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| Artist: Neil Diamond
Label: Spectrum
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 921
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 82
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 19509
UPC: 008811950927
EAN: 0008811950927
ASIN: B00003OT8A
Release Date: October 23, 2000
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Cheesy but tasty January 16, 2006
80 out of 82 found this review helpful
I'll be honest, I've always regarded Neil Diamond as pure schmaltz. Sparkly blue shirts undone to the navel. Cheese with cheese on top. Austin Powers sings..... I said as much to a friend some years ago and he treated me to a lengthy and impassioned monologue about the finer points of Mr Diamond's music and my lack of taste not to appreciate them. Just before Christmas, I needed a "makeweight" to qualify for free Amazon postage and decided that since 3.33 was cheaper than paying 5.00 I'd buy this album so I could show my mate, from an informed position, just who was the tasteless one. I expected a quick spool through the songs before putting Sweet Caroline and Cracklin' Rosie onto my iPod, filing it under C for car boot and ringing him up to say "Ha! You tasteless scrote!". One month later I still can't stop listening to it.
These songs may well be the cream of the crop, I don't know enough about Mr Diamond's oeuvre to tell but they all have something in common. No matter how simple they are, the arrangements are tip top quality, the musicians playing are of the highest calibre - especially drums, acoustic guitar and notably bass in Brother Love's Salvation Show - and as a band they are razor sharp and as together as it gets. Mr Diamond also has an excellent and expressive voice, which he uses to great effect. There is not a note out of place from him or the band anywhere on this album.
I think the greatest test of an album is how long you play it before you're happy to listen to something else. I played this and nothing else for a week. The second part of the test is your reaction after you've let it rest for month or so and listened again. If the songs are like old friends, familiar and worn but just as damn good you know you're onto a winner. I have. They are. Be warned, these songs are of their time - '66 - '72, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that a couple of them lean towards the cheesy side but don't let that put you off. They are catchy and pretty and you'll be humming them for weeks. A class offering, thoroughly recommended.
His GREATEST Hits - Credible Music!! February 4, 2005
76 out of 77 found this review helpful
Forgot your current image of Neil Diamond as a sparkly-shirted, Vegas cabaret superstar, these tracks from his greatest period. A cheap cd, packed full of classics (and all the right versions!), these date from a time when Diamond was a songwriter on top of his game producing fantastic, credible, contempory tracks. None of the over-produced schmaltz of the later CBS years, my only gripe is the absence of "Done Too Soon"
In "72" when I heard Walk on water,I was moved by a Diamond December 5, 2000
35 out of 47 found this review helpful
It was a Friday evening late, I was relaxing home after a tough day, I had worked a double shift, it was tough then!money was tight and so was my budget, back in "72" when I heard "Walk on water".....I really needed to hear that song again the lyrics, the guitar, the rhythm, the movement and combination of the instruments, the style...the man had his own thing going and it was refreshing...I searched and bought the MOODS album on venyl as it was back then,and to think that I! was careful spender!! The album is like a Diamond in the rough. I have been looking for the CD but to no avail...This premium CD offers the Listener the style and versatility of the artist,I salute Mr.Neil Diamond for taking what he found in this world and time, for putting his own style and taking music to another level.You moved me buddy, like so many other artist I thank you...from Trinidad&Tobago...Good health to you and your team..
The Best Of Neil Diamond November 13, 2000
36 out of 40 found this review helpful
Well what can i say, just as good as (maybe) even better than the other albums. Of Neil"s other songs those in this collection include some of his most moving ballads powerful chorus numbers like "walk on water", and the infectious sinalong of "song sung blue" I would strongly recommend it if you are a neil fan
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