Neil Diamond is the greatest songwriter who has ever lived
 

Agree or disagree?

I agree.

disagree! for the simple fact that, unlike Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond was never nominated to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

who's neil diamond, is he the one who crashed his plane into a mountain & sang "take me home country roads...to the place where i bellonnnng west virginia, fuck yer sister, take me hoommme"

lol.. that was Bob Denver :thumbsup

ahhhh Bob Denver

same genre of music though right?

thats how i index shit in my brain....so its gotta be similar ; )

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today!

Probably not the best, but definitely one of the best. I like a lot of his songs. Most of his songs are really original too, hard to find that in most music.

Good point, but Neil Diamond wrote the lyrics for The Monkees.

Bob Dylans cool, so is Tom Petty

But i honestly never liked Diamonds shit, it was like a vegas act to me.

Then again i liked sinatra, & he was kinda an act.

i disagree, way better writers out there

My personal fav is Zack de La Rocha (of Rage Aginst The Machine), followed by Robert Hunter, whom wrote many of the songs for the Grateful Dead.

Me and Neil Diamond have the same birthday too.

disagree...he's not my type

I suppose an overweight 45 year old housewife might think so, but in the real world he's not even in the top 50.

Is this some kind of joke? The best songwriter ever is without a doubt Paul McCartney. Then maybe Dylan, Garfunkel, Neil Young, Roger Waters, Townsend, Jimmy Page. Neil Diamond??

I would agree.

Bob Denver was Gillgian, John Denver was the songwriter.

Neil Diamond I don't think is the greatest songwriter but he had a good run.

I remember back in the day he would come to D/FW and would only schedule one concert and it would sell out in hours so they'd do more and before you knew it he was there like 4-7 days every day sold out...he did this all across the country.

No way, John Lennon.

Neil Diamond is not even the best Neil, Neil Young is.

isnt the song "girl you'll be a woman soon " one of the songs he wrote ?

am sorry i disagree because i don't know him well.

Paul is amazing, I agree. But I just find it ironic, you thought enough - to regard/correlate this topic with a beatle (aka the beatles). Yet didn't even make reference to John even thereafter strumming off a few others besides Paul on your list. You get what I mean? If you truly appreciate Paul, I don't see how John doesn't squeeze his way into your life.


I mean regarding "song writing" ability, I think we all know John was the driving force. We won't even have to compare careers, simply look at 'The Beatles' (White). The contrast is clear, McCartney is singing about Martha my Dear (great song, but very pop-ish), or Honey Pie. And then you have Lennon with a Happiness is a Warm Gun. That is written with so much creative freedom, it could be perceived as a kicking-heroin song, underlying sexual innuendo, or just an all out anti-gun campaign.*


*IMO obviously.

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As much as I love Neil Diamond's stuff, I think Paul Anka has him beat in the songwriting department by a mile.

Wasn't ruining eddie vedder and pearl jam enough

Neil is one of my favorites. I like almost everything he has done. Shilo is my fovorite song from him.

Wrong Neil lol sorry I apologize fully :Oh crap

I feel myself getting older every day because I am really starting to like and appreciate Mr. Diamond.