Feeling Good: The Very Best of [Import]

Nina Simone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 29, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B000026LUP
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Imports > Jazz
  • #47 in Music > Imports > R&B

Track Listings

1. Feeling Good

2. My Baby Just Cares For Me

3. Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood

4. Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away)

5. Take Me To The Water

6. I Put A Spell On You

7. Dont Explain

8. Mississippi Goddam

9. Dont Smoke In Bed

10. I Loves You Porgy

11. Work Song

12. Love Me Or Leave Me

13. Strange Fruit

14. Nobody Knows You When Youre Down & Out

15. Im Going Back Home

16. The Other Woman

17. Sinnerman

18. Mood Indigo

19. Im Gonna Leave You

20. See-Line Woman

Editorial Reviews

Fantastic collection from Universal featuring 20 of her most memorable tunes. Highlights include, 'I Put A Spell On You', 'See Line Woman', 'My Baby Just Cares For Me', 'Feeling Good', 'I Love You Porgy' and many more. Polygram International/Universal. 1994.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nina #1, April 16, 2008

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Merilahti Kristiina (Finland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeling Good: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

I needed a collection of Nina Simone and after careful thinking and looking at the selection on Amazon I chose this one. And I have been very pleased.

My first demand was to get "Feeling good" and here it is. Wonderful, sensual, unforgettable. I was also curious about "Mississippi goddamn", which I've never heard on Finnish radio but saw a bit in a documentary about soul. It's a compelling performance, starts so harmlessly, tongue-in-cheek and builds up to a description of racism and plea for liberty - which inspired Sam Cooke to create his "A change is gonna come".

Nina Simone was a marvellous pianist and a great voice, that had more than one side. It's interesting to hear the less heard version of "My baby just cares for me" and then "Don't let me be missunderstood". Her "Ne me quitte pas" is a pretty good cover of Brel's original, which is saying a lot. I hate Brel covers.

The collection is quite a good one, showing more than one side of Simone's personality: the sexy, the bold, the jazzy, the humorous... If there are better collections, I haven't seen them, and I've looked.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, February 3, 2005

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R. Zanker "menofearthereaperman" (Princeton, NJ.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeling Good: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

My father was given this cd as a gift; not his cup of tea... I'll forgive him that, but this album changed my outlook on soul. More sophisticated than motown, more alive than Loussier. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "Love Me or Leave Me" utterly gutting!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone, February 23, 2010

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Robert Frost "Happy Gamer" (West Chicago, IL, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Feeling Good: The Very Best of (Audio CD)

I had never heard of Nina Simone until I played the video game called The Saboteur. One of the songs in the game was a haunting tune that kept playing over and over in my mind -- Feeling Good. Fellow gamers went on message boards stating the same feeling about the song. Through them, I learned of the singer's name and purchased this CD. I absolutely love it. If you are a connoisseur of jazz, you will enjoy it immensely, too.