Lovescape (1991)

About this title: Lovescape frames Neil Diamond's typically strong, if a little over-dramatic, vocal style with plinking keyboards, cooing backup singers, and hissing, breathy synthesizers. It's all drenched in the kind of reverb that screams "lite rock radio sap." Fortunately, Diamond's wine-stained voice is still full of emotion and more than capable of closing the album's gaping holes with a just-right emphasis here and a plaintive growl there. "Mountains of Love"'s sanitized world beat groove and keening horns would shrivel in anyone else's hands. But when Neil sings "Come on let's go/We've got room on ... read more

Tracks:

1. If There Were No Dreams [Diamond/Legrand]
2. Mountains of Love [Diamond/Hensley/Lin]
3. Don't Turn Around [Hammond/Warren]
4. Someone Who Believes in You [Diamond]
5. When You Miss Your Love [Williams]
6. Fortune of the Night [Diamond/Hensley/Lin]
7. One Hand, One Heart [Bernstein/Sondheim]
8. Hooked on the Memory of You [Diamond]
9. Wish Everything Was Alright [Diamond/Hockensmith]
10. The Way [Diamond/Hensley/Lin]
11. Sweet L.A. Days [Diamond/Rhone]
12. All I Really Need Is You [Diamond/Hensley/Lin]
13. Lonely Lady #17 [Charles/Diamond/Kin]
14. I Feel You [Cole/Hensley]
15. Common Ground [Diamond/Hensley/Lin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.