Deep Album Cuts Vol. 227: Tina Turner




When Stevie Nicks became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice a couple years ago, I speculated on who could repeat that feat, and the two most likely names I came up with were Diana Ross (already in with The Supremes but not as a solo artist) and Tina Turner (already in with Ike & Tina Turner but not as a solo artist). And this year Turner has a shot of making that happen as one of the 2021 Hall of Fame nominees, along with Jay-ZFoo FightersMary J. BligeLL Cool JTodd RundgrenThe Go-Go'sRage Against The Machine, and New York Dolls, among others. And she's the subject of a new documentary, Tina, that will air on HBO this Friday. 

I thought about whether to do one playlist including Tina's solo work as well as the Ike & Tina Turner records. But since both are Hall of Fame-worthy catalogs, I'm going to give each its own playlist, and the Ike & Tina group playlist will follow tomorrow. 

Tina Turner deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):

1. I'm Movin' On
2. He Belongs To Me
3. Bootsy Whitelaw
4. Backstabbers
5. I Might Have Been Queen
6. Steel Claw
7. 1984
8. Overnight Sensation
9. Till The Right Man Comes Along
10. I'll Be Thunder
11. Ask Me How I Feel
12. Falling Like Rain
13. Not Enough Romance
14. Stay Awhile
15. Confidential
16. All Kinds Of People
17. Unfinished Sympathy
18. I Will Be There

Tracks 1 and 2 from Tina Turns The Country On! (1974)
Track 3 from Acid Queen (1975)
Track 4 from Love Explosion (1979)
Tracks 5, 6 and 7 from Private Dancer (1984)
Tracks 8, 9 and 10 from Break Every Rule (1986)
Tracks 11, 12 and 13 from Foreign Affair (1989)
Track 14 from What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
Tracks 15, 16 and 17 from Wildest Dreams (1996)
Track 18 from Twenty Four Seven (1999)

I was pretty disappointed to find that Tina Turner's first 4 solo albums from the '70s are all missing from streaming services and out of print. I was able to include a handful of tracks from three of them that have turned up on quick cash-in Ike & Tina compilations, but there's nothing at all from 1978's Rough that I could find. Obviously this era wasn't as successful as her work with Ike, and not nearly as successful as her '80s solo work, but there's some good music in there and I really wish those records were commercially available in full. "He Belongs To Me" is a gender-swapped cover of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs To Me," and of course "Backstabbers" is the O'Jays classic. 

Obviously Private Dancer is by far Turner's biggest album, and it's one of those '80s blockbusters that only had 3 songs that weren't released as singles, including a cover of David Bowie's "1984" from Diamond Dogs. One of them, "I Might Have Been Queen," was later featured on the What's Love Got To Do With It soundtrack alongside some of her biggest hits and a few new songs. 

The writing team behind "What's Love Got To Do With It," Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, continued writing more songs for Turner, including "Till The Right Man Comes Along" and "Stay Awhile." I've never been a fan of Private Dancer's Mark Knopfler-penned title track, but the song he wrote for Turner's next album, "Overnight Sensation," is a great song that really sums up her career well. The Bee Gees wrote 1999's "I Will Be There" for Turner, and that's another song so well tailored to her life, I'm surprised neither of those were singles. 

1996's Wildest Dreams had a pretty interesting mix of songs -- the Pet Shop Boys wrote "Confidential," Sheryl Crow wrote "All Kinds of People," and Turner covered Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy." One of the singles featured Barry White on the U.S. version of the album and Antonio Banderas on the European edition, which is just weird. But I think that kind of speaks to how big and how respected Tina Turner is, at one point just about everybody across the spectrum of rock and soul and beyond was happy to work with her or write a song for her. 

Previous playlists in the Deep Album Cuts series:
Vol. 1: Brandy
Vol. 2: Whitney Houston
Vol. 3: Madonna
Vol. 4: My Chemical Romance
Vol. 5: Brad Paisley
Vol. 6: George Jones
Vol. 7: The Doors
Vol. 8: Jay-Z
Vol. 9: Robin Thicke
Vol. 10: R. Kelly
Vol. 11: Fall Out Boy
Vol. 12: TLC
Vol. 13: Pink
Vol. 14: Queen
Vol. 15: Steely Dan
Vol. 16: Trick Daddy
Vol. 17: Paramore
Vol. 18: Elton John
Vol. 19: Missy Elliott
Vol. 20: Mariah Carey
Vol. 21: The Pretenders
Vol. 22: "Weird Al" Yankovic
Vol. 23: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Vol. 24: Foo Fighters
Vol. 25: Counting Crows
Vol. 26: T.I.
Vol. 27: Jackson Browne
Vol. 28: Usher
Vol. 29: Mary J. Blige
Vol. 30: The Black Crowes
Vol. 31: Ne-Yo
Vol. 32: Blink-182
Vol. 33: One Direction
Vol. 34: Kelly Clarkson
Vol. 35: The B-52's
Vol. 36: Ludacris
Vol. 37: They Might Be Giants
Vol. 38: T-Pain
Vol. 39: Snoop Dogg
Vol. 40: Ciara
Vol. 41: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Vol. 42: Dwight Yoakam
Vol. 43: Demi Lovato
Vol. 44: Prince
Vol. 45: Duran Duran
Vol. 46: Rihanna
Vol. 47: Janet Jackson
Vol. 48: Sara Bareilles
Vol. 49: Motley Crue
Vol. 50: The Who
Vol. 51: Coldplay
Vol. 52: Alicia Keys
Vol. 53: Stone Temple Pilots
Vol. 54: David Bowie
Vol. 55: The Eagles
Vol. 56: The Beatles
Vol. 57: Beyonce
Vol. 58: Beanie Sigel
Vol. 59: A Tribe Called Quest
Vol. 60: Cheap Trick
Vol. 61: Guns N' Roses
Vol. 62: The Posies
Vol. 63: The Time
Vol. 64: Gucci Mane
Vol. 65: Violent Femmes
Vol. 66: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vol. 67: Maxwell
Vol. 68: Parliament-Funkadelic
Vol. 69: Chevelle
Vol. 70: Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio
Vol. 71: Fantasia
Vol. 72: Heart
Vol. 73: Pitbull
Vol. 74: Nas
Vol. 75: Monica
Vol. 76: The Cars
Vol. 77: 112
Vol. 78: 2Pac
Vol. 79: Nelly
Vol. 80: Meat Loaf
Vol. 81: AC/DC
Vol. 82: Bruce Springsteen
Vol. 83: Pearl Jam
Vol. 84: Green Day
Vol. 85: George Michael and Wham!
Vol. 86: New Edition
Vol. 87: Chuck Berry
Vol. 88: Electric Light Orchestra
Vol. 89: Chic
Vol. 90: Journey
Vol. 91: Yes
Vol. 92: Soundgarden
Vol. 93: The Allman Brothers Band
Vol. 94: Mobb Deep
Vol. 95: Linkin Park
Vol. 96: Shania Twain
Vol. 97: Squeeze
Vol. 98: Taylor Swift
Vol. 99: INXS
Vol. 100: Stevie Wonder
Vol. 101: The Cranberries
Vol. 102: Def Leppard
Vol. 103: Bon Jovi
Vol. 104: Dire Straits
Vol. 105: The Police
Vol. 106: Sloan
Vol. 107: Peter Gabriel
Vol. 108: Led Zeppelin
Vol. 109: Dave Matthews Band
Vol. 110: Nine Inch Nails
Vol. 111: Talking Heads
Vol. 112: Smashing Pumpkins
Vol. 113: System Of A Down
Vol. 114: Aretha Franklin
Vol. 115: Michael Jackson
Vol. 116: Alice In Chains
Vol. 117: Paul Simon
Vol. 118: Lil Wayne
Vol. 119: Nirvana
Vol. 120: Kix
Vol. 121: Phil Collins
Vol. 122: Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Vol. 123: Sonic Youth
Vol. 124: Bob Seger
Vol. 125: Radiohead
Vol. 126: Eric Church
Vol. 127: Neil Young
Vol. 128: Future
Vol. 129: Say Anything
Vol. 130: Maroon 5
Vol. 131: Kiss
Vol. 132: Dinosaur Jr.
Vol. 133: Stevie Nicks
Vol. 134: Talk Talk
Vol. 135: Ariana Grande
Vol. 136: Roxy Music
Vol. 137: The Cure
Vol. 138: 2 Chainz
Vol. 139: Kelis
Vol. 140: Ben Folds Five
Vol. 141: DJ Khaled
Vol. 142: Little Feat
Vol. 143: Brendan Benson
Vol. 144: Chance The Rapper
Vol. 145: Miguel
Vol. 146: The Geto Boys
Vol. 147: Meek Mill
Vol. 148: Tool
Vol. 149: Jeezy
Vol. 150: Lady Gaga
Vol. 151: Eddie Money
Vol. 152: LL Cool J
Vol. 153: Cream
Vol. 154: Pavement
Vol. 155: Miranda Lambert
Vol. 156: Gang Starr
Vol. 157: Little Big Town
Vol. 158: Thin Lizzy
Vol. 159: Pat Benatar
Vol. 160: Depeche Mode
Vol. 161: Rush
Vol. 162: Three 6 Mafia
Vol. 163: Jennifer Lopez
Vol. 164: Rage Against The Machine
Vol. 165: Huey Lewis and the News
Vol. 166: Dru Hill
Vol. 167: The Strokes
Vol. 168: The Notorious B.I.G.
Vol. 169: Sparklehorse
Vol. 170: Kendrick Lamar
Vol. 171: Mazzy Star
Vol. 172: Erykah Badu
Vol. 173: The Smiths
Vol. 174: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
Vol. 175: Fountains Of Wayne
Vol. 176: Joe Diffie
Vol. 177: Morphine
Vol. 178: Dr. Dre
Vol. 179: The Rolling Stones
Vol. 180: Superchunk
Vol. 181: The Replacements
Vol. 222: Fiona Apple
Vol. 223: Van Halen
Vol. 224: Whodini
Vol. 225: Britney Spears
Vol. 226: Todd Rundgren
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