Aladdin Sane/Diamond Dogs - David Bowie

Advantages: typical sound of the seventies
Disadvantages: typical sound of the seventies if you don't like Bowie

...Prettiest Star" (???) 1970 David Bowie: The Man Who Sold The World 1972 David Bowie: The Rise & The Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars 1972 David Bowie: Hunky Dory 1973 David Bowie: Pin Ups 1973 David Bowie: Aladdin Sane 1974 David Bowie: Diamond Dogs 1974 David Bowie: David Live, DoLP 1975 David Bowie: Young Americans 1976 ChangesOneBowie 1976 David Bowie: Station to Station 1977 David Bowie: Low 1977 David Bowie: Heroes 1978 David Bowie: Peter und der Wolf (Philadelphia Orchestra, Ltg. Eugene Ormandy) 1978 David Bowie: Stage 1979 David Bowie: Lodger 1980 David Bowie: Scary Monsters 1981/82 The Very Best of David Bowie 1981/82 Rare 1982 ChangesTwoBowie 1983 David Bowie: Let‘s Dance 1983: Ziggy Stardust: The Motion PictureAlbum 1984 David Bowie: Tonight 1987 David Bowie: Never let me down 1988 Tin Machine I 1990 Changesbowie... Read review

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Advantages: Couple of decent tracks
Disadvantages: Directionless, contrived

...there been a more doom laden and ominous opening to an album than the twin apocalypse of Future Legend and Diamond Dogs which kicked off (or tore apart, take your choice) 1974's Diamond Dogs album by David Bowie. Death, apocalypse and destruction have never been far below the surface in the works of David Bowie and Diamond Dogs is the epitome of his work on those themes, even more so than the space age dreams of Ziggy Stardust. Kicking off with the scene setting poem Future Legend before seguing into the powerful title track, this album was originally conceived as a tribute to the write George Orwell and includes a track called 1984. Full tracklisting: Future Legend (1:05) Diamond Dogs (5:56) Sweet Thing (3:39) Candidate (2:40) Sweet Thing (reprise) (2:31) Rebel Rebel (4:30) Rock 'N Roll With Me (4:00) We Are The Dead (4:58) 1984 (3... Read review

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Advantages: It's Bowie
Disadvantages: Another version to buy!

...experience, big sets troupes of dancers and the like. There is a rumour at the time of writing this review that the afore-mentioned documentary will see the light of day as an official DVD fingers crossed and everything else. To the show itself the Ziggy mullet had been discarded in favour of a peroxide-orange parting and all the Kabuki trappings of the pervious characters Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane had been ditched in favour of suits and braces. With Mick Ronson and the spiders from Mars gone David assumed the central character of the “Diamond Dogs “ album one “Halloween Jack”, the Diamond Dogs revenue was in essence a one-man show. On stage Bowie performed in a recreation of the albums setting “Hunger city”, which is in essence like 1984 meets Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” all decaying buildings and skyscrapers and crumbling landscapes... Read review

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