Simply the Best (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Simply the Best
Type = greatest
Artist = Tina Turner


Released = October 1991
Recorded = 1966-1991
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length =
Label = Capitol
Producer =
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:apftxq95ldse link]

Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tina+Turner link]
Last album = "Foreign Affair"
(1989)
This album = Simply The Best
(1991)
Next album = "What's Love Got to Do with It"
(1993)
Misc = Singles
Name = Simply the Best
Type = greatest hits
single 1 = It Takes Two (duet with Rod Stewart)
single 1 date = 1990
single 2 = Nutbush City Limits (The 90's Version)
single 2 date = 1991
single 3 = Way Of The World
single 3 date = 1991
single 4 = Love Thing
single 4 date = 1992
single 5 = I Want You Near Me
single 5 date = 1992

"Simply the Best" is the name of Tina Turner's 1991 "best of" compilation album of her most popular hits since her comeback in the early 1980s. It also included three new songs "Love Thing", "I Want You Near Me", "The Way Of The World" as well as a re-recorded dance version of "Nutbush City Limits", all of which were also issued as singles in 1991 and 1992. The album is Turner's biggest seller in the UK, and the 57th biggest selling album of all time in the UK [ [http://www.everyhit.com./recordalb.html Everyhit - Best-Selling Albums of All Time (UK)] ] . "Simply The Best" was in the UK album chart for 383 weeks. The album sold 7 million copies worldwide [ [http://tsort.info/music/ay1991.htm TSORT Top Selling Albums 1991] ] . The Album sold over 600,000 copies in the UK and went Double Platinum in November 1991.

The compilation was released with different track listings in the U.S. and the rest of the world. On the U.S. edition the tracks "Addicted To Love" (Live) and "Be Tender With Me Baby" were replaced by "What You Get Is What You See" and "Look Me in the Heart".

Track listing

#"The Best" (7" Edit) (Chapman, Knight) - 4:10
#* Original version appears on 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"What's Love Got To Do With It?" (Britten, Lyle) - 3:50
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"I Can't Stand The Rain" (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) - 3:44
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"I Don't Wanna Lose You" (Hammond, Lyle) - 4:18
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90's Version) (Turner) - 3:44
#* Original version appears on Ike & Tina Turner 1973 album "Nutbush City Limits"
#"Let's Stay Together" (7" Edit) (Green, Jackson, Mitchell) - 3:39
#* Original version appears on 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"Private Dancer" (7" Edit) (Knopfler) - 4:01
#* Original version appears on 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (7" Edit) (Britten, Lyle) - 4:14
#* Original version appears on 1985 soundtrack album "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
#"Better Be Good To Me" (7" Edit) (Chapman, Chinn, Knight) - 3:40
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"River Deep-Mountain High" (Original 1966 version) (Barry, Greenwich, Spector) - 3:37
#* From 1966 Ike & Tina Turner album "River Deep - Mountain High"
#"Steamy Windows" (White) - 4:02
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"Typical Male" (Britten, Lyle) - 4:14
#* From 1986 album "Break Every Rule"
#"It Takes Two" (duet with Rod Stewart) (Moy, Stevenson) - 4:13
#* From Rod Stewart's 1991 album "Vagabond Heart"
#"Addicted to Love" (Live - Single Mix) (Palmer) - 5:04
#* Original version appears on 1988 album "Tina Live in Europe"
#"Be Tender with Me Baby (David, Hammond) - 4:17
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"I Want You Near Me" (Britten, Lyle) - 3:53
#* Previously unreleased recording
#"Way Of The World" (Hammond, Lyle) - 4:19
#* Previously unreleased recording
#"Love Thing" (Hammond, Knight) - 4:28
#* Previously unreleased recording

U.S. Version
#"The Best" (7" Edit) (Chapman, Knight) - 4:10
#* Original version appears on 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"Better Be Good To Me" (7" Edit) (Chapman, Chinn, Knight) - 3:40
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"I Can't Stand The Rain" (Bryant, Miller, Peebles) - 3:44
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"What's Love Got To Do With It?" (Britten, Lyle) - 3:50
#* From 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"I Don't Wanna Lose You" (Hammond, Lyle) - 4:18
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"Nutbush City Limits" (The 90's Version) (Turner) - 3:44
#* Original version appears on Ike & Tina Turner 1973 album "Nutbush City Limits"
#"What You Get Is What You See" (Britten, Lyle) - 4:28
#* From 1986 album "Break Every Rule"
#"Let's Stay Together" (7" Edit) (Green, Jackson, Mitchell) - 3:39
#* Original version appears on 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"River Deep-Mountain High" (Original 1966 version) (Barry, Greenwich, Spector) - 3:37
#* From 1966 Ike & Tina Turner album "River Deep - Mountain High"
#"Steamy Windows" (White) - 4:02
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"Typical Male" (Britten, Lyle) - 4:14
#* From 1986 album "Break Every Rule"
#"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" (7" Edit) (Britten, Lyle) - 4:14
#* Original version appears on 1985 soundtrack album "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"
#"Private Dancer" (7" Edit) (Knopfler) - 4:01
#* Original version appears on 1984 album "Private Dancer"
#"Look Me In The Heart" (Kelly, Steinberg) - 3:41
#* From 1989 album "Foreign Affair"
#"It Takes Two" (duet with Rod Stewart) (Moy, Stevenson) - 4:13
#* From Rod Stewart's 1990 album "Vagabond Heart"
#"I Want You Near Me" (Britten, Lyle) - 3:53
#* Previously unreleased recording
#"Way Of The World" (Hammond, Lyle) - 4:19
#* Previously unreleased recording
#"Love Thing" (Hammond, Knight) - 4:28
#* Previously unreleased recording

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