I like your old stuff better than your new stuff - mostly.

Back in my hey day, the fella bought me a great b'day prez - tix to Neil's Tennessee Moon concert in Sydney. I was wrapped. We went out for cheap chinese (students you see, therefore have to do everything on a shoe string - by necessity not choice!) and then we were treated to a Neil spectacular. He was on the revolving circular stage so everyone in the audience got their fair share of some Neil lovin'. Anyhoo, he sang a few tunes from the album but then everyone was cheering for the old goodies - Cherry Cherry, Sweet Caroline etc. SO MUCH SO that he sang Sweet Caroline not once, not twice but THREE times. Let me tell you, everyone in that stadium (even my fella, albeit reluctantly at first) was on their feet singing and dancing.
Why would anyone bother with drugs when you could just go see Neil - or turn up the stereo reeeeeallly loud and sing your lungs out to Sweet Caroline?
p.s. I actually really like the Tennessee Moon album now. But I still love the old stuff better.

Hey Louise

OMG! Pip has dropped a bundle of joy into my bloggy lap. A week of Neil Diamond inspired posts.
My fav Neil CD is the Jazz Singer. I love every track on that CD. In particular, the one that ND sings especially for me...Hey Louise. I think it is the only song I know (aside from one oldie called Lovely Louise) that has my name in it. I'm sure Neil wrote it just for me. Let's not get into the finer details that might throw that argument out the window. Like the fact that the CD was released before I was born.

How many tunes do you sing to?

After I'd written my last post, I started singing along with good old Neil and it got me thinking...how many songs do you know the words to? I haven't listened to this particular CD in ages but I still know all the words. Do you think that we all know the words to thousands of songs? I reckon I know all the lyrics to most Elvis tunes (thanks to my Dad playing the CD's to me and my sister during our very Elvis-esque childhood). I'd like to pop a question out there - how many songs do you guestimate you know the words to? I'm taking a stab in the dark and saying 2000.
p.s. Given that I think I have only one reader of this blog I don't expect floods of comments but hey - you never know.

I'm a Mix

I'm sitting on the couch while the little man sleeps, beavering away at the hexagon quilt (which I'm determined to get done before he turns one) and am listening to a wee bit of Neil Diamond. The thing is - I love all that kinda music. Bit of Elivs never hurt nobody. You know the kind of artists I'm talking about...Neil Diamond, Elivs, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves and all those great one hit wonders from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
I married a bloke who is more in touch with the music scene from this decade. He's keen on Triple J where as I'm a bit of a Mix 101.1 or 774AM. I just don't get alot of modern music. You can't sing along and the lyrics aren't as nice. Don't get me wrong - I love Madonna as much as the next girl but I'm not into that head pounding music. No siree.