‘Love’ Has a Lot to Do With It : ** TINA TURNER, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”; <i> Virgin</i>

No one would want to see “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” the new film depicting Turner’s tumultuous personal and professional life, without the music keyed in. By the same token it’s not much easier to appreciate this soundtrack from the movie unaccompanied by the visuals.

Considered as a work of art on its own, the album mostly just leaves the listener mystified. Why else other than for the movie would Turner re-record such old hits as “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits” and the 1984 title smash in versions so similar to the originals? And in 1993 it’s downright creepy, knowing the abuse Tina says she suffered at the hands of her former husband, Ike Turner, to hear her calling out his name in the middle of an otherwise infectious new take on 1961’s grinding “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine.”

But the album isn’t all just memories from Turner’s scrapbook. Three new songs ably cast her in the sultry modern-woman mode she has successfully parlayed to stardom in the past decade, and her take-charge version of the Trammps’ 1978 genre classic “Disco Inferno,” recorded by her for the first time here, is good, clean fun. If ever a soundtrack derived its raison d’etre from the movie it supports, however, this is it.

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