Ike & Tina Turner, Come Together + Respect, Beat Club, February 1971 

Recorded for their 1971 album Workin’ Together (their all-time bestseller, which also featured Ike & Tina’s cover of Creedence’s “Proud Mary”), this cover of The Beatles “Come Together” is positively blazing. It’s a bit of a slow burner, but a massive horn-and-guitar break gives Tina & The Ikettes a chance to showcase their flexibility that raised the temperature even higher.

Barely taking a beat, the band launches into a version of “Respect” that starts in third gear, and accelerates until it breaks into low orbit. Germany wouldn’t hear anything this fast again until The Ramones showed up in 1978. You won’t forget Aretha’s version, but it leaves Otis Redding’s original ever farther in the dust.