Álbum Diamond Dogs de David Bowie - Canciones
Diamond Dogs
1974 | 
Estilo(s) | Glam,Art Rock,Rock & Roll
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Reseña
"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
- Future LegendVer letra 1:00
[X]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" - Diamond DogsVer letra 5:50
[X]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 - Sweet Thing 3:29
- CandidateVer letra 2:39
[X]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 - Sweet Thing (Reprise) 2:32
- Rebel Rebel 4:21
- Rock 'N' Roll With Me 3:54
Letras: David Bowie - We Are The Dead 4:48
- 1984Ver letra 3:24
[X]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)
1984Músicos invitados: Tony Visconti (Arranged By [Strings]), Alan Parker (Guitar) - Big BrotherVer letra 3:25
[X]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 - Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family 1:48
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.
[X]
And in the deathletra de Future Legend
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"
[X]
This aint rocknroll. This is genocide!letra de Diamond Dogs
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
[X]
I'll make you a deal, like any other candidateletra de 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
Letras: David Bowie
[X]
Someday they wont let you, now you must agreeletra de 1984
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
[X]
Don't talk of dust and rosesletra de Big Brother
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
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