Diamond Dogs by David Bowie, Album Review

David Bowie's eighth studio album Diamond Dogs was released in 1974. The album was a commercial success in both America and the UK, but it received mixed reviews from critics. Many retrospective reviews are positive and some critics now consider it amongst his best albums. After his previous album Aladdin Sane, his backing band, the Spiders from Mars, broke up, which left Bowie to play most of the guitar on the album. It is his last album to experiment in the glam rock genre.

I already mentioned my general disinterest in Bowie's conceptual ideas, which continues onto this project, but Bowie has compensated for this by being quite the melody-maker since Hunky Dory. However, the music of Diamond Dogs, at its best on side two, is merely attractive, not compelling. It's also self-indulgent and indistinguishable--"Rebel Rebel" feels out of place because it's good. C+