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Post by Wynn Chester on May 24, 2023 19:00:23 GMT
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Post by wayne2467 on May 24, 2023 19:00:43 GMT
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Post by wayne2467 on May 24, 2023 20:51:25 GMT
I think this was my favourite
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Post by jjmolloy on May 24, 2023 21:41:41 GMT
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Post by AlanH on May 24, 2023 23:06:27 GMT
I never bought a Tina Turner single or album, and quite honestly, her music wasn't really my cup of tea, but I could see that she was a fine entertainer and a great talent. A real, topline star. RIP.
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Post by jno on May 25, 2023 2:33:32 GMT
I had a job at leisure centre in early to mid 90s, helping setting up events for a few hundred peolple, then working the bar, then clearing up afterwards till 3AM, a real slog, especially New Years Eve. At the end of the night, one sure fire way to get most of the Welsh punters up on their feet dancing around midnight or 1 AM was Tina Turner's 'Simply The Best'.
Side point waffle: nobody remembers the Bonnie Tyler version that came out a year before Tina's version:
Written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. Chapman also wrote tunes for Blondie, Mud, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, The Knack and Toni Basil's 'Mickey'
It's interesting because whatever disco the place hired in, this (Tina's version of course) was the signature tune to mark the end of the night. I can't hear it without being teleported back to that time seeing people having a great time after a great evening's entertainment.
Years later I'm in a band and the female singer says she wants to play it. Of course I'm in, and rip into that sax solo on the guitar as of course, no band has a sax player for just one number, goes down a storm (watch out for the key change though).
My dad liked Tina Turner and growing up I watched his generation very much enjoying her tunes, which I think she performed to perfection but none of which she actually wrote herself. Ultimate performer but not a songwriter.
Apart from her stupidly long extended intro of 'Proud Mary' which I never liked, I think she has a lot of good tunes that brought a lot of joy to people for a long time. This will continue of course.
Personal favourites of mine:
1. We Don't Need Another Hero
Classic 80s tune, just love it.
2. It's Only Love (with Bryan Adams)
Superb tune with great guitar riff and solo. Often gets forgotten.
3. Simply The Best
Cheesy but due to happy teleporting and meaning something to lots of people, a great tune.
4. Nutbush City Limits
Ike's guitar tone and super octave guitar solo is one of a kind, assuming it really is done on guitar.
5. Private Dancer
The guitar vibe continues, who knew this was written by Mark Knopfler and given to Tina Turner.
RIP Tina - we don't need another hero.
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Post by spacecadet on May 25, 2023 8:18:29 GMT
I know how best for her appearance in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdone and its soundtrack.
RIP Tina.
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Post by ontheslate on May 25, 2023 8:26:02 GMT
Wasn’t my type of music but you could see she had great talent. RIP
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Post by metro1962 on May 25, 2023 10:46:24 GMT
If I had to choose my fav songs of hers it would have to be What you get is What you see & Tearing us part (duet with Eric Clapton), my least fav song would be The Best (This is always played endlessly and will always be associated with her) my dislike for is based solely on it was played at my father's funeral in 2003 😒 as he too loved Tina Turner (he had all of her albums and singles) my mum not so ("You are always looking at her legs" every time she sang on tv😁 ) Whenever it is played on the radio or tv (more so now cos of her passing ) I have to change channels or mute it not because it's a bad song (it is great power ballad ) but because it has memories.😒
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Post by ltd on May 25, 2023 11:28:31 GMT
Always admired her tenacity - tough as old boots and didn't give up easily.
The Motorhead song "I'll Be Your Sister" was written with her in mind, but for whatever reason it didn't pan out, which is a shame. I'm sure she'd have more than done it justice.
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Post by jno on May 25, 2023 17:43:39 GMT
If I had to choose my fav songs of hers it would have to be What you get is What you see & Tearing us part (duet with Eric Clapton), my least fav song would be The Best (This is always played endlessly and will always be associated with her) my dislike for is based solely on it was played at my father's funeral in 2003 😒 as he too loved Tina Turner (he had all of her albums and singles) my mum not so ("You are always looking at her legs" every time she sang on tv😁 ) Whenever it is played on the radio or tv (more so now cos of her passing ) I have to change channels or mute it not because it's a bad song (it is great power ballad ) but because it has memories.😒 This rings a bell with many people metro1962, and is even a possible, albeit tough idea for a thread of its own in the music section. I definitely have a few of my own that I can't listen to. How one begins to get over feeling sad when a song is played is a very interesting topic, I do have one or two ideas and can confirm I have definitely overcome the replaying of one tune. |
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Post by Portland Road on May 26, 2023 22:49:32 GMT
Like many mainstream artists, Tina had great singles, and others less appealing, in equal measure.
I actually prefer the upbeat Tamla Motown version of 'River Deep Mountain High' by The Supremes & The Four Tops (1970, a UK hit in 1971), as I am not overkeen on the Spector 'Wall Of Sound'.
Favourite Tina singles of mine are 'Nutbush City Limits' (1973) which has stood the test of time, 'We Don't Need Another Hero' (1985) and 'I Don't Wanna Fight' (1993) co-written by Lulu.
'The Best' and its parent album 'Foreign Affair' kind of epitomise the AOR of the late-80s and as others have suggested, were everywhere on radio and jukeboxes, to become irritating - I prefer 'I Don't Wanna Lose You' or 'Steamy Windows' from that album.
R.I.P. Tina Turner.
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Post by brinylonshirt on May 27, 2023 0:23:48 GMT
Her energy was incredible as a live performer even into her 60s. She had the most unexpected comeback as by the late 70s/early 80s she was nothing more than a rock cabaret act playing midweek in places like The Venue in Victoria. When she appeared with the two guys from Heaven 17 on The Tube to sing her new single ‘Let’s Stay Together’ in late 1983 you could just see it was going to happen for her. I didn’t care for most of her solo output apart from a handful of songs which I love - ‘Baby Get It On’, ‘Let’s Stay Together’, ‘Private Dancer’, ‘Steel Claw’, ‘One Of The Living’ (a great piece of 80s bombast from Beyond Thunderdome), and ‘Steamy Windows’. Most of her 80s/90s output was over produced overly slick safely chosen material - she turned down Labi Saffri’s ‘(Something Inside) So Strong’. Though her time with Ike Turner is tainted by the domestic abuse, together they made brilliant Rock N Soul records in the late 60s/early 70s. They moved from label to label and kept the show on the road without having the support and resources thrown at them that Aretha Franklin had in the same period and I would rate Tina as a better singer (heresy I know!). As has been mentioned she was not a songwriter though she was a brilliant interpreter of songs and there are quite a few Ike and Tina versions of well know songs that made me look at the songs differently and really appreciate the song and her skill at delivering over Ike’s arrangements. Hard to believe such a life force has gone. RIP Tina.
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Post by daz on May 27, 2023 6:57:31 GMT
If you follow football in Scotland, but don't follow a certain zombie club from Glasgow who play in blue, you really detest her song 'The Best'.
She had some voice on her, but her music from the 80s onwards really wasn't my thing. I would switch her off if played on the radio.
Fair play to her though for making such a name for herself for a second time after everything she had been through.
RIP
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Post by westldner on Jun 10, 2023 5:21:24 GMT
RIP Tina Turner, maybe one of the more interesting singers out there. Catchy name, too. Never forget her.
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Post by thewoodster on Nov 25, 2023 8:09:46 GMT
She was simply the best Rip.
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