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- 12 Greatest Hits, Vol.2
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Neil Diamond
Released 1982

Forever In Blue Jeans
03:23
53,529 plays

America
04:18
34,399 plays

You Don't Bring Me Flowers
03:25
28,627 plays

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- 1
- Beautiful Noise
- 03:25
- 16,258 plays

- 2
- Hello Again
- 04:07
- 26,103 plays

- 3
- Forever In Blue Jeans
- 03:23
- 53,529 plays

- 4
- September Morn
- 03:52
- 26,087 plays

- 5
- Desiree
- 03:19
- 14,839 plays

- 6
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers
- 03:25
- 28,627 plays

- 7
- America
- 04:18
- 34,399 plays

- 8
- Be
- 05:04
- 10,676 plays

- 9
- Longfellow Serenade
- 03:52
- 13,752 plays

- 10
- If You Know What I Mean
- 03:41
- 11,913 plays

- 11
- Yesterday's Songs
- 02:50
- 12,645 plays

- 12
- Love On The Rocks
- 03:40
- 19,761 plays

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album review

Keying off the title of an earlier hits collection on another label, Columbia's 12 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 sums up Neil Diamond's first eight years with the label, 1973-1981, as well as his successful 1980 soundtrack for The Jazz Singer on Capitol Records. Five of the 12, "Longfellow Serenade," "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Barbra Streisand), "Love on the Rocks," "Hello Again," and "America," were Top Ten hits. Another six, "Be," "If You Know What I Mean," "Desiree," "Forever in Blue Jeans," "September Morn," and "Yesterday's Songs," made the Top 40, and the last, "Beautiful Noise," was the title track of Diamond's best album of the period. The songs share a catchiness that belies Diamond's shallow philosophizing and thinly veiled lust, and they make for a consistent collection out of what had been a series of uneven albums. And, since Diamond only made the Top Ten one more time, the album caps his hit-making days. This is the record to buy instead of investing in the Columbia catalog. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide