Tina Turner - Classic or Dud?

I don't trust a song that uses the word "puppy" in the lyrics.

it's her only masterpiece sorry. and I usually don't care for Spector.

it's her only masterpiece sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0GVixJvt-g

I guess I'll be the first to speak up and say I love a lot of Spector's records (if not the asshole himself), I love Tina Turner and I love "River Deep, Mountain High."

I will say it's the only memorable record they made, partly because they didn't do much, just barely enough to fill one LP side.

Sky have just reported Tina has died aged 83

Sadly yes

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/24/tina-turner-legendary-rocknroll-singer-dies-aged-83

Just heard, damn it.

saw her about 10 years back, still incredible. had a big thunderdome stageset for just the one song, on the other hand also did a stripped back mini set of r&b stuff. wonderful evening and very glad to have caught it.

One of the few people I thought immortal.

My god:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9Um8T88KM

Whenever the deep cuts station here busts out some of her primal stuff it just knocks me back in my seat.

RIP.

Mick Jagger's dance moves are pouring one out for her right now.

Queen.

Man, there were some dire "opinions" being expressed upthread years ago. Sad.

RIP Tina.

yeah, this one hits hard.

one of those few times when the cover version is better than the original.

r.i.p. tina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAXkmo-HTI

Damn, what a loss.

i knew she was sick but it really feels impossible

when I was 11-12 i had an oversize Tina Turner tshirt that I wore everywhere, man I love her so much

so gutted

i knew she was sick & cried over the documentary thinking “what if she dies” but i tried to put it out of my head

RIP queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtm9qlG5xoo

also i am a corny mf but i love the stuff she did with Rod Stewart, they’re so great together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdvSk3PLMI0

:)

another of those times when the cover version is better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAkdxjneig

RIP Queen.

RIP Tina Turner and a hearty fuck you to the beginning of this thread

The first half of this thread is as depressing to read as a GOP Florida twitter thread. Fuck these people.

RIP

JFC, this thread had a shitty beginning, almost as low as Phil Spector's Ike Turner eulogy.

This hit me hard too, like even harder than usual. There's not a whole lot of records I listen to - mainly the great 1984 comeback LP and a good selection of her best stuff with her ex-husband - but her life story is just titanic. Like anyone who's been subject to abuse, whether at the hands of a partner or your family, can find solace and inspiration in Tina Turner, even if you've never seen or heard a single one of her amazing performances. The fact she made it this far after so many horrendously low points in her life is moving as hell. This sounds corny, but had I ever met her, I feel like if I would have broken down crying.

RIP Anna Mae Bullock, RIP Tina

http://www.youtube.com/watched?v=Yj3WhcGoSA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3WhcGoSA4

rip tina, fuck ike forever

amen

xp to birdistheword

I was so happy "I Don't Wanna Fight" became this surprise smash in 1993: she doesn't rise above the period A/C production, she owns it. I wanted her to keep having them.

found an old comp of ike-n-tina that i have never been able to rip due WB cd weirdness of a certain era.
hopefully tomorrow once i boot up my old XP machine then i will be able to add it to to the archive.
has been on the 'to do' pile for ages.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4533495-Ike-Tina-Turner-Greatest-Hits

so true, I love that song, for so many reasons

xp to Alfred

yeah it’s gorgeous

her vocal on the "i don't wanna fight" bridge might be the best of her career

“I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner,” Jagger captioned a series of photos of him performing with the late icon from decades past. “She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wyuwJP-u9Q

RIP, Cher is talking about this right now on MSNBC

I don't know why, and this makes no sense, but I never thought about the possibility that Tina Turner would die

Martyn Ware, perhaps unsurprisingly given his role in her renaissance, has turned into a one-man RT machine of just about every last tribute to her he can find:

https://twitter.com/martynware

I don't know why, and this makes no sense, but I never thought about the possibility that Tina Turner would die

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

exactly my first reaction

the ike adulation looks terrible totally separate from what it means to use it to handwave away what tina was

but tbh it always struck me as tryhard muso opinion *even aside from that aspect* because any glance at a sixties/seventies tina live performance clearly demonstrates a goddess

Tina Turner hanging off the Eiffel Tower.

One of Peter Lindbergh’s most iconic photographs. pic.twitter.com/TzkhHadVpX

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 24, 2023

RIP Tina, queen, goddess, auntie

i'd forgotten how nasty some ILM threads used to be back then, tear down the old gods or what have you

was inspired to look up the date of my first stadium concert which had mentioned way upthread Aug 5, Capital Center in MD Aug 85 so 13 at the time, Tina was really a force of nature - and truly seemed immortal

she will be missed

and that Eiffel tower photo is iconic

Yeah it felt for a while the popular opinion was her solo material paled to the Ike and Tina stuff, but I grew up on her solo songs, love many of them, and I know that era far better than the Ike and Tina one. RIP

Temporarily breaking silence for a RIP VMIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9F942fNKIc

IIRC there's no satisfying compilation of the Ike & Tina years, partly because no one wants to go through the hassle of licensing across so many different labels. Time-Life did a three-disc set that comes sort of close, but it's still missing some EMI-owned tracks and most egregiously the original "River Deep - Mountain High" (probably still owned by Phil Spector's estate but possibly easier to license now that he's dead). A shame because a two-and-a-half hour collection of that era or even a broader one extending into her solo years would be absolutely essential. I probably lean towards those years with her ex-husband, but no LP from that era matches the statement she makes with What's Love Got to Do with It and no single, not even "River Deep - Mountain High," gets under my skin as strongly "What's Love Got to Do with It."

My favorite Tina cover is Missing You

she absolutely belts the shit out of this live version, it gives me goosebumps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTVEE3id7Kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEw0FSxCO5g

fkn iconic… so good!!

can we go back to when she was alive
this sucks so hard