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Re: Album of the day (#5464): Diamond Dogs by David Bowie

Johnnyo — Mon, 8 Dec 2025 09:44:46 GMT

Author: Johnnyo

Posted: 12/08/2025 14:44

I really love this album. Probably ranks at third in my Bowie list after Hunky Dory and Let's Dance (yes, really)

Re: Album of the day (#5464): Diamond Dogs by David Bowie

MadhattanJack — Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:09:04 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 12/04/2025 23:09

seanie542 wrote:

...a musically exciting, lyrically disturbing world in which NOT ONE element is misplaced or extraneous, and which features the last outing on a Bowie album of stellar pianist Mike Garson at his effervescent, effortless best.

Just as a point of accuracy, Garson played on Young Americans, as well as the somewhat ill-considered 1976 Spiders From Mars album, then took a Bowie-break until Black Tie White Noise, and appeared on most of the Bowie albums after that until The Next Day.

Also, in the process of verifying this I learned that Garson was a Scientologist during the 1970s, tried to convert the other Spiders, and actually succeeded with Woody Woodmansey, who more recently became an anti-vaxxer apparently, just like Eric Clapton — though neither Woodmansey nor Garson ever played on a Clapton album. However, Garson did play on track 12 of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Hysterical LP, which is probably close enough.

Album of the day (#5464): Diamond Dogs by David Bowie

BestEverAlbums — Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:00:25 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 12/04/2025 21:00

Today's album of the day

Diamond Dogs by David Bowie (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1974.
Country:
Overall rank: 639
Decade rank: 146
Year rank: 10
Discography rank: 10 (out of 94 albums on BEA)
Average rating: 78/100 (from 978 votes).

Tracks:
1. Future Legend / Bewitched
2. Diamond Dogs
3. Sweet Thing
4. Candidate
5. Sweet Thing (Reprise)
6. Rebel Rebel
7. Rock 'N' Roll With Me
8. We Are The Dead
9. 1984
10. Big Brother
11. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

indicates a top-rated track.

Top voted comments:

"I have always rated this album very highly in Bowie's canon, though there've been plenty of demurrals. It was meant to be a straight musical of 1984, but the Orwell estate wouldn't give him the rights to the material - presumably because they predicted Eurythmics ten years hence in the very year depicted. So Bowie reinvented it as a dystopian fantasy of his own, gave an elegant two-fingered salute to literary snobbery and produced a musically exciting, lyrically disturbing world in which NOT ONE element is misplaced or extraneous, and which features the last outing on a Bowie album of stellar pianist Mike Garson at his effervescent, effortless best. So there!"
- seanie542
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"Underrated in the Bowie discography for some reason, it does have some tough competition against the likes of Ziggy and Hunky Dory. It possesses the great single in Rebel Rebel, really one of Bowie's best for me, it also has some great album tracks like We Are The Dead, which is again, an overlooked brilliant track with some great lyrics. Sweet Thing is another track that never seems to get a mention.

'We'll buy some drugs and watch a band,
Then jump in the river holding hands.'"
- TheSmiths82-87
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