Diamond Dogs (Enhanced, Original Recording Reissued)

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studio album
First released:
1974

Overview Edit

Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA Records in 1974. 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 late author’s estate denied the rights. The songs wound up on the second half of Diamond Dogs instead where, as the titles indicate, the Nineteen Eighty-Four theme was prominent.

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Version description:
Enhanced, Original Recording Reissued
Record label:
Catalog number:
21904
Release dates:
  • Jun 7 2004 in United Kingdom

Genres

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR), Concept Album, Progressive Rock, Proto Punk, Rock, Classic Rock, Glam Rock. Vote on Genres

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4 stars "Lord I think you'd overdose if you knew what's going down"
You know, I've had this album since it was released back in 1974 and thought, "cool album, man".

But since trying to rebuild an album collection into a cd collection of the same size (currently about 400 cd's vs 900 albums) I am always hesitant about replacing some of the albums I've had with the cd format, whether its due to money or the cd formatting (straight transfer, record company ripoffs vs. digital remastering, the only way to go).

And so it came to be with this version of 'Diamond Dogs'…
Written by Clyde D. Hoops "thingols"
3 stars A transitional album from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke, but where's the rock?
Diamond Dogs is somewhat problematic for me. It's a concept album, perhaps Bowie's most theatrical, that marked a turn of direction away from the Ziggy-glam period and hinted at the "plastic soul" era of Young Americans. But while there are some excellent songs on Diamond Dogs and the concept is good, there is a lot of show tune-like music that focuses too much on vocal histrionics and musical bombast for my taste. Because some songs were written for the abandonned concept album 1984 might expla…
Written by Chet Fakir

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Credits Edit

  1. engineer

  1. performer

    1. Aynsley Dunbar [drums]

Other versions Edit

Diamond Dogs 11 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Virgin Records US
catalog number: 21904
release dates: Sep 28 1999
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Diamond Dogs 13 tracks Japanese 30th Anniversary Edition
format: 1 x CD
record label: Toshiba EMI Japan
release dates: Jul 26 2004
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Diamond Dogs 19 tracks 30th Anniversary Edition
format: 2 x CD
record label: Virgin Records US
catalog number: 5778572
release dates: Jun 15 2004
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