Nina Simone - The Best of the Colpix Years

Wow! I've had this for probably two years now and decided to listen to it for the first time in, well, about two years this past week. I don't remember it being this good. I think I wanted a more diverse Simone collection when I purchased it and found it a bit samey and plain compared to her later work. Plus I wasn't happy that the version of I Loves You, Porgy was live. But now I think it's all just gorgeous. And it does have some of the jumpy numbers (Children Go Where I Send You, Forbidden Fruit(perfect), Gin House Blues) I thought it was lacking. But I don't know why I ever cared because the slower, jazzier songs are all just beautiful. I can't stay away from You Can Have Him; Baubles, Bangles and Beads; and The Other Woman. Are there any other lovers? Let us celebrate.

1 Children Go Where I Send You
2 It Might as Well Be Spring
3 Willow Weep for Me
4 The Other Woman
5 Fine and Mellow
6 Wild Is the Wind
7 You Can Have Him
8 I Loves You, Porgy
9 Forbidden Fruit
10 Gin House Blues
11 Work Song
12 House of the Rising Sun
13 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
14 Solitude
15 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
16 The Twelfth of Never
17 Baubles, Bangles and Beads
18 Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
19 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye