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Very 80s
I was surprised to not enjoy this almost at all
I thought maybe I’d like Tina Turner but her voice is grating to my ears
Not really my jam, I was feeling a disconnect between her really powerful voice and the almost cartoonish tracks. Sometimes they are fine, but then some wild synth line comes in and it felt really out of place in otherwise somber ballady songs.
Fine but nothing to interest me
She’s got a killer voice but man some of the songs are a mess
Must have been good at the time. Like most 1980s albums, it has aged like milk.
She sounds that an estranged aunt that thinks shes good at singing. I am a certified hater, so don't take my opinion too seriously if you like her music. "What's love got to do with it" has a fun 8 bit nintendo music sound to it when she isn't screaming like a walmart denizen scrabbling over the last discounted TV. It's not horrible but I don't like her voice and what she does with it. Wouldn't ever listen to it by my own volition, but I think Kelsey likes a few of these songs.
Bro, I'm straight up not having a good time. I've stopped and started this album like four times and each time it turns out only like 10 minutes have passed. Her voice is very grating at times and really gets to me. I guess this is rock and roll? But also R&B? Bleh What's Love Got To Do With It is very popular and I'm fine with that one. The rest I'll pass on.
Very Average album. I liked it more than I expected, but it was still nothing to call home about. I didn’t dislike any of the songs, but the album definitely felt like it dragged, and the cover of ‘Help!’ is definitely one of the most unusual Beatles covers I’ve ever heard, and not in a good way. Not much else to say 2.5/5
Has not aged particularly well
Amazing voice, but not for me. 2 stars
Sometimes she sounds like she could be in a hair metal band or something. Anyway, much respect for Tina but I don't care for her comeback records.
Pretty dull album for such a powerful voice.
Tina Turner is a legend, but this album is a average 80s pop record.
Painfully 80's. Lots of synth and stale drum machines. Vocals were great, though!
Old people music
Almost got a 3 as it was all so familiar despite being very meh... then i realised it's cause 2/3s of the album was released as singles. Bog average and terrible backing tracks
Not as good when Ike’s not around to beat a tune out of her
Obvious hits on the album, and an important album for her re-emergence as a superstar. But doesn’t really stick with me. Maybe I have memories of the hits saturating the radio. I never knew that Private Dancer was a Mark Knopfler song (seems to feel like it know that I know). I also don’t remember Help! from the album. Looks like it wasn’t on the US release. Not sure in Canada.
This is really not my cup of tea. I’m not saying it’s bad, but just not for me.
Hendes bud på "lets stay together" er sku bare klasse. Resten af albummet har nogle indlysende klassikere og også okay sange. Heraf er "private dancer" nok min favorit. Lidt intetsigende danse album. Fint nok.
Let's get one thing out of the way, Tina Turner was a brilliant, electrifying singer who deserved every ounce of success she got. It's a shame this had the misfortune to come out during an era defined by the most hideous production techniques in history. Her vocals are fire and the songwriting itself is fine but the way it's recorded is just garbage. I wish someone had had the foresight to re-record this before she passed. It's really, really hard to recommend even though she was a genius.
meh
Artist was a talented just not my taste better than some others.
Nothing special in my mind, just old pop music. 2/5
Let’s Stay Together is a disgrace to the Alfa Al Green original. Thanks O’Byron. I have a headache now hearing this.
has soul but felt kind of one note / very of its time
Tina has a great voice but everything else about this album is lacking and a bit dull.
Opening track feels like it’s from a random 80’s movie soundtrack. Very cheesy production. What’s Love definitely much better than most songs... Private Dancer is good too, production holds up and all. Still really boring IMO. I'm excited to hear "Let's Stay Together" since that's one of my favorite songs... interesting lead-in with the synth pads. She's singing well, pretty emotive in parts, I just do not like her voice... ok this sucks. Do not like the Casio-sounding beat here. Gonna need to listen to Al to rinse out this overproduced version out of my ears. This doesn't really hold up. I think this will be my first subjective 2/5, just compared to my other 3s I've done, this is less despite the popularity of a couple tracks, and historical significance. I don't think I'd put this on again, even ironically. I just don't think I like Tina Turner. Good for her though, fuck Ike.
I wanted to like this. I love Tina's voice and she has sung on some of the greatest singles ever released (River Deep and Nutbush, to name two). Sadly, this is less than the sum of its parts. Heaven 17? Check. Bowie, Beatles and Peebles? Check. Sadly, this has been produced to within an inch of its life, killed off, and then not quite revived. I can't get past the slickness, the polishing off of any interesting edge. The title track is interesting as a period piece, I guess, but the album sounds like the Eighties, and not in a good way.
Too slow and dramatic for me
Sure, her voice is fantastic, but the music was kind of bland for me. There's so good songwriting and some rather mediocre one.
If this had more songs like What's Love Got To Do With It? it'd be a much better album. That song is a tour de force from a tour de force, the rest of it isn't up to the same standard and doesn't do her justice.
I wanted to like this more than I did, but it just doesn't really do it for me. Her voice is super powerful, but there's really nothing else to the album than that, the drums are tinny, there's a bit of odd synth and a saxophone every now and then, it's everything that you learnt to hate about the eighties. 2/5.
Tina has a great voice, but these songs weren’t my favourite. They just had nothing to say, no meaning, no interesting instrumentations or melodies either … so like what’s even the point of making an album like this, let alone putting it on a list of 1001 albums to listen to before you die…….. I could have gone a million lifetimes without feeling this was an album missing from my life. Fav tracks: Let’s Stay Together, 1984 Worst track: Private Dancer
You can't deny her talent or her distinction. The Amy Winehouse of the 90s. Not something that I would listen to regularly, but I get the hype.
vuoskymmen... kolme sanaa. yksi kaksi kolme! 80 luvun huumaa... knopfler kirjoitti biisin... private dancer... sooloilee.. noh... annetaan siitä yksi tähti lisää... muuta ei tässä... ei tässä... ei tässä... ole... paska steel claw versio... dave edmunds...legendaa...kuritetaan ja kunnolla... private dancer
Has its moments but not my jam
Could it sound more 80s? It is quite groovy tho. Does get quite repetitive after a while.
I managed to download the 1997 remastered version. Which is longer. Which isn't good. BUT it contains I wrote a letter - clearly, obviously the best track I listened to by a mile. That has what the rest of the album, with it's oh so precise 80s production, is missing. Heart. Grind. Guts. Stuff that makes it more than just carefully placed. I grew up in the 80s and they produced some great music. Some of the time at least. But this just feels like it's being done on a cruise ship by some kind of tribute act. Or it's Opportunity Knocks. Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Tina Turner. It sounds knocked off. I do get why her voice is important. I do get why the album might be important in terms of her control over it and so on. But I just don't like the way most of it sounds.
This was an okay album. Very 80s, very pop, quite middling in my opinion. There were a couple of more exciting songs but a lot of it was just slow and boring. I'm sure it belongs on the list but I can't say I cared that much. Favourite: I Wrote A Letter
This is a "rock" record in the same way Rod Stewart made "rock" records. To me this is a soul album that is overproduced, overwrought, overthought, and dated. She's giving it her all with the vocal performances but they don't do enough to save this one.
She got a nice voice and yea it some 80s pop which I feel like lately I’ve been writing off the whole genre nothing in it sunder crazy different so I’ll continue to listen and keep lookin for the stuff
Takler ikke 80-tallet, men det var en gjennomført plate
Prime 80s Tina turner. I can see why I this would appeal to the masses, and why in the 80s this would have been huge, but honestly it's just not my style.
Her voice is really impressive, but I just didn’t enjoy the music at all.
⭐️ What’s Love Got To Do With It
There are many enjoyable grandma pop stuff around, this isn't one of them.
Show some resoect is an obvious 'Nutbush city limits' rewrite, poorly done. The album is a triumph of 1980s production over songwriting content. Hopelessly dated. Great voice, terrible productions.
One of the first albums I had as a kid was Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome so my first exposure to Tina Turner was We Don't Need Another Hero (plus she was in the movie). Another memorable Tina moment in my teen years was Nutbush City Limits, also heard many times at my kids' school discos. This album doesn't really grab me with What's Love Got To Do With It being the only stand out.
2.5/5 She has such a powerful voice, it’s truly amazing. Apart from that the album doesn’t cut it for me. Just not my type of music. Favourite song: - Private dancer
Not my style
I love Tina Turner’s work from the 70s. And I respect her career revitalization in the 80s. I really just feel like her vocal style doesn’t work with the slick 80s production. She needed something more raw like funk imo.
too repetitive but stl represent
2.4? It's ok just not my thing.
Not my cup of tea, but it’s OK. 2/5
Larguisimo, mucho relleno, por lo menos en el reissue. Tina tiene muy linda voz pero la produccion no envejecio muy bien, me gustan las canciones un poco mas organicas como Private Dancer y el cover de Help.
Strong 2, doesn't feel like it aged well
Love that 80s vibe but Tina's lack of restraint gets tiring after a while and this is a LONG album
Не считаю это культовым Сори
the music is largely uninteresting 2.5
Starts an ends like an intense 80s film soundtrack loses its way in the middle a bit. Steel Claw the best montage song of the lot, though it's basically a rip off of one section of bat out of hell. Beatles cover was particularly painful. In summary, nah.
A lot of the songs sounded the same as each other. Powerful voice. Didn't enjoy the Let's Stay Together cover, -1 star.
I had heard her famous tracks like "What's Love Got to do with it" but never properly listened to her music. She has a great voice but it's quite a dated album.
Very much the sound of the 80s, but just not that interesting.
2.5 1/2 ⭐️ for Tina's voice. All and all, pretty terrible
alright
Tina is great. The issue I have is that this album was a couple of good songs that were buried in a pile of way overproduced 80's sound. The production values just haven't aged well and I, personally, just can't get over that.
Simply the worst
It was alright. Already knew What’s Love Got To Do With It and Private Dancer, of course. (And the original I Can’t Stand The Rain.) Don’t really like this style of music that much. It’s a bit generic.
Couple of good pop songs, some terrible covers and a rehash of an old cover. Mundane production but an extra star for her fabulous voice. Overall though a very bland offering.
This is all wrong on this list.
Giving it a generous 2 because I liked the synth I Can’t Stand the Rain cover, but the original’s better. Help and Let’s Stay Together sound like cheap knock offs. Wasn’t a fan of any of the original music.
This is where ratings are a bit hard. I get this album is a ‘classic’, I didn’t hate it, but I wouldn’t listen again.
Sounded like an album that every middle class family had in their CD rack. Great voice, but the music lacks any sort of welly. Prime cut: I Can't Stand The Rain
Didn't like it when I was a kid. She's immense, yes, but this was poison to my ears back then
Los van dat ik haar attitude geweldig vind, heb ik verder niks met haar. Erg gedateerde sound en die stem kan ik maar weinig mee.
Tina's great. The rest of the instrumentation and production, not so much.
some classic tunes on there but not likely to bother going back to it
Painfully 80s.
2.5 Favoritas - What's love got to do with it - Let's stay together - Better be good to me - Help!
Just ok. Very 80's sounding. a few good songs.
I didn't like the 90s tones here, sampling seemed pretty cheap on most tracks, including the cover.
kinda mid
Crack is whack kiddos.
It's just not my thing. I really like two songs and that's it. Why is this album so long!
So very 80s. Title track is pretty lame. What's Love Got To Do With It is cool, but the best songs are covers and not as good as the originals - I Can't Stand the Rain & Let's Stay Together
80s cheesy. A few good songs, and of course her voice is great, but that's about it.
This album was weirdly fun, but overall not my favorite. I have heard “What’s Love Got to Do With it” many times before, and always thought it was an okay song. “Show Some Respect” was enjoyable as was “Private Dancer”. For some reason Private Dancer reminded me of Steely Dan, but after doing a little digging I found it is actually originally a Dire Straits song. “I Can’t Stand the Rain” is catchy. Let’s Stay Together was an interesting rendition. I snoozed through the last three songs though if I’m being honest.
It wasn't as bad as I had feared
Very much of its time. And "Private Dancer" written by Mark Knopfler - who knew!??!
bucks fizz x dire straits. bucks straits? dire fizz?
Better than expected
i didnt really vibe with the synth-soul stuff, i feel like it didnt mesh really well which is odd bc i’ve heard synthy-soul-y production on rap tracks before and really liked it — maybe a feature of how old this record is?
I gave it a go.
En ninguna canción sentí que fuera un álbum que mereciera la mención entre 1001 discos. Ya sé que son muchos pero.
I feel like I'm supposed to like this - and her - but I really don't. Her voice is unique and cool, but the music is pure cheese (made cheesier by all the cover songs). I don't care and you can't make me.
Love her voice, album kinda rocks, but idk, too pop forward
What’s love got to do with it is a good song. The rest are not quite so good.
It's interesting that Mark Knopfler wrote the title track but thought it was too girly for Dire Straits. Also interesting that she elected to cover 1984, probably for no reason other than it was 1984! I don't mind the opening track and Steel Claw is a rocker, but they all have that commercial radio 80s sound that I hate. As far as the hits, there were far worse songs on the radio at that time.
She had a tough early life with that douche Ike, but she's a survivor and kudos to her. She was also smart to team up with some pretty slick producers, Rupert Hine and Martyn Ware, who were some of the best in the biz in the 80s and they put out this monster album full of poppy hooks and covers of some fan favourites that sold a shit-ton and got lots of air-play so again, good for her. But musically this is really not my jam, too cheezy and AOR for me. I much prefer her material when she was doing R&B and more edgy rock. They didn't call her the Queen of rock and roll back then for nothing. Unfortunately this is smaltz.
I'm sorry Tina. I know that you are talented, but this album is not for me. I've heard at least two of the tracks from this album so many times, that I've had enough of the album as a whole. I have never liked "Private Dancer" on its own, but it is also tied to so many other pop-culture references - I've heard the track more than enough times to last my lifetime. "1984" is the track that I disliked more than "Private Dancer". Rounding down to 2 stars.
There are some great songs on here, some classics. But all in all this whole album feels terribly dated and boggles the mind that this is what catapulted Tina's solo career - that she was performing to world record sized audiences shortly after its release.
2.9 - A mixed bag. The extended guitar solo on "Private Dancer" makes that song extra sensuous. "I Can't Stand the Rain" is a quirky arrangement with cool synthesized effects to capture the sound of rain. On the other hand, the covers add some unimpressive filler to the mix: Tina Turner bashes "Let's Stay Together" with her vocal mallet and "1984" is just bizarre. I can overlook the lame cover of "Help!" since it didn't appear on the original release. Man, and that synthesized harmonica solo on "What's Love Got To Do With It" ruins the whole song for me. Tina Turner is clearly a vocal powerhouse and sexual diva but she made a bunch of tacky decisions here.
Didn't care much for the album. What's Love got to do with it is great, but every other track is forgettable.
From the year of my creation. Looks a bit like the cat lady off the Simpsons had a makeover. Sings other peoples songs well. Outside of the singles fairly unremarkable though. The Beatles cover was a fucking travesty. 2/5
Amazing voice. Original girl power. Backing tracks are distractingly awful. Not for me.
Bog standard 80s AOR couldn't get too excited. A couple of good tunes but it really sounded like Genesis with Phil Collins in.
I can take it or leave it or tie it up in a bag with a brick and throw it off a bridge in a torrential midnight rainstorm.
I am not seeing why this is on the 1001 albums list. The vocals sound similar to little richard, emulating southern preacher singing style. I like this part. The song subject matter is pretty mundane - boy girl relationships. I'm not inclined to relisten to this.
nah ik lige mig
Hey I tried. I got the urge to buzz by this one, told myself thats not what I signed up for. Listening to the first couple of songs I kind of got into it. Thats pretty much where it ended for me. I remembered all the terrible music that was so hallow back in those days, Great voice thats about it.
I dug some songs, but did not dig most
Not my favorite, but had its moments.
Prima album, maar hou er niet enorm van
Not for me
Not my bag
5/10
It's like none more 80's. She's got a hell of a voice but it's dated badly. Just don't ask to see her nutbush city limits. Best Tracks: What's Love Got To Do With It?; I Can't Stand The Rain; Private Dancer
Tina was a force of nature. She had a set of pipes, for sure. But this album is too heavy on the 80's production vibes, and I can't really say I enjoyed it too much.
Top Picks: Show Some Respect and I Can't Stand The Rain. Skipped the second half of this album, kinda got the measure of it after 7 or 8 tracks. Not a bad listen, but not something i'd really seek out myself.
Har väldigt dålig koll på Tina Turner sedan innan, så gick in helt utan förväntningar. Blev varken blown away eller besviken. Ett stabilt popalbum, bra produktion (även om 80-talssoundet som bekant inte åldrats jättebra) och mycket fin sånginsats från Turner. Efter en lyssning var det ändå inte jättemycket som stack ut. Den största höjdpunkten är såklart What's Love Got to Do with It. Fucking hell vad bra den är!!! Annars var Steel Claw bra, rockig och taggig, och covern på Help var fin. Bästa låt: What's Love Got to Do with It.
did not like first songs, did not listen to the rest
I really wanted to like this more than I did
it was okayyyyyy sorry tina you were great in flushed away
I know this is like THE Tina Turner album, but I can't handle it.
Hätte ich mehr von erwartet. Ziemlich langweilige 80er Mainstream-Nummer mit 1,8 Punkten.
Some bangers, had no idea she did What's Love Got To Do With It or Let's Stay Together. But yeh, at the end of the day, it's Tina Turner, its fine but it ain't my jam, sorry Tina 😂 2/5
used to listen to it but tastes have changed over 30 years
I love me some Tina Turner, that smoking hot Buddhist grandma that starred in a Mad Max movie and prowls around the stage like a benevolent lioness. The other day I heard an old Ike and Tina song by chance and I was reminded that the woman is a powerhouse singer with enough energy to light up a small city. But Private Dancer came out in the darkest days of the 80s, with textbook mainstream 80s production. The songs almost don't even matter, and even Tina herself can't redeem this music. I say all that without having listened to a note of the album, because the incessant radio play of her hits from that period is burned into my brain whether I like it or not. Okay, I'm gonna take one for the team and listen to this and report back.Later: Private Dancer is a lousy album, but the picture is far more complex than I first thought. For one thing there are five producing teams, and out of 9 tunes, 4 are covers! Clearly, the goal here was to restart Tina Turner's career and bring her up to date, and the strategy was to throw everything against a wall and hope something stuck. The only thing unifying the album is Tina herself. The Rupert Hine produced tunes are aerobicized, machine tooled arrangements that wouldn't be out of place on a Jane Fonda workout videotape. In their defense, there aren't any horrible synth patches and Hine uses the rockist guitar of Jamie West-Oram to anchor the tunes. Producer Terri Britten distinguishes himself with the mid tempo hit What's Love Got To Do With It, which has a reggae lilt--he also wrote it. He does less well with the Ann Peebles classic, I Can't Stand the Rain. The orchestral hits bring it up to date all right, but we're talking about disgusting 80s production, so that's no accomplishment. Better Be Good To Me and Show Some Respect are indistinguishable in style from Rupert Hine's work. Next up is producers Greg Walsh and Martyn Ware. They desecrate the Al Green standard Let's Stay Together with gated drums, nasty synth breaks, and chickenshit disco guitar. Their other contribution is a totally unnecessary retread of Bowie's 1984, one of his lesser works in any case. The tune features the most egregious and tasteless synths on the album and the most overblown, icky production. Probably the most interesting cover is the Lennon/McCartney standard Help, from the producing team of Joe Sample/Ndugu Chancler/Wilton Felder. Instead of simply updating the tune to 80s standards, they completely rework it, slowing it down and turning into mid-tempo gospel pop, complete with a chorus and a sax solo. It doesn't really work, but points for creativity. The last producer, John Carter, comes up with a minor gem, Private Dancer, written by none other than Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits fame--respect! It's a good tune to start with, and Carter has the sense not to ruin in with stupid 80s production tricks. It's actually fairly restrained. The other Carter-produced tune is Steel Claw, and we're back to the slick style of Rupert Hine. Sigh. There's a few things I can say about the album overall. Practically every track has gate reverb on the drums to some degree or other, and I hate it a lot. The album is crammed to the gills with synths, both keyboard and percussion. The production is uber-slick and airless for the most part. One good thing is that there are fewer than expected wretched synth patches on the album, which is doubly surprising because there aren't any amazing synth programmers on the album, like Larry Fast, but rather a number of them who I've never heard of, none of whom have particularly impressive technical credits. In the end though, Private Dancer is a tedious album to sit through. For a change, the best songs are the big hits, Private Dancer and What's Love Got To Do With It, but that's not nearly enough to put it over the top.
Weird.
Tina Turner is a fantastic singer and performer, but she depends on songs of others. Private Dancer and What's Love Got to Do with It are good songs written for this album. The cover of I Can't Stand the Rain (Ann Peebles) is ok. The covers of 1984 (David Bowie) and Let's Stay Together (Al Green) are poor. Other songs are filler.
Not bad
kind of an odd choice here.... it was fine, not somethng i really want to listen to though.
Meh, synth and drums
Crud
80sest production massively overplayed soz Tina
Some interesting arrangements for the covers which amply showcase the vocal talents. But something just isn't there. Maybe it is that it sounds of the time or that there were plenty of guest producers.
What I expected. 6.4/10
Американская Алла Пугачева
This was okay. Not my style but it is a good album.
would prob deserve more if it was my kind of music
not my cup of tea didnt really enjoy it at all
I’m excited for the pending 1984! A few too many power ballads for my liking to rate in turn. I Can’t Stand the Rain is best
T_T
just wanted more bangers
Hittibiisit toimii, muuten ei
Eh. It seemed like it was machine sounds in there infancy. Kinda boring.
I hadn’t listened to this since the 1980s. Now I remember why. I can respect some incendiary Ike & Tina, but this is tepid and unlistenable.
Mary would not of been proud of this effort...
This album is horrible on so many levels. The anodyne uninvolving music, the 1980s style over production, and most of all Turner's over the top vocals. Qobuz had the "International Version" of the album, which meant I heard her awful version of Help! and Bowie's 1984. Turner really doesn't have a varied repertoire of emotion in her voice. It's a real "production by numbers" album, and looking at the credits I wonder quite how much input Turner had here.
For the entire time I lived in London (2018-2025) Tina Turner the musical was playing at The Aldwych Theatre around the corner from my work. Despite flashing lights around her name regularly entering my field of vision it wasn't until today that I checked her out. This is going to sound needlessly unkind, but based on what is contained within this album I cannot understand why she has earned her legendary status within pop, or a multi-year tribute at a West End theatre. Look away now if you're a Turner fan please. I find her voice utterly repellent. I love melodramatic 1980s music (I'm the guy who loves ABC) so it's not that, but her particularly gristly, gravelly brand of warbling makes me feel uneasy. The backing music is boilerplate beyond belief to me, so I'm struggling to identify anything distinct that would single Turner out as a particular hitmaker. She was, so there is something I'm missing clearly. The one piece of Turner I had experienced before today was her turn in Mad Max 3, from around the time this album released. Its pleasing to see that her hair is more or less the same vibe as in that movie.
She ruined “Help!”
Show some respect, and few other songs, would bee great track if done at 60s or 70s. This 80s style and arrangement drops stars remarkably.
I get that this is a classic, but there is something about these big hitters of the 80s that sound so forced, to the point of being hard graft. Is it the production, is it the coke? Everything pushing hard to be the biggest gets pretty exhausting. I guess that's also the world's challenge with American culture in general.
Bitiremedim affet allahım
first woman #nooticing wow i had no idea whats love got to do with it was her song let's stay together is kinda nice def not anywhere as messy/noisy as the rest but not at all for me so i have to rate it low soz
This mid eighties production and recording style is very jarring to my taste. The album has a lot of mid covers, mid production, some hits, but really don't understand why this album is essential in any way to experience. Tina is a legend and i'm not familiar with her full discography, but i'm looking forward to listening to something much better than this.
Absolutely awful. Painful, grating, cheesy, overdone. That help cover isn't getting nearly enough hate.
Bailed at Help! I thought I liked Tina Turner, I definitely like what I've seen of her in the late 60's, but this was horrific. Really sounded like a cat being strangled. I watched some documentary about her and was so moved and held her in such high regard but now I'm very confused as to why. The modern documentary are just really good advertisements I guess. I'll chalk it up to a bad album. Still team Tina.
iIdidnt listen, but I like the nutbush so.
Sorry nothing against the album I just hate 80s music
mudpie: “This album was an absolute celebration of all the very worst aspects of 80s music production.” me: “The songs on this album barely exist.” Truly unbearable.
An absolute celebration of all the very worst aspects of 80 music production.
bodishi fexebze mekida
Not my bag
Two days is a row. I really cannot stand 80s pop. No disrespect to Tina but this is such tepid garbage, very tinny beats, not much bass. What's Love cannot save this from what I must do...1/5
Not for me
not really my thing
Awful album. Artistically empty cash cow.
Didn’t listen just really not my style
I actively want to stop listening to it after the first song.
Nope
Tina Turner's voice is too raspy for my taste. The 80s pop beats are so boring.
I don’t know what you call this type of pop, but whatever it is I hate it and everything it might have influenced.
Just not my jam.
I know this was huge back in 1984, but I could not stand any of this. Not only did it sound dated, but not my style of music,
Powerful voice... but unfortunately not much else is going on for me in this album. I have zero interest in the instrumentals (that seem to be little more than electronic drums and a cheesy synth). The production sounds like the worst of the 80s, it’s almost painful to listen. I tried to find reasons to give it a 2*, but I just couldn’t. I have nothing but respect for Tina Turner, she might have been an icon at some point in the 80s, but I can’t find any musical excitement here. Her voice is the only redeeming feature of this snoozefest. It should be clear by now that Tina Turner’s most magnificent contribution to pop culture was ruling the Thunderdome. 2/10
I can't believe people bought this. it was almost paionful to hear. Apart from the hit "What's love... " because it's been hamered in my brain for 4 decades. She's got a voice I give her that, but there's nothing else.
nah
Utterly dated and uninteresting.
I did not like this album. It’s in this weird space between disco and 80s pop but does neither very well. I will say it is very evocative of an era; I can easily picture my mom in a suit with big shoulder pads singing along.
Oh, lol. I’m expecting 2 decent songs on this record. Tina Turner had a super unique voice, but come on, she wasn’t writing a ton of landmark songs. I have a vague recollection of her singing CCR covers not quite as well as the originals. Welp, here we go… I appreciate that Tina is 45 at the time of this recording, yet sounds every bit of 70...and a hard 70 at that. It probably sounds like I’m being a smartass, but her voice is the best part of what’s going on with this record. At points, she sounds like the female Tom Waits without the cool, carnival barker vibes. The rest of Private Dancer is really pretty terrible. One might wonder how she got so popular in the 80s? Truly, I think it’s a mystery. I was alive for the 80s, and musically, this is like a compilation of the worst parts of it. I guess I don’t hate “I Can’t Stand the Rain”, but probably more for the connection to Missy Elliot, who sampled it. Honestly, this record sucks pretty hard, and it’s very much a product of the time. The confounding thing is that there were SO MANY great artists making music at this time, but Tina Turner's Private Dancer feels like it's on a mission to dodge anything that actually made those great 80's artists great, and intentionally do the opposite. It feels like genuine, open rebellion against good taste. Oh gosh, there’s even an uninspired cover of Al Green on here. And it has a synthesizer solo. That poor son of bitch is undoubtedly turning in his grave. Fuck. This might be one of the worst records I’ve heard on this list. It’s better than Destiny’s Child, but maybe only because I take it marginally more seriously. It’s just so all-around fucking awful. Oh dear. The song, 1984…if it was a movie, it would be featured on Mystery Science Theatre 3000. 0.4/5 The 1-star review I’m shoehorned into giving this record is incredibly flattering. I’m only rating this record as highly as I am because I do like that she sounds like a 75 year old smoker at 45. And because of “I Can’t Stand the Rain”. Really, nothing else on this record goes right. The lyrics are so dumb, the music is laughably bad, and I have some legitimate questions about why she was a cultural phenomenon in the early 80s. Was she? Or was she popular because her husband was a bona fide piece of shit, and she just drew media coverage because of their relationship? Was that why we all knew who she was? It couldn’t be because of merit. It wasn’t because of this record. It can’t be because of this record. As I’m listening to this, I’m actually wondering which record producer owed someone a favor or lost a bet or something. No one will be able to ever convince me that anyone actually wanted to hear this record. Private Dancer really, truly blows.
I remeber when this was first released and I wasn't all that interested in it. I didn't like the title track or any of the singles I had heard. Hearing it for the first time I still don't like it. Her voice annoys me and the songs are boring. I don't get it.
Tina Turner is so incredible but this album felt just a bit too repetitive for me. It probably doesn’t help that I am not a huge 80s music fan and this album is pretty much as 80s as it gets.
I don’t know why since I like Tina Turner but I really did not enjoy this album at all. Sad to say it but 1/5
1. queen - 1 2. love - 2 3. rezpect - 1 4. rain - 1 5. dancer - 1.5 6. together - 0 7. good - 1 8. clauu - 0 9. help - 0 10. 1984 - 0 11. letter - 0 12. uuidouu - 1 13. young - 0 14. love - 2 15. better - 0 16. rain - 1 ONE GOOD ZONG, DIZAPPOINTING :(
Tina Turner is the female iteration of Bruce Springsteen. Corny, tired and played out. I cant understand the appeal.
Tina has one volume, loud. Even when she tries to sing lower, she's way too loud. I'm also not the biggest fan of power ballads, and every song is a power ballad. Nope.
Private dancers are nasty ass tramps.
Not my cuppa
Can’t do it
I really did not connect with this album at all. Generic melodies with a frankly unappealing singing style made the songs come off very grating and hard to listen to at times. Unremarkable at its best, shrill at its worst
This album has a very cheesy, dated sound and it exemplifies what I hated about 80's music. I didn't even like the hits when they came out and the covers were meh to awful. I would never choose to listen to this.
Why not use a real piano when you are trying to get natural piano sounds? Because it's '80's pop music and it sucks. The 80's produced great music. So there is no excuse to sound like this.
They should have just left this where it belongs…..back in the 80’s! As bad as I expected unfortunately.
A tough listen. Can’t stand her voice and the songs are woeful.
Ouch, that production, those covers..
Not expecting to enjoy this much, but here goes... I have to say i slipped through songs I already knew. Show Some Respect is a straight ripoff of the Nutbush City Limits beat. Let’s Stay Together is OK, i guess. Steel Claw is Tina does Meat Loaf.
80s trash. She can't sing
omg!! older than others pop stars and STILL MAKING THE SAME SHITTY MUSIC NEVER BECOMING AN ARTIST .....AINOA HYVÄ BIISI PRIVATE DANCER INSENSITEETTI JA KUMMITTELAVA MELODIA JA LYYRIIKAT SOPII TÄYDELLISESTI... ymmärsikö itsekkään miksi niin special... kaikki muu on vain niin pitkää ripulipaskaa Mark knopfler genius.... vika biisi naulasi tämän ykköseen...
Awful. Classic, but awful.
Any old music won't do, Tina. Pretty dull and repetitive, with a screechy voice that made my throat feel sore. Petition to give Tina a throat lozenge?
Not a fan of this.
Beaucoup de reprises et j’aime pas sa voix C’est vraiment du commercial des années 80
Piercing vocals in a Pop, R&B Smoothie Maker. I won't relisten.
Nope
was horrific on the 80s couldn't listen to this
Never was into Tina in the 80s
I don’t usually give 1 star just because something isn't really my thing but this whilst not with merit for some people was pretty bad to my ears.
I could not finish it...
My God I hated this album when it came out. Proud to report my feelings haven't changed in 40 years.
Ugh, this was a chore to finish. Bad 80s synth and covers, I didn’t even like the Bowie collaboration.
The murder of Al Green is horrific and inappropriate.
This is hardly essential. Jeez.
This album might be OK, but I've had a lifelong aversion to the raspy croak of Tina Turner's voice, I just can't even open it. Am I missing out? Maybe. Do I care? Fuck no.
This is so thoroughly not my thing. I can hardly get through the aggressive 80s instrumentals and kind of showy yet not-pleasant-whatsoever vocals.
Not for me not a Tina fan at all
She's a good singer, but her voice is a complete mismatch with the super clean emotionless 80s production. Quite a few cover songs. None of them are better than the original. I don't like the originals on this album very much either. Favorite song: I can't stand the rain.
I tried to listen to the whole thing to understand and appreciate this, but it's really just like nails on a chalk board to me.
Oh come on! Big-haired pop-rock with over the top vocalising. No one really has to hear this before they die. It was tedious enough having to put up with the singles back in the day. Still, I suppose if you like this sort of thing...
Nej! var det första jag tänkte. Fulla mormorsTina har jag hittills lyckats förtränga.
I have no desire to listen to Tina Turner.
Corny as hell. Good singing tho
Really did not like her Al Green cover.
Knew the hits but nothing really did much for me. It's very 80s.... But not the good kind The cover of help was pretty shite Sorry Tina
Quite like the typography on the sleeve cover...
Maybe the most 80’s album I’ve ever heard. Lots of classics I guess, but I don’t feel like the music behind the vocals has aged well. Some songs are just too long (private dancer felt like it played twice in a row).
I really disliked this. She’s not writing songs or playing a note on here so what am I judging on? The songs selection, her delivery, the visual? It’s mostly covers, so we’re got writing credits of Al Green, Lennon-McCartney, Bowie, Knopfler… you’d expect some decent tracks? Her tone? aaaaah. Reading her Wiki just now and early label boss described it (as a good thing) like “screaming dirt”. I think I can agree with that. And her image… It falls for me somewhere between drunken aunty at a wedding disco and 3rd rate drag act. Maybe because she’s so iconic she is actually the genesis of these things but either way, it’s mutton dressed in leopard print and I am not a fan. It’s like the Rod Stewart of people - hard pass.
Nope
I hate Tina Turner so much. This album typifies everything shit about music of this era
Usually with the big names that I'm not into, I can at least understand on a cognitive level why somebody would be interested. In Tina Turner's case, I don't get it at all. She's an awful vocalist and the arrangements aren't doing her any favors either. The cover of Help! is one of the worst things I've heard in a long time. Best track: What's Love Got to Do with It, I guess
I was considering two stars, 80s awful production notwithstanding, as her performance is great, until Help and 1984. Help indeed. Imagine a loop of Tina's 1984 in your ears forever. Far scarier than anything Orwell could come up with.
Not for me
I wanted to like this, mostly because I havent liked a lot of synth heavy 80s top 40 pop (see Cyndi Lauper). I just didn't enjoy it.
Familiar 80s pop. Dreadful in so many ways
other than the few songs I already knew... meh
Still hate it
hot garbage
Not my jaaams
nope.
Not feeling it. A few track that were close to being cool but just comes across cheesy.