Here Comes The Sun [Digipak] [Remastered] - Nina Simone

Advantages: Wonderful Songs
Disadvantages: None

...*** ME AND THIS CD *** To be honest, I bought this CD unintentionally. One night in 2006, at a local music store in Seoul, South Korea, I was looking for a legendary Jacques Brel's song called Ne Me Quitte Pas (Do Not Leave Me) when I saw this CD. I knew some songs of Nina before, such as Feeling Good, My Baby Just Cares for Me, and Mississipi Goddam, but I didn't know at the time that Nina sings Ne Me Quitta Pas too. My God! Nina sings Ne Me Quitte Pas! Without any doubt, I bought this CD along with other Nina's: The Very Best of Nina Simone the Colpix Years (2 CDs/ EMI). Several days later, a famous female Indonesian novelist, Asma Nadia (who was stayed in Seoul at the time) gave me another Nina Simone album: The Very Best of Nina Simone (© 2000, Universal Music). In this album I also found Ne Me Quitte Pas... Read review

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Advantages: all Nina Simone's best tracks are on here
Disadvantages: not long enough

...And Black 13 Since I Fell For You 14 Nobody\'s Fault But Mine 15 I Think It\'s Going To Rain Today 16 Sinnerman 17 Times They Are A Changin\' 18 Mr Bojangles 19 Here Comes The Sun 20 To Love Somebody 21 Ain\'t Got No, I Got Life (Nina Simone V Groovefinder Remix) As featured in the Muller TV Ad The way the album has been compiled is good even if it does swing you from happy to sad and back again throughout. You can see why people like Sir Michael Parkinson rave about the album on their radio shows. When I bought this album I was going through a bit of a rough time and this album has helped to buoy my mood and pull me through, if you are going through a similar thing then this could be the album which works for you too. Starting and ending the album is the track 'Ain't Got No, I Got Life' and it is the perfect... Read review

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Advantages: Nina Simone - One of THE Voices Of Music
Disadvantages: None

...'t let me be misunderstood'. Purely for the song's symbolic stature, written during the time of Martin Luther King, it depicts the black American's experience, and has become synonomous with those times. There are more fantastic tracks on this album - The mesmorising 'Put A Spell On You', a seductive, eligent track that just slowly sweeps you away into Nina Simone's world. There are a number of jazz tracks on this album too, the bubbly 'Work song' and the glorious 'Love me or leave me'. Her true elegance is shown in the beautiful 'Don't explain' whilst 'Mississippi Goddam' is a track that lets the real diva come out of Nina Simone. 'Strange fruit' is a track about black oppression n America and you can feel Simone's pain for her people's problems. This track is followed by another upbeat funk track 'I'm going back home'. Nina Simone... Read review

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