Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
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Artist: Neil DiamondEdition: Music CD
Audio: French (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- If I Don't See You Again
- Pretty Amazing Grace
- Don't Go There
- Another Day (That Time Forgot) with Natalie Maines
- One More Bite Of The Apple
- Forgotten
- Act Like A Man
- Whose Hands Are These
- No Words
- The Power Of Two
- Slow It Down
- Home Before Dark
Music reviews of Home Before Dark
Music Review: "One More Bite Of The Apple" For Neil Diamond Fans
Rating: 5 Stars
Neil Diamond is my favorite secular male vocalist, and has been for nearly three decades. I always loved his voice, as well as his music. This project has the intensity you associate with Diamond, as well as great vocals.
Gone are the great string arrangements of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" or the rock 'n' roll of "Crunchy Granola Suite" or "Desiree". This is basically an unplugged project, but it has a great sound.
Some of the songs remind you of old Neil Diamond songs, such as "Act Like A Man" and "No Words".
My favorites on this project are "If I Don't See You Again", "Pretty Amazing Grace", "Whose Hands Are These", and "No Words".
Let me switch hats from being a music reviewer to being a theologian. Neil Diamond is an artist that I wonder about where he is at religiously, and this project feeds a lot of those questions. There is something that reflects faith in several of the songs, but one wonders if they are of the Christian faith or something similar.
Description of Home Before Dark
Home Before Dark is the long awaited new album from legendary artist Neil Diamond. Home Before Dark was produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin who also produced Neil's critically acclaimed 12 Songs.Bonus DVD includes Neil in the studio performing songs.
The songs are:
1. Pretty Amazing Grace
2. If I Don't See You Again
3. Forgotten
4. The Boxer (bonus track...this song is not on the album)
Remarkably Home Before Dark is the first US chart topping album of Neil Diamond's forty year career. It appears to repeat the formula behind 2006's acclaimed 12 Songs--relatively understated arrangements and a subtle Rick Rubin production. But Diamond, though sixty-seven years old and the oldest recipient of a Number One so far, is no Johnny Cash, turning his unique voice to some well chosen contemporary material. Instead Home Before Dark is a collection of new Diamond songs, and though they might not match the boomers in his back catalogue they are hardly stripped back. These are songs designed to fill large venues alongside the showstoppers in Diamond's still energetic live show. "Pretty Amazing Grace" is in the great tradition of Diamond songs that defy their corniness with sheer catchiness, as is "One More Bite of the Apple" while "Don't Go There" features bracing backing vocals and a delightfully dated wobbly guitar hook. The duet with Natalie Maines, "Another Day (That Time Forgot)", would fit comfortably on American country radio while "The Power of Two" sounds like another hit in waiting. In fact this is more a conventional Diamond collection than a Rick Rubin production, dominated by lightly understated country rock arrangements played by a crack team including Smokey Hormel, Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell and the usually experimental Matt Sweeney. This is a charming and consistently solid set, though Home Before Dark does lack the unexpected intensity that made 12 Songs stand out so. --Steve Jelbert
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