#21

Her cover of who knows where the time goes is jaw droppingly good

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#22

5/5. This is my favourite vocal performance of all time;

(The bit from 1:45-2:15 especially)

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#23

Love Me or Leave Me is missing from that Greatest Hits list. The one with a Bach style piano solo in the middle. A reminder that Nina always wanted to be a concerto pianist.

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#24
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#25

It’s like trying to do HGATR Mozart or Beethoven. Although I listen to a lot more Nina Simone.

5

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#26

I did suggest it!

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#27

JS Bach > Beethoven > Rock Me Amadeus > Mozart

edit : had all arrows in opposite direction.

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#28

Go Kart Mozart > Mozart

#29

Camper Van Beethoven > Beethoven

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#30

Bachstreet Boys > Bach

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#31

Wolfgang amadeus

  • Phoenix
  • Mozart
  • I love you Dr. Zaius!

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#32

I don’t think I have anything to say about Nina Simone. I’m sorry. Will abstain from this one for the time being, but plan to do a bit of a deep dive later.

#33

If there was a fire in the building that holds all music, and only one person’s back catalogue could be saved from it, it should probably be Nina Simone’s.

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#34

Sometimes do some mixes, and it always stands out if you play a Nina Simone track just how much better she was than whoever you played immediately before and afterwards, regardless of who else it was you played.

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#35

I just checked and Nina Simone is not on the list of artists who lost all their master recordings,

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#36

No album poll Funkdawg? Must admit I only know her singles/hits so would love to know where to go next

#37

Don’t know loads about her to be fair but she has some bangers. Pretty fucking punk

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#38

I always knew she was good, but didn’t realise quite how good until I bought the Phillips box set for my partner’s birthday a couple of years ago. This album in particular is astonishing:

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind

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#39

Clear 5 - an astonishingly talented musician and singer, an underrated songwriter and a fearless crusader against racism, sexism and various other types of bullshit. We could do with more like her.

She had her demons and was a complex an difficult person but it’s very hard to say how much of that was a direct result of the stuff she had to put up with in her life. I think a lot of that was a kind of shell she used to survive the problems the world threw her way.

Lots of my favourite tracks have been posted already, but not these I don’t think

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#40

think i only heard her version of witw after the bowie version but then got a bit obsessed with it
george michael version is lovely too

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