Hot August Night
by Neil Diamond

Hot August Night by Neil Diamond
(Live album)
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 8,610th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 87 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (125th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (1,266th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,610th)

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Neil Diamond bestography

Hot August Night is ranked 2nd best out of 54 albums by Neil Diamond on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Neil Diamond is Just For You which is ranked number 7509 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 171.

Neil Diamond album bestography « Higher ranked (7,509th)
Just For You
This album (8,610th)
Hot August Night
Lower ranked (11,510th) »
The Jazz Singer (Soundtrack)

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Hot August Night track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Hot August Night rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,610th | 1970s rank: 1,266th | 1972 rank: 125th  Overall chart history
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Hot August Night ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 87 votes)
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03/20/2026 17:34 MetalMan67  Ratings distribution  6,15171/100
 
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01/03/2026 07:24 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,10370/100

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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.1.


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Good album. I love Sweet Caroline
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65/100
From 02/18/2015 03:25 | #135200
Captures an amazing moment.
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95/100
My father passed this onto me. Huge album in Australia. Still selling today in 2013
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80/100
From the sumptuous strings of the intro, through to the chatting with the ‘tree people’ (who are hanging around the edge of the theatre to catch a free view of the concert) everything about this album is piping hot comfort. A steady stream of classic songs flow – Crunchy Granola Suite; Cherry, Cherry; Sweet Caroline, interspersed with the eccentric Porcupine Pie and Soggy Pretzels. In short, its sheer easy-going pleasure...reassuring, like macaroni cheese. More at...
http://no81bob.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/living-with-neil-diamond-for-a-week/
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85/100
Recently, my mom told me this was her favorite album ever.
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"I Am...I Said" one of my favourite tracks
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