Full title, 'Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter'. Import compilation of 70's era recordings featuring 21 tracks. Highlights include the brilliant 'Doin' It', the title track made famous by Nina Simone & the Ikettes 45 & 'I'm Just Not Ready For Love'. Guests include Leon Ware.
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Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
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ASIN: B00005V31S Release Date: 2002-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
- What You Don't See (Is Better Yet)
- I Wanna Jump
- I'm Just Not Ready For Love - The Ikettes
- Young And Dumb
- The Game Of Love
- Whole Lotta Love - Tina Turner
- I Love Baby
- Up On The Roof
- Too Much Woman (For A Hen Pecked Man)
- Baby (What You Want Me To Do)
- (Long As I Can) Get You When I Want You
- Bolic
- Tell The Truth
- The Chopper
- I Wanna Take You Higher
- Doin' It
- Can't You Hear Me Calling
- I Like It
- Popcorn
- Help Him
Album Description
Full title, 'Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter'. Import compilation of 70's era recordings featuring 21 tracks. Highlights include the brilliant 'Doin' It', the title track made famous by Nina Simone & the Ikettes 45 & 'I'm Just Not Ready For Love'. Guests include Leon Ware.Customer Reviews:
The roughest, hardest, rarest and best of Ike and Tina!.......2004-01-28
What we have on here is the wild and funky hard soul stuff, albeit with a touch of psychedelic funk-rock. For me this is what I had hoped that they had recorded. Most tracks I'd heard by them sounded a bit dull, or uninspired compared to Bold Soul Sister and a handful of the tracks on the best ofs.
These tracks sound pretty rough, even for the time, and would dfinitely benefit from remastering, to bring out the brightness of the drums and tighten the bass. But then again that garage band sound is part of the charm. I mean, Tinas voice is at least as rough as the recordings!
Best track on here is, for me, The Game Of Love. I wish that heavy soul sound had been pursued a bit more. Theres shades of Ann Peebles or Ann Sexton on it.
Quite a bit of over eager 'fozzie bear' style guitar (Wacka Wacka!) but Ike's playing is great, punctuated with some firey R and B/Blues style licks.
All in all, my favourite recordings by the band and in some ways the most cohesive re-release yet by Ike and Tina.
Dont be put off by the fact that Tina's 80's to recent output is so sterile, or the fact that Tina is so famous. This is the absolute antithesis of that sound. If you want hard soul, raw funk and rocking tunes then this is where to start!
The Best of the Forgotten Classics.......2002-10-23
The disc opens with the ever funky "Funkier Than a Mosquitas Tweeter" which was penned by Tina's sister Alline. Was she talking about Ike? :) Tina's wildly uplifting reading of the track blows Nina Simone's bastardized rendition out of the water. The disc continues on with funk and soul drenched songs such as "What You Don't See" and "Baby, What You Want Me To Do" which would make Sly Stone proud. Soul, always a component of every Turner record turns up more predominately on cuts such as "Game of Love", "Up On the Roof (from the 'Let Me Touch Your Mind' LP) and "Whole Lotta Love" which was an R&B hit for Tina alone in 1975. And though many think Ike to be the sole svengali and mastermind behind the revue, Tina also made her writing attempts. You would be remiss to neglect to mention "Nutbush City Limits" (not on the disc), but she had other fine moments. "The Chopper" sits right alongside 'Nutbush' and other Tina tunes such as 'Sexy Ida' and 'Help Him'. The showstopper of this disc, however, is the addition of a sexy, soulful song from the Turner's 1969 LP 'Come Together' entitled, "Doin' It". Tina's raunchiness is restrained, but her sexual energy explodes over the track as Ike and company pander to her every desire to "change the groove". This is Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat" 32 years earlier.
In all, this disc has been over 26 years in the making. It's a pleasure to know that these classics are now available to hear without the cracks, pops and hisses of vinyl. The original 'Bold Soul Sister' and her erstwhile husband were indeed as funky as the title of this album suggests.
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