Tina Turner: Favorite Song

[quote]A Phoenix Risen from the Ashes.

Meh. She was always more like a Tucson.

'We Don't Need Another Hero' should be the Anthem to Trump. We're way beyond Thunderdome!

"One of The Living"

My favorite video of hers too

'I don't really want to fight' as cheesy as it may be she sounds truly happy and peaceful on that track.

Tina Turner, true rock 'n roll royalty.

River Deep Mountain High is a fabulous song that I can listen to over and over and it only gets better.

"'I don't really want to fight' as cheesy as it may be she sounds truly happy and peaceful on that track."

Cheesy? I think it's her absolute best. The restraint she uses makes it all the more poignant.

Tina Turner is Simply The Best

She knocks 'em dead. She's incredible.

It's Only Love with Bryan Adams.

Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner

On a recent episode of Andy Cohen's show, Rod Stewart said he saw her recently and begged her to end her retirement but she wouldn't budge.

I'm a big fan but her version of Missing You is awful.

Each time you leave I start losing control. You're walkin' away with with my hear and my soul. I can feel you even when I'm alone. Oh baby, don't let go.

Is she still alive? Last I heard she got herself a white lover/manservant and was a Buddhist in Switzerland. [eye roll]

Tina is a citizen of Switzerland.

R14 Does she meditate in the Swiss Alps?

Beyonce Who?

Nobody could ever take Tina's place.

I don't like Tina Turner's music. There, I said it!

I love her but not her voice or music.

Everything about this blows me away. So raw and real.

gives me the chills she does! the real deal sh is.

[quote] River Deep Mountain High is a fabulous song that I can listen to over and over and it only gets better.

Agreed, even though I picked 'Nutbush City Limits' 'cause it be so rock 'n' roll funKAY!

Phil Spector's production pushes the drama over the top. I'm sure that Ike didn't appreciate the effort at all.

Only Queen Elizabeth 2nd, do I care about more than Tina Turner, of course that is after family.

Tina Turner and Cher- Shame Shame Shame

Cher & Tina Turner - Makin Music Is My Business

Tina was such a great entertainer that some people forget what a great singer she is. My favorite "hit" of hers is I Don't Want to Fight and Fool in Love. I love her take on A Change is Gonna Come with sexy ass Robert Cray on guitar. She delivers the soul but doesn't overdo the pain. They do it right, together.

What I find cheesy about the song is the production which is typically 90s pop with shmaltzy synthetic music in the background. Her voice elevates it to a sort of perfection.

I love her version of I Can't Stand The Rain" It was never a single but she often performed it live at her concerts.

"What You Get is What You See" is one of my faves among many. She possibly never looked better than in the western-themed video, and she rocked it in a jean jacket on the tour I am so glad I got to see when she played upstate New York in that era.

I love that she made this sexy video where she never looked out of place with guys probably literally less than half her age, but doesn't fawn over any of them. Some boys just think they're God's gift to women.

One of the things I find interesting about her is that even though her early costume was very sexy she managed not to come off as cheap, it was just costume and she and the Ikettes looked great. Also the choreography was provocative without seeming slutty or whorish. My main problem with Beyonce is that she wants to come off as a good proper Southern Christian lady but gets on stage and acts like any other whore. Then makes sure everyone knows that she whores it up for her husband by making a song about it. Bey shouldn't get a pass, she's just as bad as the other pop tarts. She resorted to stripper dancing to keep her audience.

Tina is an immensely talented class act, she brought the sexy and didn't sell out her dignity.

Ugh, why even being Beyoncé into this? Tina Turner is in a class by herself. No one compares to her, or even comes close.

I always loved her version of "Let's Stay Together". The beginning of her comeback! And I love the Heaven 17 production.

Strange that I should find a new thread about her today. Last night I had a dream about her, and I never dream about celebrities.

Always loved her, her music, her image and looks, everything about her. I think she's one of the most beautiful women I've seen. Wish she could live forever ❤️

Let's Stay Together. Nuff said

[quote]Rod Stewart said he saw her recently and begged her to end her retirement but she wouldn't budge.

For god's sake, she's pushing 80. Leave the poor woman alone. When Oprah interviewed her in 2014, she said her last tour was exhausting and it would take her an entire day after a show to get her strength back. And that was nearly 10 years ago. If anyone has earned her retirement, it's her.

Paradise Is Here.

Complicated Disaster

I love this clip from Carson. This is Tina just before Private Dancer was released. She still has a shitty band and some weariness of all those endless years in supper clubs and bad lounges after Ike. She's grinding it out but of course she's fucking fabulous and fascinating. And respected. Always. She deserved all the fame and money and adoration that was coming her way. Did she then get lazy? Hell no. She always had the same stage motto: "First establish the pretty, then work your ass off." She got prettier and better. One of a kind.

Her version of PROUD MARY(ok, asshole Ike was there, too)is THE DEFINITIVE version of the song. Sorry, CCR, but you can't touch her! She really should've played a super heroine in her younger years.

People who use the phrase "ultimate gay icon" do not deserve to have their little poll filled out.

Tina is the ultimate rise, fall and rise again to unlimited success. No one deserved it more. Tina Turner is a national, make that, international treasure.

Tina Turner deserves a Kennedy Center Award.

"Steel Claw"

Unreleased Alternate Version of 1985's "One Of The Living" which can only be heard during the intro credits of "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome."

I prefer this Alternate Version of "River Deep, Mountain High" over the Spector version.

R26 "I Can't Stand The Rain" was released as a European Single in 1985.

The Extended Version features awesome saxophone not on the album version.

I love the whole Private Dancer album, all the singles are classics. However it was the cheesy power ballad I'll Be Thunder from Break Every Rule that really touched me when I was a teen boy dreaming of a tall dark stranger coming to rescue me.

I really enjoy the schmaltzy I Don't Wanna Fight as well.

The Steel Claw performance at R35 is much better, Tina is falling off her wheels. What's cool is her enormous success after Private Dancer allowed her for the first time in her hard working life to be a more creative act. She let her vocals and her band shine. The backup girls always, that sexy sax player. Tina still holds the record for the biggest concert audiences ever. More than Springsteen, more than the Stones, more than Beyonce. I've seen them all, and they're all great. Tina's audiences had the most fun I think. She's like someone from the underworld come to rule us all benevolently.

Tina did get a Kennedy Center Honor R39. It wasn't a surprise that Beyonce did Proud Mary. Not a scratch on the original queen either.

Love her!

Thank You kindly r35 for the Carson clip. What a treat to see this! I think she and her band were awesome here. They were all flawless!

Hey R47. I am glad you liked it. I won't belabor what I said, Tina was fantastic. Piano player great. The band, no.

I love seeing her like that. She didn't change much with big success, but there's something so damn hard working about her on the Carson show that makes me appreciate how much more she seemed to enjoy herself later. That sexy cooch dancing was something else. She would never wear a costume like that again for one....ha.

I got another one for you though. Tina sings my favorite later song of hers and indeed looks happy and young and grown. Letterman says " You knock me out, let's get married." No one is ageless, but she was something else.

If one more of you bawbags calls I Dont Wanna Fight schmaltzy...

No one's said it so I'll throw out "I Don't Wanna Lose You" as a solo highlight. Her tone and force can be grating but she's quite smooth on this one.

Most blacks will admit they are more suited to be slaves than trying to live in modern society. Not to mention, the Bible says nonwhites r our slaves.

I think this song doesn't receive enough attention these days.

I love "Two People", r53. From the underrated 'Break Every Rule' LP which is a great pop album.

Kind of amazing, r35, that Carson would give her nine minutes and two numbers on his show in 1982, before her enormous comeback (her big shows at the Ritz in NY were scheduled, but hadn't happened yet). He and/or his producers must have known and loved her.

I remember when her first MTV video started airing (was it Ball and Chain? Before "What's Love"), host JJ Jackson called her "the Burner, Tina Turner." People say Michael Jackson broke a race barrier at MTV, but Tina was a rocker and her videos were on before his.

And then she went on to become the stadium-playing, Grammy-winning pop culture goddess she always deserved to be.

Is my hearing failing me or have I not heard the words "Acid Queen" anywhere on this thread yet?

If the award was for changing the energy in the theater, Tina should've gotten an Oscar nomination.

@r33, "Paradise Is Here" is one of her most poignant recordings, I love that one. I also love "Something Beautiful Remains" and "Edith and Kingpin."

People forget that MTV started out playing "rock" music and not R&B, Soul, Lite Rock, etc. They gladly played rock artists (Tina) but didn't play R&B artists (Michael) because rock and rock only was the format.

Sorry and end of tangent but it's annoying when people refer to early MTV as racist. It wasn't. They played only rock music in the early days and few non-white acts were making rock music at the time.

Ladies and Gentleman: The Club Imperial, 6324 West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis Missouri is proud to present our local yokels, Ike and Tina Turner along with the Ikettes doing their #1 smash hit.

R58, is MTV's publicist from 1981. MTV has since acknowledged that in those days it had a policy that restricted how many black artists it would play. In that era of music segregation even Black rock artists were categorized as R&B or soul.

The first video of a black artist I can recall seeing on MTV was Grace Jones' "Demolition Man."

Eddie Grant rocked down to Electric Avenue in those days, too, r61.

Can't get food for the kids. Good God.

Tina is the BEST!

Thanks for the clip R5, Tina's big comeback in the '80s happened when I was about 9, 10, 11 so while I was aware of her, I thought of her as being someone for my parents and I was more into Madonna. It wasn't until I saw the film 'What's Love Got to Do with it' in my early 20s and I heard River Deep, Mountain High that I became a fan. As the years pass I appreciate her more and more and while I have vague recollections of 'Better Be Good to Me' from my childhood, I had forgotten/never realised what a terrific song. Tina really is someting special. Forget being a gay icon, she's a friggin national treasure. (Mary, I know, and proud of it!)

[quote]I have vague recollections of 'Better Be Good to Me' from my childhood, I had forgotten/never realised what a terrific song.

Yes, r64, and she kicked ass doing it live for many years. This clip is from a year or two before I went to my one and only Tina Turner concert, which was easily one of the best live performances I ever attended. Love her and wish her well in retirement.

Nutbush!!

Here, R20.

Another vote for Better Be Good to Me. Her wailing of the line "Should I" is everything!

I hum Nutbush City Limits practically every other morning when getting ready for work. It gets me going!

One of the Living

Tina joins Mick Jagger at Live Aid in Philly, broadcast live worldwide, 1985.

Sure, there was some stripping, but it was for charity. It's Only Rock and Roll, but I like it.

Steamy Windows...coming from our body heat

She is timeless. Watched Gayle interview her this morning and even with her recent health problems, she's still spot on.

I didn't realise Lulu wrote I Dont Wanna Fight. You can tell Tina loves that one when she sings it live.

I was shocked to hear about her recent health problems. She always seemed invincible. And she seemed to have taken good care of herself physically.

I don't wanna fight is a fantastic song. Absolutely incredible!

An ad for the Australia Rugby League was made when I was a kidlet to attract women to the game, with Tina Turner belting out WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE*. It attracted a lot of men to the game as well.

*perhaps hoping that the viewers didn’t hear the next line “then I don’t want your kind of love”.

I've always had a soft spot for the song "What You Get Is What You See".

Better Be Good To Me is amazing!

On Silent Wings

I prefer this little ditty that showcases Tina's powerful singing chops.

The Best is the best. Love that song.

Love Private Dancer too. -R81.

A lot of great songs, but another vote for One of the Living (and the great video too)

Code della vita - great duet

R35, many thanks for sharing that awesome clip. I think Tina AND her band were awesome in that clip. They truly rocked and that is exactly what was hot at the time! Those band members were both talented and hot! She knew how to put a band together!

Can any of you tell me what he song, Steel Claw, in r35 post means? It's a complex lyric, and there are a lot of words to it, I googled it, but I am not able to find out the meaning.

Foreign Affair!! It's so kitschy and wonderful. I love her live performances of it w the Sexy Sax Man.

[quote] Tina Turner is Simply The Best

SO clever!!!

David Bowie wrote "Girls" for Tina. I love the song and video. It gives me strong sapphic vibes.

Mine is a cover she did of Delbert McClinton's "Giving It Up for Your Love," or the cover she did of Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights."

As far as originally recorded by Tina, I'd say "Steel Claw."

"Steel Claw" is about poverty in a community and The Haves vs. The Have-Nots.

Great woman. I've been listening to her YouTube channel to unwind at night.

R90 Post those covers

Janis Joplin thought Tina was the best everything ever. There's some interesting subtext revealed in her necessary mention of Ike: