Tina Turner - All the Best
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Artist: Tina TurnerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
- TURNER TINA ALL THE BEST (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Nutbush City Limits
- What You See is What You Get
- Missing You
- Open Arms
- The Best
- River Deep Mountain High
- When The Heartache Is Over
- Lets Stay Together
- I Don't Wanna Fight
- Whatever You Need
- I Can't Stand The Rain
- Goldeneye
- I Don't Want To Lose You
- Great Spirits
- Proud Mary
- Addicted to Love
- In Your Wildest Dreams
- Private Dancer
- Why Must We Wait
- Typical Male
- Tonight (with David Bowie)
- Complicated Disaster
- On Silent Wings
- Something Special
- We Don't Need Another Hero
- Its Only Love (with Bryan Adams)
- Cose Della Vita (with Eros Ramazotti)
- Steamy Windows
- Paradise is Here
- Whats Love Got To Do With It
- Better Be Good To Me
- Two People
- Something Beautiful Remains
Free Music Notes for All the Best
Free Music Review: Rocking All Over The World For Five Decades
Hit: 5 Stars
Tina Turner has consistently been one of my favourite female vocalists of all time. Before I got into Madonna and Britney Spears, before the Spice Girls in 1996, as a child I would listen to her album "Simply The Best" in my dad's car for years on end. He is a huge Tina fan, so I suppose you could say I grew up listening to her in the early 1990's. I believe it's very important to treasure the music that you grow up listening to, because it helps shape and mould the person that you are. Tina Turner has definitely moulded me!
The release of "All The Best" in late 2004 in Britain came as a bit of a shock to me as I thought Tina had officially retired. While that's true in part, there's three new amazing songs here to cherish and add to the Tina Musicology. I'm not sure how the tracklisting fares for US copies of this CD (Amazon's listing is hardly 100% reliable) but with my UK copy, there's a total of 33 songs here spread over two discs. This really is the definitive Tina Turner collection, covering five stunning decades of amazing rock music!
Disc 1 opens with the new single "Open Arms." I was surprised by the fresh quality of this song because it's very modern and upbeat for someone who's reached the ripe old age of 65. This is followed by the classic "Nutbush City Limits" from Tina's time with Ike in the 60's. "What You Get Is What You See" was taken from the Break Every Rule album and is a great pop/country song. "Missing You" is one of my favourite songs that Tina has ever sung. From the 1996 album Wildest Dreams, this cover version is superb. Tina really makes it her own with epic and vast sounds that provoke a real atmosphere with her voice. Easily Tina's most famous song is next, "The Best." This song is a true classic and a real rock pop anthem! "River Deep Mountain High" is another song from the Tina and Ike days. It sounds so outdated now though, which is a shame. "When The Heartache Is Over" was Tina's smash hit comeback from 1999. She rocked Europe again with this massive hit. "Let's Stay Together" is another amazing song and another true classic.
The disc continues with "I Don't Wanna Fight" which is another superb mid-tempo pop song from the UK No.1 album What's Love Got To Do With It from 1993. "Whatever You Need" is a great pop song with soul and gospel influences from the 1999 album Twenty Four Seven. "I Can't Stand The Rain" is one of my favourite Tina Turner songs ever, because I love the funky percussion! The frequent outbursts of the instruments are very memorable too. "Goldeneye" was the famous theme to the James Bond film of the same name from 1995. This is easily one of the best Bond themes ever. "I Don't Wanna Lose You" is another one of my favourites, from the Foreign Affair album. It's a very powerful and stirring rock ballad about two lovers on the brink of a break up. Unoriginal but distinctive. "Great Spirits" is a rather strange but beautiful song that plods along, followed by "Proud Mary." Many fans think this is one of Tina's best ever songs. I think it's good, but it's a bit weird. "Addicted To Love (Live)" is absolutely superb. Tina covered this classic of Robert Palmer's only a few years after it was originally released in her 1988 world tour, and she completely sells it!
Disc 2 opens with "In Your Wildest Dreams," which is a great Tina song from the Wildest Dreams album. Tina's voice is incredibly sensual on this beautiful and racy track. It has a deep mystery to it that will totally relax you. "Private Dancer" is a classic which needs absolutely no introduction! The title track from the massive 1984 album which won Tina a coveted Grammy and heralded her multi-million selling comeback now reserves its place in rock 'n' roll history. "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" is a great rock ballad. It's one of those slow moochy songs, followed by "Typical Male." This is one of my favourite Tina songs ever because it has a certain catchy quality to it that no other song by Turner possesses. "Tonight" is Tina's well-known duet with David Bowie. However, it's not one of my personal favourites. "Complicated Disaster" is one of this album's new songs and has some strange electronical blips and beeps going on in it! I find this a great new area for Tina, but it soon fades out to become another pop rock standard. "On Silent Wings" is another one my favourites because it was from the Wildest Dreams album. The original version is better, however, as this edited version has a poor sound transfer. "Something Special" is the third and final new song and I really like it, because the strings are very warmthful. Tina's voice is grittier in her old age, but she still displays a velvety texture to her chords. "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" is a classic from the mid-80's. The song was a huge hit single and the theme to the film that Tina starred in, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
"It's Only Love" is Tina's duet with Bryan Adams but not really one of my favourites. "Cose Della Vita" is another duet, this time with Eros Ramazzotti. The song takes a while to really get going, but I really like it once it does! "Steamy Windows" is one of Tina's most sexual songs ever, and coincidentally, one of my favourite songs ever! "Paradise Is Here" is a really relaxing mid-tempo song. I like the effects on this song because they mix really well with Tina's vocals. "What's Love Got To Do With It" is arguably Tina Turner's greatest ever song. It is a monumental classic and has such a smooth, cohesive quality to it which has made it loved by millions around the world. "Better Be Good To Me" is another great song is which Tina displays a girl-power attitude about her role with her lover in their relationship. "Two People" is a cheesy but very loveable 80's classic ballad. This song is really typically 80's, but I find it really appealing to people in love. The disc closes with "Something Beautiful Remains" which is another favourite of mine, from the Wildest Dreams album. This song has a rather intimidating quality to it about a relationship that is doomed to failure.
OVERALL GRADE: 9/10
Tina Turner is easily one of the most loved and treasured international performers of the 20th Century. Her popularity has endured for more than 40 years, and this is a true testament to her talent. She's known by millions for the voice, the hair and the legs, but there's something deeper to her natural talent which keeps people in love with her personality and character. All The Best confirms her true talent and is a must-have for anyone who is wanting to experience the real Tina in her entirety. It also serves as a stunning retrospective of half a century of classic rock music.
All the Best Poster
This exhaustive trawl through Turner's career features 33 remastered tracks spread across two-discs and features all of her Parlophone/EMI hits alongside, 'River Deep, Mountain High', 'Nutbush City Limits', her movie themes for Goldeneye and Mad Max along with three brand new recordings. The most complete collection of her career to date! EMI. 2004.There are those who will claim that this double-disc best-of is worth its price based on the inclusion of three new songs alone, and given their smolder, it's hard to argue with them. First single and disc one opener "Open Arms" is a stuff-strutting affair, with the leggy rock icon letting loose a vocal torrent to prove that in Tina years 60 is the new 25, not the new 40, and "Complicated Disaster" and "Something Special" don't sit uneasily alongside disc mates like "Typical Male" and "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)." Undiminished vocals and still-vital rock instincts aside, though, the reason to pick up this anthology is its classics. Unlike 1991's Simply the Best which pulled from 1983 till then, All the Best reaches back to 1966 for the soul-steeped "River Deep Mountain High" and chugs through the decades, dipping into the '70s for the Ike'd-up hit "Nutbush City Limits" and hanging around the '80s and '90s for the bulk of 33 tracks. "Proud Mary," a 1993 rendition, keeps on burning, and "Private Dancer" and "What's Love Got to Do With It" land as seductively on the ears as ever, but the lesser-known numbers don't lack for heat either: too many spins of swamp-rocker "Steamy Windows," for example, may require new wiper blades. -Tammy La Gorce
The Multimedia World of Tina Turner
 I, Tina, Book |  Private Dancer, CD |  What's Love Got To Do With It?, DVD |
 Tina Turner: Break Every Rule, Book |  Workin' Together, CD |  Ike & Tina Turner - Live In '71, DVD |
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