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It was around this period that Bowie began abusing cocaine to such an extent that his colleagues became worried about his declining physicality and wild personality swings. The composition process was also a crucial step in Bowie’s artistic evolution. ‘Future Legend’ sets the scene, with its references to the fictitious and frankly nightmarish ‘Hunger City’, with its ‘Diamond Dogs’ inhabitants - a pack of scavenging caricatures, underpinning the paranoia and violent, drug-riddled fantasies explored throughout. Although it has a heavy and bleakly Orwellian tone throughout, the lyrics on Diamond Dogs explore Bowie’s own ideas of post-apocalyptic existence.
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Speaking of the 1984 concept it’s satisfying to know that Bowie used it as a springboard rather than a prop. Featuring a slippery funk groove and fantastic vocals its lyrics manage to re-focus the Orwellian narrative, serving as the most clear expression of the album’s supposed concept. It also serves as a huge indicator of his desire to move from glam into pastures new, and as such, at certain points on Diamond Dogs, one begins to see the cracks in Bowie’s will to rock n roll.įurther evidence of the transition from rocker to plastic soul man is captured in the superb ‘1984’. In hindsight, it was perhaps a poor and hasty decision, as the absence of Mick Ronson’s phenomenal guitar work is simply a tragedy, no matter how satisfying Bowie’s riffs are on tracks such as ‘Rebel Rebel’. Yet somehow it all works - the messiness and boiling pot of ideas begins to take shape after one takes sufficient time to make sense of it all, and that‘s when Diamond Dogs starts to form as a flawed, but wholly intriguing picture.īowie committed to a massive decision in choosing to sack the Spiders from Mars band, opting to play guitar and produce himself. Similarly, the music is just as divided, featuring traces of glam set appositionally against funky moments, making for a rather eclectic mix. It’s a loose concept album based on George Orwell’s seminal 1984, but said concept falls apart quickly, and is presented in such a fragmented manner that it loses cohesion. Because of its awkward position, Diamond Dogs is album of many contractions featuring some of Bowie’s finest moments, but at the cost of a disconcerting listening experience for the consumer. It captures him at a rather tangled transitional phase - battling with the glam rock splendour of the past, whilst sowing the tentative soul seeds of the future of which, would come to dominate Young Americans the following year. Review Summary: The howl of Halloween Jack.ĭiamond Dogs is one of the most important albums David Bowie ever released.