I love Diamond Dogs. I listened to it all the time when I was just out of high school.
― W4LTER, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
if there's anything this album just taught me, it's to never listen to negative reviews.
― Creeztophair, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Re "Cooper Time Cube" - If I recall my "Raw Power" liner notes properly, it was some sort of guitar-treatment device that kinda resembled a bong and was used on (I think) "Gimme Danger" and possibly elsewhere.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
if there's anything this album just taught me, it's to never listen to negative reviews
lol you old
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't know peeps were down on diamond dogs. it's a banger 4 sho
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 May 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
when my 5th-grade self first heard this LP (before I had ever even heard the word "genocide"), I thought it went: "this ain't rock and roll...this is...jazz time!"
made sense to me...and in a crazy way, it still does...
― henry s, Thursday, 22 May 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"this ain't rock and roll...this is...jazz time!"
Bahahahahaahahahahahaahaha
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Because they're sometimes earned?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Diamond Dogs is fucking brilliant.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 22 May 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
we'll buy some drugs and watch a band we'll jump in the river holding hands
one of my favorite bowie lyrics.
you pretty much cannot fuck with diamond dogs.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I've grown to love "Sweet Thing/Candidate" (especially Bowie's wonderful, awful guitar solo on the former) and "1984," but not even the remastered version can disguise how thin this sounds. Plus, this Bowie lover has his limits for doomy doggerel.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 23 May 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
doomy doggerel.
That was punishing.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 24 May 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I so love this and Alex's review is so uh-huh, thank you.
I was in junior high when this came out and lived when I could with my Indian/Mexican GF whose father raped her any time I wasn't there and one night she shaved her eyebrows and I came by toasted on ludes and she was laying there, nude and all Inca looking, covered in red glitter fingering the DD cover and cooing "Day-vud!" while "We are the Dead" played and it became our song.
-- Ian G, Friday, 18 June 2004 05:02 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 24 May 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I thought it was weird how no one even commented on that - UNTIL NOW
― Z S, Saturday, 24 May 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
what a hot story.
― Creeztophair, Saturday, 24 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Sweet Thing is a brilliant track, though that bit where he goes off on one about hamburgers does my head in a bit.
― chap, Sunday, 25 May 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=gnauRgyWovo
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
My twopennorth on Dogs.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 31 October 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
The title track, 'Rebel Rebel' and 'Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)' are the main reasons I find myself returning to this record, and although I'm not as keen on the second side as I am on the first, I'd still rather listen to this than 'Young Americans'.
― Turrican, Monday, 31 October 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Marcello, do we know the extent of Alan Parker's contributions? To my ears the lead on the title track sounds too gnarly to be professional (on the other hand I'm sure the magnificent, inept solo on "Sweet Thing" is Bowie's; he can't slide his fingers down the frets).
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah, DD is way stronger as an album than YA (which I like, but only a few of tracks on it are essential)
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Monday, 31 October 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
...and the title cut of 'Diamond Dogs' just popped up on WinAmp random play
I've always felt this was underrated but listening to it last night my love for it went to a whole new level. It has berserk ambitions and it totally delivers on them. This is the Orwell-on-Broadway lunacy that Muse have been gunning for over their last three albums, a more persuasive take on showbiz, terror and America than Aladdin Sane, and a lyrical feast. I also realised that Blur's use of brass is almost entirely derived from the spectacular arrangements on Big Brother, not to mention Andrew Eldritch's vocal schtick. And while the intro's a dud (the album should begin with the title track's faultlessly decadent opening line) the stuttering ending is perfect. My favourite after Low, I think.
Now to read Marcello's essay.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this: http://thequietus.com/articles/16797-the-hideous-ecstasy-of-fear-diamond-dogs-40-years-on
― willem, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7l6ixggtys&fbclid=IwAR1OGISlopn6oheciEKEhmBTNKjp8ReVdvafootgyR0cbrfJ4lJKtH2datU
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7l6ixggtys
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Ugh, that splice between "Candidate" and "Sweet Thing (Reprise)" is so hideously hamfisted, everybody in the studio must have been stoned to let it pass. It annoys me so much I have to make my own edit before I can listen to it.
― Godless Tiny Tim (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 December 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
I like it as a splash of ice water in the face, after you jump in the river holding hands.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 13 December 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
I am having so much fun with the poisonous peopleSpreading rumors and lies and stories they made upSome make you sing and some make you screamOne makes you wish that you never been seen
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 14:55 (nine months ago) link