MicShazam

The first half of Diamond Dogs largely sounds like Bowie woke up one morning and realized Roxy Music existed. Of course, their first 3 albums, which all predate this one, are far better in every way. Later the same year as Diamond Dogs was realeased, they'd even come out with Country Life - an album that's far more forward looking and interesting than anything Bowie has managed thus far in his career.

When the album doesn't sound like Roxy-lite, it's mostly just Bowie's usual 50's and 60's rock pastiches - something that I'm starting to grow really weary of - and I can't really say that this album left much of an impression on me. The last song on the album, "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" is even outright garbage. "Rebel Rebel" has a neat riff, but relies on it to the point of driving it into the ground.

I'm starting to feel desperate for Bowie to modernize his sound. I really feel like The Man Who Sold the World was far and away the most appealing, interesting, unique and well written album thus far, leaving the rest of his early albums in the dust.

2/5

Early Bowie just isn't cutting it for me so far.
I could make a solid EP of tracks from the albums I found underwhelming on the whole, but I'm not sold on the idea of most of these being classic albums.

Trollheart, I really look forward to your take on the album and I hope you'll have a lot to say.
It's pretty obvious that our takes on this album will be enormously different.

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(Rated on a scale relative to only Bowie's own discography, where 1 means the worst he's done and 5 means the best he's done.)
David Bowie: 1/5
Space Oddity: 2/5
The Man Who Sold The World 4/5
Hunky Dory 3/5
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 3/5
Aladdin Sane 3/5
PinUps 2/5
Diamond Dogs 2/5
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
Heroes
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Let's Dance
Tonight
Never Let Me Down
Black Tie White Noise
1. Outside
Earthling
Hours
Heathen
Reality
The Next Day
Blackstar