Álbum Diamond Dogs de David Bowie - Canciones

Diamond Dogs

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"Diamond Dogs", el octavo álbum en la discografía de David Bowie, fue lanzado el 24 de mayo de 1974 bajo el sello RCA Records. Su estreno fue espectacular, alcanzando el primer puesto en las listas británicas y el quinto en las de Estados Unidos. Fue a partir de este álbum que comenzó a denominarse a Bowie como "El duque blanco".

Como no podía ser de otra manera, David Bowie, que venía de vender más de un millón de copias, se podía permitir hacer lo que quisiera, por muy escandoloso que pudiera parecer. En esta ocasión, diseñó una portada ilustrada por un artista belga llamado Guy Peellaert en la que podíamos ver a Bowie caracterizado como un perro. Evidentemente, no llevaba ropa encima y eso fue lo más escandaloso, ya que en la primera revisión de la portada se podían contemplar claramente los genitales del hombre-animal, una imagen que los censores británicos invitaron a ocultar en las siguientes ediciones del álbum.

"Diamond Dogs" estaba inspirado en el libro de George Orwell "1984" (el clásico Gran Hermano) y su esencia inspiró los títulos de algunos de los temas, "1984" y "Big Brother", en los que predomina la visión postapocalíptica del artista. El más importante de todos fue el titulado "Rebel Rebel", con un estupendo riff de guitarra que permanece en la memoria de los fans de Bowie y que se convertiría en uno de los himnos de esa generación.

El tema "Diamond Dogs" resulta un homenaje al sonido de los Rolling Stones, de quienes Bowie se siente admirador, mientras que "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" es una balada escrita por David Bowie y Warren Peace con un sonido poderoso y que pretendía tratar la complicada relación de Bowie con sus fans.

"Diamond Dogs" es el primer álbum en el que no aparece la banda de acompañamiento de David Bowie, "The Spiders from Mars", aunque muchos de los arreglos se realizaron durante la gira de "Pin Ups", por lo que todavía podemos ver la mano de Mick Ronson. Tony Visconti también participó en los arreglos de cuerdas y en las mezclas y a partir de este trabajo nació una estrecha colaboración que se extendería a los siguientes discos de Bowie.

Listado de canciones del álbum Diamond Dogs

  1. Future LegendVer letra 1:00

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    letra de Future Legend

    And in the death
    As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy
    Thoroughfare
    The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building
    High on Poacher's Hill
    And red, mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
    No more big wheels

    Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
    And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
    Coverting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
    Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
    Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
    Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald
    Any day now
    The Year of the Diamond Dogs

    "This ain't Rock'n'Roll
    This is Genocide"

  2. Diamond DogsVer letra 5:50

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    letra de Diamond Dogs

    This aint rocknroll. This is genocide!

    As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
    You asked for the latest party
    With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
    Dressed like a priest you was
    Tod brownings freak you was

    Crawling down the alley on your hands and knee
    I'm sure you're not protected, for it's plain to see
    The diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees
    Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal

    (will they come?)
    Ill keep a friend serene
    (will they come?)
    Oh baby, come unto me
    (will they come?)
    Well, she's come, been and gone.
    Come out of the garden, baby
    Youll catch your death in the fog
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs

    The halloween jack is a real cool cat
    And he lives on top of manhattan chase
    The elevators broke, so he slides down a rope
    Onto the street below, oh tarzie, go man go

    Meet his little hussy with his ghost town approach
    Her face is sans feature, but she wears a dali brooch
    Sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake
    Wrecked up and paralyzed, diamond dogs are sableized

    (will they come?)
    Ill keep a friend serene
    (will they come?)
    Oh baby, come unto me
    (will they come?)
    Well, she's come, been and gone.
    Come out of the garden, baby
    Youll catch your death in the fog
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs

    Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs
    Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs

    In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch
    Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch
    Just another future song, lonely little kitsch
    (there's gonna be sorrow) try and wake up tomorrow

    (will they come?)
    Ill keep a friend serene
    (will they come?)
    Oh baby, come unto me
    (will they come?)
    Well, she's come, been and gone.
    Come out of the garden, baby
    Youll catch your death in the fog
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs
    Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs

    Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs
    Oo-oo-ooh, call them the diamond dogs
    Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow
    Call them the diamond dogs
    Dogs
    Call them the diamond dogs, call them, call them
    Call them the diamond dogs, call them, call them, ooo
    Call them the diamond dogs

    Keep cool
    Diamond dogs rule, ok
    Hey-hey-hey-hey

    Beware of the diamond dogs
    Beware of the diamond dogs
    Beware of the diamond dogs
    Beware of the diamond dogs
    Beware of the diamond dogs

  3. Sweet Thing 3:29
  4. CandidateVer letra 2:39

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    letra de Candidate

    I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate

    We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake
    My set is amazing, it even smells like a
    Street
    There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend
    Someone scrawled on the wall "I smell the blood of les tricoteuses"
    Who wrote up scandals in other bars

    I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people
    Spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up

    Some make you sing and some make you scream
    One makes you wish that you'd never been seen
    But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache
    Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay
    If you want it, boys, get it here, thing
    So you scream out of line
    "I want you! I need you! Anyone out there?
    Any time? "
    Tres butch little number whines "Hey dirty, I want you
    When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces"
    If you want it, boys, get it here, thing

    Well, on the street where you live I could not hold up my head
    For I put all I have in another bed
    On another floor, in the back of a car
    In the cellar like a church with the door ajar
    Well, I guess we've must be looking for a different kind

    But we can't stop trying 'til we break up our minds
    Til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knights
    Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright

    I guess we could cruise down one more time

    With you by my side, it should be fine

    We'll buy some drugs and watch a band

    Then jump in the river holding hands

  5. Sweet Thing (Reprise) 2:32
  6. Rebel Rebel 4:21
  7. Rock 'N' Roll With Me 3:54
    Letras: David Bowie
  8. We Are The Dead 4:48
  9. 1984Ver letra 3:24

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    letra de 1984

    Someday they wont let you, now you must agree
    The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
    Youve read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on tv
    Beware the savage jaw
    Of 1984

    They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
    And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you wont care
    Youll be shooting up on anything, tomorrows never there
    Beware the savage jaw
    Of 1984

    Come see, come see, remember me?
    We played out an all night movie role
    You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
    In 1984 (who could ask for more)
    1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
    (mor-or-or-or-ore)

    Im looking for a vehicle, Im looking for a ride
    Im looking for a party, Im looking for a side
    Im looking for the treason that I knew in 65
    Beware the savage jaw
    Of 1984

    Come see, come see, remember me?
    We played out an all night movie role
    You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
    In 1984 (who could ask for more)
    1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
    (mor-or-or-or-ore)

    1984
    1984
    1984 (mor-or-or-or-ore)
    1984
    1984 (mor-or-or-or-ore)
    1984

    Músicos invitados: Tony Visconti (Arranged By [Strings]), Alan Parker (Guitar)
  10. Big BrotherVer letra 3:25

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    letra de Big Brother

    Don't talk of dust and roses
    Or should we powder our noses?
    Don't live for last year's capers
    Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal

    He'll build a glass asylum
    With just a hint of mayhem
    He'll build a better whirlpool
    We'll be living from sin,
    Then we can really begin

    Please saviour, saviour, show us
    Hear me, I'm graphically yours

    [Chorus:]
    Someone to claim us, someone to follow

    Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo

    Someone to fool us, someone like you
    We want you Big Brother, Big Brother

    I know you think you're awful square

    But you made everyone and you've been every where
    Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down

    [Chorus (3 times)]

    We want you Big Brother

  11. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family 1:48

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