Remixed & Reimagined | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nina Simone
Label: Sony Legacy
Category: Music
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 12642
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 701280
UPC: 886970128025
EAN: 0886970128025
ASIN: B000IONLAO
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | I Can't See Nobody - Nina Simone, Gibb, B. | | • | Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter - Nina Simone, Bullock, A. | | • | Ain't Got No - I Got Life - Nina Simone, Ragni, G. | | • | Save Me - Nina Simone, Franklin, A. | | • | Turn Me On - Nina Simone, Loudermilk, J.D. | | • | Here Comes the Sun - Nina Simone, Harrison, G. | | • | Westwind - Nina Simone, Salter, W. | | • | Go to Hell - Nina Simone, Bailey, M. Jr. | | • | My Man's Gone Now - Nina Simone, Gershwin, G. | | • | The Look of Love - Nina Simone, Bacharach, B. | | • | O-O-H Child - Nina Simone, Vincent, S. | | • | To Love Somebody - Nina Simone, Gibb, B. | | • | Obeah Woman - Nina Simone, McKay, T. |
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Album Description
2007 collection of new remixes and reworkings of classic tracks from the often-sampled Jazz vocalist. 13 tracks including 'I Can't See Nobody' (Daniel Y. Remix), 'Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter' (Jazzeem's All Styles Remix), 'Westwind' (Organica Remix) and more. Sony/BMG.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nina Simone just a little bit funkier... June 9, 2008
T. Biller (Nashville, TN)
I have really enjoyed this CD. I've been a Nina fan for about 4 years now. I was really surprised at just how well one can remix and tune up her work to make it more modern without impacting her voice. Good stuff!
 Incompetent insulting remixes of one of music's greatest talents December 2, 2007
guillermoj (Washington, DC United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A few years back I purchashed an amazing CD of Shirley Bassey remixes and, for who knows what reason, I was under the impression that it was from this "Remixed and Reimagined" series so I purchased Nina's CD without hesitation.
I am a HUGE Nina Sinone fan and thought that there was much potential for "reimagining" some of her songs, but you will never find out from this mess. Rarely have I encountered such an unlistenable product that I wanted to stompt it to pretend that it enver existed. If you like Nina, stay away no matter how hip the marketing concept may sound.
 For open-minded people... November 25, 2007
sofalofa (Seattle, Wa USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wish the purists would just stay away from these remix projects! They complain that this isn't the Nina Simone (or whoever) they're familiar with and trash the release because of their own hidebound attitudes. The fact is, this a well assembled remix project that should please fans of the jazz-electronica genre (Verve Remixed, etc.), and more open-minded Nina fans as well. Calling this house music is simple-minded. There are beats here to be sure, but the producers take a variety of approaches that honor the original music without trampling it too much. Of course, like most of these remix projects, some efforts are more successful than others, but overall, very solid. I hope there are more in the Remixed & Reimagined series in the pipeline. Meanwhile, the stubbornly literal-minded types should stop buying (and reviewing) these!
Nina would be disappointed November 12, 2007
T. Snow
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nina Simone would be so disappointed with this. It just sounds like someone superimposed lyrics and new age groove music. It sounds like two different pieces of music playing at the same time. What a shame.
 Good Just the Way She Is: Better Revisited than Remixed November 4, 2007
Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received an advance copy of the recording and put off listening to it for a year. Now I understand why. I'll admit I'm not an "avid" Nina Simone fan, but ever since her recording of "I Loves You Porgy" I've followed her career and enjoyed much of her work. Her strongest albums are the ones on which she's recorded live, in concert, preferably a club date with no more than bass and drums supporting her piano and vocal work. On the other hand, the albums on which she's a "stand-up singer" frequently smother her voice in overly orchestrated or boosted backgrounds.
On albums like "A Single Woman" and even "I Put a Spell on You," she often sounds like she's competing with the accompaniment rather than tailoring it to her own stylings and dramatic interpretations. But if sessions like the aforementioned strike the listener as a mismatch, they sound positively subtle and nuanced compared to "N.S. Remixed." If you're a Nina Simone completist, by all means give it a chance; if you're new to this admittedly "acquired taste," start with a solid, representative collection such as "Anthology" (2 discs, 31 tracks, the most complete and the best value), "Feeling Good," or "The Essential Nina Simone."
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