The Diamond Dog is the eighth studio album by the British musician David Bowie, released on May 24, 1974 by RCA Records. Thematically, it was a marriage of Nineteen Eighty-Four novel by George Orwell and Bowie's own glowing vision in the post-apocalyptic world. Bowie wanted to make Orwell's theater production book and start writing the material after completing the session for his 1973 album Pin Ups, but the real author denied his rights. The songs end in the second half of Diamond Dogs instead, as the title indicates, the Nineteen Eighty-Four theme stands out.
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Production and style
Although the album was recorded and released after 'retirement' from Ziggy Stardust in mid-1973, and featuring her own main character on Halloween Jack ("the real cool cat" who lives in the "Hungry City" that is rotting), Ziggy looks very alive in < i> Diamond Dogs , as seen from the Bowie haircut on the cover and the glam-trash style of the first single "Rebel Rebel". As with some songs in Aladdin Sane , the effects of the Rolling Stones are also evident, especially in the rocking songs. Elsewhere, however, Bowie has moved from his previous work to an epic song, Sweet Thing (Reprise), while "Rock 'n' Roll with Me" and Shaft bruh/bruh/bruh/bruh/bruh , the first syllable "(Big) Brother", repeating nonstop. "Sweet Thing" is Bowie's first attempt in William S. Burroughs, which Bowie will continue to use for the next 25 years.
Although the Diamond Dogs is the first Bowie album since 1969 to not feature one of the Spider from Mars, a band made famous by Ziggy Stardust, many arrangements have been done and played on tour with Mick Ronson before the studio recording, including "1984" and "Rebel Rebel". In the studio, however, Herbie Flowers played bass with a drum that was shared between Aynsley Dunbar and Tony Newman. In a move that surprised some commentators, Bowie himself took on the main guitar role previously held by Ronson, resulting in what the critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described as "a rough, rough, semi-amateurish voice that giving the album a lot of its distinctive taste ". Diamond Dog was also a milestone in Bowie's career when she met her with Tony Visconti, who provided string arrangements and helped mix the albums in her own studio in London. Visconti will continue to produce much of Bowie's work for the rest of the decade.
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Packaging
The cover artwork features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-bizarre dog painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert, based on Bowie's photographs by Terry O'Neill. It's controversial because the full image on the gate cover shows hybrid genitals. Very few copies of this original cover begin to circulate during the album release. According to Goldmine's collector-price publication pricing guide, the album has become one of the most expensive recording collections of all time, as high as thousands of dollars for a single copy. The genitals were removed from the 1974 LP arm in most releases, although the original image was incorporated in the Rykodisc/EMI album release in 1990, and subsequent reprints have included uncensored artwork (1990 packaging also revived rejected inner gates) featuring Bowie in sombrero cordobÃÆ'Â ¢ s holding a voracious dog, like a cover, this artwork is a picture of Guy Peellaert based on a photo taken by Terry O'Neill).
Release and after
The recording is a Bowie song glam swan; according to author David Buckley, "In the kind of movement that will determine his career, Bowie jumps over the glam-rock ship just in time, before he floats into the empty parody itself." At the time of its release Bowie described Diamond Dogs as "a very political album, my protest... more than I ever did before". Disc compares the album to The Man Who Sold the World (1970), while Rock and Sounds both described it as "the most impressive work... ever since Ziggy Stardust". It makes No. 1 on the UK charts and Number 5 in the US (where the song "Rebel Rebel" proved popular), Bowie puts it in the highest spot on that date. In Canada, he was able to repeat the UK's chart-topping success, reaching No. 1 on the RPM 100 national album chart in July 1974 and holding it for two weeks.
Diamond Dog the style of raw guitar and the vision of urban chaos, scavenging children and nihilistic lovers ("We will buy some drugs and watch bands/And jump on the river holding hands") have been credited in anticipation of the punk revolution will occur in the following years. Bowie himself describes the Diamond Dogs, which are introduced in the title track, as: "all Johnny Rottens and Sid Viciouses are really small, and, in my mind, there is no means of transportation, so they all roll around in these skates with big wheels and they squeak because they are not oiled properly, so there are screaming gangs, roller-skating, demon veils, with Bowie knives and fur, and they are all thin because they have not eaten enough, and they all have colored hair funny, that way is the precursor to punk. "
Bowie played all the songs of the album except "We Are the Dead" on the 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour (recorded and released as David Live ). "Rebel Rebels" featured on almost every Bowie tour thereafter, "Diamond Dogs" performed for 1976 Station to Station , 1995-96 Outside and 2003-04 Reality tour, and "Big Brother/Chant of the Skeletal Family Ever Circling" was raised for the 1987 Spider Glass Tour.
Track list
All songs written by David Bowie, except where recorded.
Concise CD release
Diamond Dogs was first released on CD by RCA in 1985 with a censored cover art. German masters (for the European market) and Japan (for the US market) are from different recordings and are not identical for each region.
1990 Rykodisc/EMI
Dr. Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital, Southborough, Massachusetts, remastered Diamond Dogs from original master cassettes to Rykodisc in 1990 with two bonus tracks and original, uncensored work. "Future Legend" stops at 1:01 and "Diamond Dogs" runs 6:04 in this version.
- Bonus track (1990 Rykodisc/EMI)
- "Dodo" (Recorded 1973, previously unreleased) - 2:53
- "Candidates" (Demo version, very different in music and lyrics, recorded in 1974, never previously released) - 5:09
1999 EMI/Virgin
The album was remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, and released without bonus material.
2004 EMI/Virgin
The third in a series of 2CD Year's 30th Anniversaries , this release includes a remixed version of Diamond Dogs on the first disc. The second disc contains eight songs, five of which have been previously released in the Sound Vision box set in 1989 or as a bonus track in 1990-92 Rykodisc/EMI reissued.
Bonus CD (2004 EMI/Virgin)
All songs written by David Bowie, except where recorded.
remaster 2016
In 2016, a remastered album for Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) box set. It was released in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, both as part of this compilation and separately.
Personnel
Adapted from Diamond Dogs liner notes.
- David Bowie - the main vocals and background; guitar; saxophone; Moog synthesizer; Mellotron
- Mike GarsonÃ, - keyboard
- Herbie FlowersÃ, - bass guitar
- Tony NewmanÃ, - drum
- Aynsley DunbarÃ, - drums
- Alan ParkerÃ, - guitar on "1984"
- Earl SlickÃ, - guitar in "Rock 'n' Roll with Me"
Production
- David Bowie - the producer; mixing
- Tony Visconti - string; mixing
- Keith Harwood - engineer; mixing Certification and sales
- The Serbian and former Yugoslavian band Kozmetika in the early period was named after the album, Dijamantski Psi, which means Diamond Dogs in Serbian.
- An organization in the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain video game is named after the album. Director Hideo Kojima originally wanted to open the game with an eponymous song, but his team voted against the idea, with Kojima finally selecting a cover from The Man Who Sold the World .
- Songwriter John Vanderslice covers the album as a whole, releasing his version in 2013 as Vanderslice Plays Diamond Dogs .
- In the 2001 film Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! the players in the eponymous cabaret are referred to as "Diamond Dogs", referring to albums and songs. The film is heavily referring to popular music, including an important medley that includes the song "Heroes".
- The Last Shadow Puppets call "Diamond Dog" in their single "Everything You've Come to Expect" from an album of the same name.
- In "The Venture Brothers", Diamond Dogs are a group of robotic dog monsters created by Guild of Calamitous Intent.
- In "Con Air" the character played by Ving Rhames holds the "Diamond Dog" moniker. He is a general in the black supremacist military group known as the Black Guerrilla and found guilty of blowing up a meeting of members of the National Weapon Association, claiming "they represent the lowest negativity of the white race." During his detention, he wrote a book called "Reflections in Diamond Eyes," which the New York Times reviewed as a "wake-up call for the black community."
- The English gothic rock band The Skeletal Family is named after the song "The Chanter of the Ever-Wandering Skeletal Family"
- The Diamond Dog at Discogs.com
- Wildlife Teenage fan page with song lyrics and Rykodisc cover
Weekly chart
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Cover and reference in popular culture
References
External links
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