Tanita Tikaram / The WEA – EastWest Albums 1988 -1995

First five albums • 5CDs • Bonus tracks • Tanita track-by-track notes

The WEA / EastWest Albums 1988 – 1995 is a new 5CD box set that brings together the first five albums of British singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram.

The albums in question are Ancient Heart (1988), The Sweet Keeper (1990), Everybody’s Angel (1991), Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1992), Lovers in the City (1995). All have been remastered and all offer bonus tracks, with the label stating that it contains “all of her studio recordings” from this period, which appears to be accurate although there’s plenty of live tracks from singles that aren’t included.

In total, there’s 81 tracks in this set and with the bonus material largely B-sides, edits, instrumentals and the like. The ‘Early Guitar And Voice’ versions of ‘Hot Port Sandwiches’ and ‘I Love The Heaven’s Solo’ were originally on ‘Little Sister Leaving Town’, the second single from The Sweet Keeper, but because Tanita re-recorded them for her third album, Everybody’s Angel, they are appended to that album in this set. In fact, having been a B-side in 1990, ‘I Love The Heaven’s Solo’ became a single in 1991 in a third variant (“new version”) of the song!

There has never been an expanded, deluxe version of Tanita’s debut Ancient Heart, which is strange given the album was a big hit around the world and to date has sold around 4m copies. There was a modest reissue back in 2019, but that was mostly about a clear vinyl pressing (the CD offered two bonus tracks, including rather nonsensically, ‘I Love The Heaven’s Solo’).

Tanita Tikaram has provided exclusive album introductions and track-by-track annotations in the 24-page booklet that comes with this box set.

The WEA / EastWest Albums 1988 – 1995 will be released on 28 June 2024 via Cherry Red.

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Tracklisting

The WEA / East West Albums 1988 – 1995 Tanita Tikaram /

• 5CD box set
  • CD 1: Ancient Heart
    1. Good Tradition
    2. Cathedral Song
    3. Sighing Innocents
    4. I Love You
    5. World Outside Your Window
    6. For All These Years
    7. Twist In My Sobriety
    8. Poor Cow
    9. He Likes The Sun
    10. Valentine Heart
    11. Preyed Upon

    Bonus tracks

    12. Friends
    13. The Kill In Your Heart
    14. Cathedral Song (Instrumental)
    15. World Outside Your Window (Edit)
    16. For All These Years (Instrumental)
    17. Twist In My Sobriety (Edit)
    18. Valentine Heart (Demo)
  • CD 2: The Sweet Keeper
    1. Once & Not Speak
    2. Thursday’s Child
    3. It All Came Back Today
    4. We Almost Got It Together
    5. Consider The Rain
    6. Sunset’s Arrived
    7. Little Sister Leaving Town
    8. I Owe All To You
    9. Love Story
    10. Harm In Your Hands

    Bonus tracks

    11. Over You All
    12. Rose On Wood
    13. Thursday’s Child (New Version)
    14. Sunset’s Arrived (French Single Edit)
  • CD 3: Everybody’s Angel
    1. Only The Ones We Love
    2. Deliver Me
    3. This Story In Me
    4. To Wish This
    5. Mud In Any Water
    6. Sunface
    7. Never Known
    8. This Stranger
    9. Swear By Me
    10. Hot Pork Sandwiches
    11. Me In Mind
    12. Sometime With Me
    13. I Love The Heaven’s Solo
    14. I’m Going Home

    Bonus tracks

    15. Only In Name
    16. I Love The Heaven’s Solo (New Version)
    17. This Stranger (Alternative Version)
    18. Hot Pork Sandwiches (Early Guitar And Voice Version)
    19. I Love The Heaven’s Solo (Early Guitar And Voice Version)
  • CD 4: Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness
    1. You Make The Whole World Cry
    2. Elephant
    3. Trouble
    4. I Grant You
    5. Heal You
    6. To Drink The Rainbow
    7. Out On The Town
    8. Hot Stones
    9. Men & Women
    10. Any Reason
    11. Love Don’t Need No Tyranny
    12. The Way That I Want

    Bonus tracks

    13. Rock Me ‘Til I Stop
    14. Me You & Lucifer
    15. Have You Lost Your Way
  • CD 5: Lovers In The City
    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

    Bonus tracks

    11. Five Feet Away
    12. Not Waving But Drowning
    13. Wonderful Shadow (Edit)
    14. Wonderful Shadow (Reconstruction Version)
    15. And I Think Of You – E Penso A Te