Tina Turner Album: “What's Love Got to Do with It [Bonus Tracks]”

This CD contains some new tracks ( including the Terry Britten penned "Stay awhile") and some new versions of Ike & Tina classics. It's nice to hear new versions of "A Fool in Love", "it's gonna work out fine" and other classics. Personally however I prefer the original recordings by Ike and Tina. Especially the new version of "Nutbush City limits" and "Proud Mary" are much worse than the original. The real soundtrack to Tina's life has still to be released ! The "collected recordings sixties to nineties" (Capitol /1994) comes much closer than this. P.S. The European version contains 14 tracks.

I was looking for the original recordings of some of Ike and Tina's songs. They are not here. The re-recorded material is ok, yet lacks the sound and vocal intensity of the originals; like 'Nutbush City Limits', for example. Where is her work with Phil Spector? There should be an "expanded" edition of this soundtrack with some of the original recordings that include or are intertwined with the film's original score.

Tina Turner rerecorded songs from her past to make her movie and they are all here on this CD soundtrack. The only one missing is "River Deep Mountain High."

Her new version of "Proud Mary" rocks even more than her original with Ike Turner. The one on the album is with Laurence Fishburn who played Ike in the film.

She rerecords some of our past favorites and really captures the energy of the film that it came from. This is a definite must-have for even the slightest of Tina Turner fans.

Whats Love is the soundtrack to the movie about Tinas life. It starts off with the apropriate theme song to the movie. I Dont Wanna Fight. Other highlights include Disco Inferno, Proud Mary, and the new songs Stay Awile and Why Must We Wait Until Tonight.

1993, was a very good year for Tina, she came back with a new production that wasn't actually a brand new album, it was the soundtrack of her autobiography sended to the big screen. The movie was "What's love got to do with it", the movie was a blockbuster and both main actors were nominated for the Oscar, they didn't win but Angela Bassett won the Golden Globe for Best atress, back in 1994.

This cd was a big hit for Tina all over the world, actually Tina used to appear on the covers of the magazines, while the first single, "I don't wanna fight" made it to #9 in the Hot 100 and #1 in the Hot Adult Contemporary.

For the soundtrack Tina re-recorded several of her early hits from the 60's and 70's. Tina's label decided to make two editions of the soundtrack. The European with 14 tracks and the American with 12.

The songs that did not appear on the US edition were old hits which are: "shake a tail feather" and "Tina's wish".

There's one thing that I don't understand about Tina in the US, how come she has big hits in Europe that never arrived to the US, such as the theme of the 1996's James Bond, Goldeneye, or Tina's latest European hit "Whatever you need", it's maybe because her record company doesn't promote her as they should in The US.

That's a mistery actually that we'll never know.