Neil Diamond - Jazz Singer
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Free Music Review: This is my 1st introduction to Neil Diamond
Hit: 5 Stars
I became a fan to Neil Diamond instantly since picking up the soundtrack to the movie "The Jazz Singer" which I have on VHS (since 1997). That's how it all laid out. That's when I became known as a trumpet player since right after watching the movie and listening to the soundtrack. I briefly wore out the LP quite a bit but not much but I day I'll have it out on CD 2 go. Yep as to say this one of my all-time favorite movies and soundtracks,'Nuff said. 'Cuz a lot of ya'll Neil fans can't go wrong on this. This is out for all the nay-sayers/haters who disagrees with this album, nor the movie, I think you shouldn't be proud if u would've rated it higher or else just give it just 1 shot by downloading or getting it a used music store or something. And for agreers/reviewers that agree with the soundtrack and movie nor the soundtrack instead of the movie nor the movie instead of the soundtrack or whatever. I agree with you 100%. I don't care whethere they like it or not. Either hate it or love it like 50 Cent and the Game say on the hit single "Hate It or Love It". This is familar to those who are fans to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, the Big Bands, and all of that stuff, y'feel me? This is a must for those that listen to gospel instead of secular music or else listen to secular/mainstream music nor listen to jazz, are involved in the gospel choir and band (which I'm in), are in the music business (gospel, Christian or secular) or whatever. This is definitely the movie you must-have in your collection if you love Neil Diamond or else never even love jazz or never even know him in general, etc. I guarantee you 100% you won't be dissappointed. I luv every song that's on the album and it's still good. Period.
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Free Music Review: A great injustice was done to Neil refgarding this album.
Hit: 5 Stars
For some reason, Neil Diamonds's peers have not held him in the same high esteem his fans have. The fans are rigght and his peers are wrong. This CD has three top ten tunes in it, "America," "Hello Again," and "Love on the Rocks." All are great songs and all were hits 20 years ago. There were additional great rockers like "You Baby Baby" on this CD. Inexplicably the academy did not even so much as nominate the movie "The Jazz Singer" for the best score nor did any of the three mega hits get a nomination for best song. This was an unconscionable dump on a great star and songwriter. He deserved an Oscar and did not even get a nomination!I recommend both the cd and a video of the movie. The cd has great studio versions of the songs whereas the movie has some great, energetic live performances, particularly of "You Baby," and "Amazed and Confused." This cd is abslolutely classic and as of the writing of this review, "America" is particularly uplifting so soon after the terrorist attack on New York & the Pentagon. Indeed, the night before this review was written, I saw Neil Diamond in concert at Madison Square Garden & he had the crowd on it's feet with "America." This is a cd that we as fans know is great regardless of what his peers may have thought. I hope in the future, some justice will be done and he will be inducted into the Rock n roll Hall of Fame.
Free Music Review: This Soundtrack & Neil Diamond ROCK!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This was one of the most successful movie soundtracks in that it remained on Billboard's top 100 albums for nearly 3 years. It produced 3 #1 songs, Love on the Rocks, America, and Hello Again, a personal favorite as it's my wedding song. This is not Diamond's only musical appearance in films. He also wrote the famous song "Be" for the film "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
Neil Diamond has legions of fans and it is well-deserved recognition. The CD is excellent in regards to Diamond's work, but the quality of the CD is rough in some places where you can hear an annoying hiss sound when the volume is pumped up and for his rock songs you certainly want to do that, but with ballads on high volume you can here the hiss more. Other than that, this soundtrack remains ageless as does most of Diamond's music.
I wrote a review for the film that covers how I feel about that work so you can check there to read that, but for brevity's sake here I'll just recommend that you buy or rent the film. It is so much better than the critics who ripped into it both then and now. Of course, being a Diamond fan helps, but Lucie Arnez and Laurence Olivier also make the film very watchable.
Free Music Review: One of Neil's BEST...and very underrated!
Hit: 5 Stars
Lets face it, Neil is not the best actor in the world - but when he sings, it is PURE MAGIC. This 'soundtrack' album holds some of his best work ever, including the classic 'Love on the rocks' and 'America', amidst at least a half a dozen others. I have to hold a candle to this man, who is still drawing in major crowds at age 60+...and has not had a real major top 10 CD in years! This is the inspiration that is Neil Diamond...and sticking to the subject of this CD, he truly shines in all ways on this one. There are some rockers, fun stuff, blues, totally mellow and the classical ND commercial stuff - and all done with soul and passion. Unlike a lot of his work that surrounded this one, this really had a lot of Neil's heart and soul, and not a lot of some studio producer telling him 'what was next'.
What can I say - I thought the movie was great (not a classic mind you), and I admired Neil for giving the old Hollywood thing a go (don't think he has done it since!) - and the bottom line is that despite the shortcomings of this movie, we as fans got to enjoy some of his finest work ever!
Free Music Review: If you ask me . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
"America' should have won the Oscar for the best song of 1980! Actually the year 1980 was a great one for pop music in the movies, unlike the stark crops of recent years. The official nominees included "Fame" and "Out There On My Own," both from FAME, "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson, and "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. There was also one dud, "People Alone," from THE COMPETITION which hasn't stood the test of time.
If you ask me, "America" should have been nominated and could have won, even under such stiff competition. And I know some of you will say the same of "Hello Again" and "Love on the Rocks" two of Neil's softer tunes.
However, XANADU fans are still smarting over the total lack of Oscar recognition for the many great tracks in the movie--"Suddenly," "Magic," "Xanadu," "All Over the World" and "Suspended in Time." As for which soundtrack LP is the better bargain, I call it a draw!
PS, by the way, the award went to FAME which isn't a disgrace.