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DIAMOND DOGSDavid BowieProg Related3.60 | 244 ratings |
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![]() The show kicks off with the spoken word 'Future Legend'. This serves as a prologue to this semi concept album, with Bowie talking about a post-apocalyptic city. The piece ends with the immortal lines 'This ain't rock 'n' roll, this is genocide!', before ripping straight into the title track. The title track is a fast and unforgiving rock song, with a catchy chorus, and pre-chorus, making one of Bowie's most well-crafted rock songs. Next is the song cycle consisting of 'Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)', the first part is a slowish song with a great chorus. A slow saxophone solo leads into the second part, 'Candidate', a weird song full of fast sung, abstract lyrics. the reprise of 'Sweet Thing' is much like the first and ends with a slow instrumental section. What a brilliant 8 minutes of continuous music. Things get better though, with the legendary 'Rebel Rebel'. This is a pure glam rock anthem, standing out amongst the more downbeat majority of the songs on this album. 'Rock 'n' Roll With Me' is a much overlooked ballad, filled with beautiful piano and a soaring chorus. 'We Are the Dead' is the darkest moment on this album, adorned with explicit lyrics and dark musical themes. '1984' is the first signal of the soul-oriented approach of Bowie's next album, being a wah-wah pedal filled anthem. 'Big Brother' is in a similar vein. The album ends with the deliberately repetitive 'Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family'. This ends with a noise that sounds like a broken record; surely it confused a lot of people who bought this on vinyl. This is a strange album. No songs on it are bad, but somehow it doesn't click, It's inconsistent. I would like to give 3.5 stars, but I will round up rather than down.
burtonrulez |
4/5 |
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