Nina Simone - Just Like A Woman

[ElenaxLT]

Nina Simone is amazing.

[ncbloom]

Can we do a roll call of dylan songs sung by nina ? so far i have this tune , i shall be released , ballad of hollis brown , tom thumbs blues , times they are a changin. I know i"m missing some, help me out !!!

[Vertigo2903]

I think best versions of the song : 1. Nina Simone and Jeff Buckley tie 2. Original Bob Dylan version

[missemmabovary]

bob dylan inimitabile. la trovo paradossalmente più sentita cantata da uomini. AscoltateJeff Bukley...

[rlpete2]

Onre of my favorite Dylan tunes, and I had never heard this version. THX 4 posting it.

[Sunshinespray]

but she breaks just like a little girl....

[JoseCarlosCristiano]

What an alto!!!

[KWT4Devotion]

This should be my theme song... Such true to my story, words! I love it!

[MAKOSIEJEtv]

i like Nina

[MrDJPas]

Simply great!

[Andjela310]

love it <3

[stingcoldplay1]

<3

[Deadcomedian312]

Better than Dylan.... By far!!!

[uglybettyx1]

S.U.B.L.I.M.E

[MegaLouart]

i like ¡

[13Aureille]

Dylan sung by Simone... I'm in paradise... Pleasures of life can be so simple...

[mehidalgo18]

@13Aureille I agree!.

[Jack11017]

got to give this 1 to Bob. sry

[Onecoffe1]

Check out `Bluemor Blaze´ version of Go to hell

Have a nice dayyyyyyy

[NathFilms]

Jeff Buckleys version of this is beautiful

[saulhiphop]

beauty

[Deandip12]

If you don't have anything "nice" to say...

[edh757]

truly an artist for all seasons....she was a blessing to the world

[RandoMonaS]

musicians are the fishes of the world where music is water. you cant hold water as with music, it'll sip through your hands. you cant contain music, as with water, it'll break of pressure. musicians swim in the sea of sound, where water takes no form and all forms at once. gracefully swimming along the currents like the dolphin, against the current like the koi, up the river like the salmon, between the streams, the undercurrent, and sometimes like the lung fish, survive the land. nature = music

[MarceloHWhite]

@RandoMonaS

You need to invest in alveoli, because that my dear was simply hot gas. Gas is not a metaphor for music, it is what a liquid evaporates into. RandoMonas + bad metaphor = a bad tummy pour moi.

[FlowtnWitWalden]

Today's lesson kiddies...

Dylan's a master Songwriter

Nina's a master vocalist

I cringe hearing Dylan sing. Learned most of his songs through others' interpretations.

This is Nina's interpretation.

Kiddie mindset = thinking songs are "good" only as originally performed or because they had big commercial success.

Learn to appreciate INTERPRETATIONS - They are an artist's stamp of originality created using their unique voice.

Turn off your monitor, dim the lights, close your eyes & just listen.

[tscholent]

@FlowtnWitWalden ditto ditto

[x3Nnj]

@FlowtnWitWalden amen :)

[MrPandaslap]

@FlowtnWitWalden

Dylan's voice is brilliant. Being a great vocalist does not require a certain range or a set of timbres.

I fully agree with your view of interpretations and how an artist's unique voice can add meaning to a song... Wouldn't that be true of the original as well?

[valaraj]

I am kind of dumb-founded at the discourse that has taken place since I posted this song. I posted it when i realized it wasn't easy to find on youtube. That seemed just... wrong. Glad it's touched you kids. :)

[1skunkus]

@valaraj I have never heard it and I am just getting chills from it, wowwwwwwwwwwwww, bravo for listing it. 

[MyYopiyopi]

she can fuck up every song, doesnt matter how good it is, can she?

i like her original songs, but when she does covers....it makes me wanna scream 'it's not the way it goes!!'...

[Asekal]

@MyYopiyopi goes to show you have no idea who Nina Simone was...stay ignorant!

[MyYopiyopi]

@Asekal fine, stay condescending.

[themrduragss]

love the arrangement

[MsRamones16]

@PennTrafford To me Bob Dylan is the greatest poet and song writer of the last century but this version is also very very beautiful.....

[MsRamones16]

@PennTrafford To me Bob Dylan is the greatest poet and song writer of the last century but this version is also beautiful.....

[ConstantineRobbins]

he deos look jast lake a woamn!!11

[drdvrdvrdvr]

truly sensitive, moving yet powerful.  thanks for this reminder of n. simone's artistry.

[BenjaCarson]

@kewlklutzklan if I were just settling for a literal reading of Dylan, then yes, that would be reductive. But I'm not.

[univibe23]

This has got to be one of the best interpretations of a Dylan song--ranking with Hendrix' take of "All Along the Watchtower".

[MariskaTardijn]

@univibe23 So true!

[Schmilky]

@univibe23 listen to her singing "I Shall Be Released" and also Jeff Buckley doing the same song if you wanna hear interpretations of Dylan that rank right up with Dylan himself.

[santajoanadyke]

I love this song!

[stroke128]

We miss you Nina!!!

[yummymummyof5]

love her singing !! this is gorgeous

[bapyou]

<3 Nina

always

[FungusMossGnosis]

I...love...it.

[thatcreepcanroll]

When she covers a song sometimes it becomes hers. This is one of those times.

[Vertigo2903]

This and Jeff Buckley's version are the best..no disrespect to Dylan at all I mean he wrote it

[Grif2112]

I'm glad everyone who's heard this clicked the like button. Not one dislike :D

[babylove00007]

This is so beautiful....

[larissailkiu]

Maurício, adorei a música.Foi um prazer!

[12staceys]

bob dylan may have wrote a beautiful song, but no one did it better than nina. she made it hers when she covered it. i've never heard a better version.

[Cobainie]

@12staceys Jeff Buckley's version is my number 1

[MsMig88]

We've taken this feminist crap too far. Yes women are emotional yes we have weaknesses and we have strengths and this song sings about both. Get over it.

[Biji4444]

@MsMig88

No.

[fernie1981]

is she saying problems from her curls?

[Davidorfull]

My wifes hates this song because she gives and doesn't take, because she doesn't fake . This is a song about a falling out between Bob Dylan and one of his lover. I produce the Jerusalem Folk Festival, and the musicians like to sing " Neighborhood bully" ot " Gotta serve somebody" Once again, some women think this is a mysogynistic song, and we agree to disagree.

[msjanedoe28]

this song is so beautiful

[lusnyakg]

verrrrrrrrrryyyyyy nice song! Really liked it!!!

[Davidorfull]

This is a very misogynistic song, completely against women. A lot of women really hate that song, and I had to stop to sing it in public completely.

[UltraWaster]

@Davidorfull You're kidding, right?

[heiloreilly]

@UltraWaster I have heard the same thing as Davidorfull before and had the same reaction as you, I personally think it is a wonderful song and I see it as being about a particular woman not women in general so it is not misogynistic per se.

[BenjaCarson]

@heiloreilly it is about a particular woman, but its misogyny comes from the idea that her behavior is completely reducible to her femininity.

[CannedSausages]

@Davidorfull If it was truly misogynistic, Dr Simone would refuse to sing it, my dear.

[BenjaCarson]

@CannedSausages Simone's interpretation of the song is ironic. Obviously. Listen to the rest of Simone's music; she riffs frequently on the false categories women are forced into.

[CannedSausages]

@BenjaCarson I'm not saying this to be snide.. but did I imply that I thought the opposite?

[BenjaCarson]

@CannedSausages hm. Sorry, I wasn't clear. You implied that the song was not "truly misogynistic." But it is...it's saying everything this woman does boils down to her gender. Simone understands the ridiculousness of the chorus, but she sings it anyway, because in her voice, the ridiculousness of the message becomes clear. Not unlike Ani DiFranco singing "Wishing and Hoping." See bit.ly/wishin-hopin . Irony can clarify and expose misogyny.

[CannedSausages]

@BenjaCarson Thanks. *sarcasm not intended*

Believe it or not, I adore this woman. I want to learn so much more about her. I just started reading her autobiography.

[kewlklutzklan]

@BenjaCarson unless of course dylan was himself being ironic. to simply settle for a reading that is literal would be a little reductive, particularly where the aforementioned writer is concerned, no?

[chbillgr]

@Davidorfull thank god you stopped singing it.

[hearcandy]

A classy woman full of soul, blues and vision enough for the world. Her heart sang of life.

[lvf1160]

One of the "BEST" female artist to ever walked the earth!

[PennTrafford]

You know, she's accompanying herself on the piano, too.

[mercurieretrograde]

Bicicletasaladas:

When someone says a woman takes it must be sexist (according to you) because TAKING IS A MAN'S ROLE. To see this song as sexists you have to have your head on backwards.

Any complex, real description, must be sexist. Typical attitude.

[sann2338]

lovely

[ranfranthompson]

dkw12002 and shannonalise82, heard that same NPR interview with Tom Russell. I must say it was his "Nina Simone" that found her for me also. I picked up an old CD of Tom's a year or so a go - now have about half a dozen and Nina is not the first "unknown- to-me" he has introduced me to. Love this lady's singing for sure - and of course Dylan.

[pfgnyc85]

BOB DYLAN IS A GENIUS

[ulriktrille]

And so was Nina Simone. Bless her! Check out her live perfomance from Harlem, on U-Tube. ..... or Richie Havens in general :-) Peace

[dkw12002]

A composer interviewed on PBS radio mentioned this song and singer as having influenced his song-writing career. I had to look it up on YouTube. Don't know how I missed her, but this is the first I've heard of her. She is fabulous.

[shannonalise82]

I heard the same interview. :) NPR? Interview with Tom Russell? I had to find her too! Huge Dylan fan here.

[PZCherokee]

Yes I've just started hearing her music too. And all of it seems to be so beautiful! This is one of my favorite songs by here. And I love the message behind it.

[gjc82071]

Same here!!! & I was raised on Jazz & Blues, literally. Step Father was a full time musician (piano, all saxes, flutes, clarinet) & sax player in Sam Butera's band (Louie Prima's old band) Musicians were always coming & going from the house/jam sessions going on. I listen to blues, jazz, older R&B & Soul (& classical) & I only "discovered" her, tonight! I have heard OF her & her music a few times (Cellular commercial & I love you Phillip Morris movie), but didn't know it was her.

[boogiebongcal]

@dkw12002 if you ever saw the movie "Point of No Return" w/ Bridgit Fonda you will hear a number of her songs playing in the background....enjoy

[boogiebongcal]

@dkw12002 her music is featured in the movie Point of No Return w/ Bridgit Fonda...enjoy

[BenjaCarson]

@dkw12002 this "song and singer" and pianist. Don't forget this is Simone on piano too.

[Cougarsec]

@dkw12002

Isn't she incredible? I'm glad for you that you found her :-)

Once you happen upon Nina Simone you are hooked for life. She has so many wonderful songs that it can take a lifetime to truly appreciate each one.

[starofthesea58]

@Cougarsec ....Truthfully said once you happen to just sit and listen to one of Nina Simones' songs you are like spell bound, she's that captivating and verynatural, just real to the bone, pull her music up on youtube now, listen to / BACKLASH BLUES BY NINA SIMONE, I HOLD NO GRUDGE,AIN'T GOTNO..I'VE GOT LIFE,SINNERMAN,DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD,WHO AM I?AFRICAN MAILMAN/ AND NINA SIMONE IS MYSTIC,MASTERPIECE, HEADLINER!

[themrduragss]

@dkw12002

Yes indeed,

she is amazing isnt she!

[valambiguous]

i'm learning Nina Simone's songs...so beautiful!

[PennTrafford]

Bob Dylan wrote this song. How could a man write such a beautiful song that so exposes the heart and soul of a woman? He must be a mystic.

[Bicicletasaladas]

@PennTrafford in fact he wrote it from the point of view of a man, and when you read it like that you'll find it really misogynistic.

But when Nina Simone sings it, it gives you the feeling that she is talking of herself in a self-loathed third person, which sounds very personal and moving.

[lailaefederico]

@PennTrafford coz he's Bob!! ^_^

[TheMundanes]

@PennTrafford

"women are weak, but they're beautifully weak" is pretty much the message of the song

it isn't that hard to figure out

[jbord90210]

@PennTrafford

dylan wrote this song about sex with a (JUST LIKE A WOMAN) transvestite in new york city when dylan first arrived at the bus station in nyc, from minnesota; read about it dylan's bio by robert shelton (11pm cowbody chapter); please dont let on that i knew you when i was hungry, and it was your world;; most people miss this rhetorical irony

[giulianofilms]

@PennTrafford It's because he's Bob Dylan. He knows people and he knows how to write songs.

[MAPTIbH]

@PennTrafford mystic bullshit...

Don't get me wrong, I love Dylan. But he speaks here only from he's own position

[JohnMalcolm]

@PennTrafford I always assumed Queen Mary was a guy.

[FloydyTube]

@PennTrafford I just had the As Good As It Gets quote pop into my head "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability" ... but of course, the real answer is simply: "It's Bob Dylan"

[92balthazar]

@PennTrafford He is a genius, but guys just need to open their eyes and hearts...

[debjame]

So moving. Thanks for posting.

[kariaudar]

Nina had such a soulful and expressive voice.

[kariaudar]

Fabulous jazz / gospel rendition of a beautiful song.

[themrduragss]

Soul touching

[motekhall]

luv it this and roberta facks version

[KasiaGliwski]

Beautiful, I mean

[KasiaGliwski]

Best rendition of the song!!!!! So beatiful!!!!!