Bounderies are ment to be broken...

This CD by Tina follows up her success with PRIVATE DANCER.
She probably thought it best to stick to the soul/rock formula in 1986 too..and figures proved her right.
The album sold amazingly well, the tour wich supported it ended up sometime in 1988, somewhere in brazil, with the largest crowd ever assembled til then for a single performer.
Getting back to the album, she delivers great performances all through the CD.
Does not matter if you're on the dancefloor (TYPICAL MALE) - or even a countrybar dancefloor (WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET) -, if you are in the bedroom with the one you love (TWO PEOPLE, PARADISE IS HERE) or driving in the car (TIL THE RIGHT MAN COMES ALONG); not even if you have your headphone set on (AFTERGLOW): she will always gets thru.
Tina enlisted a little help from her friends again having David Bowie writing the splendid and glittering GIRLS, Bryan Adams bringin over the right rocker's touch to the guitar-driven BACK WHERE YOU STARTED and Mark Knopfler coming up with the honky-tonky-flavoured OVERNIGHT SENSATION.
This album is just about perfect for everyone...
pick your favourite environment and take a good listen to it!

Fine effort from Tina!

I remembered when this album came out in 1986. I liked Typical Male, where Tina tried to go for the dance sound that Janet Jackson did on her Control album. The rest of the album has a rockier feel, especially on What You Get, Break Every Rule and some other cuts. While I like Two People, it sounds like both What's Love Got To Do With It and We Don't Need Another Hero, especially on the bridge leading to the final chorus section of the song. I find myself singing both What's Love and Hero at that part. Tina must have been so blown away after Private Dancer's multiplatinum success that she wanted another song like that on this one. Maybe she didn't know that when she recorded this song. But Break Every Rule was another solid post-Private period effort from her.

Great follow up to her comeback album.

Break Every Rule was the follow up the hugely successful Private Dancer album. Break Every Rule peaked at #6 and sold over a million copies in America. This also launched her first "farewell" tour in 1987. The tour played to over 5 million people, and did over 250 concerts worldwide.

The first track, Typical Male, was the biggest hit of of the album peaking at #2 for 3 weeks. Its a great piece of bubble gum pop, with its catchy chorus. What You Get Is What You See was also a hit peaking at #13. It's a pop/country tune. Two People is a soft ballad that hit the charts at #26.

One of my personal favorites is Afterglow. Its got a great back back, & the song has a good message I think. Back Where You Started is Tina at her most rock. Its a get back, revenge type of song that fits great with her life. She won the Best Rock Performance Female Grammy for this underlooked classic. The title track of the album has always been one of my favorites. It was released as a single but fizzled at #76.

The album ends with a great combination of Paradise Is Here, & I"ll Be Thunder. Great songs that will leave you remebering this album. In the eighties Tina released 3 LP's. Private Dancer, Break Every Rule, & Foriegn Affiar. Each one better than the one before, and unfortunatly, least successful. I perosnally think everyone should have these 3 albums, as they are great, underated rock classic albums.

Overlooked gem

While 1984's "Private Dancer" was a smash, Tina Turner's follow-up, 1986's "Break Every Rule" was considered a bit of a disappointment by critics and from a sales point of view, it paled in comparison to its predecessor. Strangely, the album followed the pattern of the first with mid-tempo ballads ("Two People" modeled after "What's Love"), rocerks ("What You Get Is What You See", "Back Where You Started"), a David Bowie cover ("Girls", whereas "1984" was on 'Private Dancer') and catchy pop ("Typical Male", "Paradise Is Here") yet that may ultimately have worked against the album.



On the whole, it works, as many of the songs have hit potential, and some of them indeed were hits, especially "Typical Male" which was a Top Five hit. Overall, I enjoy 'Break Every Rule' more than 'Private Dancer' because I find there is a better selection of songs.



"Two People" is a superior mid-tempo ballad powered by Tina's excellent interpretation. The use of her lower register is notable here. (Note: seek out the 12" version as it adds more instrumentation and is even better than the album version). The title track is also a fine love song, which inexplicably never became a hit. The same can be said for "Paradise Is Here" which should have also been a hit.



Also, this album gives us more of the sassy Tina, particularly on "What You Get Is What You See", "Back Where You Started" and "Til The Right Man Comes Along".



Tina's cover of "Girls" is a knockout and will please both Bowie and Turner fans. Seek this one out.

PURE ROCK N TINA

This is "sophomore" cd after the smash Private Dancer.
This album explores the more rock n roll Tina.
The whole thing is great from Typical Male, to (seems like her theme song) I'll Be Thunder, to the mysterious Girls to the duet with Bryan Adams Back Where You Started.
I love every song on this album. I have always loved Tina and will continue doing so for years to come.
This is one of my finest cds in my collections.

Tina Turner the "Queen of rock".

Break Every Rule is one of Tina's best albums, the album was realesed in 1986 after her "Private Dancer success".
Tina realesed this album with a hole new direction from her early works at that time, she gives her self as a rock and roll diva and as a love singer.
The album contains hit songs like:
1-TYPICAL MALE wich was the first cut of the album and was a big hit in the 80's, the song made it to #1 in 1986 and was nominated for a Grammy award.
2-WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SEE wich was the second single, talks about the women revolution also was hit and reached #14 in the Hot 100.
3-The third cut TWO PEOPLE describes a perfect sharing love relationship it made it to #23 in the US and #1 in Europe.
4-The #5 dance hit AFTERGLOW shows Tina in the need of love.
5-The very acclaimed rock song BACK WERE YOU STARTED brought Tina another Grammy award in the Best Femele Rock Vocal Perfomance category.
6-The song for her 3 year sold out Break Every Rule world tour was BREAK EVERY RULE only made it to #74 in the US but was a hot track during her shows.
7-OVERNIGHT SENSATION her autobiographical song was not a single but tells us in a funny way Tina's music career.
8-PARADISE IS HERE was covered in 1995 by Cher in her album "It's a man's world"
Break Every Rule sold million copies and is consider a classic wich contains 11 songs and has composition by Bryan Adams and the writers of Tina's smashing hit "What's love".
This album has all kinds of styles and lyrics.