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Home Before Dark
by Neil Diamond
from Sony

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A dreary disappointment
  I have loved Neil Diamond since I saw him at the Bitter End in New York City in 1967. Since then I have seen him in concert at least 10 times and I will also always be grateful for the autographed photo he sent my 8th grade students in 1972. It therefore pains me to say this long awaited follow-up to "12 Songs" is a deep disappointment.
  I admired the work Rick Rubin did with Johnny Cash, especially his last CD. I've come to the conclusion, however, that Neil's songs benefit from more accompaniment.... more info

• AWESOME
  Being a baby boomer and having listened to Neil Diamond for years, it is nice to get some new stuff. He is "eternal" and this new DVD is awesome.
  Some good stuff....

• Home before producing a listenable CD
  It's not the worst CD you could buy at Wal-Mart. And Neil shows an occasional spark of the genius of his early years with Bang and Uni Records. But this sounds like a crude demo tape he recorded in his Malibu home basement. Every song has a bum chord change or bad lyric that needed a little more work. The sparse production is dreadful. Neil's gruff, constipated vocals NEED a fuller arrangement. He isn't Mario Lanza. Neil needs to tap back into his prime sound, that folk/gospel/pop/Brill Building concoction... more info

• Four good songs
  And they are "If I Don't See You Again" (with some Lennon and McCartney feel), "The Power Of Two", "Slow It Down", and "Whose Hands Are These?". All listenable, memorable, respectful of his still incredibly voluminous fan base. Additional instrumentation is done with taste; though the duet on "Another Day" is hardly successful: Natalie Maines sounds like..."Hey Rick, you really think this will sell?".
  There are two tracks which must have been written at Starbuck's just prior to entering the studio:... more info

Tracks:

1. If I Don't See You Again
2. Pretty Amazing Grace
3. Don't Go There
4. Another Day (That Time Forgot) with Natalie Maines
5. One More Bite Of The Apple
6. Forgotten
7. Act Like A Man
8. Whose Hands Are These
9. No Words
10. The Power Of Two
11. Slow It Down
12. Home Before Dark

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