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Title: Kitchy Fun
Review: I like to re-discover music from my childhood. Neil Diamond's reputation got a bit battered after the seventies and he became an "easy-listening" favorite. Listening to these tunes now, they do seem a bit kitchy. A lot of Diamond's lyrics provide unintentional laughter - examples: "I am I said, to no one there. And no one heard at all, not even the chair..." and "the love she sang to me, the love she brang to me..." That having been said, one can't help but sing along with most of these songs which have seeped into our collective subconscious. At the end of the day, Diamond is a really good songwriter. This is a great collection of his best songs from the seventies. It leaves off early hits like "I'm a Believer" and "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon" and all his eighties stuff like "Forever in Bluejeans" - for those, you have to buy two other Greatest Hits compilations.
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