Thursday, May 15, 2008

Top Fourteen Neil Diamond Characteristics

14. The Essential Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind are the only two albums I am aware of that use the Columbia Viva-Tonal Electrical Process.

13. One of the only songwriters who writes good songs about songs and songwriting.

12. No rhyme is too tired, silly, or unhip.

11. Elvis did at least two of his songs.

10. He was voted women's favorite music to listen to during sex.

9. He writes about anything he wants: imaginary friends (Shiloh), seagulls (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), and who-knows-what (Soolaimon).

8. You can put on his music and forget about it and enjoy your day a little more or you can listen on headphones and really get in to it.

7. The twin descending portamento keyboards that lead back to the title line on "Love on the Rocks".

6. You can always understand the words.

5. He's the truest descendant of the Sinatra "Tell a story/sing a poem" school working today.

4. He takes his work seriously

3. He appeared as himself on Saturday Night Live alongside Will Ferrel as Fake Neil Diamond.

2. The Band liked him enough to invite him to The Last Waltz

1. Surrounds himself with great players of music.

No irony or, really, humor in today's post. Just really was enjoying The Essential Neil Diamond this week and wanted to figure out/talk about why that was.

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