Better Be Good To POLL: The Tina Turner "Private Dancer" Poll

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Better Be Good To Me, but this album is stacked.

"What's Love Got To Do With It" suffers from verse-is-better-than-chorus syndrome, so I'll probably vote for "Better Be Good To Me," which benefits from lifting a bit from "Cuts Like A Knife"...

Does a bad version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" exist?

If "It's Only Love" was on this record instead of Bryan Adams's, I'd vote for that. But since it isn't, either "Better Be Good To Me" or the Al Green cover.

Does a bad version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" exist?

Some say Eruption's is awful and overbearing. I think it's a riot.

Probably going with "Better" but I need to think about it.

btw "I Might Have Been Queen" and "Steel Claw" (with Jeff Beck on gee-tar) smoke.

The author of "Steel Claw" is Paul Brady, who later wrote "Not the Only One" for B. Raitt.

Title track, I guess.

don't think I've ever heard this whole thing - didn't realize so much of it was covers!

Good commentary on this album here:

1985 Grammy Awards Album of the Year poll

The title track all the way!

this is a tough one for me, love this album and so many of the songs are great

the Private Dancer tour was my first stadium show (12? 13?), for some odd reason Glenn Frey was the opening act but Tina was amazing on stage

Popmatters just did an article on the 25th anniversary of the album http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116661-the-story-of-a-soul-survivor-private-dancer-at-25/

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that popmatters article is interesting. gotta vote "what's love" for impact alone. i was 14 and had no idea who she was, and then suddenly boom she was everywhere and that song was inescapable.

It was good! I didn't know lots of those facts.

Surprised it didn't mention the '83 concert after which she hammed with Keef, Ronnie, and David Bowie, and left with promises of songs, production help, etc.

"Better Be Good For Me", but "Steel Claw" is a close second for me.

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Anybody remember when (or know why) this was given a new album cover? I preferred the original...

i remember just about all of these songs for some reason ... ok, the reason is that a lot of them are classic. i probably would've voted for "better be good to me" :D

in praise of "Private Dancer": not just Jeff Beck's lovely solo but the little guitar teases on the chorus that sound like slide (at 2:26 for example): is that Beck too? the track is stuffed with details like these

have there been notable covers of it? it'd be interesting to hear an instrumentally stripped down version (like what Dire Straits would have pulled off?)

"better be good to me"

SHOULDN'T I

Her wors.

her worst too