...is warming up my apartment right now!
I have a compilation cd running.
What are your favourite Nina Simone albums or songs
that U find special?
I just saw the movie "Before sunset" where they use
the song "Just in time".A liveversion from the album
"Live in Paris".That song is so incredible but that album
seem impossible 2 find.
The lyrics 2 that song goes so perfectly 2 the theme of the movie
also.
So...what you're favourites of her?
/peace Manki

I'd like to have some tips to; there is a endless list of Nina samplers and Nina best ofs and Nina whatever - someone helps us? Where to start?

I've got something of hers (might be a comp) but it's at work.
I'll let you know what it is tomorrow.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

The Very Best Of Nina Simone, 1967-1972 : Sugar In My Bowl

Disc: 1
1. My Man's Gone Now Listen Listen Listen
2. Since I Fell For You Listen Listen Listen
3. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl Listen Listen Listen
4. Do I Move You (Version II) Listen Listen Listen
5. Blues For Mama Listen Listen Listen
6. Backlash Blues Listen Listen
7. In The Dark Listen Listen
8. Consummation Listen Listen
9. Go To Hell Listen Listen
10. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Listen Listen
11. Turning Point Listen Listen
12. Turn Me On Listen Listen
13. The Look Of Love Listen Listen
14. To Love Somebody Listen Listen
15. I Can't See Nobody Listen Listen
16. In The Morning Listen Listen
17. Do What You Gotta Do Listen Listen
18. Ain't Got No - I Got Life Listen Listen
19. Please Read Me Listen Listen
20. Martin Luther King Suite: Sunday In Savannah Listen Listen
21. Martin Luther King Suite: Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) Listen Listen
22. Martin Luther King Suite: Mississippi Goddam

Disc: 2
1. I Think It's Going To Rain Today Listen Listen Listen
2. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) Listen Listen Listen
3. Nobody's Fault But Mine Listen Listen Listen
4. Another Spring Listen Listen Listen
5. Compassion Listen Listen Listen
6. Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You Listen Listen
7. I Shall Be Released Listen Listen
8. To Be Young, Gifted And Black Listen Listen
9. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Listen Listen
10. Suzanne (Previously Unreleased) Listen Listen
11. My Father/Dialog (Previously Unreleased) Listen Listen
12. Jelly Roll (Previously Unreleased) Listen Listen
13. Tell It Like It Is (Previously Unreleased) Listen Listen
14. Mr. Bojangles Listen Listen
15. Here Comes The Sun Listen Listen
16. Ooh Child Listen Listen
17. Poppies Listen Listen
18. 22nd Century (Previously Unreleased)

Select all , copy and paste right ?

She's great i should buy some cd's of her's

She lived in Nijmegen (town in The Netherlands) btw
which is the city i live in

I like 'There's Not Enough Love To Go 'Round' (if that's the title)
[Edited 1/15/06 20:57pm]

I just googled her name and 'Nijmegen' and read they named a street after her
[Edited 1/15/06 21:10pm]

I love Nina Simone...I have been jamming her cd's for the last few weeks! Great combination of artistry, fierce independence, confidence, sophistication and intelligence.

I just bought a Nina comp today This is the one I bought, hopefully it doesn't suck. It just had to have Four Women, Strange Fruit & I Put A Spell On You...



Disc: 1
1. I Loves You, Porgy
2. My Baby Just Cares For Me
3. The Other Woman
4. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
5. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
6. Trouble In Mind
7. Mississippi Goddam
8. See Line Woman
9. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
10. I Put A Spell On You
11. Ne Me Quitte Pas
12. Strange Fruit
13. Four Women
14. Sinnerman
15. Do I Move You?

Disc: 2
1. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
2. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
3. The Glory Of Love
4. To Love Somebody
5. Do What You Gotta Do
6. Ain't Got No-I Got Life
7. Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)
8. Everyone's Gone To The Moon
9. Revolution
10. To Be Young, Gifted And Black
11. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
12. Here Comes The Sun
13. Just Like A Woman
14. Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
15. Rich Girl
16. A Single Woman





My fave Nina song over the years has been Feeling Good but I'm on the periphery & just now getting into her stuff. Shameful that I waited so long, but I did

I love Nina Simone, the first Nina compilation i got was the four-disc compilation "Four women" where one of my favorites is "Tomorrow is my turn"
My favorite album is without doubt "Baltimore", and the title track is also one of her best songs, that and "I wish i knew how it would feel to be free"
Other favorites by Nina is "Ain`t got no - i got life", "That`s all i want from you" and her renditions of "Mr. Bojangles" and "O-o-h child"

Does anybody have the "Live in Paris" album?
It's not available in Sweden & I can't find it on the net either.
/peace Manki

manki said:

Saw it @ the wrekka stow today Didn't buy it though. Try this place:

http://www.rasputinmusic.com

CalhounSq said:

There were so many Nina Simone albums except "Live in Paris" LOL
/peace Manki

CalhounSq said:

That was my father's favorite song.

GangstaFam said:

I love good memories!

Like me and my then (= 1988) best friend in the world, who introduced me to Nina's music would sing Go To Hell every sunday afternoon after waking up.

HamsterHuey said:

manki said:

Just in time (jule styne, adolph green, betty comden)

Just in time you've found me just in time
Before you came my time was running low
I was lost the losing dice were tossed
My bridges all were crossed nowhere to go
Now you hear now I know just where I'm going
No more doubt of fear I've found my way
For love came just in time you've found me just in time
And changed my lonely nights that lucky day
Just in time
Before you came my time was running low oh baby
I was lost the losing dice were tossed
My bridges all crossed nowhere to go
Now you hear now I know just where I'm going
No more doubt of fear I've found my way
For love came just in time you've found me just in time
And changed my lonely nights and changed my lonely nights
And changed my lonely nights and changed my lonely nights
And changed my lonely nights that lucky day

The compilation I posted about is a really good one as it kind of swerves away from the My Baby Just Cares-trap and focuses on her social engagements, her anger, her sadness.

manki said:

OrgNote me if you're in a bind

Speaking of Nina, I also picked up Mary J Blige's new one. They sample "Feeling Good"

Seriously, what are they gonna do when they run out of true artists to sample?

I've got...



...The Essential Nina Simone

Tracklist:
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You
Do What You Gotta Do
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Since I Fell For You
Mr. Bojangles
Ain't Got No / I Got Life
In The Dark
Turn Me On
To Love Somebody
I Shall Be Released - (complete version)
To Be Young, Gifted, And Black
I Can't See Nobody
Isn't It A Pity
Sunday In Savannah
I Think It's Going To Rain Today

There's a Vol.2...



...that I don't have.

Tracklist:
Here Comes The Sun
Compassion
Who Am I?
Just Like A Woman
Angel Of The Morning
Peace Of Mind
Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)
O-o-h Child
Save Me
The Human Touch
Another Spring
The Desperate Ones
Everyone's Gone To The Moon
Cherish
New World Coming
My Way


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

Here's an interview I ALWAYS enjoy whenever I'm reading it, from her:


Legend-with-an-attitude Nina Simone breaks her silence. And you'd better listen.

Is it true that nothing irks you more than being labeled a jazz singer, albeit one of the greatest?
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. That's why I don't like the term "jazz," and Duke Ellington didn't either - it's a term that's simply used to identify black people.

As in the late '50s, when you became a star and were compared to Billie Holiday?
Yeah--what an insult!

An insult not because she wasn't a great artist but because--
Because she was a drug addict! They only compared me to her because we were both black - they never compared me to Maria Callas, and I'm more of a diva like her than anybody else.

Really? How so?
She was tempestuous. She was a complete one-of-a-kind and she studied her music more than anyone else in her generation. She could make the rules and break them whenever she pleased, and the world would listen because she was Callas.

Do you get off on being tempestuous?
What do you mean, "get off"? That's just the way I am.

Actually, it's hard to compare you to anybody.
Well, thank you.

You studied to be a classical musician, but instead became the High Priestess of Soul. Though you've introduced such classics as "House of the Rising Sun," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," and "Lilac Wine" during forty-years-and-counting reign, you don't much like show business.
Can't stand it! I like being onstage, but when it comes to show business itself and the pirates that run it, no, I don't like it at all.

You feel you've been ripped off
Yes, sir! Completely ripped off. I've never been paid all royalties for the five hundred songs I've composed.

How did that happen?
Obviously you're naive about show business.

In a very un-show-business move, you're famous for berating audiences whose behavior isn't up to your requirements.
My original plan was to be the first black concert pianist--not a singer--and it never occurred to me that I'd be playing to audiences that were talking and drinking and carrying on when I played the piano. So I felt that if they didn't want to listen, they could go the hell home.

As a child in Tryon, North Carolina, were you always this though?
Oh, no. I started off very pure and very innocent and I believed till the last minute that I'd be that concert pianist. It still takes a long time for me to accept the fact that it's never going to happen the way I dreamed it. It's just too late.

Yeah, but instead you became the legendary "Nina Simone." Didn't you change your original name so your Methodist minister mother wouldn't find out you were working a summer job playing piano in an Atlantic City bar?
Yes, but I'd rather not go into what my name was. I have two honorary doctorates. I am now professionally and legally know as Dr. Nina Simone.

Ok, but the story of how you changed it from "Eunice Waymon" is right in your autobiography.
If you know that, you don't have to ask me.

Should I be calling you Dr. Simone?
Well, since we don't know each other...

Okay, next question, Dr. Simone. In Atlantic City, you developed a wildly iconoclastic style that incorporated pop, Bach, jazz, folk, and even Christmas carols. Were you aware of what a groundbreaking brew that was?
Yes and no--mainly I did it to pass the time. Because I was hired to play the piano for forty-five minutes out of each hour for six hours a night, and since I hadn't played any popular music before, I had to incorporate jazz and classical motifs into what I was doing, and that developed into the difficult role I'm playing now. I didn't start singing until the manager of the bar told me that just playing wasn't good enough.

And even though you'd never sung professionally before, you were an immediate hit and got signed to record your first of fifty-one albums. Are you excited about the Rhino anthology of your early-'60s Colpix-label recordings that just came out?
Well, I didn't know about that. Thanks for telling me.

You didn't know?! It's kind of a big deal.
Is it, now?

Yes, and actually the Verve label recently released another compilation.
Oh, for God's sake, there are pirates everywhere!

I'm sure these aren't pirates... I really think you'll get paid.
Well, I'll know as the checks come in.

Maybe if you lived in America instead of the south of France, you'd have more knowledge of your current popular resurgence here.
I don't like America, I never did, and I don't want to go back unless I have to.

I thought you were going to tour this coming year. Anyway, what do you have against America?
I think they'll sell themselves, their souls, and their brothers, sisters, and mothers for money. And prejudice there is so insidious and subtle--I've never seen anything like it! It's gotten crazy with so many skinheads, everybody gone mad, bang-bang shot dead--I don't know what's happened to the world.

Is that why, after all your high-profile civil-rights work in the '60s, you left the U.S. pretty much permanently in the early '70s?
I left because I didn't feel that black people were going to get their due, and I still don't.

In the late '60s, your song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" was declared by the Congress of Racial Equality to be the black national anthem.
Yes, and then black America promptly refused it.

How so?
You mean "Why so?" I don't know why--it's just that they're pretty backwards.

Backwards, hmm... I guess you don't feel much was accomplished in the movement.
After Martin Luther King and Malcom X got killed, after Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes and Medgar Evers died, and after Stockley Carmichael and Miriam Makeba went to Africa, yes, I felt the movement died.

So you moved to Africa. How'd you feel when you got there?
That I was at home. I took off my shoes and walked in the dirt streets, smelled all the smells... They didn't event want me to sing over there, they just wanted me to have a good time! I felt thoroughly at home there.

So much so that in your book you say that on your third night there, you danced buck naked in a nightclub for two hours.
(laughs) Yes. I don't particularly like clothes, and when I get a chance to be happy and dance with friends around me, I take them off and I dance.

And at age sixty-three, do you still do that?
Well, not here in the south of France.

You've been married and divorced and had many romances. Do you still get around?
I had an intense love affair with a Tunisian boy last year, but I don't think I want to get involved for a long time again because he opened me up like a volcano, and it almost put me under.

I'm happy to hear you have friends, because I recently read a quote of yours that said "I don't like people that much." Why's that?
Because they're basically undeveloped, stupid, and not very knowledgeable about anything--they don't think for themselves and they're not honest.

I see. And is the same true for yourself?
What do you mean? I'm very honest.

You certainly are. People play your songs when they're feeling bad. What do they hook into?
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

How would you like to be remembered?
I want to be remembered as a diva from beginning to end who never compromised in what she felt about racis and how the world should be, and who to the end of her days consistently stayed the same.

But isn't life about evolving and changing?
Not for me.

Little Girl Blue is one of my fave-tracks (but... I don't know too many). Ain't that fine!

I have always enjoyed:
"I want a lil sugar in my bowl"
"I put a spell on you"
" Don't smoke in bed"
"He needs me" and "Solitude"

oh my god...um... um...um..


In The Morning from Saga....

that song is pop perfection

SenseOfDoubt said:

Start with the Verve Jazzmasters 17 and 56 I think.

Also, the Dual Disc "The Soul of Nina Simone" has some of the best Live footage I've seen as of yet. Excellent performances! I'm so glad people on the org appreciate her.

Harlepolis said:

Thanks for posting this, I need to read her bio now.

I love her music.

GREAT thread, I love Nina's music.

right before Christmas, I bought the SAME compilation that CalSq has.. & I TOO am looking for that HARD TO FIND "Nina - Live in Paris".. I actually have the cassette (which I can barely still play) but I want to get it on cd. on that "live in Paris" I love :

just in time
gin house blues
see-line woman
to love somebody (EXCELLENT cover)
ne me quitte pas

the WHOLE show, really..

FanofDaFascist said:

Ah, thank u. Some years ago I bought to Verve JMs (Chick Corea, George Benson), and I still think it was money well spent... gonna check em out.

As a hardcore Nina Simone fan and with no disrespect at all meant to anyone here in this thread I have to say screw the compilations and go for her actual albums. Her early period was on Colpex, then she was on Philips. All of those records are in print and most are two-fers (2 records on 1 cd). That stuff will knock your socks off, unaldulterated and pure, no sliced and diced comps. After that she was on RCA, but that stuff is harder to come across. I hear the RCA records are about to be reissued though with bonus tracks. If you have to have the comps, I guess that's ok because at least you guys are checking out Nina, but I feel like you are all getting the short end of the stick that way. The records are the way to go.

Also there are two DVDs out that are well worthwhile. One is footage from an '80s show at Ronnie Scotts and the other in 30 minutes of footage from '61/'62 that is so smooth it'll chill ya.

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