Today's post is for all those people in our corner of the internet who are finding life difficult at the moment. There's all sorts of stuff going down, tough times, and it can be hard to see the light. Love to you all.
Nina Simone's version of To Love Somebody from 1969 is beyond compare, a song written by Barry and Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees, but given extra layers of soul and depth and life by Nina Simone. As a bonus this mp3 of it is ripped from The Future Is Unwritten, the soundtrack to the film about Joe Strummer, and has Joe introducing Nina from his BBC World Service radio show, two legends for the price of one. As Joe says 'let Nina Simone rule the world'.
To Love Somebody
10 comments:
Even better than the Slobberbone version Adam!
You don't know what it's like. Thanks for this SA. Also, check out another great interpretation of the song by Gallon Drunk - possibly my favourite version of all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644dZ4-h64M
Swede- that Gallon Drunk version is superb
Ooh, fantastic post. I don't get into the remixes like you do, Adam, but I have heard some great reinterpretations from Nina Simone's body of work. I Can't See Nobody (Daniel Y. Remix) is a personal favorite.
Gorgeous version. I quite like that little ramshackle version by Primal Scream from the Memphis bonus album. Also, I know it was covered by a few reggae artists in the 70's but who had a relatively big hit with it as a reggae track?
Great post with a great song by a great artist. Don't know the Gallon Drunk version but will check out soon.
Sorry everyone, been out at Stephen Morris in conversation with Dave Haslam. Will catch up soon.
Not sure I've ever heard Nina's version before, but it gets the thumbs up from me.
Was not familiar with Nina's version. Solid.
Michael the relatively big reggae version is Busty Brown's excellent rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpKE0Edpu4o
That's it, Swanditch. Thank you!
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