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The Essential Neil Diamond (Remastered),Neil Diamond

- The Essential Neil Diamond (Remastered)
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Neil Diamond
Released 2001

Holly Holy
04:28
8,942 plays

Beautiful Noise
03:25
8,821 plays

He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother (Live)
03:44
8,490 plays

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- 1
- Solitary Man
- 02:31
- 24,858 plays

- 2
- Cherry, Cherry
- 02:41
- 28,261 plays

- 3
- I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No)
- 02:12
- 12,515 plays

- 4
- Kentucky Woman
- 02:24
- 17,291 plays

- 5
- Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
- 02:54
- 19,937 plays

- 6
- You Got To Me
- 02:47
- 12,763 plays

- 7
- Red, Red Wine
- 02:39
- 12,431 plays

- 8
- Thank The Lord For The Night Time
- 02:59
- 13,481 plays

- 9
- I'm A Believer
- 02:42
- 16,830 plays

- 10
- Sweet Caroline
- 03:21
- 18,277 plays

- 11
- Song Sung Blue
- 03:12
- 10,363 plays

- 12
- Holly Holy
- 04:28
- 8,942 plays

- 13
- I Am...I Said
- 03:32
- 10,983 plays

- 14
- Cracklin' Rosie
- 02:58
- 11,632 plays

- 15
- Play Me (Live)
- 04:21
- 10,682 plays

- 16
- Morningside (Live)
- 05:24
- 8,279 plays

- 17
- Crunchy Granola Suite (Live)
- 04:05
- 7,941 plays

- 18
- Brooklyn Roads (Live)
- 05:28
- 7,496 plays

- 19
- Soolaimon (Live)
- 05:07
- 7,949 plays

- 20
- America
- 04:17
- 26,375 plays

- 21
- Hello Again
- 03:38
- 16,040 plays

- 22
- Love On The Rocks
- 03:38
- 13,457 plays

- 23
- Captain Sunshine (Live)
- 03:19
- 7,598 plays

- 24
- He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother (Live)
- 03:44
- 8,490 plays

- 25
- Yes I Will/Lady Magdalene (Live)
- 07:00
- 6,964 plays

- 26
- Shilo (Live)
- 03:57
- 8,476 plays

- 27
- Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show (Live)
- 05:00
- 10,145 plays

- 28
- If You Know What I Mean
- 03:40
- 8,046 plays

- 29
- Beautiful Noise
- 03:25
- 8,821 plays

- 30
- You Don't Bring Me Flowers
- 03:14
- 10,806 plays

- 31
- Desirée
- 03:17
- 10,980 plays

- 32
- Forever In Blue Jeans
- 03:37
- 22,306 plays

- 33
- September Morn
- 03:51
- 10,678 plays

- 34
- I've Been This Way Before
- 03:46
- 6,396 plays

- 35
- Yesterday's Songs
- 02:49
- 7,826 plays

- 36
- Heartlight
- 04:24
- 10,667 plays

- 37
- Headed For The Future
- 04:04
- 6,192 plays

- 38
- You Are The Best Part Of Me
- 03:59
- 6,593 plays

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album review

Columbia Records' series of two-disc, limited-edition Essential compilations of its major long-term stars -- Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, etc. -- has generally been a winner, so it is a shame to have to report that the Neil Diamond number is not. True, most of the singer/songwriter's best and most popular songs are included, but there are also significant omissions and enough inessential material to prevent this from being the sort of definitive collection it could and should have been. For once, the basic problem in assembling a Diamond best-of has been overcome, since Columbia has licensed the five Top Ten hits he scored for Uni Records in the late '60s and early '70s from Universal. Meanwhile, Columbia parent Sony controls the Bang Records catalog for which Diamond recorded from 1966 to 1968, and he has been signed to Columbia since 1973, so that puts his biggest hits at the compilers' disposal. But those compilers, Diamond himself and Al Quaglieri, have chosen oddly, shortchanging the Columbia material in favor of using more Bang recordings (nine) than necessary and employing ten live recordings, six of them newly made, nine of them songs from the Uni era, including versions of obscure album tracks like "Captain Sunshine." That leaves space for only 14 Columbia studio recordings from 1973-2001, and though most of them were chart singles, fans will miss the Top Five hit "Longfellow Serenade," while "I've Been This Way Before," another track from the Serenade album that barely made the Top 40, is included. This is the kind of idiosyncratic selection typical of a collection chosen by the artist himself, in this case one who is more interested in his new interpretations of half-forgotten songs from 30 years earlier than what a more objective observer might consider the "essential" recordings of his career. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide