MINTY 1974 UK OG SCARCE Spiders From Mars BOWIE "Diamond Dogs" DAVID ZIGGY
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MINTY Final Collection Gem
ORIGINAL 1974 BRITISH ORIGINAL PRINT ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..- DAVID BOWIE
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- The SPIDERS FROM MARS
- "Diamond Dogs"
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- "Made On England" - APL1 0576 - (ORANGE) RCA - Stereophonic
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- FINAL COLLECTION COPY
David Bowie entered 1974 as one of the world’s biggest rock stars. He was still flying high on the success of the Ziggy Stardust character, whose image had become so famous that it wound up gracing the cover of the singer’s '74 "Diamond Dogs" album which was released on April 24, 1974.
One of Bowie's best ever rockers is herein "Rebel Rebel" and it has become a rock staple of "Diamond Dogs", best listened to as a thematic classic gem.
Bowie's voice distorted electronically sets the apocalyptic scene, of a civilization destroyed in the spoken "Future Legend" of mutants in Hunger City called who are waiting for the diamond dogs.
After the heralding "This ain't rock and roll... this is genocide!", the title track comes on, sporting a snappy glam riff like T-Rex with some vocals sung as if done underwater, the story continues of the lavish rich having parties, but under prey of the diamond dogs.
The trio of "Sweet Thing", "Candidate", and the reprise of the former, all which mesh into one another for a total 8:50, as the longest track (if taken collectively) Bowie's done since "Width Of A Circle." With an out-of-tune guitar and soft keys, a sense of loneliness and isolation permeates throughout the lyrics. Things go a bit more upbeat in "Candidate", with the and more nihilistic: "We'll buy some drugs and watch a band, then jump in the river holding hands." From "hope is a sweet thing", we get "love is a get-it-here thing." This part of the song deals with how one gets power with sex
By far, the best song here is "Rebel Rebel", a tune with a hard-edged guitar done by Alan Parker and not by Bowie as has been formerly thought, and a Stones-like rhythm crunch. The 70's gender-ambiguity is shown in "not sure if you're a boy or a girl." This criminally flopped in the US, but reached #5 on the UK charts. Joan Jett covered this and it shows up on her Flashback compilation.
A soulful-like feel, with a keys and guitar melody features in the laid back "Rock N Roll With Me," a change from the previous theatrics.
The last three songs are all that's left in the concept album Bowie was trying to model after 1984, only to have George Orwell's widow deny him permission. There seems to be no justice, as the the group Yes's Rick Wakeman released an album in 1981 titled 1984 with no repercussions.
Anyway, "We Are The Dead" are the words Winston Smith utters to his lover Julia before they are captured by the Thought Police in Orwell's novel. Bowie's crooning over a slow melodic keyboard. Bowie half-speaks/sings the lyrics while in the background, he croons the title words.
"1984" has a bit of a funky beat like a "Shaft" main theme. Elements of brainwashing from the novel can be seen: "they'll split your pretty cranium and fill it full of air/and tell that you're eighty but rather you won't care." The song was later covered by Tina Turner on Private Dancer.
In "Big Brother and the Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" Bowie seems to be praising some uber-mensch-type person: "someone to blame us/someone to follow/someone to shame us/some great Apollo/someone to fool us/someone like you/we want you Big Brother." The chant part begins with a fuzzy guitar and chants of "brother" and "shake it up" before ending with a repeated tape loop.
With the dissolution of Ziggy and the Spiders, an interesting concept and a new sound, while still continuing the nihilistic apocalyptic themes of the Ziggy era
- Future Legend
Bewitched
Diamond Dogs
Sweet Thing
Candidate
Sweet Thing (Reprise)
Rebel Rebel - II
Rock 'N Roll With Me
We Are The Dead
1984
Big Brother
Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family - CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: M- top rated colorful gatefold a beautiful clean example of striking 1974 UK first printing ...there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
- The vinyl: Rated: near M- bright clean audio over both sides... both orange British RCA labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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