Nina Simone

PLAIN GOLD RING ON HIS FINGER HE WORE

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Her debut album, Little Girl Blue is a great place to start. After that it gets patchy with shitty record companies releasing any old crap without her consent, often with sickly strings dubbed in.

Other great albums:
Pastel Blues
Nina Sings the Blues
Black Gold
Wild is the Wind
High Priestess of Soul

>>71721127
Much as I like Nina, I prefer White Gold's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_PIq3bfbho

>>71721073
Wild is the wind is good

>>71721266
I like Kimbra's cover desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNDiLXjuvE

>>71721266
>>71721298

thank you anons.

Is the Netflix documentary worth watching? Is it interesting?

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Baltimore [CTI, 1978]

Carried along on David Matthews's uncharacteristically infectious arrangement, Simone's version of one of Randy Newman's more perfunctory American-names songs is a glorious fluke on the order of Baez's "Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." I'm glad, though, that it's available as a single, because unlike owner-annotator Creed Taylor I don't find that Simone's "magnificent intensity . . . turns everything--even the most simple, mundane phrase or lyric--into a radiant, poetic message." On the contrary, her penchant for the mundane renders her intensity as bogus as her mannered melismas and pronunciation (move over, Inspector Clouseau) and the rote flatting of her vocal improvisations. There are several good cuts here; the song selection is often inspired (Hurley-Witkins's "The Family," perfect). But a woman who not only avoids coming out with the "bitch" in "Rich Girl" but hobbles the rhythm as well has real problems. B-

A Single Woman [Elektra, 1993] *bomb*

Too bad she was a terrible human being and a child abuser.

>>71721843
Lyl I just listened to her cover of Rich Girl and wasn't impressed at all.

Soul/funk threads in general get terrible results on /mu/.

Pastel Blues is GOAT

>>71721503
Yeah I watched it a few days ago, pretty informative & interesting

>>71722776
cheers, will watch it later I think

>>71721940
but she fought for equal rights