Re: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (1974)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:04 pm

Cornet.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:04 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:This is a complete mess.

You're a complete mess. Colbert

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:04 pm

Quite strange this ending.

by Guest Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:05 pm

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:05 pm

I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone, and you've been everywhere
Lord, I'd take an overdose, if you knew what's going down

by Guest Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:06 pm

Nightjar wrote:Bovvie's first full-blooded foray into disco.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:06 pm

Early use of sampled keyboards.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:07 pm

Last track - Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family. banana bones

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:08 pm

He's starting to alienate me now.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:08 pm

This is the most fun I'ever had listening to this album.

I really love its strangeness.

It's uncompromising.

Right down to this bonkerZ finale. rock

by Guest Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:08 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:He's starting to alienate me now.

It's almost over.

I can't remember, I think it's a locked groove on the LP.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:08 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:He's starting to alienate me now.

He's doing it right then. yes

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:09 pm

Brah!
Brah!
Brah!
Brah!
Brah!
Brah!
................

All albums should end thus.

by Guest Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:10 pm

It is over.

GR8 album. I have no need to ever listen to it again. Well, maybe in 10 years or so.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:11 pm

It is over.

As always with him, the emotional disconnection, artifice, affectation and desperation to be cooler than thou quickly repelled me.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by Guest Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:11 pm

I would say 20 years, but I've just worked out how old I will be then.

bawl

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:11 pm

I shall give it 3 stars because it was better than the other albums of his that we've done.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:16 pm

Y'know, DDs has always been one of my less favourite Bovvie albums, but listening to it in conjunction with you other Wendigans and concentrating quite closely and following the lyrics on 'typical lyric archive site No. 30,045' I've come to realise that it's a real masterpiece of anomalous strangeness.

Rebel Rebel aside, which still does nothing for me (other than make me think of a sweltering tramp), it's a genuinely odd, quite disjointed but nonetheless amazing and bold album.

What it may lack in regards catchy tunes - and even basic coherence - it makes up for with artistic ambition, bravery and a truly Da-Da-esque elan.

Top Marx from me.

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