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Old 16-11-2012, 14:57
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New Best Of out 26th November. Now this is the first time all his hits back to the 60's ones and up to present have been on a single CD. I've been waiting for one for years so am pleased. All the classics and songs he wrote and recorded but were big hits for others. I'm A Believer and Red Red Wine are probably the best known ones.

Any Neil fans here?

Tracklist:

Forever In Blue Jeans
Beautiful Noise
Love On The Rocks
Cherry, Cherry
I Am...I Said
Sweet Caroline
Cracklin' Rosie
Play Me
I'm A Believer
Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
Holly Holy
Solitary Man
Song Sung Blue
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Hello Again
Red, Red Wine
If You Know What I Mean
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Pretty Amazing Grace
Kentucky Woman
Shilo
America
Hell Yeah
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Old 16-11-2012, 17:17
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New Best Of out 26th November. Now this is the first time all his hits back to the 60's ones and up to present have been on a single CD. I've been waiting for one for years so am pleased. All the classics and songs he wrote and recorded but were big hits for others. I'm A Believer and Red Red Wine are probably the best known ones.

Any Neil fans here?

Tracklist:

Forever In Blue Jeans
Beautiful Noise
Love On The Rocks
Cherry, Cherry
I Am...I Said
Sweet Caroline
Cracklin' Rosie
Play Me
I'm A Believer
Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
Holly Holy
Solitary Man
Song Sung Blue
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Hello Again
Red, Red Wine
If You Know What I Mean
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Pretty Amazing Grace
Kentucky Woman
Shilo
America
Hell Yeah
hope the tracks are original ones (as opposed to modern re-makes).

to me, neil was an artist of two halfs. i love his 60's material... solitary man, cherry cherry, girl youll be a woman soon... etc... but really dont like sweet caroline onwards.
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Old 16-11-2012, 18:36
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hope the tracks are original ones (as opposed to modern re-makes).

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Good point. I hope they're the original versions too.
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Old 16-11-2012, 18:40
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to me, neil was an artist of two halfs. i love his 60's material... solitary man, cherry cherry, girl youll be a woman soon... etc... but really dont like sweet caroline onwards.
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Old 16-11-2012, 19:23
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Pretty amazing grace is my favourite
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Old 16-11-2012, 19:38
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He has a lovely voice, I really like Forever In Blue Jeans.
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Old 16-11-2012, 23:49
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Trouble is I already have two different "Best of" double cd sets and a third would be nuts. I just wait each new album now to save confusion.
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Old 17-11-2012, 00:13
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I think Neil Diamond sounds best live.
He's made two great live albums in Hot August Night and Love at the Greek. It would be hard to better those.
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Old 17-11-2012, 07:46
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seen him live a number of times, nig fan, but unsure if I need a new best of.
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Old 17-11-2012, 12:24
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If ever a musician held an audience in his hands it is Neil Diamond. When the start of "Sweet Caroline" kicks in it is like a giant firework with the blue touch paper being lit. It is not just a concert it is like the world's biggest happiness club holding their A.G.M. The man can do no wrong such are his tallents.
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Old 28-11-2012, 16:12
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Received my CD today and it's great. Fabulous sound and all the original recordings. Glad I never bought a compilation of his before as this is the most complete.

Not too pleased that it was £9.99 when I ordered it and Amazon' price is now £7.47. Should have waited. Not very pleased at paying for Amazon's 1st Class delivery service either as it was posted Saturday and arrived today! Still, that's probably the Post Office's fault.
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Old 28-11-2012, 17:06
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I think he has a lovely voice also, I have my favourite songs and Love On The Rocks, I Am...I Said and Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon are my top 3.
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Old 10-12-2012, 14:53
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I've got a "best of" triple album, which I think was an import from germany, it's on vinyl and I haven't got a turntable (unless Santa reads my letter) so I haven't listened to it for ages, but it has a version on I am...I said on it which is different to any other version I've heard and it's by far my favourite
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Old 10-12-2012, 15:00
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seen him live a number of times, nig fan, but unsure if I need a new best of.
Racist!
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Old 10-12-2012, 18:00
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Some cracking songs on there , only five I'm not keen on

You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Hello Again

Forever In Blue Jeans

Song Sung Blue

Love On The Rocks

Good to hear that they are original recordings as well .
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