| What are the odds that the Diamond could release a good album? |
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| No fucking way. What are you? On dope? |
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Jake
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 Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:50 pm New Neil Diamond album... Might it actually be good? |
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New Neil Diamond Album Pushed To November
| Quote: | | "We're mixing it, and it's going great," Rubin tells Billboard. "It's mostly acoustic. It's a very personal record. It's stripped-down Neil. I think you'll get to hear him in a way like you've never heard him before or like you heard him a long time ago. But I think it's different from anything you've heard from him before." |
Is there any possibility at all that the Diamond has a good album left in him? |
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D. Phillips
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:40 pm |
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| I love these new threads. |
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Mixmaster Shecky
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:32 pm |
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| Diamond should have stopped with 'Cracklin' Rosie'. Where do you go from there? |
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worpswede
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:57 pm |
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| Mixmaster Shecky wrote: | | Diamond should have stopped with 'Cracklin' Rosie'. Where do you go from there? |
It's a song about when Diamond ran over his girlfriend. At least that's what I heard.
On the thread topic...
Didn't Neil have a comback album (or return to form, whatever) in the mid-70's called "Beautiful Noise?"
Wasn't it produced by Robbie Robertson?
Didn't it suck ass?
There's no way Rubin is going to somehow convince me that Neil Diamond is credible when he hasn't done shit for well over 30 years.
Do the math: that's a longer dry spell than the Stones or McCartney. |
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blackshoestring
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:07 pm |
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People try to forget that Johnny Cash did have some clunkers before American recordings.
Loretta did it.
Nancy Sinatra pretty much did it.
Tom Jones sorta did it.
Why shouldn't Neil Diamond?
I'd rather hear some half-assed new Neil in the dentist's chair than the rotten tripe kids are subjected to now.
I mean seriously. Could I just listen to the drill for a while doc? |
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johnhl
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:16 pm |
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| Last time I was at the dentist they actually turned on a video of the Wiggles. They looked puzzled when I asked them to turn it off. |
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worpswede
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:35 am |
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| johnhl wrote: | | Last time I was at the dentist they actually turned on a video of the Wiggles. They looked puzzled when I asked them to turn it off. |
I typically just make up my own words to The Wiggles when I hear them.
"Hey everybody, havin' sex with Wags the dog"
I'm sure they would have looked even more puzzled with that one. |
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Jake
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:48 am |
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| blackshoestring wrote: | | People try to forget that Johnny Cash did have some clunkers before American recordings. |
More than a few! Almost all of Cash's post-60s, pre-Rubin work is unlistenable shit. I mean, have you heard The Baron? I bought it on vinyl for a quarter and I still paid too much.
| worpswede wrote: | | Do the math: that's a longer dry spell than the Stones or McCartney. |
That's probably true, but just slightly. The Diamond released his last awesome song, "America," in 1980. The Stones released their last good song, "Under Cover of the Night," in 1983. Paul released his last good song, "My Brave Face" (written with Elvis Costello), in 1989. But dude, "America" is so much more awesome than anything the Stones or Paul have done since 1980! You know? I may be a cheeseball, and maybe I should consider this a guilty pleasure (I don't), but "America" is so fucking awesome, I almost cry every time it gets to the "My country tis of thee, swing land of liberty, of thee I sing... Of thee I sing... TODAY!" Come on! |
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Mixmaster Shecky
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:56 am |
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| Jake wrote: | | I may be a cheeseball, and maybe I should consider this a guilty pleasure (I don't), but "America" is so fucking awesome, I almost cry every time it gets to the "My country tis of thee, swing land of liberty, of thee I sing... Of thee I sing... TODAY!" Come on! |
Jake, sit down. I have to tell you - you are a cheeseball. |
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sab
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:35 am |
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The issue here is not The Diamond, but Rick Rubin. The guy could make a great record with me as the only other talent, and I'm tone deaf and only know how to play one bass line, badly.
For those of you who have not ventured out to see Neil live, let me tell you that he still knows how to sing those great songs from the 60s and 70s, and he does so every night. His live show is evidence that he knows his new stuff sucks, which is why he avoids it. He's in exactly the same place in his career that Johnny Cash was, and that's all Rubin needs to turn out a great album. I will be buying this one the day it comes out. |
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