Elly Roberts reviews
Tina Turner:
All The Best
Distributed by
Parlophone (EMI)
- Released: November 2004
- Rating: 10/10
- Cat. No: 8667172
Track listing:
Disc 1:
1.Open Arms
2. Nutbush City Limits
3. What You Get Is What You See
4. Missing You
5. The Best
6. River Deep Mountain High
7. When The Heartache Is Over
8. Let's Stay Together
9. I Don't Wanna Fight
10. Whatever You Need
11. I Can't Stand the Rain
12. Goldeneye
13. I Don't Wanna Lose You
14. Great Spirits
15. Proud Mary
16. Addicted To Love (live)
Disc 2:
1. In Your Wildest Dreams
2. Private Dancer
3. Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
4. Typical Male
5. Tonight
6. Complicated Disaster
7. On Silent Wings
8. Something Special
9. We Don't Need Another Hero
10. It's Only Love
11. Cose Della Vita
12. Steamy windows
13. Paradise Is Here
14. What's Love Got To Do With It
15. Better be Good To Me
16. Two People
17. Something Beautiful Remains
She may well have retired from the concert circuit four years ago but Tina Turner simply won't go away.
Barely in her teens, Anna Mae Bullock the daughter of
a black church deacon and part-Native American mother,
was in the recording studio testing herself as a
singer. Eventually she teamed up and married Ike
Turner performing as the Ike and Tina Turner Review.
As a live singer she gained a formidable reputation
which lasted her entire carreer, Their first hit River
Deep Mountain High, and last, Nutbush City Limits
(thankfully not the dreadful re-recording), make a
welcome inclusion.
When she left Ike in 1976, it took
some time and hardship until she got back on the
scene, opening tours for the Rolling Stones and Rod
Stewart. Over the next few years she persevered
gaining a contract with Capitol in 1983 which totally
resurrected her life and career. Then came hit albums
like Private Dancer, selling 11 million copies, which
spawned What's Love Got To Do With It, Better Be Good
To Me, both winning Grammy awards, are also featured
here.
Her next non-album songs were from Mel Gibson's
Flick Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, in which she
appeared. Steamy Windows and The Best are consitently
played as anthemic party records across the nation.
With We Don't Need Another Hero and One Of the Living,
the success continued, proving to be some of her most
outstanding work. Another album, Foriegn Affair gave
us Typical Male, Two People and What You Get Is What
You See.
Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams duets on It's
Only Love, as does Rod Stewart on It Takes Two -
showing she's in good company. A James Bond film
opener - Goldeneye -lets the diva lap it up at her
sultry best. Just for good measure, two live tracks are
thrown in - a raucous Addicted To Love, recorded in
London in 1988, and Cose Della Vita with Eros
Ramazoti.
Released as a double disc set,
All The Best is Tina Turner at her Rock Star best.
Thirty three tracks presenting sensual, soulful vocals
that have been part of modern culture for over 4
decades.
It's not all retrospective, as there's 3 new songs -
Open Arms (not
to be confused with Journey's song of the same title),
Complicated Disaster and Something Special.
Best Tracks? All of them. For all her achievemnts, Grammys,
sell-out tours, she's never had a Number 1 in the UK.
That's Showbiz for you !
Review & concert pics copyright © Elly Roberts, 2004-2010.
