Nina Simone - Lilac wine

[tommylgoodkin]

I'm sorry.. I'm a huge simone fan but buckley did it way, way better.

[RiickDmusic]

where can I download this song?



[Supernovacaligari]

what a sad song¡¡¡¡

[Jbar542]

beautiful !!!

[mrlighthouse69]

The people who didn't like this must not be able to hear

[beforeourveryeyes]

AMAZING goosebumps/ thank YOU!

[dtolbiac]

You're right.

But I think there's more personal implication of soul among Nina Simone than the others. "Lilac wine"sounds as "I Like Wine."

Lilac Wine looks to fascinate and passionate people. More than 60 000 views in one year, 200 every day. Yet it has never been one of her most famous songs !

Can you explain me why ?

[TheSweetestInsanity]

I think the Elkie Brooks, Jefff Buckley and Nina Simone versions are all beautiful in a different way. Same lyrics, same song but at the same time completely different

[b0bbbi]

jeff buckley killed it with this song!

[Jackie1957able]

Love Nina, and Elkie Brooks.

[JanMarie1007]

Love it...

[OlesyaStarOfficial]

my favorite performance by Nina... I can listen to it forever.

[dizzi0000]

Great version, first ,Elkie Brooks second.

[cleanpalette]

THIS GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS! Jeff Buckley's version is amazing, but this version is more haunting. The ambiance created by the piano is more intense.

[dtolbiac]

@cleanpalette

In french we say "la chair de poule" (the skin of the chicken).

For me the best version, for all times.

[Eamonn20a]

The best versions for ME are this one and the one by Elkie Brooks..

[SopeV0point1]

every version I have heard of this song is amazing, but this has to be one of the best, Jeff Buckleys is second. thank you up-loader, thank you with capitols!

[dtolbiac]

@SopeV0point1

I like also Lizz Wright singing Lilac Wine in the show "Sing the Truth", homage to Nina Simone with Diana Reeves, Simone Kelly and Angélique Kidjo.

[hocuspocusfocusable]

@SopeV0point1 I agree

[timjmoran]

@SopeV0point1 You might also want to check out Imelda May's incredible

Interpretation of this most beautiful tune.. it's on Jeff Beck's latest alb..".Emotion & Commotion" .... can't imagine how it could be sung any

better.. as great as Jeff Buckley's version is.May's voice

is simply stunning.

[78KevinHayes]

I haven't heard a version I don't like. That is the strength of the song. You can all argue over your opinions, I'll be happy to hear any version of this on the radio. Good luck with that,hunh?

[abu309]

Wow, keep lilac wine away from me! Of course if it would make me play piano like her, maybe a sip!

[sonopaolotorre]

Bellissima. Grazie!

[smacl6301]

@dtolbiac, Great video. For your chronology, Jeff Beck and Imelda May put out a version of this song recently as well. The Nina Simone one is still the only one for me, having listened to the rest a few times. Not sure why, haunting on the verge of desperation, very moving stuff.

[dtolbiac]

@smacl6301

Thanks for Jeff Beck and Imelda May.

I agree with you : for me, Nina Simone's version with her own accompaniment on piano is the simplest and the most moving one. She really sings with her stomach not her mind.

in the same style, listen to He Needs Me and other slow songs.

[dtolbiac]

@smacl6301

I had forgotten Lizz Wright in the show "Sing the Truth" homage to Nina Simone !!

[london25Jan08]

Absolutely brilliant. Nina's painting pictures with her music.

[Eamonn20a]

The blog on the song is totally WRONG( dtolbiac) get it correctly in sequence. Simone,Brooks, Buckley.

[Eamonn20a]

@iceybleu I really liked Nina Simone, but reading some of the arrogant comments here I am been really put off . Elkie Brooks can sing Rock, Blues, Jazz, she is NOT a one trick pony. Perhaps you should open you mind.

[dtolbiac]

@iceybleu

Have you anything interesting more to say about the meaning of the words and the personnel implications of singers as Nina Simone (obvious), Jeff Buckley or Elkie Brooks ?

[mazegual]

Flawless beauty!

[dtolbiac]

This battle about the BEST ot Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Elkie Brooks's... is absurd. It's a long chain : Nina simone came after Eartha Kitt, Jeff Buckley came after Nina Simon, and.... Look at Description.

That's why it's so important to be able onYoutube to access to many versions and to compare them without any pression of commercial hit, money or personnal passion.

[OpheliaRising]

@farttart00000

Chart success means nothing.

[zinesilol88]

@OpheliaRising Why do most artist want to have ,CHART SUCESS ???They travel the world promoting their music , so they can have chart sucess!!!!!

[OpheliaRising]

@zinesilol88 You clearly know nothing about art.

If you did, you would know that there are two types of art:

a) Crass, banal, primarily financially-motivated, jive, 'pop' art ... and

b) true art, high art

Simone's rendition of this piece falls into the latter category. I mean no disrespect toward any others whose song might have sold more copies. Never-the-less, that is hardly the litmus test for an artist. I suggest you enroll in the nearest available Art101 course.

[zinesilol88]

@OpheliaRising Your bad attitude , speaks to me of a rather sad and pompous person. Hope you find happiness with you arrogant ways. Have a good life, if you find time with your self praising ways.

[zinesilol88]

@OpheliaRising To judge people on a BANAL comment, is seriously lacking in intelligence.Guess like most dilussional people you think you have better knowledge than most. SAD.

[OpheliaRising]

@zinesilol88

"you think you have better knowledge than most"

Not most, but certainly you.

[Eamonn20a]

@OpheliaRising Been albe to appreciate most types of music  , is a gift. People like you, that can only understand one type of music ,are missing out on so much. Telling othe people other people to get art courses is at best risible.Educate youself a little to other style of singing.I love Nina Simone and I love Elkie Brooks. Two great singers in different ways.You mean no direspect, just condescending.

[OpheliaRising]

@Eamonn20a

My comment had nothing to do with the merits of others who have covered this piece. If they made more money off of their efforts then good for them.  My comment was addressed specifically to the erroneous notion that because someone made more money then they must have been better. Pay attention!

[zinesilol88]

@OpheliaRising It must be sad living in your world. Telling people how to behave , is the sign of a person seriously lacking.

[OpheliaRising]

@zinesilol88 So by that logic one should not tell a murderer not to murder? Where you are concerned intelligence is what is seriously lacking.

[dtolbiac]

@OpheliaRising

Who made ever money with that song remained quite unknown ? Certainly not Nina Simone ? Jeff Buckley ? Elkie Brooks ?

[OpheliaRising]

@dtolbiac My comment was directed at 'Farttart' (lovely name) who wrote, "The version by Elkie is the ONLY version to have chart success." This statement implied that 'farttart' assumed that because Elkie Brooks' version did better on the charts, it must have been superior. That notion is utter nonsense.

[dtolbiac]

@OpheliaRising

Read Informations about the long story of the song.

[ziagirl]

I love this song. Such talent.

[spr1ng0ni0n]

pretty sick timing on the piano in the intro... gotta love it

[MrSloppy1991]

This is good so is the version by Elkie Brooks. great voice.

[bucktkd]

someone is deaf

[SopeV0point1]

@bucktkd 4 people have been drinking too much lilac wine, and hit the wrong button....

sorry that was very lame..

my apologies.

[lewiswright09]

@brentallen26 yours

[zinesilol88]

@brentallen26 It was recorded by many. Eartha Kitt in the 50s. Simone, 60s .Elkiie Brooks. 70s the only hit version. etc. etc.

[Eamonn20a]

@dtolbiac Elkie Brooks has also recorded "Strange Fruit "on her 2002 c.d "Shangri La"

[dtolbiac]

She should more prudent to abstain !

As an other example of soap arrangement, I prefer again Taincha (Strange Fruit 2004).

[zinesilol88]

@dtolbiac Elkie Brooks,version of "Strange Fruit" is awesome.

[Eamonn20a]

@dtolbiac  Single release,Elkie Brooks 1978. U.K. hit

[kebec84]

je chiale

[shyathena34]

God this is beautiful.

[Eamonn20a]

Love the version by ELKIE BROOKS .

[dtolbiac]

Why is that love song so popular 60 years after ? Yes Oh Why ?

What about the new interpretation by Fanny Ardant (Fanny Ardant, one of the best french actress, was the last wife of François Truffaut).

Also Helen Merrill in a CD (2004) titled Lilac Wine ??!!

[dtolbiac]

I have just purchased and listened Helen Merrill.

INCREDIBLE soap variety music !!!!

I have lost my 0,79 euros.

[cori800888]

No other will ever come even close to Nina Simone's Lilac Wine.  it her.. others are just mouthing the words. this is about her love, and her readyiness.

it wont be duplicated.

[dtolbiac]

Yes, I like too the Elkie Brooks versions on YT, but I am still thinking the Nina's origiinal as the most simple and dramatic.

And what do you think about the Jeff Buckley version ?

[bagli1]

@dtolbiac Jeff Buckley's is the only one that can compare. A true artist, ike Nina.

[dtolbiac]

I agree with the Jeff Buckley's preference. But which one version ?

But why is that old song so popular ?

Why is Nina Simone so fascinating, 50 years after ?

And what about the french actress Fanny Ardant's version (I am french too) ?

[zinesilol88]

@dtolbiac This song was a U.K. hit for Elkie Brooks in 1978, a great singer.

[nat00ben06]

@dtolbiac I like Nina's version it's just her and a piano. Simple and not produced to any degree. Sung straight forward but with meaning. Although I have to say Jeff Buckley's version is so ripe with juice, also simple but undefinable like all his music that he could out do or emote his feelings tbetter hen anyone I can think of. Like Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar. So lets stop the nonsense and all agree Buckley was just a phenom, much like Michael Jordan was.

[zinesilol88]

@nat00ben06 Elkie's powerful brings a sense of drama !! Elkie singing this in concert, is fantastic. !!!

[dtolbiac]

@zinesilol88

Here is Nina Simone singing, not Elkie 20 years later.

I don't see the reason of all these unfair comments of the Elkie Brooks fans club.

Next time, I shall suppress the comment of the same style.

[zinesilol88]

@nat00ben06 Elkie's powerful voice brings a sense of drama to this song.Elkie singing this live IS totally amazing.

[dtolbiac]

@nat00ben06

Thanks for your attention. But it could be more interesting to comment Nina Simone and to speak about her rather than Jeff Buckley's version.

[dtolbiac]

Yes.

Love song is done to be loved by everybody, not to be compared.

[dtolbiac]

Among the an oldest singers, you have also Eartha Kitt,

Some of the first versions of Jeff Buckley were beautiful of simplicity; yet he declared : "Nina has done the best. There is nothing to do after... She is the queen".

[GRAMMYSOOKIE]

awesome