Nina Simone - Anthology
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Free Music Review: Astonishing
Hit: 5 Stars
Nina Simone. This collection of her work might just be the best 2 disk compilation of music ever made. There is not a song on here that can be called anything but outstanding. Ms. Simone makes even the most standard of torch songs huanting and compleatly new... she takes classic blues ideal and makes them complex works of classical philosophy....as a guy raised on indie rock and folk nina simone early on became and important break from the norm. It is impossible for anyone to not like her.... i just cant see how there could be a single human alive that would not appriciate this collection of her work in their library..... FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMAN TASTE PLEASE BUY THIS!!!!!
Free Music Review: good
Hit: 5 Stars
This woman sings and you believe every word she is singing. She sings from her heart. She sings deep and from her gut. I feel transformed into a dark smoky lounge room when she sings. I really like her even though she sounds so sad when she sings.Free Music Review: Social activist's career neatly summarized
Hit: 4 Stars
Young, gifted and black, Nina Simone had a lot of things she needed to get off her chest. Racial conflict, social inequality, political aversion - the passionate subject matter of her songs is as gritty as the voice that sings them. This anthology gathers a collection of material from a variety of labels and demonstrates Simone's two-sided mentality; namely, that of musician and poet. Guided by a subjective introspection, her songs dive head first into a political pathos with an unapologetic disregard for sweetness and simplicity. Their messages are harsh and candid, brutally confrontational; their titles are explicit labels of what issues are contained inside ("I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"; "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair"; "Strange Fruit"). But that's only half the appeal. Simone's vocal delivery - often unfathomably overcooked - produces a dark, smoky and undulating quality to the proceedings that, curiously, travels further than the material often permits. The blues-cum-gospel musical arrangements are mostly uncluttered to lend a more engaged sound as Simone protests, dismays, and wrestles to establish her communal identity in the foreground, and tinkers away brazenly on piano in the background.
Yet her delivery is just as convincing in her love songs. "I Loves You, Porgy", the album's opening track, adopts a relaxed, almost sleepy, disposition, and whose bittersweet content is perfectly reflected in Simone's beseeching voice: "Don't let him take me/don't let him handle me/and drive me mad." In addition, her talents also extended to good humor, as some of the live recordings reveal; her ability to make the audience laugh through on-stage banter is quite moving. Ultimately, Nina Simone left this earth with a much clearer chest. This compilation stows her lifetime's worth of encumbrance.
Free Music Review: There is only one Nina Simone
Hit: 5 Stars
Everything about this woman and her voice is amazing. Her music is an all encompassing soulful back and foreground that I will never tire of. I buy all her CDs and rip all her MP3s. She even sounds great remixed. I've generated legions of Nina fans by playing her and giving her away at every opportunity. She's relaxing, inspiring, helps me concentrate, perks me up and sends me off to sleep. This cd covers her best tracks, and I'm sure there is something here for everyone. Buy it. Buy two copies and bless a loved one with her moving voice.Free Music Review: THE ARTIST NINA SIMONE by Jarvis Styles
Hit: 5 Stars
When the Gods created the skies, Africa and life, they gave birth to a living spirt, Nina Simone, the Queen of the Queens of Afro-American music. Nina Simone is an enigmatic, exuberant and extroverted person. One of the most eclectic artists of our time, Nina is guaranteeed to run the gamut of musical diversity; whether it's a time-honored spiritual, a blues groove, a folk song, a jazz standard, a pop hit or a show tune, she always adds her own distintive musical touch to the material at hand. As this remarkable album domonstrates, she belongs to that rarest of the musical species: an uncompromising artist whose choice of material is dictated by her own emotional sensibilites. As much as any other Nina Simone collection, this album is a kaleidoscopic tour of the musical world of this extraordinary artist, Whether singing with unabashed passion or offering a scintillating round on the keys, Nina perfoms whithout restraining on every cut of this album. Indeed, one might say that freedom is the key to Nina Simone's consummate artistry. And, as expressed by the peerless musical pioneer, that very human quest for freedom - on all levels - is as relevant in 2003 as it was in the 60's & 70's when this music was first recorded, Enjoy!