Neil Diamond

Greatest Hits 1966-92

Caveat Emptor

Review Score:

(2/10)
Good old Columbia does it again. Looking at the cover, and the list of songs on the backside, you could be forgiven if you assumed these were all the original charted renditions, as there is absolutely nothing to indicate that some of the biggest hits included were re-recorded years later.

Only when you open the package and check out the booklet [a nice little package, by the way, which includes the lyrics for each selection] do you realize you have been bamboozled. And now it's too late to take it back!

For the record, the following are NOT the originals: Brooklyn Roads; Red, Red Wine; I'm A Believer; Sweet Caroline; Soolaimon; Cracklin' Rosie; Song Sung Blue; Play Me; Holly Holy; Morningside; Crunchy Granola Suite; Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show; and I Am ... I Said.

Combined with Heartbreak Hotel [previously unreleased], Beautiful Noise, and All I Really Need Is You - which were NOT hits by any stretch of the definition - that's 43% of the contents, folks.

Album Production Coordinator Sam Cole, and Columbia, should be taken to task by the industry. Caveat emptor, indeed. ...

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