Jaime Danehey

As promised, here is another song from the excellent Cussin’, Cryin’ and Carryin’ On album. “You Got What You Wanted” is one of my favorite Ike-penned songs ever.

This is a real cool bluesy rock song, and it is nuts that (as far as I can tell) no one has covered it. Bands of the world, listen up! You should perform “You Got What You Wanted”! If the universe made any sense, this would be a classic.

Tina is downright sultry as the song begins:

You got what you wanted / Now you don’t want what you got / Once I was a thri-i-i-ill to you / And suddenly I’m not / Was it my mist-a-a-ake to give you everything I got? / You got what you wanted / Now you don’t want what you got

The song is only 2 minutes and 20 seconds long, but it manages to escalate into some passion from this chill beginning. (Lord knows that if anyone can work an emotional crescendo into a song, it’s Tina Turner.)

I wish I had this on vinyl, because it’s just the kind of song that you know would sound best on a record. I imagine the warmth of the tone would be better on vinyl, if that makes any sense.

You can listen to it streaming here.