Neil Diamond

Young Neil...hot or not?

Previous thread on his Magnificent Awfulness.

Saw him in concert about 7 years ago. We had special VIP passes which included a gift bag and dinner before the show. Most of the people at this dinner were women and members of his fan club. His assistant came out and gave all the women special necklaces from Neil. The place went insane, imagine 60- something women sobbing trike teenage girls. Having said that- the concert was a blast, he gave 110%, the crown was super into it and me and my friend (front row seats) made it onto the Jumbotron. A few years later I ended up givin* the contents of the gift bag ( minus the fleece blanket with Neil’s name embroidered into it) to a sales man at a car dealership who had the license plate “ JAZ SNGR”

Neil is one of those singers everyone claims to loathe but secretly love. Who doesnt know all the words to Sweet Caroline ?

Neil Diamond is age 77 now. That's a good reason he is not in the forefront anymore.

"Neil is one of those singers everyone claims to loathe but secretly love. Who doesnt know all the words to Sweet Caroline ?"

I know them, but that doesn't mean that I don't hate them, R4.

My dad said he’s ethnic.

I've heard he said "Sweet Caroline" was written about a 12 year-old Caroline Kennedy when Neil was in his late 20's.

Discuss.

It was written specifically for Lea Thompson’s show. She was to grow into the song.

^^oh yeah? Well, what about ‘My Louise’?

Neil is part of the tribe. He's the jewish Elvis. One of the best songwriters of all time going all the way back to the Brill Building.

R4 all drunk paunchy white straight men know and love ‘Sweet Caroline’, much to our dismay.

As a Gatling, I loved the cover of Hot August Nights in my mom’s record collection.

^ gayling.

He obviously has talent, but I always found him very bland and cheesy.

And "I Am I Said" has some of the most hilariously bad lyrics in pop music. The chair didn't say anything, y'all!!!!!

His voice is fun to imitate.

In January 2018, Diamond announced that he would immediately retire from touring due to having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Linda Ronstadt (who has Parkinson's), Glen Campbell & Neil did a godawful medley of Neil's hits on the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour.

If I were Glen Campbell, I’d spend all my time performing my own timeless greats like ‘Wichita Lineman’ and paying everyone else and their trifling songs no mind.

R19 That would be somewhat difficult as Glen Campbell is dead.

I always got him mixed up with Neil Sedaka.

I actually prefer Jimmy Webb singing Wichita Lineman. He wrote it too.

I was a teenage gayling when this came out. Along with Donna Summers' "Heaven Knows", I thought this was THE best song ever written.

In the video, you'll notice that both of them have their hand in their pocket. Did they have to finger themselves to get through working with each other?

My mom was obsessed with him, and played the crap out of his stuff at home and when taking me to and from school. For the longest time though, I thought the song "Forever In Blue Jeans" was actually called "Reverend Blue Jeans", which made no sense to me.

I’m amused by his rambly sprechgesang. He always sounds so affably exasperated and “aw, shucks” when singing. Hearing his voice often puts me in a 1930s/40s New York headspace.

I always confuse him with Enklebird Homodinker.

His song Reverend Blue Jeans about a hippy priest was stupid.

Reverend Blue Jeans and Brother Love were fucking Holly Holy at the Traveling Salvation Show.

R27 is stealing Kevin James shtick?

R26, you mentioned it. Englebert Humperdinck has a fantastic voice. Was good looking and perhaps under-appreciated early-on.

^^ Those are some cocksucking lips.

I have never understood his success or how he has so many fans. He has an awful voice and from seeing him on TV, hardly any charisma when he is performing. The songs - OMG , the worst ever!

Never gotten him, his voice or his music. Too each his own. Of the same ilk, Billy Joel. Although Joel has always sort of given me the creeps. Diamond seems like a regular kind of fellow- just don't care for his voice or music.

One of his best

Neil and Barbra went to high school together (was it Erasmus High?) in Brooklyn.

Neil's voice isn't bad, his songs are just so overorchestrated.

Luv it!

Has anyone been inside the San Remo? Wondering what the apartments are like.

[quote]I have never understood his success or how he has so many fans. He has an awful voice and from seeing him on TV, hardly any charisma when he is performing.

A lot of those 60s and 70s artists got their "charisma" from being singer-songwriters. Look at Carole King. She looks like some coffee house waitress. And Joni Mitchell looked like an uptight librarian. That's why I think people like Bette Midler got so popular. Bette would get up and shake her boobs around the stage and the level of her energy was so different than the singer-songwriters just strumming their guitars or sitting at the piano.

his songs were corny but some of his lesser hits from the beginning of his career sort of rocked. Like the one from Pulp Fiction "Girl Youll Be a Woman Soon" (his version was remade by a 90s band) and "Cherry Cherry"