History Music / DiamondDogs

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* UncommonTime: "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" switches irregularly between 5/4 and 6/4 or between 2/4 and 3/4, depending upon you count it.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The "Sweet Thing"/"Candidate"/"Sweet Thing" (reprise) sequence, as well as "Future Legend" into "Diamond Dogs" and "Big Brother" into "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family".

# "Rock 'N' Roll With Me" (4:00)
# "We Are The Dead" (4:58)

# "Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family" (2:00)

* AlliterativeTitle: "'''D'''iamond '''D'''ogs", "'''R'''ebel '''R'''ebel", "'''B'''ig '''B'''rother" and "'''C'''hant Of The Ever '''C'''ircling Skeletal Family".

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: The album is inspired by ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', with "1984" and "Big Brother" directly referencing it.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The "Sweet Thing"/"Candidate"/"Sweet Thing" (reprise) sequence.

* HeavyMeta: "Rock 'N' Roll With Me"

* {{Homage}}: The album was inspired by Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. Two tracks, "Big Brother" and "1984", refer to it directly. Indeed, Bowie originally intended them and other songs for a musical based on the novel, but Orwell's estate wouldn't give him the rights.

* LoopedLyrics: "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" is simply the below lyrics repeated six times. [[spoiler: a seventh time is attempted, but cuts instead to BrokenRecord]]

* PrecisionFStrike: "We Are The Dead" has a subtle one:

** As noted, "1984" and "Big Brother" refer to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. The song title "We Are the Dead" is also a direct quote from the novel.
** "Candidate" mentions Cassius Clay (aka UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli) and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.

--> ''Someone scrawled on the wall: "I smell the blood of les tricoteuses''

* AlterEgoActing: "Halloween Jack", who is only mentioned in the title track, isn't generally regarded as a true Bowie alter ego in the vein of Ziggy Stardust or The Thin White Duke,though he does seem to be the character he played on the North American tour done to support the album.

* RearrangeTheSong: In 2003, "Rebel Rebel" was remixed with "Never Get Old" from ''Music/{Reality}}'' and released as a single as "Rebel Never Gets Old"

** "Sweet Thing" mentions Cassius Clay (aka UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli) and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.

-->--"Future Legend"

'''''Diamond Dogs''''' is the eighth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1974. It is the last album of his that can be classified as GlamRock. A ConceptAlbum born from the ashes of a proposed musical adaptation of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' (Bowie could not get the rights to the novel), it is set in a post-apocalyptic environment called "Hunger City", where the remnants of humanity scrounge their way into as much decadence that can be enjoyed in the dying days of mankind.

** "Diamond Dogs" references Creator/TodBrowning's ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' and Creator/SalavdorDali:

** "Diamond Dogs" references Creator/TodBrowning's ''Film/{{Freaks}}'':

** Halfway through "Future Legend", [[Music/RodgersAndHammerstein Rodgers & Hart]]'s "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by can be heard.

* LastNameBasis: The artist credit on the labels for the original vinyl releases of the album and its singles is just BOWIE.

* LastNameBasis: The labels for the original vinyl releases of the album and its singles are credited to just BOWIE.

*** [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Venom Snake's nationless army]] is also called named after the album.

* EpicRocking: The "Sweet Thing"/"Candidate"/"Sweet Thing (reprise)" trifecta are often considered a single 8:50 song, and were usually performed that way live.

** As noted, "1984" and "Big Brother" refer to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''This ain't rock 'n' roll: This is genocide!''.]]