Tracks:
Future Legend (2016 Remastered Version)
Diamond Dogs (2016 Remastered Version)
Sweet Thing (2016 Remastered Version)
Candidate (2016 Remastered Version)
Sweet Thing (Reprise) [2016 Remastered Version]
Rebel Rebel (2016 Remastered Version)
Rock 'N' Roll With Me (2016 Remastered Version)
We Are The Dead (2016 Remastered Version)
1984 (2016 Remastered Version)
Big Brother (2016 Remastered Version)
Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family (2016 Remastered Version)

Performer Notes:

After George Orwell's widow refused Bowie the right to use 1984 as the title of his forthcoming album, he instead used the novel as a conceptual blueprint for what became DIAMOND DOGS. Accompanied only by keyboardist Mike Garson, bassist Herbie Flowers, and drummers Aynsley Dunbar and Tony Newman, Bowie played guitar, sax, Moog, and Mellotron, in addition to his contributions as vocalist, composer, arranger, and producer of the album. With the Orwellian themes as a loose backdrop, DIAMOND DOGS has much of the apocalyptic sense of future shock that informed ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. While the album doesn't have the musical punch or the songwriting strengths of ZIGGY, its gems make it more than worthwhile. The lush strings and dominant wah-wah guitar of "1984" seem like a nod to Isaac Hayes, while Bowie's howls and snarling sax on the title track make it instantly memorable. The glam rock classic "Rebel Rebel," with its edgy guitar riff and strutting 4/4 beat, is the disc's highlight, and one of Bowie's all-time great songs. Amidst the imagery of a gray, totalitarian future, Bowie injected some optimism by including the nostalgic "Rock 'N' Roll With Me," a good time, rootsy number that presaged his next transformation into the blue-eyed soul singer of YOUNG AMERICANS.

Professional Reviews: Q (11/99, pp.140-1) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...all apocalyptic doom and nightmare vision...fueled by cocaine psychosis, Watergate and the three-day week. This slice of literary concept rock has improved with age..."

Uncut (p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[Y]ou could still argue that DOGS was the first bling bling album; a brutally urban, hardcore artefact."

Mojo (Publisher) (2/02, p.84) - "...A melange of rock'n'roll pastiche, Stateside superfunk and outbursts of avant-garde res well with its more successful, accessible predecessors, ZIGGY and ALADDIN SANE."

Format: Vinyl (2 Disc)

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: Mike Garson

Release Date: 10 February, 2017

Label: Rhino/Parlophone

Dimensions: 31.4 x 31.2 x 1 centimeters (0.41 kg)