TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1054
Neil Diamond Album Rankings
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Although not as comprehensive an anthology of Neil Diamond's eight-album, four-year affiliation with MCA as 1992's 38-track doubleGlory Road,The Neil Diamond Collectionis a definitive single-disc reca
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Classics: The Early Yearsrounds up 12 highlights from Neil Diamond's recordings for Bang Records.
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It's stripped down (and we're not just talking about the jumpsuits), simple and the songwriter's best work in ages.
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The double-CDGlory Road: 1968 to 1972set raises all kinds of mixed emotions.
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The follow-up toTouching You, Touching Mewas an ambitious set of songs, all originals except for a Top 20 cover of "He Ain't Heavy...
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6
This is the ultimate Neil Diamond record.
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Diamond's first regular album release to sell in substantial numbers,Touching You, Touching Mecontains the gold Top Ten single "Holly Holy," and a Diamond composition, but is mostly notable for its co
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8
Neil Diamond's debut LP for Uni Records and his earliest extant album,Velvet Gloves and Spithas appeared in two distinctly different versions.
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10
Neil Diamond's quasi-classical melodies and oratorical vocals evoke a Hollywood Moses gesticulating wildly toward the heavens. This hasn't always been the case.
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13
Lovescape frames Neil Diamond's typically strong, if a little over-dramatic, vocal style with plinking keyboards, cooing backup singers, and hissing, breathy synthesizers.
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14
A surprising hit--for it was in fact a country album--the former Noah Kaminsky here sings with Waylon Jennings and the Mavericks ' Raul Malo.
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15
Much like its predecessor Hot August Night 2, Live in America captures Neil Diamond at the height of his powers as a showman.
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16
In My Lifetime is a triple-disc, 71-track box set spanning Neil Diamond's entire career, from his early Bang hits, through his heyday at MCA to his latter-day adult contemporary hits for Columbia.
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17
I don't begrudge Neil Diamond his decision to "grow" artistically. Sure, I love his late-Sixties output ("Kentucky Woman," "I'm a Believer," "Cherry Cherry," etc.
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18
Less overproduced than its predecessors, this album immediately followed the released of Columbia's much-praised Bang Records compilation Classics: The Early Years .
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20
Hot August Night 2 might not capture Neil Diamond at the peak of his career like its predecessor did, but it makes a convincing case for Diamond's skills as a showman.
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21
Though Hot August Night is better known as the definitive Neil Diamond live album, Gold will have value for those who prefer the songsmith's pop-rock beginnings to the slick sophistication that made
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25
This is Diamond's equivalent of, say, one of Barbra Streisand's Broadway albums.
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34
The follow-up to his huge smash album Jonathan Livingston Seagull , this less-ambitious effort included "Longfellow Serenade" and reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts.
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35
Produced by Robbie Robertson of the Band --and don't forget Diamond appeared in the classic film The Last Waltz --this was credible pop album from an artist most rock fans had long considered unhip.
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38
A remake of Hot August Night ? Nope, that came later. But here's a bunch of new live songs--released the year punk rock exploded.
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41
I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight suffers from stilted, polished production, and a poor selection of songs; "Free Man in Paris" and "God Only Knows" may be great songs, but they're not suited to D
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44
Like Sylvester Stallone, Neil Diamond is an icon of the American Dream, wearing his street-toughened ego as a badge of artistic authenticity.
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46
Not exactly a classic, but the cover songs here, all of them sung in Diamond's peculiarly appealing bellow, are particularly fab: "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore," "Dancing In The Street," "Stagge
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52
Although Diamond has continued to sell healthy quantities of his albums and to fill arenas for his concerts, Heartlight and its title song, which was a Top Ten hit, were his last record releases as w
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56
Rainbow is a compilation that relies solely on compositions by folk-rock singer/songwriters and modern-day pop craftsmen, which means that the record is more consistent than the average Neil Diamond
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58
While admittedly a dated project, this early Uni album is a well put together sampling of all Diamond was (via hits like "I Am...
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