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10 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
 nice follow-up, 2008-05-07
this is a great second edition to the Rick Rubin/Neil Diamond collaborations. Neil seems to bring everything to his craft for this one. I would have liked at least one song with a bit more groove to it, but such a song might have stuck out like a sore thumb.
8 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Neil Diamond - A legend of all time for all ages, 2008-05-07
I have spent so many wonderful, wonderful moments listening to Neil Diamond throughout my life. We were driving to Pittsburgh in March and my daughters ages 7 and 3 respectively and my husband, (who had not listened to any of Neil Diamond songs, until he met me) were all singing along to the Neil Diamond songs. I had taken several CD's for the trip, but we ended up only listening to Neil Diamond all the way up to Pittsburgh and back to Canada.
We simply love Neil Diamond and I am so happy to share what I have felt and what the Neil Diamond songs have meant to me with my two children and my husband. Whenever we go out now, all we listen to is Neil Diamond.
Keep on with your songs Neil Diamond - don't stop ever!!!
6 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
One Of Neils Best, 2008-05-07
Without going into many words about this album, this is one of Neil Diamonds best albums. The words are deep and you can really feel what he is singing. The stripped down sound is a big leap from his 80's and 90's style, which just go's to show how versatile he is. I recommend this album to all, and make sure you listen to it a couple of times before you judge, you will find that me and the other high reviews are correct.
8 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
 What happened to Neil?, 2008-05-07
Listened to the CD last night for the first time - and was very disappointed. I expected, based on the excitement Neil expressed in interviews prior to the release of the CD, that it would be a very lively, uplifting arrangement of music. It is far from that. For me (and I've followed and loved Neil Diamond for more than 20 years), it was incredibly ordinary and boring - and many of the songs are similar and repetitive. The image it created was that of an aging singer at a local tavern strumming his guitar. There are only 1 or 2 good songs; the rest were, well, forgettable. Very disappointing.
33 of 36 customers found the following review helpful:
Lifelong fan's reaction, 2008-05-07
I have been a Neil Diamond fan my whole life. One of the first songs I remember learning by heart is "Song Sung Blue," taught to me when I was three or four by my then-teenage sisters. I was taken to my first concert when I was about 10. I've grown up with this man's music -- singing it, teaching it to myself on the guitar and piano, returning to old favorites as I got older and finding nuances that I had missed when I was younger.
This is, hands down, his finest album. I feel a little sorry for the reviewers both here and in the media who can't see that. Those who long for the boom-boom-boom of the 80s, the sequins and muttonchop whiskers, are forgetting that, first and foremost, Neil Diamond is a songwriter. For too many people, the whole Neil Diamond thing has never actually been about the music. It's all about "the scene," the big events, the production numbers, the over-the-top orchestrations and the oversized flag descending onstage at the end of "America." Really, it's too bad that not everyone can hear these songs for what they are: some of the best of his career, right up there with anything he wrote 30 years ago.
Over the years I've turned my husband, a die-hard classic rock aficionado, into a fan. We caught our nine-year-old daughter singing along to "Pretty Amazing Grace" in the car last night. If that doesn't prove the timelessness of these new songs, and the man who wrote them, I don't know what will. I hope he keeps recording with Rick Rubin and this stripped-down little band until he's ready to call it quits -- a long time from now.
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