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Velvet Gloves and Spit | 
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| Artist: Neil Diamond
Label: Revola
Category: Music
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 23398
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013929453821
ASIN: B0012NOKHS
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| » | Two Bit Manchild | | » | Modern Day Version Of Love | | » | Honey Drippin' Times | | » | Pot Smoker's Song | | » | Brooklyn Roads | | » | Shilo | | » | Sunday Sun | | » | Holiday Inn Blues | | » | Practically Newborn | | » | Knackelflerg | | » | Merry Go Round |
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 An uncut gem from the early days December 22, 2007
Not" polished " yet in the commercial sense, this album still tells you a great deal about where the Neil Diamond "magic" comes from. The whole feel of it is of a young songwriter in New York in the sixties. Enjoy it for what it is. Shilo , Brooklyn Roads , are outstanding and revealing, but there are many other great tracks inc. Modern day version of love,Honey-Drippin` times, Sunday sun etc.. This is a raw, rough Diamond , but isn`t that what he got back to so successfuly in his most recent and deservedly praised 12 Songs ? This is an essential album for anyone who enjoys this great singer -songwriter (all his own compositions ).Take the chance, and trust Neil to make it worthwhile!
 Too much spit........not enough polish! April 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I give this album 3 stars because out of the 11 tracks, there are 6 worth listening to. However, there are some really baffling tracks on here that mystify me for two reasons. The first.........what inspired him to write them, and the second...........who indulged him by allowing them on to the record. Sometimes when you are too close to your own material, you need somebody a bit more detached to sit back and advise you of quality control. This was a recurring problem throughout the 1980 - 2004 period........until a certain Rick Rubin rode in to tell it how it is on 12 Songs.
The rubbish and below par songs I refer to are such offerings as "Knackelflerg", "The Pot Smoker's Song","Holiday Inn Blues", "Merry Go Round" & "Practically Newborn". These are way off beam........I'm not saying anything that some other reviewer hasn't already said here, but the more people put down their thoughts, then hopefully a more consistent message might come through.
So why did I give it 3 stars? Well, as mentioned, there are some good tracks on it as well. "Brooklyn Roads", "Shilo", "Two Bit Manchild", "Modern Day Version of Love", "Honey Drippin' Times" & "Sunday Sun" are a mix of excellent and worthy efforts.
If you can pick this up for a decent bargain price, then you have a good basis for a compilation that you can pick and choose from other hit and miss albums that he recorded. Sadly, there are quite a few out there to choose from.
If you are a Diamond fan, there's enough to warrant the purchase. If you are looking to explore his music as a Diamond novice...............don't start here.
His 2nd best album March 29, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very underrated is our Neil. His 60s stuff is all great, it's hard to understand why he went so bad so quickly... well, you can understand. First he went potentious, then he tried to make disco, then he just lost it. But stick to his 60s stuff like this, "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" (also called "Sweet Caroline") and his mid 60s collection and your in for some (low key but) great listening.
The weirdest Neil Diamond album ever: case closed February 3, 2003
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Neil Diamond record two albums for Bang Records and then came up with this rather bizarre effort as his first album for MCA, as if the title "Velvet Gloves & Spit" does not give the game away before you even play the album. This is not to say that there are not some catchy little songs on this album, most notably "Honey-Drippin' Times" and "Modern Day Version of Love," as well as one Diamond classic, "Shiloh." But it is going to be hard to remember that after you listen to "The Pot Smoker's Song," which is an anti-drug song that juxtaposes junkies talking about the dangers of drugs with Diamond's catchy little tune and rather insipid little chorus ("Pot, Pot, give us some pot/forget what you are you can be what you're not"). If you did not know that this was a 1968 album then you might think this was some sort of "Saturday Night Live "spoof about "Sesame Street." Then there is that tiny word "Knackelflerg," where I do not have a clue as to what this song could possibly be about except that maybe that it was inspired by "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" because there are some creepy similarities. There were three singles released from this album--"Brooklyn Roads," "Sunday Sun," and the catchy opening track "Two-Bit Manchild"--but none of them cracked the Billboard Top 50. This is an album only of interest to the Neil Diamond fan who needs to have everything ever recorded in their music collection and while there are some decent efforts here, it is the really weird ones that are going to stick with you.
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