme" song when struggling to leave an alcoholic I loved dearly......

 ozzie1313 wrote: 
Good job.

 Byronape 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

Heard that Tanita has a new album out and that she is touring?  Anyone know anything about this?

Celebrating 28 years of sobriety this Thanksgiving day.

 doriso wrote: 

I totally agree.  I didn't want the whole album.  If I hadn't loved this song so much, I wouldn't have bothered.  I buy SO MANY songs because of RP — I couldn't afford to buy albums to get them all.

When I notice that I am buying a lot of individual songs by a single artist — I might take go ahead and get the whole album..  but generally, I'm just buying them one at a time. 

And wasn't that the whole POINT of iTunes anyway?  Only buy the songs you WANTED?? 

If I'm going to spend, say $30...  I would like 30 songs that I want, rather than 3 albums that contain maybe 6 songs that I was looking for.

Ahh... Still love ya, Tanita.

 doriso wrote: 
I don't always think that's a bad thing.  I've found that many of my favorite songs are obscure album tracks that I never would have heard if I had not bought an entire album.  Besides, frequently an artist (at least talented ones) craft entire albums where the entirety of the album is much better than any single piece.

It's like looking at the picture on the front of a puzzle piece and trying to figure out what the whole picture looks like.  The piece might be pretty, but it's nothing more than a piece of the whole.

Absolutely superb!

 doriso wrote: 
And thus there is Grooveshark.....;-)