Music Review: Tina Turner - Tina!

Welcome to Tina Turner 101. Required material for the class includes Tina!, the latest greatest hits compilation released to coincide with her current tour. Although the collection purports to be an overview of her impressive career, many of the tracks represent her 80s comeback. The hits you'd expect are included, all digitally remastered: “What's Love Got to Do with It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” and “Private Dancer,” among others. A pleasant surprise is “What You Get Is What You See,” a late-80s minor hit that injects country twang into her bluesy sound. Conspicuously absent is the catchy single “Typical Male” from her Break Every Rule album. The 90s and 2000s are less apparent on Tina!, largely overlooking her last two albums — the underrated Wildest Dreams and Twenty Four Seven. Instead, the James Bond theme “Goldeneye”... [read full story]