Neil Diamond - Dreams
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Artist: Neil DiamondEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2010-11-02
Music Label: Columbia
Product features:
- Neil Diamond - Dreams
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Blackbird
- Alone Again (Naturally)
- Feels Like Home
- Midnight Train To Georgia
- I'm A Believer
- Love Song
- Losing You
- Hallelujah
- A Song For You
- Yesterday
- Let It Be Me
- Desperado
- Don't Forget Me
Music reviews of Dreams
Music Review: Much More than Less is More
Rating: 5 Stars
Neil Diamond "Dreams"
Timothy Yap did an excellent review of this album's content, so I can do him the honor of not simply repeating the same message -`less is more' and all a very beautiful presentation.
But it needs to be said that Neil Diamond was the Producer on this project. My God! That is where he really shined!
Yes, the presentation did seem stripped down, but when one listens closely and repeatedly to this beautiful collection, well, the individual performances and the arrangements are genius. Now, that is what a producer does with a checkbook and a telephone, that is, if he is a great producer. Neil Diamond got the absolutely best people - the violin in "Blackbird", the horn section in "Don't Forget Me", and the very heavy piano we hear throughout the entire repertoire. And all the studio time it must have taken. It was probably a considerable expense.
The Production Standards are some of the best I've ever seen. They remind me of the Rod Stewart `Great American Songbook' collection, over the years finally getting up to Volume 5, which is really good, but they all have their merits, chiefly in the area of production values and standards. Great people were brought in and allowed the time to do their best work. And you can hear the fun they had making it.
I certainly hope that Neil Diamond's "Dreams" is successful, or at least that it breaks even financially. Neil Diamond must have worked hard and found it very tiring, at his age, but at the same time, work of this quality is rewarding in the spiritual sense. So, if he is not financially ruined by this first installment of "Dreams", then maybe, like the successful Rod Steward Series, we will see more of these superb collections from Neil Diamond. The titles will be fun - "Keep Dreaming" is one suggestion. Let the Old Man retire? Certainly not! There is plenty of time to retire when he is dead. If we buy these Dreams, he will keep making them because he is fulfilled by it.
And we do so much need collections of the Best. The Singer Songwriter era of music gave us so many wonderful songs, but they were only the tip of the iceberg of almost endless crap. To find the good songs, we had to suffer thousands of songs that the record companies foisted upon us. It's the way Capitalism perverts things - original copyrights make more money, theoretically, than beautiful songs in the Public Domain, so the Capitalists wanted plenty of original copyrights - a new song every minute, but so few of these money grubbers had any true instincts for quality and culture and so most songs suck. So we were all submerged in this virtual landslide of garbage, yes, with a real potato here and a real carrot there, but mostly just garbage. The singer-songwriters were put under contract to produce, and produce they did, mostly bland stupid or eminently forgettable songs. That is why Greatest Hits albums sell so well, it is because people came to distrust ordinary albums, mostly stuffed with filler... songs nobody could possibly have been happy about, but simply produced to keep the Stupid Mindless Capitalists happy. Even most Greatest Hits albums are mostly filler. Honestly, most of the Singer Songwriters of this Era, had maybe one or two real `hits' - songs that deserve to be remembered. One Hit Wonders. Any songwriter that has 3 or more actually good songs to their credit, should be honored with a ticker tape parade and a hero's pension for Life... free coffee at Starbucks, etc. So, most Greatest Hits records should have only two or three selections. What purpose does it serve to roll out the filler garbage one more time in even their Greatest Hits Albums. It only tends to spoil the meal.
So it has become so hard to listen to any album from beginning to end nowadays. That is perhaps the most ascendant virtue in Neil Diamond's "Dreams" , that every song is good, and one needs to skip over nothing.
So we do need Collections of the Good Songs. And it is good that one of the best Singer-songwriters of our Age uses his other considerable talents, the knowledge and taste he has acquired over the years, to give us not only the Best there is, but the Best that it can possibly be made to be. He takes the best and makes it better. We need to throw that man a parade... and buy his record.
Oh, a personal note on Neil Diamond. It's odd, considering the body of his work, that he was never considered in the very top rank of the `Stars'. Maybe he wasn't grungy enough, or he should have started off in a band. But he was always considered a fraction of a level down. Well, it didn't keep me from buying his records. Indeed, there was a strange phenomenon that persuaded me to keep my mind open about the exact merits of Neil Diamond. I'm an amateur musician and my first love is the violin. Well, I NEVER break strings, that is, except when playing along with Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy" . The song just builds and builds and builds, and one finds oneself scrubbing and sawing the violin like never before, trying to keep up with the building intensity. So, two or three times Neil Diamond has sent me to the store to get new violin strings. Nobody else. So when people criticize Neil Diamond... well, the Beatles never caused me to break a string... The man knows how to do a song.
Description of Dreams
On Alone Again, Neil Diamond performs a selection of his all timefavorite pop songs. Neil pays homage to rock, pop, soul, the British
invasion, and a cover of Neil s own composition I m A Believer. The
songs on Alone Again were originally made famous by such legendary
artists as The Beatles, The Eagles, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, The
Monkees and more. On Alone Again, Neil makes these songs his own.
Across a musical career spanning nearly five decades, Neil Diamond has
sold more than 125 million albums worldwide, with his last studio album
Home Before Dark giving Neil the first # 1 album of his career. Neil
has a remarkable track record of 16 Top Ten albums, and 37 Top Ten
singles, plus a Golden Globe Award, Grammy Awards, and Neil was named
2009 MusiCares Person of the Year.
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