Diamond Dogs is OK, but THIS is Bowie's only true masterpiece

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What is wrong with this album? Perfect cover art, perfect typology, perfect songs, perfect fucked-up coked-up mix of rock and r&b, perfect perfect title track, a cover version that actually works... maybe TVC15 is a little weak, that would be my sole complaint.

― Aleister Crowley, Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

A fine disc as well. Always wondered....what is going on with that cover? Is it a recording studio (I'm thinking that's foam), is it some sort've futuristic wine cellar? Is it a passage to Narnia? What is it?

And "TVC15" is NOT weak, thank you very much!

The guitar intro to "Stay" = SHEER, UNRELENTING, MIND-FELCHING GENIUS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

stay live on 1976 tour bootlegs is just fucking mind blowing... ditto for diamond dogs on that tour. that version of DD is closer to beck's version.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing is wrong with this album whatsoever. my perfect bowie is an amalgam of this and and low.

a slightly more electro-STS or a slightly more disco-low would be splendid.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, hats off to Bowie's backup singer on the album, the excellently named "Warren Peace". GEDDIT?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The pic is a still from "The man who fell to earth". It's a spaceship interior...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend of mine once played me this one guy's album who sang backup on these berlin albums, and also supposedly sang the high part in metal guru - it was good. who is that guy?

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

NO. There is no weakness on this album (in the Neitzchan sense ha!)
As you say - perfect. 'Word on a Wing' the title track, 'TVC15', 'Golden Years' are amongst Bowie's best songs, the sonic beauty of this record is awe-inspiring; it conjures up the kind of elemental power Bowie doesn't quite manage to achieve in his previous albums (too much blowhardiness), which testifies to the alchemical themes at the heart of the album.

― de, Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey! When did they change the cover?

I've got this theory that ANY record with train-sounds (subway or otherwise) is automatically GREAT!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

wait. i just read the thread title. this is NOT bowies only masterpiece.

hello... anybody heard of a little thing called PETER AND THE WOLF??????

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Macdonald on STS:

The title track of the album is packed with occult references and
allusions to the Gnostic myth of the Fall. A mention of White Stains,
Crowley's very obscure first book, shows how deeply Bowie delved into
the golden Dawn background; indeed, the lyric suggests that he also
studied The Tree Of Life by Crowley's pupil, Israel Regardie, a
brilliant treatise on the magical use of the 13th century Jewish
mystical system, Quabala. In Quabalistic language, the Gnostic myth of
the Fall can be expressed as "one magical movement from kether to
malkuth" (Kether being the sphere of the Godhead, or Crown of
Creation, and Malkuth being the sphere of the physical world, aka the
kingdom). These spheres (sephiroth) lie at opposite ends of the glyph
known as the Tree of Life, which Bowie is seen drawing on the back of
EMI's reissue of Station to Station.
Seems he thought of the sephiroth as stations - "standing places", as
in the Stations Of the Cross (which have their own occult
interpretation). Sadly there are 14 Stations Of The Cross but only 10
sephiroth. (The Christian sign of the cross, though does "map" onto
the Tree..)
The song, "Station to Station", also has a Shakespearean resonance.
Prospero the magician (and incognito duke) in Shakespeare's most
mysterious play. the Tempest, surrounds himself with books, among
which is his occult grimoire. At the end of the play, he abjures magic
and "drowns" his book of spells. In "Station To Station", the Thin
White Duke - Bowie as a cocaine-frozen Prospero lost in his (magic)
circle, tall in his room overlooking the ocean (Prospero's Island
"cell" transported to the coast by Los Angeles) - despairingly reviews
his repertoire of illusions. "Such is the stuff from where dreams are
woven," he muses, not quite quoting Prospero ("We are such stuff/As
dreams are made on"). Clearly, illusion is no longer what he wants.
Station to Station - like Plastic Ono Band, like Todd, like On the
Beach - is an exorcism: an exorcism of self, of the mind, of the past.
By 1976, Bowie had nearly had enough of his "magic" - the theatrical
"grand illusion" by which he'd lived since 1972. Thus, he "flashes no
colour" - another magical allusion, this time to the so-called Tattva
symbols which use "flashing" complimentary colours to after
consciousness, ushering the magical aspirant into the Astral Plane of
heightened vision. Decoded: Bowie has travelled the Astral (or
ascended the tree Of Life); now he wants to come down o earth, to
love. (Hence the cover image of the soundproof chamber in The Man Who
fell to Earth.)

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"hello... anybody heard of a little thing called PETER AND THE WOLF??????"

haha

― de, Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

hear hear!

charles kennedy's fave album of all time fact fans.

and dave? dave can't remember recording it. *any* of it.
he knows where it was recorded, because he's been told.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Scary Monsters is better

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Is not.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The only copies I've ever had have that white border around the picture. I like the one up top better. I'm assuming the white border thing was just RCA/America fucking shit up again.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The first side of Scary Monsters is near-perfect, but the second side leaves a lot to be desired.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

that is sooo true about exorcist albums!

i love p.Ono band and on the beach for just that reason. ill have to check out todd...

other exorcist albums? third/sister lovers is clear...

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

mine has the white border. i love it.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we just say at this point that a few odd missteps aside -- and never to the point of a full studio album misfire -- that 1970 to 1980 Bowie = jawdroppingly grand.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a thread for UK/US cover differences?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Ned's right. I only have good things to say about Bowie up to Scary Monsters. They are all wonderful if you ask me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I would've thought 'Low' is much more his exorcism album...
STS is Bowie trapped within the artificiality of this pentangle he's
drawn around himself, resulting in in this extroardinary creativity
but he himself drifting away from reality and substance...the imac piece is great though

― de, Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"and never to the point of a full studio album misfire"

Pinups?

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's great too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

this has become my favourite bowie album, falling just slightly ahead of low and scary monsters. every track on here is fucking excellent; the title track is easily one of the strangest and most alien pop songs bowie ever recorded.

hasn't this always been the cover? it's from "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (so is the Low cover, I think).

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually think the MacDonald piece is overly analytical... I'm sure all the references he gets are right, but I imagine Bowie just threw them together any old how in the studio without giving much thought to overall structure.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and ned, give let's dance props; I'd say 70 to 82, jawdroppingly grand. If let's dance had been the only album in that style and not the template for his next two records it would shine a lot more.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually don't mind Let's Dance at all but others would disagree, and my larger point was more of a 'cripes, the whole damn decade seems unimpeachable' view.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

as far as jawdroppingly grand figures on the kitchen-devil-cutting edge of pop bizzareness go, bowie was exactly that in the 70s. id say prince was that in the 80s. not sure who it was in the 90s. i would say beck but maybe he didnt sell enough records.

lets dance had 3 startling pop moments on it, the rest was kinda blah.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Scary Monsters is better

Wrong. Scary Monsters is a fine album, but there are a few stinker tracks. Station to Station meanwhile, remains stink-free.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

beck isnt a bad choice at all.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a bootleg album made around the same time as monsters called vampires of the flesh thats just as good, if not better than scary monsters. bowie might have had one extra year to add to his peak period if he released it.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

the cover changed with ethe sound and vision reissues and i suspect EMI just went with the flow. they also went back to the orig Man Who Sold The World cover etc etc
i like both versions. and i have to say i love every album up to lets dance. then things went weird. but my fave is still lodger. honest.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

they also went back to the orig Man Who Sold The World cover etc etc

Wait, what's on the other cover then?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait...the "man's dress" versus the "rock out" shot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

'i was walking, down the high street, when i heard footsteps behind me...'

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what the hell is TYPOLOGY?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Ian MacDonald.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

My question is, why the thread title that implies Diamond Dogs is nearly a masterpiece? I was under the impression that most people ranked it near the bottom of Bowie's pre-Let's Dance output.

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably because there's another thread today about Diamond Dogs...

― wetmink (wetmink), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Diamond Dogs near the bottom? say it ain't so. who are these people and why are they so silly?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The original sleeve was the same picture but in black and white, inset inside a white border - this was to save fifty squid on the license fee.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how George Orwell's wife told Bowie to fuck himself when he asked permission to do 1984. Sharp lady.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My question is, why the thread title that implies Diamond Dogs is nearly a masterpiece? I was under the impression that most people ranked it near the bottom of Bowie's pre-Let's Dance output.

You thought wrong, dammit. Diamond Dogs is his finest hour.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but you have the worst taste on ILM...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems a lot of people are agreeing with me on this one. You may want to re-allign your little paramaters.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not going to take that from the guy with the worst taste on ILM.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I resent that remark. Yes, i'm a huge Killing Joke fan, but i also own about two-thousand, five hundred discs....most of which are by artists OTHER than Killing Joke.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ALL of which are copies of Diamond Dogs...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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I like that "Black Country Rock" myself...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 18 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Tonight vs. Never Let Me Down

Well, at least Tonight had "Loving the Alien," which is a great track. "Blue Jean" isn't terrible, but it isn't exactly gold either. Never Let Me Down however, had.....er.......well, nothing.

"Black Country Rock" is fuckin' swazzootastic! I don't know what that means, but it sounded good.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

never let me down had "time will crawl". and in a generous mood I'd even give him the title track. everything else makes me wish I were deaf.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 18 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's face it though. Bowie was essentially a singles artist. The man made a staggering number of brilliant singles in a bewildering variety of styles. But his albums are invariably larded with unmemorable filler. Unfortunately a singles compilation doesn't really do him justice though, since taken out of context, the singles lose much of their impact. To make a jewelry analogy, the albums are basically the setting and the singles are the diamonds. So really your choice of favorite Bowie album comes down to the question of which are your favorite singles.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 19 June 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

cobblers

― de, Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

er, I mean: sorry I disagree

― de, Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true though! Well, maybe with a few small exceptions (like "Lodger" for instance, which is more consistent than the usual Bowie album - but also lacks singles). But for the most part, the peaks on Bowie records are on a completely different plane of existence from the troughs. I think people try to convince themselves that they enjoy Bowie's dodgy covers and melodramatic music hall numbers - and maybe they really do enjoy them - but without the singles, no one would really care.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

like "Lodger" for instance, which is more consistent than the usual Bowie album - but also lacks singles

Err.....weren't "DJ", "Look Back in Anger" and "Boys Keep Swinging" singles?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean hit singles.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Full disclosure: I haven't heard all Bowie albums by any means, even all of the ones that most fans consider his best, but it's just my impression that whenever I buy a Bowie album, I invariably find that my favorite songs on it are the songs that I already know! I can't think of a single other artist that this is true of for me. And yet somehow this doesn't diminish the greatness of those songs.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"young americans" has "win," which is AWESOME

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So are Right and Fascination, I dont in any way see David Bowie as a singles only artist.

― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane....to name but three...are complete, full albums from start to finish, and not the work of a mere "singles" artist.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think most of his singles are fairly poor compared to the albums from which they came. I've often tried to make this case to my Dad, cause he thinks Bowie's crap, on the "strength" of the singles.

Boys Keep Swinging was a UK hit single; got to number 7 in 1979 by the looks of things.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Saturday, 19 June 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Beware the Savage Jaw...." In Praise Of....Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
is "the man who sold the world" the greatest Bowie rekkid EVAH?
Is THE LODGER David Bowie's best record?
are "tim machine" the best thing david bowie ?
was that drum n' base record that david bowie did (and whose name i forget) the best thing he's ever done?
Is Laughing Gnome the best thing David Bowie has ever done?
David Bowie's roundly maligned, nazi cocainey live album, STAGE: Classic or Dud?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Two of those are mine. Sorry, Julio.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing him do "Boys Keep Swinging" on Top of the Pops, ergo it was a hit single.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

>Bowie was essentially a singles artist.

???!!!

― ian g, Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My point being that, as a fellow who's been listening to him isince MWSTW, it never hit me that he was/is anything but a long player guy.

I mean, there was a late 70s flurry of pop hits, and then nada, no? Are you confusing him with The Sweet or Quiet Riot?

― Ian G, Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Win" might be the best thing he did in the '70s.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's face it though. Bowie was essentially a singles artist.

OTM! OTM! OTM! I'm doing James Brown splits and spins thank god someone else feels this way.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, the Rykodisc 2CD (which has been replaced by the comparatively lame Best Of Bowie) is all the Bowie a non-disciple NEEDS.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This blank disc I have marked "Limp Bizkit Greatest Hits Mix by Me DOOD" fulfills a similar function.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.newrockmagazine.it/mt/archives/LimpBizkitAnger.jpg

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 20 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

That echoes to the sound of silence!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing him do "Boys Keep Swinging" on Top of the Pops, ergo it was a hit single

But again, that's the best song on the album! So it only adds evidence to my argument. I didn't even know that it was a single, but once again I find that my favorite song was in fact the single! It's uncanny how consistent Bowie is in that way.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What I meant is I always sort of glossed over most of the singles, with a few exceptions.

― Ian G, Monday, 21 June 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

miccio is wrong, as usual.

anyway, while station to station is certain a masterpiece -- AND tied w/ low as Eisbär's favorite bowie record -- it is FAR from being david bowie's ONLY true masterpiece.

this record is gamble & huff, as envisioned by a coked-up space alien.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 June 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

SUMMARY:

"Peru? Seriously? I thought all the best stuff was from Colombia! Well, cool, if you say so...holy mother of fuck, it is pink! I thought 'pink flake' was just some sort of stupid Studio 54 designation or something...ok...hold on...roll tape roll tape! I've got an idea!" [runs from control room into tracking room, positions self in front of microphone, begins singing]

"Yas-ssa-sin!
I'm not! A MOOdy guy!"

-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), July 4th, 2003 9:45 AM. (J0hn Darn1elle) (link)

"You, know, I quite like this book I'm reading . . . chap's name is Orwell. No, he's not gay, I don't believe, but there is this whole thing about 'big brother' that's a bit interesting . . . anyway, I'm thinking of writing an album about it! Well, I haven't finished it yet. Actually, I'm only about halfway through, but I have this great idea for an album cover that shows my penis although I'm half a dog. Say, did you just get the scag, then? Well, anyway it goes something like this . . . NINETEEN EIGHT-EE FOUR! What do you mean 'what does it mean?'"

-- J (McChum...), July 4th, 2003 9:52 AM. (Jay) (link)

Ha J is korrekt: it all comes down to which drugs you like best!

-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), July 4th, 2003 9:57 AM. (J0hn Darn1elle) (link)

― J (Jay), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

**Never Let Me Down however, had.....er.......well, nothing.**

Time Will Crawl is grebt! I also like Bang Bang, Glass Spider....actually most of it! The only real dog is Shining Star.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And with that, the albatross of "credibility" let loose its grip from Dr.C's neck, freeing him from ever making another statement worth paying heed to again.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"time will crawl" is pretty good.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I seriously spelled correct with two "k"s? wow, that must have been some seriously amazing flake

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 21 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There was some "Heroes" chat on one of these threads, with everyone agreeing "Sons of the Silent Age" is a corker; however, is anyone able to tell me who "Sam Therapy and King Dice" are?

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

**And with that, the albatross of "credibility" let loose its grip from Dr.C's neck, freeing him from ever making another statement worth paying heed to again. **

Thank god! (You never pay heed to me anyway, Alex ;)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a bootleg album made around the same time as monsters called vampires of the flesh thats just as good, if not better than scary monsters. bowie might have had one extra year to add to his peak period if he released it.

Wait a second -- I'm looking at a website with this right now, and it's just alternative versions of Scary Monsters...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 26 June 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, you're right. i got the bootleg name wrong. not sure which one i was thinking of now, but it was some cd someone burned me. ill have to find it.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Saturday, 26 June 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

david bowie's albums are great...but they're not music.
they're dissertations handed by a student of popular music aesthetics and mythmaking 101

― shugged out, Saturday, 26 June 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure, whatever...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 26 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"they're not music"

USE OTHER CRITICISMS PLEASE

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"USE OTHER CRITICISMS PLEASE"

USE LESS CLICHED ADMONITIONS PLEASE

― shugged out, Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

REMOVE THE SOFTLY-SCENTED ASTROTURF FROM YOUR EYES

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

WELL DONE

― shugged out, Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Interesting that no one mentioned Roy Bittan in this thread — he's the secret weapon on STS for sure...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Yes, this is indeed Bowie's best-ever album, and is a much more accomplished funk/krautrock hybrid than "Low".

― Israel Regardie, Monday, 12 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Diamond Dogs stinks like wet hemp compared to this.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Diamond Dogs stinks like wet hemp--ful stop.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Diamond Dogs stinks like wet hemp--full stop.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

fuck

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

No point trying to be snarky if you can't type "full."

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

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