Advantages: Newfloridian's Album Of The Year Disadvantages: It's so so addictive
One glance at the list of music reviews I have added to these pages over the years should confirm that I have pretty catholic tastes. I grew up in the sixties, matured and have now grown older always surrounded and immersed in a variety of sounds and styles. I have a large music collection (CD and DVD) and over recent years have seen many of my old heroes in the flesh in concert.
I have to say from the outset that I have never been an avid follower of NeilDiamond. I have heard many of his own recordings (Sweet Caroline, I am ? I said). I am also aware of his talents as a songwriter and that many of his compositions have been hits for other artists (I'm A Believer - The Monkees; The Boat That I Row - Lulu; Red, Red Wine - UB40). Now aged 64 his output since the 1960s has been prodigious and he has racked up over 36 albums.
That ...
Advantages: Very easy listening Disadvantages: None
The Jazz Singer is the album from NeilDiamond which was the soundtrack to the remake of "The Jazz Singer", originally done for the "big screen" by Al Jolson.
Released in November 1980 by Capitol and EMI it was then re-released in February 1996 on Columbia and Sony. The film actually didn't do very well in the box office but the soundtrack became one of NeilDiamond's best selling albums in the States by selling over 5 million albums.
Three of the songs from the soundtrack became top ten singles, "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again" and "America".
The track listing is as follows:
"America" (NeilDiamond)
"Adan Olom"
"You Baby"
"Love On The Rocks" (Diamond/Gilbert Becaud)
"Amazed and Confused"
"On the Robert E. Lee"
"Summer Love"
"Hello Again"
"Acapulco"
"Hey Louise"
"Songs Of Life
"Jerusalem"
"Kol Nidre ...
Advantages: Based on a true story - it is extremely unsettling. Disadvantages: Violent... disturbing images.
God, Jacob Samuelson gives the order to kill the settlers.
Devastated by his father?s hatred towards the settlers, Jonathan will do everything in his power to save the woman he loves?
Based on a true story that the Mormon?s attempted to stifle and then subsequently denied, the movie takes us back to the fanatical beginnings of the Mormons and their nefarious leader, Brigham Young, and focuses on the September 11th, 1857 slaying of 120 men, women and children by a fanatical group of Mormons.
Oddly enough, as compelling as the story is, it was never widely publicised.
Although the movie paints an extremely ugly picture of the Mormons and will undoubtedly draw the ire and hatred of a portion of the population, it will only be that portion that already holds a grudge or carries a personal dislike of the religious group. This movie ...
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