Sour Caroline
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Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline (Diagnostix Bootleg).

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posted by MollyRealized (24 comments total)

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"What key is this in?"

"Yes. And no."
posted by tclark at 9:22 PM on September 26, 2022 [3 favorites]




Great song, but the most pestilent of all earworms.

I refuse to click on this.
posted by fairmettle at 9:38 PM on September 26, 2022 [1 favorite]


I love this so much!
posted by poe at 9:41 PM on September 26, 2022


Is there a reverse “thanks, I hate it”? An “ugh, I love it” if you will?
posted by Parasite Unseen at 9:57 PM on September 26, 2022 [6 favorites]


I hate this so much that I’m troubled that I love it more.
posted by sjswitzer at 11:01 PM on September 26, 2022 [4 favorites]


TOUCHING HANDS
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 11:22 PM on September 26, 2022


I don't think it's on YouTube, but maybe you'd enjoy the musical stylings of some Canadian schoolchildren (not these, a different one).
posted by box at 5:04 AM on September 27, 2022


Great song, but the most pestilent of all earworms.

Foolish mortal. You know nothing of true pestilence!

Gonna find my baby
Gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some
Afternoon Delight


Have a nice day.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:13 AM on September 27, 2022 [1 favorite]


I hate you. But at least that drowns out this.
posted by mono blanco at 6:17 AM on September 27, 2022


I can’t even begin to knowing.
posted by vorpal bunny at 6:24 AM on September 27, 2022


Nothing from a Sox game? What is Fenway Park, chopped liver?

Do I have to do everything around here
posted by pxe2000 at 7:38 AM on September 27, 2022


Neil Diamond is famously a very easygoing and friendly guy, so he is no doubt flattered by all of this.
posted by anhedonic at 7:47 AM on September 27, 2022


Sweet Caroline is American schlagermusik but we will never acknowledge it as such.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:57 AM on September 27, 2022 [5 favorites]


Hooray for emancipated dissonance!
posted by LooseFilter at 8:12 AM on September 27, 2022 [1 favorite]


From the makers of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, it's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fx-ZgPYM88&t=36s
posted by AJaffe at 8:27 AM on September 27, 2022 [1 favorite]


Back in the day two buddies and I were on a pub-based tour around England. We had a map that showed town sizes by little lines (|||), and a three-line town was big enough to have at least one pub.

One Sunday we stopped in a three-line town, just big enough for a pub, a church, and some shops. When church let out all of the townspeople that had been in church came to the pub, and were surprised to find Americans. I told them I lived in North Carolina and the whole pub/town sang "Sweet Caroline."
posted by kirkaracha at 8:49 AM on September 27, 2022 [4 favorites]


AJaffe: From the makers of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, it's ...

... worth linking up and teasing the title:

Neil Diamond Parking Lot

Same parking lot 10 years later.
posted by intermod at 1:56 PM on September 27, 2022 [2 favorites]


I'm sure Ms. Kennedy is delighted.
posted by Toddles at 5:30 PM on September 27, 2022


After Boston shut down in mid-March, 2020, there was a brief outbreak of people organizing sing-alongs from their windows (and sometimes from their porches). On Gloucester Street in the Back Bay, one man did an updated version of the song.
posted by adamg at 7:24 PM on September 27, 2022


This tickles me in so many ways that are hard to explain. A sprawling desert festival I attended for years got taken over by dubstep for a couple of years and that's how I learned of the genre. Everyone I knew at the festival ragged on it and bemoaned it and yet... I kind of had some good times dancing to it. Years later, I met a romantic partner who had been to said festival for many years longer than me and he LOVES dubstep.

When I visit him (he lives a plane ride away), his pandora/spotify mixes always end up on dubstep. No matter where we start. It could start with Willie Nelson and it would end up on some weird dubstep yet somehow folky mix.

This is the purest distillation of what I'm describing above. I love it and hate it in equal measure and I can't stop laughing
posted by treepour at 9:12 PM on September 27, 2022


Okay so I have obviously heard this and know the song. But, when this was first posted, I remembered that my mother always liked Neil Diamond. So, I went through the albums I inherited when she passed away. Sure enough, Neil Diamond. Sweet Caroline. However, I am a Yankee fan so no Sweet Caroline in my house but we do play this song,

The SC version from 2012 from the Greek is so corny as to be likable.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 9:45 PM on September 27, 2022




OMG in the Neil Diamond Parking Lot video, at 5m20s, there is a dead ringer for John C. Reilly. Just on screen for one second.
posted by not_on_display at 10:36 PM on September 27, 2022


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