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Tanita Tikaram — Twist In My Sobriety
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daisymaybee
Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 11:02
 
Always turn this one up!

three_crows
(In the trees and flying over the hills of Geauga County, Ohio, USA)
Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 10:06
 
I'd forgotten all about TT and this song. Thanks for bringing this one back to me. Such haunting oboe ~ love it!

jpfueler
(Alvarado, Texas, (A Bit FurtherSouth o' Ft Worth))
Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 15:45
 
this strikes me as very Grace Jones-ish

seangostage
Posted: Dec 23, 2012 - 07:22
 
Also nice use of the oboe

seangostage
Posted: Dec 23, 2012 - 07:21
 
A real nice blast from the paat

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Nov 06, 2012 - 13:03
 
 amoreena wrote:
Wow...flashback.  Was my "theme" song when struggling to leave an alcoholic I loved dearly......
 

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

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 14:32
 
 Nadine wrote:

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


Nadine
Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 04:34
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

. . . my cup of tea
 
yes. mine too. so simple this song and still so outstanding. and even after 20+ years having passed.

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 16:43
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

. . . my cup of tea
 
and mine also.

enkay
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: Jun 17, 2012 - 13:32
 
 scott_bruce wrote:
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...
 
And a Happy Father's Day to you sir.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Jun 01, 2012 - 22:51
 
 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:
not my cup of tea...
 
. . . my cup of tea

WABX
(Planet Earth)
Posted: Jun 01, 2012 - 20:26
 
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.{#Angel} 

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88')
Posted: May 01, 2012 - 02:46
 
not my cup of tea...

scott_bruce
(Southern Maryland)
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 09:41
 
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...

iTuner
Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 09:39
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

Classic small dose song; pretty cool as long as you don't hear it very often.



 
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?

stephanie_ant
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 09:23
 
 Nice Smile
DaveInVA wrote:
 



sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Feb 27, 2012 - 17:18
 
Haven't heard this in years.. nice. Wonder where she is now....

Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, New Joisey)
Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 15:16
 
 ozzie1313 wrote:
Celebrating 28 years of sobriety this Thanksgiving day.
 
Congrats! {#Drunk}

amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 14:57
 
Wow...flashback.  Was my "theme" song when struggling to leave an alcoholic I loved dearly......

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 20:30
 
 ozzie1313 wrote:
Celebrating 28 years of sobriety this Thanksgiving day.
 
Good job.

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 06:59
 


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 24, 2011 - 13:49
 
 Byronape 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.
 
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


Eric_Denison
(British Columbia)
Posted: Nov 24, 2011 - 13:43
 
Heard that Tanita has a new album out and that she is touring?  Anyone know anything about this?

ozzie1313
Posted: Nov 24, 2011 - 13:40
 
Celebrating 28 years of sobriety this Thanksgiving day.

eswiley2
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 08:53
 
 doriso wrote:
There once was a time when I could click on the "Download on iTunes" button and pick up the song I just heard on RP. However, today, again and again, I find that each song I like can only be purchased as part of an album. Very frustrating.
 

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.


Jive
(Toronto, Ontario)
Posted: Nov 08, 2011 - 08:51
 
Ahh... Still love ya, Tanita.

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Aug 21, 2011 - 22:31
 
 doriso wrote:
There once was a time when I could click on the "Download on iTunes" button and pick up the song I just heard on RP. However, today, again and again, I find that each song I like can only be purchased as part of an album. Very frustrating.
 
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.


nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Aug 06, 2011 - 01:30
 
Absolutely superb!

yofitofu
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 13:48
 
 doriso wrote:
There once was a time when I could click on the "Download on iTunes" button and pick up the song I just heard on RP. However, today, again and again, I find that each song I like can only be purchased as part of an album. Very frustrating.
 
And thus there is Grooveshark.....;-)

bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 13:48
 
I used to listen to this one a lot.  Still sounds good.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jun 19, 2011 - 21:37
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

Classic small does song; pretty cool as long as you don't hear it very often.


 
I disagree.  Good Album {#Cheers}

mach-hog
(the high west)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 06:46
 
The album is great - full of wry observation and witty inversions of grammar you can really only get from a native Brit... so talented. I have about 4 of her other albums as well and like them all still. Nice to hear her on RP.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 06:35
 

Classic small dose song; pretty cool as long as you don't hear it very often.




triviagal
(Just Outside Washington DC)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 06:06
 
There's a hint of "Fever" in there.  Maybe that's why I like this so much.

ubuntourist
(Brain-Washington)
Posted: Mar 01, 2011 - 08:40
 
 Rooney wrote:
What does that title mean anyway?  I've always loved this song, but never knew why, exactly.  The meaning is a little obscure.  I only know she doesn't like the fella anymore...Am I right?  Anyone?  Hello?       {#Stupid}
 
I always took it to refer to a "twist of lemon" or "twist of orange" in an alcoholic beverage, which would go to waste for a person going through a phase of not drinking... In other words "useless".  But that's a personal interpretation.

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 21:35
 
What does that title mean anyway?  I've always loved this song, but never knew why, exactly.  The meaning is a little obscure.  I only know she doesn't like the fella anymore...Am I right?  Anyone?  Hello?       {#Stupid}

doriso
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 18:37
 
There once was a time when I could click on the "Download on iTunes" button and pick up the song I just heard on RP. However, today, again and again, I find that each song I like can only be purchased as part of an album. Very frustrating.



pcicatar
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 08:30
 
 countyman wrote:

Question

Oboe or bassoon?


 
Oboe.  Just imagine a Peter and the Wolf duck waddling...  {#Dance}  Bassoon would be Peter's grandfather(?) talking and scolding him a la Charlie Brown teachers.

First time hearing this and made me double-take thinking it was Annie Lenox.



countyman
(Pittsburgh)
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 08:27
 

Question

Oboe or bassoon?

Or other?



badstudent
(Burnaby, BC)
Posted: Oct 26, 2010 - 09:54
 
This song seems to nod to Marianne Faithful.

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Oct 26, 2010 - 09:49
 
Thanks for the surprise, good memory, nice song... all in one. Haven't heard this in years, since I worked in the UK.
Intelligent lyrics, nicely presented. Holds up after -all- these years.

gusthemonkey
(Southwestern Ohio)
Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 17:34
 
I still like after all these years too....  the amazing thing about her voice was that she was only 18 years old when she recorded "twist"

ghoffman
(Plano, TX)
Posted: Sep 08, 2010 - 21:07
 
 SanchoPancho wrote:
I thought it was  Annie Lennox too, the first time I heard it.  Like it.
 
Me too.  I like it.  I'll open with a 7.

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 17:23
 
I'm still loving this song after all these years.....  Had it on "cassette single" back then!  {#Wink}

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 17:20
 
 jools wrote:
22 years on and this still sounds contemporary - IMHO anyway.
 
I agree - one of the tunes  that maybe. . .um. . . .22 years ago gave me some faith that art will continue in music.  Look what has happened! Tanita - one of the few that blazed that non commercial trail. . .


mikexican
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 17:19
 
Make it STOP!

SanchoPancho
(Santa Fe, NM)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 17:17
 
I thought it was  Annie Lennox too, the first time I heard it.  Like it.

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 10:28
 


I still have the vinyl copy of this....

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 10:13
 
22 years on and this still sounds contemporary - IMHO anyway.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 18, 2010 - 07:38
 
Artificial sweetener to mimic sugar in your coffee, oboe to mimic emotion in your production. At least she didn't use a French Horn. Sorry, always been a forced dose of pseudo-introspection to my ears.