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Bowie - Diamond Dogs album

  • Performer: Bowie
  • Genre: Rock
  • Title: Diamond Dogs
  • Released: 1981
  • Style: Classic Rock, Glam
  • Country: UK
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All lyrics from Diamond Dogs album, popular David Bowie songs with tracklist and information about album. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs lyrics.

It’s all I ever wanted David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs album was unleashed on a very expectant public in the UK on May 24, 1974.

Diamond Dogs is the eighth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 24 May 1974 by RCA Records. Thematically, it was a marriage of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Bowie's own glam-tinged vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Bowie had wanted to make a theatrical production of Orwell's book and began writing material after completing sessions for his 1973 album Pin Ups, but the author's estate denied the rights.

Формируйте собственную коллекцию записей Bowie. Rebel Rebel is a remix of the single issued earlier in the year - Bowie - Rebel Rebel in most territories. The following track list applies to most RCA issues and some reissues.

So Diamond Dogs had to became another kind of creature. Bowie, since he was a teenager, was fascinated about the malformations that appeared on Strange People novel. So he put some references to malformed people in the album. David himself decided to be the one who would play all the instruments, except drums (Aynsley Dunbar), bass (Herbie Flowers) and keyboards (Mike Garson). This is what he said in an interview with NYRock: That was the first time that I played all the instruments myself on an album. I had just broken up the Spiders and didn’t really want to entrust my music to another set.

Diamond Dogs (1999 Remaster). Авторы текста и музыки. WMG (от лица компании "PLG UK Catalog"); União Brasileira de Compositores, CMRRA, UBEM, LatinAutor - SonyATV, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, ARESA, SOLAR Music Rights Management, Abramus Digital, EMI Music Publishing, ASCAP, LatinAutor, BMG Rights Management" и другие авторские общества (11). WMG (от лица компании "Upfront Promotions"); Abramus Digital, ARESA, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, SOLAR Music Rights Management, LatinAutor, União Brasileira de Compositores, BMG Rights Management, EMI Music Publishing, LatinAutor - SonyATV, UBEM" и другие авторские общества (7).

Diamond Dogs suffers precisely because of this - he doesn't know how to move forward. Originally conceived as a concept album based on George Orwell's 1984, Diamond Dogs evolved into another one of Bowie's paranoid future nightmares. Throughout the album, there are hints that he's tired of the Ziggy formula, particularly in the disco underpinning of "Candidate" and his cut-and-paste lyrics. However, it's not enough to make Diamond Dogs a step forward, and without Mick Ronson to lead the band, the rockers are too stiff to make an impact

David Bowie's third consecutive UK chart-topper and . Top 5 breakthrough, 1974’s Diamond Dogs is a bummer, a bad trip, "No Fun"–a sustained work of decadence and dread that transforms corrosion into celebration. sci-fi fantasy, and bespangled spectacle. His bleakest album until recent swansong Blackstar, Diamond Dogs is a bummer, a bad trip, "No Fun"-a sustained work of decadence and dread that transforms corrosion into celebration. Whereas Ziggy features its titular messiah, Diamond Dogs has jackals that live on corpses the way Bowie fed off rotting urban culture and reckless rock'n'roll. The last glam gasp of Bowie's English years, Dogs also sprawls toward Bowie’s forthcoming Thin White Duke persona, embracing Blaxploitation funk and soul, rock opera, European art song, and.

As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent You asked for the latest party. Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come unto me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone. Ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow Call them the Diamond Dogs. Keep cool - Diamond Dogs rule, OK Beware of the Diamond Dogs. It's safe in the city, to love in a doorway To wrangle some screens from the door And isn't it me, putting pain in a stranger?

Diamond Dogs is also the last true classic rock album Bowie did in the 70's. After this album he would turn to soul, pop, disco, new age etc. like many prog bands would do also later on. The title track and Rebel Rebel are pure rock 'n' roll songs in the style of The Who and have nothing to do with Prog. A very good album with a few rough patches, David Bowie's Diamond Dogs is a nice poppy diversion from all the constant Prog, while also having enough proggy, experimental passages itself to make sure things stay interesting. A good album, but won't appeal to everybody, and certainly not to every Prog fan.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Future Legend 1:00
A2 Diamond Dogs 5:50
A3 Sweet Thing 3:29
A4 Candidate 2:39
A5 Sweet Thing (Reprise) 2:32
A6 Rebel Rebel 4:21
B1 Rock 'n Roll With Me
Lyrics By – David BowieMusic By – Bowie*, Peace*
3:54
B2 We Are The Dead 4:48
B3 1984
Arranged By [Strings] – Tony ViscontiGuitar – Alan Parker
3:24
B4 Big Brother 3:25
B5 Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family 1:48

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – RCA Corporation
  • Published By – Mainman Ltd.
  • Published By – Bowie
  • Published By – Chrysalis Music Ltd.
  • Published By – Chappell Music Ltd.
  • Produced For – Mainman
  • Marketed By – RCA Ltd.
  • Copyright (c) – RCA Ltd.
  • Recorded At – Olympic Studios
  • Recorded At – Island Studios
  • Recorded At – Studio L Ludolf
  • Pressed By – Carlton Productions

Credits

  • Bass – Herbie Flowers
  • Design – AGI
  • Drums – Aynsley Dunbar, Tony Newman
  • Engineer – Keith Harwood
  • Keyboards – Mike Garson
  • Mixed By – David Bowie, Keith Harwood (tracks: A6, B1, B2), Tony Visconti (tracks: A1 to A5, B3 to B5)
  • Painting [Cover] – Guy Peellaert
  • Photography By [Inside] – Leee Black Childers
  • Producer, Written-By, Arranged By, Guitar, Saxophone, Synthesizer [Moog], Mellotron – David Bowie

Notes

Made in Ireland
includes David Bowie Lifetimes series insert.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped): INTS 5068 A-1 CP
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped - variant 2): INTS 5068 B-1 CP

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
APL1-0576 Bowie* Diamond Dogs ‎(LP, Album) RCA Victor APL1-0576 UK 1974
104.4053 Bowie* Diamond Dogs ‎(LP, Album) RCA Victor 104.4053 Brazil 1974
APL 1-0576, 26.21307 Bowie* Diamond Dogs ‎(LP, Album, RE, Gat) RCA Victor, RCA Victor APL 1-0576, 26.21307 Germany Unknown
CPL-10576 David Bowie Diamond Dogs ‎(LP, Album, TP, W/Lbl) RCA Victor CPL-10576 US Unknown
AYK1-3889 David Bowie Diamond Dogs ‎(Cass, Album, RE) RCA Victor AYK1-3889 Canada Unknown

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