This past sunday, I climbed the stairs next to a rare book shop and entered a quaint wood-paneled listening den in Santa Monica, nestled in a chair next to the music producer icon, Rick Rubin, (founder of DefJam Records, one of Forbes 100 most influential ppl in the world; and current co-head of Columbia Records; see picture below), along with 10 other diligent reporters (Rollingstone, LA Weekl...
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A song co-written with the esteemed Robbie Robertson of The BandDry your eyes and take your song out, its a newborn afternoon.And if you cant recall the singer you can still recall the tune.Dry your eyes and play it slowly like youre marching off to war;Sing it like you know hed want it, like we sang it once before.And from the center of the circle to the midst of the waiting crowd,If it ever be f
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Late night talk host Jimmy Kimmel tried to make his post late night talk show host dream of becoming Neil Zarconia, a Neil Diamond impersonator, a reality on his show recently. It was no easy task for Kimmel, but with a little help from Diamond himself, Kimmel delivers a killer "Sweet, Caroline." Well, sorta. Neil Diamond embarks on a "US tour":http://www.neildiamond.com/pages/tour beginning Ju...
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So today is cover day, and as I was going through the posts, fellow mogger Kristiana came up with a little game we could play. I will start by posting a band covering another bands song. The next person on the post has to find a video of the band that was being covered, covering someone elses song. I am not sure how long this could be kept up, but on the original post that Jameson made, it went...
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Neil Diamond debuted for the first time ever on the Billboard Top 200 this week. Diamond’s Rick Rubin produced album Home Before Dark sold 146,000 copies its first week, nudging Madonna’s Hard Candy down two spots to Number Three.The crazy thing is that the last time Diamond came close to Number One spot was in 1973 with the soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, when it topped at Number T
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God, I've always loved this songSo much of it resonates in my life"He's got a good head if he'd apply it""and report cards I was always afraid to show"If I close my eyesI can almost hear my motherCallin, Neil, go find your brotherDaddy's home, and its time for supperHurry onAnd I see two boysRacin' up two flights of staircaseSquirmin' into papas embraceAnd his whiskers warm on their faceWhere's...
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I heard this and I'm thinking " damn this sounds like some one I should know or someone I should know ofI love the vocalwho the f--k is itI looked I researchedWow, I would have never guessedHeart felt music knows no genreof
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Home Before Darkto the safety to the wombwhere we keep the world at bayin the quiet of our roomwhere we find once more the sparkIn the light, out of the dark
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But with each birth, the inevitable death.The realization of our own mortality, it's evidence in every mirror, in every reflection...If I Don't See You AgainWhat is it about the human spirit that needs closure?If I Don't See You AgainAt some unseen barrier, the hope that springs eternal gives way to the resignation or reality.Just don't go quietly
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Ah yes, one more bite of the apple.Once you have tasted the fruit that is the joy of creation, it's sweet nectar is never far from your mind.This creative process is not something you turn off, not something to be ignored or swept under a rug and forgotten.It is how you express yourself, how you lay bare your soul and stand naked before the world.It is how you laugh and how you cry.It is youBut...
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You have Martika & Fergie to thank for this one... that, & the fact that I was a child growing up in an age of... h1. KIDS Incorporated ;PNow for all you Neil fans _(sorry, not my cuppa tea - but I know you're out there... you hear Me!)_ ;PI prefer my Neil Diamond with a little *_Will_*Much love to MOG on a day of celebration for American Independence.h1. Happy 4th o' July !!! :)
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Until about an hour ago, I'd never seen any of the Neil Diamond version of "The Jazz Singer." But I was flipping through channels, and saw Sir Laurence Olivier hamming it up with the most outrageous Jewish accent, and I knew I had to watch some more. I made until Neil's character goes out to LA and sings "Love On The Rocks" in a recording studio. No, that isn't exactly true. I did stay through ...
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Alternate title: there's a hole in my MOG, Dear Rummy, Dear Rummy; there's a hole in my MOG, Dear Rummy, a hole.Apparently, as far as I can tell, our friend, my friend, inrumford has decamped without so much as a fuck you or by your leave, an absence that is proving as compelling to me as the place the tongue worries where a tooth has been. C'est la vie, I suppose, but WTF?
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Don't think I've ever heard this song. It's beautiful. Doubtless you'd know and love it.I am sure that the motions of the heart are never wasted. And yet I find myself thinking that I do not want to make heartspace for people who are going to vanish traceless.
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So who am I going to count on to post songs from the new Neil Diamond disc as soon as it arrives?
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