audiography: Theme: B-Sides and Rarities
audiography: Theme: B-Sides and Rarities: "I'm a huge fan of sixties civil rights singer and composer Nina Simone. Her breathy, sexy, passionate voice seduces me like none other, making her one of my favourite vocalists ever. I am also a big fan of Brecht, namely his fantastic play Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera).
You can imagine my reaction when I found this track. It's Nina Simone singing one of my favourite songs from Die Dreigroschenoper, Jenny's wicked and completely frightening ballad 'Pirate Jenny', a song about her dream to leave her job as a cleaning lady in a hotel and become a pirate and then coming back and destroying the town she works in and killing everyone in it. Yeah. Nina Simone puts this amazingly terrifying and sexual spin on it, it's worth a listen, if just for how she says 'that'll learn ya' at 5:21. Seriously, download it.
'Pirate Jenny' by Nina Simone."
You can imagine my reaction when I found this track. It's Nina Simone singing one of my favourite songs from Die Dreigroschenoper, Jenny's wicked and completely frightening ballad 'Pirate Jenny', a song about her dream to leave her job as a cleaning lady in a hotel and become a pirate and then coming back and destroying the town she works in and killing everyone in it. Yeah. Nina Simone puts this amazingly terrifying and sexual spin on it, it's worth a listen, if just for how she says 'that'll learn ya' at 5:21. Seriously, download it.
'Pirate Jenny' by Nina Simone."
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