Nina Simone - Suzanne

I love the original - it's always been one of those songs that (unlike Hallelujah) is so perfect I've never even considered anyone else even trying to record it
but she completely transforms it into something that's a total celebration of love & living - even the lines about Jesus that seem full of dispair become something positive (I don't mean in a shallow cheesy not-understanding-the-song-and-it's-meaning ultra pop cover way) and the whole song sounds so fucking alive.


Leonard Cohen's original

Her Just like Tom Thumb's Blues is stunning too - she gives it a whole new layer of fragility. better than Dylan?