...and I'll make fun of you.

Come on, you know you do.

Yep, I like him.

Everything? No. But a bunch of his work, yes.

I liked his early stuff when he first had hits. I like the fact that Ellie Greenwich was involved in his early development, because I loved her. Wasn't Neil in The Last Waltz ?

you guys didn't catch him on the cancer special just now eh?

holy christ.

The what now?

Oh no, I ain't watching that shit.

he was pretty solid up until the jazz singer, then it was punchline city, baby

there was a cancer special on network tv here, and he did a short song. my mom was a huge fan, and i think i heard her laughing at him from her grave. it was dreadful.

he's great.

I think I own a best of early stuff, more for the wife, but sure for early songwriting like Cherry Oh he fits on a mix. I saw Jazz singer when I was 11 or 12. I kinda liked it. My sister just married a Jew at the time and I was kavitzing or whatever you call it 'cause he was cool. He's my bro-in-law and a good one at that. And believe me, I went to the choicest High School for Neil Diamond moms ' cause their daughters came to school on that Monday with the pink sequined tailored concert sweatshirts, he ruled the school that week. Am I all about him? Nah. Do I like him? Sorta?









there's a bit of character in there for play kinda


seriously

i saw him shortly after 9/11 and he started and ended the show with Coming To America

I'd rather watch just about anyone cover him, than watch him perform. I keep meaning to find a copy of Hot August Night though.

dude gets the chicks, what's not to like about that?

Songwriter in the Brill Building. RESPECT.

was that Carol King at that time? she was like 15?

Hot August Nights was a staple for a long time. Great fucking album.

I think she was slightly older...maybe 20 when "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" came out.

Burt Bacharach, Paul Simon, Laura Nyro, and Phil Spector all walked the halls as well.

Woody Allen?

I like some of those early tunes.
"Cherry, Cherry", "Sweet Caroline", etc...

my mom had a bunch of his albums when i was growing up and i used to think they were really corny.


and sweet caroline sucks, especially since they play it at sox games.

there's only indifference for me.

Can we piss on the board's corpse now?

the dude has some great songs.



and a whole lot of awful ones.

femtoots 3 yr old loves sweet caroline

she calls it 'bop bop' because of the big brass lick after 'sweeeet caroliiiiine'