Song · Joan Armatrading
“The Weakness in Me” by Joan Armatrading
From the album Walk Under Ladders (1981)
“The Weakness in Me” by Joan Armatrading appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2004. It was first released in 1981 on the album Walk Under Ladders. Its best result is #353 on the WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,993 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"The Weakness in Me" comes from Walk Under Ladders, Joan Armatrading's seventh album, released in 1981, and it finds the English singer-songwriter picking over a love triangle: someone in the middle of an affair who has fallen for the new lover and still loves the partner at home. Armatrading wrote it alone and made clear it wasn't her story, telling The Boston Globe in 1982 that she wasn't married and wasn't caught up in any three-way affair.
Steve Lillywhite produced, with Andy Partridge and Hugh Burns on acoustic guitars, Thomas Dolby on synthesizer, Tony Levin on bass, Jerry Marotta on drums, Ray Cooper on percussion and Nick Plytas on piano. Issued as the third single, in America and the Netherlands only, it never charted, yet it has become one of her best-known songs. Godley & Creme directed the video.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 371 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 353 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
Also listed as: The Weakness In Me.
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