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Love Songs | 
 enlarge | Artist: Neil Diamond
Label: Mca
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 314316
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 076732149027
EAN: 0076732149027
ASIN: B000002NY8
Release Date: July 26, 1989
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| Tracks:
| • | Theme (Orchestral) | | • | Stones | | • | If You Go Away | | • | The Last Thing On My Mind | | • | Coldwater Morning | | • | Juliet | | • | Both Sides Now | | • | Play Me | | • | Hurtin' You Don't Come Easy | | • | Husbands And Wives | | • | Until It's Time For You To Go | | • | And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind | | • | A Modern Day Version Of Love | | • | Suzanne |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The Neil Diamond repackaging industry reached deluge levels in the '90s, as the man became an even bigger touring act than ever. This relatively early set, though, goes light on the hits--of the singer's myriad big singles, only "Play Me" and "Stones" are included. Instead, Diamond's Uni-era LPs are mined for covers of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and other late-'60s heavies, along with a handful of originals ("And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind"). Hardly a major addition to anyone's Neil collection, Love Songs is nonetheless sure to please fans of that deep, deep voice. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews:
If all artists would give us what Diamond gave us here... April 28, 2000
Barry D. Adams (Pensacola, Florida USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everyone knows Neil Diamond's voice immediately. We want to hear it. We know it. It is comfortable. Does anyone not feel like we know Neil Diamond personally? While we thrill to albums like "Hot August night" or "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" it is albums like this that forever connect us to the soul of an artist. It is not simply the songs (everyone has recorded virtually all of these at one time or another), it is not simply the production (although beautiful, it is pretty predictable actually), and it is not a smashing performance (some of the delivery seems a little contrived in places). This album goes far beyond these aspects. It is the phenomenal experience of sitting in a room with this master song-crafter and song-singer while he weaves a unique magic with each one. And we listen. And we will never hear anyone do what he does again. "Suzanne" has drifted off to sleep with me for several nights in a row at times leaving lingering glorious images and dreams of oceans, sailors and that ever-elusive fantasy woman. Neil Diamond does here what he does the best, and what no one else will ever be able to do. A marvelous work of art from a marvelous performer. A must have.
Will there be not a trace left behind . . . March 30, 2000
! Steffan Piper ! (Palm Desert, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great album from a man who would write many songs over the course of his life and make many performances, but everything before and after pales in comparison to the quality of this unique and spiritually moving recording.
Neil Diamond has made a career in projecting himself in terms of some kind of psuedo-Tom Jones. But it is here, that I find myself adrift in the copius, but all-too corporate, emission of this man, searching for his true, seedy gem; all the time wondering where the real magic is that he created so skillfully in these days as I see him with yet another new release, or amalgam of songs from all his hit albums.
I shouldn't bring a negative light to this current part of his life, but when a man ages, he does reach out for what he once had, and when you think you are doing it for the sake of entertaining others, something gets lost. But I guess that's his prerogative. The facts stand by themselves, he was adored for this style of songwriting and composing found here, not for that cowboy-esque portrayal he created for himself on the screen or for the later persona that churned out more Christmas Albums than Bing Crosby.
"If you go away" is undoubtedly, the most profound thing this man will leave in his legacy. And I assure you, if you'll really listen, it will be this album that he'll be remembered for when it's all said and done.
This is the real Neil Diamond, his hearts true message.
... will there be not a trace left behind ...
For the romantic moments of life October 13, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Heart warming songs for the very special moments of live. Some of the best yet not the most popular songs of Neil such as "Susan" or "If you go away". Truly an outstanding album!
Some of the best pieces I've ever heard August 5, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Deep feelings, sensitive sounds, excellent instrumentation. 'Love Songs' is a very special collection of beautiful songs coming from this profoundly original artist.
Emphathetic Lyrics Portraying Love-Lost \ Love-Found. June 30, 1998
klmicha@email.msn.com (Baltimore, Maryland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Neil Diamond's "Love Songs" capture the ache in our hearts when our best efforts at love fail miserably or succeed fulfillingly. They convey the desperate longing for one more chance to make it all right again or to rekindle anew the comfortably passionate relationship providing the staying power of abiding love.Diamond's words cause our most poignant desires to love and be loved, to take flight, gliding through ethereal heavens in dream-like gracefulness. Sometimes the images arising in our minds from Diamond's lyrics overpower sense and sensation. Almost immediately we know our delicate hearts have been exposed to an affective probe that ferrets out each hidden pain and tortured memory we can never seem to let go of. Still, amazingly, we open ourselves further to a consumated discovery. Diamond's "Love Songs" refreshens and restores our sensitivities to the excessive price we all pay to open ourselves to loving and being loved. His words make us brave enough to risk it all over, again and again. Diamond's word's makes us believe that to accept anything less is to really die a sad and lonely and worthless death. --Kevin Michaelis
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