Ancient Heart
by Tanita Tikaram
Tanita Tikaram bestography
Ancient Heart is ranked as the best album by Tanita Tikaram.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Ancient Heart track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Ancient Heart rankings
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Ancient Heart ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/18/2026 11:32 | platus | 5,835 | 74/100 | |
| 11/12/2025 23:45 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 | |
| 08/22/2025 15:02 |  SomethingSpecial | 1,744 | 82/100 | |
| 05/22/2025 00:21 | machiaj | 805 | 71/100 | |
| 12/30/2024 17:35 | fabm0 | 6,861 | 59/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 69.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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Excellent late eighties album, worth owning the album just for the last track on side one, 'For all Those Years'.
Good album but like many artists she peaked right at the start of her career and never came close to repeating this sort of quality
philbutrin 09/01/2014 03:55 | #120911
listening to this album, it's hard to believe it was written and sung by a 16-year-old girl. she's definitely got one of my favorite voices.
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