The Essential Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond - The Essential Neil Diamond

The Essential Neil Diamond
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Artist: Neil Diamond
Brand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-12-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Solitary Man
  2. Cherry, Cherry
  3. I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No)
  4. Kentucky Woman
  5. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
  6. You Got To Me
  7. Red, Red Wine
  8. Thank The Lord For The Night Time
  9. I'm A Believer
  10. Sweet Caroline
  11. Song Sung Blue
  12. Holly Holy
  13. I Am...I Said
  14. Cracklin' Rosie
  15. Play Me - Live
  16. Morningside - Live
  17. Crunchy Granola Suite - Live
  18. Brooklyn Roads - Live
  19. Soolaimon - Live
Music CD 2
  1. America
  2. Hello Again
  3. Love On The Rocks
  4. Captain Sunshine
  5. He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother - Live
  6. Yes I Will/Lady Magdalene - Live
  7. Shilo - Live
  8. Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - Live
  9. If You Know What I Mean
  10. Beautiful Noise
  11. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
  12. Desir?e
  13. Forever In Blue Jeans
  14. September Morn
  15. I've Been This Way Before
  16. Yesterday's Songs
  17. Heartlight
  18. Headed For The Future
  19. You Are The Best Part Of Me

Music reviews of The Essential Neil Diamond

Music Review: Fine Selections MARRED by Live CRAPOLA!
Rating: 2 Stars

The essential neil diamond starts off great with his early bang classics like "solitary man" and "girl, you'll be a woman soon".
This leads to five uni/mca classics like "i am i said" and "cracklin' rosie".
Listening to this material will give you a very clear idea why diamond continues to have a following because these are absulutely well written songs chock full of hooks and likeabilty.
This is song craftmanship that was built to last.
Then we bump into a pile of doo doo with subpar live recordings taken from concerts that don't hold a candle to his superior hot august night or gold live recordings.
This really puts a damper on a collection that was simply outstanding.
We then start side 2 on a very high note with his columbia classics like "America" and "love on the rocks" then again run into some more POOP live recordings of "shilo" and "brother love" etc....
The collection then returns to his studio columbia recordings and they all are well chosen but curiously find a few omissions that could have made it more rewarding like "longfellow serenade" but since Neil helped to compile the collection i guess he felt it wasn't "Essential".
So to sum it up...75% essential/ 25% jumbo turd!
Luckily a friend loaned this to me since i'm getting into a Neil kick so i'm not feeling a pain in my pocket so i will search elsewhere.
Hope you do the same.

Description of The Essential Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond is one of a rare breed. As a songwriter, his music has been covered successfully by artists as diverse as the Monkees, Deep Purple, UB40, and Smash Mouth. But Diamond used that three-chord alchemy to build an unparalleled career as a performer as well. The 38 tracks on these two discs address those interlocking legacies in the most comprehensive manner yet, gathering his material from Bang! Records (including such pop staples as "Solitary Man," "Cherry, Cherry," "Kentucky Woman," "Red, Red Wine," and "I'm a Believer"), Universal (highlighted by "Sweet Caroline," Song Sung Blue," "Holly Holy," and "I Am ... I Said"), and Columbia for the first time. And if Diamond has veered toward the middle of the road on those latter recordings (such as "September Morn," "Heartlight," and the Streisand duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), there remains a remarkable consistency throughout his work. As if to underscore the point, a number of mid-period hits (including "Shiloh," "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," and "Soolaimon") are featured as live recordings from fall 2001. These performances show that the sweet roughness of his voice has only grown in power and drama; it's small wonder that Diamond remains one of the top live draws in the business. Even if it overlooks Diamond's unlikely late-'90s hit country album (Tennessee Moon), this set manages to be both concise and thorough, the best introduction yet to an American music legend. --Jerry McCulley

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