I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner

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I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner
Compilation album by
Ike Turner
ReleasedNovember 15, 1994
Recorded1951 - 1972
Genre
LabelRhino
ProducerIke Turner, Sam Phillips, Gerhard Augustin
Ike Turner chronology
The Edge
(1980) 		I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner
(1994) 		Here and Now
(2001)

I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994. The album spotlights musician Ike Turner's work as a bandleader, pianist, guitarist, and solo artist, "concentrating heavily on his work in the 1950s and early '60s."[1]

Content

I Like Ike! The Best Of Ike Turner was released a year after the biopic

Boxtop
," released in 1958.

The song "Takin' Back My Name," originally released by Turner as a non-album track in 1970, was later used for the title of his 1999 autobiography.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA− [3]

Reviewing the album in Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, Robert Christgau wrote:

Hardly the last major rock and roller to brutalize women, Turner gets short-changed by history partly because his best-known victim was so major herself and partly because his specialty was collaboration. Sadly, Rhino's licensing whizzes failed to secure his Federal sides, depriving us of both his rawest singer — Billy Gayles, the real Screamin' Jay Hawkins — and his most primordial guitar. And leaving a lean, mean bandleader whose ear for the permanent novelty only began with "Rocket '88'" – as did everything else.[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ike Turner except where noted.[4]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
Boxtop" (Ike Turner, Carson Oliver & Little Ann)
 2:07
9."Matchbox (Version B)" (Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) 2:25
10."Down & Out" (Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) 3:05
11."Ho---Ho" (credited to Icky Renrut, alias for Ike Turner)  
12."Hey---Hey" (credited to Icky Renrut, alias for Ike Turner)  
13."Prancing" (Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) 3:49
14."Steel Guitar Rag" (Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) 2:48
15."Consider Yourself" (Stacy Johnson)Drake Coleman2:40
16."The New Breed, Pt. 2" (Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) 2:30
17."Takin 'Back My Name"Leah Graham2:15
18."You're Still My Baby"Chuck Willis2:47

References

  1. ^ a b "I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner - Ike Turner | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  2. OCLC 43321298
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 0312245602
    – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ "The best of Ike Turner". WorldCat.
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