Private Dancer

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.

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.

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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.