The Tina Turner Appreciation Thread

[Jason T.]

Tina Turner is incredible. I must admit to only hearing the songs that are occasionally played on the radio here in Amarillo. I'm pretty sure, with that amazing voice of hers, that the other ones I haven't heard are great too. I'm a sucker for artists with extremely unique voices. That would explain my Stevie obsession.

[gldstwmn]

I loove Tina. I watch What's Love Got To Do With It every time it's on cable. I've seen it a million times. I've seen her a few times and her shows and her energy are incredible. There are so many great songs, I Might Have Been Queen, Nutbush City Limits, Proud Mary, I Can't Stand The Rain and on and on.

[Mageboy25]

Hahaha I think its GREAT that several people love the song Break Every Rule too. Its one of my favorites too. I listened to it over and over again as i tried to find anything in Nutbush in 97. I had seen Tina/Cyndi in Nashville, again the next night in Memphis. On the way back to Nashville I went over to Nutbush. Theres nothing there. Takes like just 1 or 2 minutes to drive through it on the highway. Tina went to school in Brownsville, the town before Nutbush. Maybe if im ever bored and back in the area again ill check it out again since now I know what to look for.

I 1st saw Tina in 93 Nashville 4 row center. In 97 Nash, memphis, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Radio City Music Hall 5th row where at the very end I was able to go up to Tina, give her roses, shake and kiss her hand then jump all the way back to my seat.

Saw her 5 more times in 2000: Atlanta, Lousiville. Then the ultimate happened: I got 2nd row tickets through the fanclub for Atlanta and Birmigham. Then I was front row center in Nashville . God the selfish feeling of being front row center and then turning around and looking at 17,000 people behind you and you have the best seat. Oh yeah heheh these tickets were bought through her production company not Ticketmaster so I didnt have to pay all the extra crap charges.

Anywho my all time fave songsbesides whats love and Proud Mary)
Better Be Good To Me
Show Some Respect
Break Every Rule
Acid Queen
Steamy Windows
The Best
Ask Me How I Feel
Foreign Affair
Legs cover
Tina's Hollywood Nights cover
Whatever you want
That cheezy 78 disco tune Vivia La Money

Fave albums:
Private Dancer & Foreign Affair

Hope to see her live again someday............

On a side note hehe, up close she has a very big head.........another side not Debbie Harry has kinda big head too.

I dont frequent the Tina list boards anymore. After watching her on Oprah last week, I may be wrong but I think shes had some sort of a face lift since 2000. Her face looks much tighter and younger than it did when i saw her upclose in 2000, but tv can sometimes decieve.......She had at least an eye lift, maybe a face lift and other work done somewhere between 1991-1992.

[Livia]

God the selfish feeling of being front row center and then turning around and looking at 17,000 people behind you and you have the best seat.

Love, love, love, Tina! A friend and I splurged and paid $250 apiece to have front row in San Antonio a few years ago. I was joking that I'd be so close, I'd see the color of her panties. I did. They were white. Then, when she got on that crane thing and went out over the audience, we saw even more. And her black pumps have red soles. Bitchin'.

I was exhausted just watching her! Lionel Ritchie opened for her, he and I had a lot of eye contact. Nothing like him looking right at YOU when he's singing "Brickhouse!"

~*~*~These are the moments that I live for~*~*~

[chiliD]

Originally posted by GardenStateGirlie
I LOOOOOVE The Motels.....ChiliD...fill me in...what ever happened to them?? That's a band for VH1 to find and reunite

No need...there's an active incarnation of the Motels, as we speak:



Martha Davis & The Motels website

[TheBlueLamp]

I'm a big fan of Tina's too. When I was a kid and found out there was going to be a movie about her for some reason I just became interested in her. My mother had her autobiography and after reading that I just tried to find as much Tina music as possible.

Private Dancer (the remastered one) is one of my favourite albums of all time. I really love Foreign Affair too. Break Every Rule was not a huge favourite for me but I still love it...just a little less than the others.

My favourite songs of Tina's (and in some cases Ike's) are:
Private Dancer
Acid Queen
Afterglow
Steel Claw
I Wrote A Letter
Let's Stay Together
Goldeneye
Baby (What You Want Me To Do)
Sexy Ida
Golden Empire
Push
I've Been Loving You Too Long

I got to see Tina on her Wildest Dreams tour and was totally blown away. To see a woman of 57 with so much energy and with such a great body was astonishing.

Seeing Tina in concert was the first of my three favourite artists I absolutely had to see sometime in my life. Blondie was the second I really wanted to see, and I did last year, and now this year I'll complete the trilogy by seeing Fleetwood Mac at the end of the month! Only 17 more days to go!

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by chiliD
I just think it is SO cool that Tina covered a song from The Motels' first album.

Long live Tina Turner!!

Long live Martha Davis & the Motels!!

OMG - "All Four One" is one of my favorite albums ever!!!!!!! I can still see Martha singing "Only the Lonely" in that video that really haunts me to this day, esp. at he end when she is just wrecked over that table!!! Sighes "We kissed altogether wrong - no intention . . . " sighes!!!! And don't even get me started on "Take the L" out of lover and its OVER!!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

As for Tina - she tires the audience out before she gets tired She is an incredible performer and I love her!

[dissention]

I got this from today's news on the IMDB and thought you guys might like giving it a read:

Hindus in U.K. Angered Over Casting of Tina Turner As Goddess

Leading British Hindus have expressed anger over the choice of Tina Turner to play the roll of the Hindu goddess Shakti in an upcoming film by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, the Singapore Straits Times reported today (Monday). Ganapati Saraswati, director of the Hindu Scriptures Study Centre, told the newspaper: "It is deeply offensive to Hindus for Shakti to be played by a woman well-known around the world for her sexually accented singing and dance performances. Ms. Turner is not even a Hindu. We have many highly respected actresses who would be better suited for the role." Saraswati says he will urge protests at theaters showing the movie. Hasmuk Shah, an international trustee of the World Council of Hindus, commented: "Casting Tina Turner is insensitive and an affront to Hindus and we will not stand for it."