Diamond Dogs 2016

After the ever popular success of Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" and "Aladdin Sane" persona's (and minus the covers only album "Pin-Ups") Bowie released "Diamond Dogs". As you may or may not know, this album was written to be made into a musical based on the George Orwell Novel "1984". David Bowie could not secure the rights to the story, thus went on to turn his efforts into an album. Many critics were hard on this album. They claimed it wasn't nearly as good as his last 2 Wonder Albums. Here is what I've come to say about "Diamond Dogs". One of the most underrated, passed on Bowie LP's.Future Legend - 6/10A spoken intro, depicting a dark apocalyptic view of the future ahead of us. Disturbing dialogue mixed with eerie music and children's voices leads the listener up to the next track.Diamond Dogs - 9/10The albums title track starts off as sort of a hypnotic zombie style march, but then quickly shoots of into sort of a jazzy rock song about the Diamond Dogs, who are presumably one of two things. Ghoulish blood sucking woman... or Ghoulish blood sucking whores. Either way, this track is really snazzy. Cool saxophone parts included.Sweet Thing - 9/10Here is a very touching song. It starts off with slow with some cool sound effects, but then we are left to piano, vocals and some nice distorted guitar. The song sings about dark sexual desire. Almost like a theme song for prostitution this song really pulls at the heart. Very emotional song.Candidate - 8/10This song is part of a medley. Continued from the last song. Similar tune even. This song is about dirty politicians and government scandals and cover ups. Nice sax and guitar work done on this tune.Sweet Thing (Reprise) - 8/10Continued from the last two tracks, we have the reprise of Sweet Thing. The song is the same (more emotional singing by David) and there is some added instrumental, which showcases the wild experimental side of album's composition.Rebel Rebel - 10/10Here we have Rebel Rebel. One of Bowie's greatest radio friendly hits. It was his second biggest hit since "Space Oddity". Everyone has heard this song on the rock and roll stations, without a doubt (You'd know it if you heard it). This song is pretty much a rock anthem for falling in love with the bad girl. You want her, you need her, but she is such a bad ***. Intro guitar riff is quite possibly one of the best from the 70's. Great song to party to.Rock N' Roll With Me - 9/10Here is a lesser known song. But a great one nonetheless. A sing-a-long anthem for rock and roll. Piano based song, great swaying tempo. Awesome reverb on the guitar parts. All round a wonderful, upbeat rock song.We Are The Dead - 7.5/10Here is where we can see the novel "1984"s influence start creeping in. This song reflects upon the mood of the classic book. People having no control on their lives, and having to live every moment under careful watch of the government power figures. Nothing fancy about this song. Fits well with the mood of the album.1984 - 10/10Here it is folks. Pre-Disco, DISCO. This song is a swinging dance song. Reminds me a bit of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA meets "Thriller" By Michael Jackson. A very flashy song based on Orwell's brilliant novel about government control. Moreso a disco funk song than a rocker. Brilliant, regardless.Big Brother - 9/10Another song based directly on the novel. This song is about the influence of the government ("Big Brother" was the name of the power figure in the novel. The quote "Big Brother Is Watching You" was of vital importance to the novel, as it represented the ever watching eye over your every day life.). This song pretty much rocks about being controlled and manipulated by the higher powers. A very interesting song that ends up sounding really good.Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family - 8/10The album closes off with a strange outro, similar to the intro...This time, much like an event in the novel, all that we can hear is the chanting of "BIG BROTHER". Cool music accompanies this and the album fades off.Reviewers PicksDiamond DogsSweet ThingRebel Rebel1984Overall Rating - 8.5/10

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Now that David Bowie gave rock and roll a stylish magic touch with his legendaryconstructed alien alter ego Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, he had tooka radical and different music phase in 1974 with this rivetingly blockbuster album, aswell as a world tour to promote it. Highlighted by blistering guitar solos, high voltagesound, hard-hitting performances and cut-and-paste lyrics that sticks extremely well,Diamond Dogs is a showstopping masterpiece which shout with vitality and deliver acompelling rock experience that blasts through the heart of ecstasy. Beginning withtowering ‘future introduction’ live track entry, the rousing track set proceed extremelywell with absolute exhilaration with other classic songs like Sweet Thing, the gender-bending rock anthem Rebel Rebel (a classic rebellious hit for the LGBT community),the jubilent Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me, Big Brother and Alternate Candidate, while Bowiethrows down the R&B funk on 1984 and Dodo. Well-conceived as a concept basedon George Orwell’s 1984 that would evolve into another of his paranoid future night-mares (compared to his fractured paranoid evocation of a decaying future echoed inapocalyptic nuclear dread from Ziggy Stardust), what you even get on the expandededition of Diamond Dogs are several alternate takes for the title track and AlternateCandidate as they give this timeless masterwork the finishing touch it truly deserves.

This is an odd transitional album. Although the Spiders are gone David hasn't quite jettisoned the Ziggy persona yet elements of the Thin White Duke are starting to show. While there are great stand alone classic song (1984, R&R With Me, Diamond Dogs and of course Rebel, Rebel) this album is best listened to in it's entirety. In vinyl it breaks perfectly into an act 1 and 2 with having to turn the record over. From start to finish a frightening vision for the future. In interviews David said he remembered almost nothing of recording or writing this album due to extreme drug/alcohol abuse and the ensuing paranoia which goes a long way to explaining the bleak outlook. My only complaint is that I wish he would have retained Mick Ronson. David's guitar is never more than adequate and Mick could have added a layer of shimmer that is missing. Still that's a minor complaint and this is an essential album, a must have for any Bowie fan.