Greatest Hits Pop Music : Neil Diamond: The Greatest Hits 1966-1992

Neil Diamond: The Greatest Hits 1966-1992

£5.69

  1. Solitary Man
  2. Cherry Cherry
  3. I Got The Feelin
  4. Thank The Lord For The Night Time
  5. Girl You ll Be A Woman Soon
  6. Kentucky Woman
  7. Shilo
  8. You Got To Me
  9. Brooklyn Roads
  10. Red Red Wine
  11. I m A Believer
  12. Sweet Caroline
  13. Soolaimon
  14. Cracklin Rosie
  15. Song Sung Blue
  16. Play Me
  17. Holly Holy
  18. Morning Side
  19. Crunchy Granola Suite
  20. Brother Love s Travelling Salvation Show
  21. I Am...I Said
  22. Longfellow Serenade
  23. Beautiful Noise
  24. If You Know What I Mean
  25. Desiree
  26. September Morn
  27. You Don t Bring Me Flowers - Diamond, Neil & Barbra Streisand
  28. Forever In Blue Jeans
  29. Hello Again
  30. America
  31. Love On The Rocks
  32. Yesterday s Songs
  33. Heartlight
  34. Headed For The Future
  35. Heartbreak Hotel - Diamond, Neil & Kim Carnes
  36. All I Really Need Is You

Though now known mainly for his middle-of-the-road balladry, Neil Diamond started his career in the 60s as a Tin Pan Alley pro who turned out a string of ballsy, folk-rock-styled classic Top 40 singles that may come as a surprise to anyone who s grown up with the image of Diamond as a sensitive crooner and Vegas showman. This 2 CD set contains all of his hits, but it isn t quite the definitive package that its title suggests. His early Bang singles (Cherry, Cherry, Kentucky Woman, Solitary Man) and his later Columbia material (You Don t Bring Me Flowers, America, Heartlight) appear in their original versions. But his mid-period MCA/UNI hits (Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue, I Am ... I Said) are represented by live re-recordings from 1989 and 1992. --Scott Schinder

Excellent - A Great album ,with a mix of live and studio tracks.Personally I think the live tracks bring some great energy to the album and even though they are live they have good production.Turn it up loud and enjoy!Love it!!

Very disappointed :-( - I should have read the other reviews. Some people prefer live but I like crisp full belt studio versions. Shame the CD cover didn t indicate some tracks were live and some re-recorded. Maybe amazon will be nice and let me change it :-)

Talk To Trading Standards! - This is the third Sony/BMG release that I have which contains live and/or re-recordings when it makes no mention of them on the package. The others were Billy Joel and Roy Orbison.It is clear to me that this company are flagrantly conning the general public out of their cash.I can remember years ago it was a legal requirement that discs with re-recordings must state it on the cover. Indeed I still have one or two that do.I returned my Roy Orbison disc to Sony customer services a couple of weeks ago by recorded delivery. Guess what - no reply yet!Small claims court is next!

Not all original versions - Some of these tracks are not the original versions - how disappointing is it to hear crowd applause at the beginning of a track? and then to hear a live version of a well-known song which doesn t feature the production, timbre or quality of the hit version we know and love (plus crowd singing along on some of them). You have to open the cd and play it before you find out as it doesn t have any indication of this on the cover - and this is particularly annoying as it is something I always check for.

Rip Off - As stated by others, this CD is useless. I bought it in a shop for a present and was apalled to find out that pretty much nearly all the big songs (i.e. Cracklin Rosie, Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue etc) are all rubbish 1980s live versions - nowhere on the packaging at all does it tell you this. It s only really the very early stuff and the songs from The Jazz Singer that are the actual studio versions. Total rip off, avoid like the plague.




Neil Diamond: The Greatest Hits 1966-1992