Diamond Virgin [CD-single] [Import]

Product Description
Dvd Will Include a Promotional Clip of "Diamond Virgin". Dvd is Ntsc Format, Region Code Two

Tracks:

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

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George Orwell's classic tale of totalitarianism, 1984, was the inspiration for a project that David Bowie hoped would further solidify his standing as a rock visionary. Bowie was a natural artist to helm a musical companion to Orwell's allegory, since his own music exhibits an innate alienation. The concept ultimately broke down, but the music didn't. "Rebel Rebel" has become a rock staple, while "Sweet Thing," "Candidate," and the forthright yet experimental title track (Bowie as puppet master) offer additional highlights. Still, despite such benchmarks and its conceptual flaws, Diamond Dogs is best listened to as a thematic collection. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Who is this Guy?.......2007-07-23

This was a replacement cd for my wife. It was one of a very few she brought into our marriage. I've never regretted hearing it. I just have one question...Will the real David Bowie please stand up!!

Bowie's Most Hated?.......2007-05-31

Misrepresented and misunderstood for too long, Bowie outdid himself on this one. Don't pay mind to the detractors, this is right up at the top of the Thin White Duke's oeuvre.

Excellent!.......2007-05-24

This and Aladdin Sane are my 2 favorite Bowie albums, although he has made many good albums. We saw him play in Boston in 1976, and in my opinion he was his best then.

In my opinion he certainly made his mark in music and this album helped him do it. He still is and always will be very good, but back then we thought he was the best in the world.

Especially on this album I love "Big Brother" and "Sweet Thing / Candidate".

A Blast.......2007-02-23

This brings me right back...I loved this in high school. Still do on re-listen. If you like this album, get the 30th anniversary edition (5 stars) ...the second disc is full of fun goodies. Some of my favorite Bowie.

Listened To This In The 70's , It May Explain Things............2006-08-31

I listened to this album (my older brothers) during the 70's, ad nausea. For me it is must own Bowie. I like this album so much that I'm even into Chant of the ever circling skeletal family! I actually think that song's very cool but I may be alone on that one. For me this is Bowie's best. I followed him through the 70's (I remember seeing him on Soul Train doing Golden Years), the pop 80's from Ashes to Ashes to China Girl, even followed him a bit in Tin Machine and later hating Americans or something, lol. This is my all time favorite Bowie, I'm ordering it today so we can get reacquainted. Highly recommended, definitely a top 100 rock album of all time.

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Diamond Dogs LP
Brave New World for Bowie
It's Eternal!
4 1/2 stars-- Bowie at his most theatrical.
dark and sweet

Diamond Dogs 30th Anniversary Edition
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001RVUW4
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

Future Legend
Diamond Dogs
Sweet Thing
Candidate
Sweet Thing (reprise)
Rebel Rebel
Rock 'n' Roll With Me
We Are The Dead
1984
Big Brother
Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

Tracks:

1984/Dodo
Rebel Rebel (U.S. Single Version)
Dodo
Growin' Up
Alternative Candidate (demo for proposed '1984' musical)
Diamond Dogs (K-Tel "Best Of" Edit)
Candidate (Intimacy mix)
Rebel Rebel (2003)

Customer Reviews:

Diamond Dogs LP.......2007-07-03

Still have this on album.
My sister won this for me in Seaside Heights NJ on the boardwalk.
David Bowie is simply FAB!!!

Brave New World for Bowie.......2007-06-17

Bowie had waved goodbye to Ziggy Stardust - almost, but on the cover of Diamond Dogs, he still looked like the spiky red haired Bowie that everyone knew but morphing into something else. Diamond Dogs remains Bowie's art album of the period - an ambitious work, and yet somehow it doesn't quite gel or grab you. I wanted it to be grander, but it's more like a dark incomplete chapter into a longer novel, something that David would revisit in the 90s with concept albums like Outside.

Diamond Dogs suffers from being a conceptual piece that can't live up to Ziggy musically but still shows David moving forward musically. To his credit, David stakes out a harder rock turf with the title track. And varies the pace in this musical opera with Sweet Thing and 1984. Rebel Rebel is the standout track here, but it's tacked on like an afterthought - made more remarkable by the fact if I recall - that David played all the instruments himself.

Although somewhat of a failed musical, Diamond Dogs is still a crucial part of Bowie history - literally marking the end of Bowie's early 70s guitar rock sound before he embarked on Young Americans. It doesn't get much play on my Bowie setlist though, along with Lodger - but then again, they don't make artists like David Bowie anymore. So those fascinated with the legend should definitely explore. 3.5 stars!

It's Eternal!.......2007-03-29

I have been listening to David Bowie since 1975 and this stuff never gets old-- especially Diamond Dogs-- very glad to see it gets it's due with a 30th anniversary release. A must for all Bowie fans!

4 1/2 stars-- Bowie at his most theatrical........2006-03-10

After the excesses of his glam era, David Bowie turned his attention to creating a musical based on George Orwell's "1984", but unable to secure the rights to the work, he decided to restructure the material into what ended up being "Diamond Dogs". Still, the pedigree of the material brings it to a significantly different sound then any of Bowie's previous work-- a very much theatrical sound is present throughout the music, and it ends up coaxing some fine performances out of Bowie.

The medley of "Sweet Thing" and "Candidate" is probably the best example of this-- "Sweet Thing" features a romantic piano line that would not be out of place in a stage production and an absolutely stunning lead vocal from Bowie who takes full advantage of his range. His performance is just absolutely staggering, but it has a very theatrical, almost over the top sound to it that reminds you of Freddie Mercury. Likewise, the sing-speak vocal of "We Are the Dead" has the sound of something right out of a stage piece. Mixed in with all this is just some great rock songs-- "Diamond Dogs", "Rebel Rebel" and "Rock & Roll With Me"-- and one piece that traipses at dance music ("1984") to make a pretty well balanced collection.

This edition includes a bonus disc of alternate mixes, unreleased recordings of tracks leftover from the musical, and the superb '03 remake of "Rebel Rebel" as well as a detailed booklet with an extended essay about the recording sessions. It's a worthwhile investment for fans.

I've gone back and forth on how I should rate this one-- it's not quite as powerful as some of his other work, but it has a unique and powerful identity. Call it 4 1/2 stars, highly recommended.

dark and sweet.......2006-02-28

What a great artist David Bowie was in the 70's he took so many chances - that would seem almost like rock and roll suicide - but somehow he always was on top of the game and way ahead of his contemporaries. 'Diamond dogs' would be his strangest and darkest albums looking to the future like Ziggy but in a way that does not glorify it like the starman did - this is not a pretty future.. There are many great moments on this album - but it is more of a whole than it is pieces - it all fits together. This is one of my new favorites.

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Poems for Piano

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000A33E
Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

Pieces of China: The great wall
Pieces of China: Fable
Pieces of China: China blue
Pieces of China: Puppets
Pieces of China: Slow Dance - Lotus
Pieces of China: China chips
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Unroll the flicker's rousing drum
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Soft is the collied night
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Gather for festival bright weed and purple shell
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Whose thin fraud I wink at privily
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: And warms winds spilled fragrance into her solitudes
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: To whose more clear than crystal voice the frost had joined a crystal spell
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Sleep, weary mind; dream, heart's desire
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Dust in sunlight, and memory in corners
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Make me drunken with deep red torrents of joy
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Rear its frondings sighing in aetherial folds
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Listen! Can you hear the antic melody of fear those two anxious feet are playing?
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Puffed out and marching upon a blue sky
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: And hunged like those top jewels of the night
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Each gay dunce shall lend a hand
Sonatina No. 1: Largo assai
Sonatina No. 1: Allegretto
Sonatina No. 1: Allegro vivace
Sonatina No. 2: Andante quasi Allegretto
Sonatina No. 2: Allegro moderato
Poems of the Sea: Waves
Poems of the Sea: Chanty
Poems of the Sea: At sea

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Diamond Dogs
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MM0L4G
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Tracks:

Future Legend
Diamond Dogs
Sweet Thing
Candidate
Sweet Thing
Rebel Rebel
Rock 'N' Roll With Me
We Are The Dead
1984
Big Brother
Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

Album Description

Manufactured in Japan. CD sits within an exact replica of the original vinyl packaging including the inside sleeve. Packaging includes the Japanese spine sleeve.

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Diamond Virgin
Janne Da Arc
Manufacturer: Avex Trax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00083G37S
Release Date: 2005-05-30

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Why this single wasn't released under Enigma?
Precious Little Rare Single

Precious Little Diamond
Andru Donalds
Manufacturer: Virgin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004WZL0
Release Date: 2000-07-17

Tracks:

Precious Little Diamond (Radio Edit)
Precious ... (ATB Airplay Remix)
Lovelight In Your Eyes
Precious ... (ATB Club Remix)

Album Details

Includes Exclusive Remixes.

Customer Reviews:

Why this single wasn't released under Enigma?.......2002-06-06

Yes this is very good question, because all elements contain Enigma's style - Sandra's French whispering, Music arrangement and Andru sounds quite like in "The Screen Behind The Mirror".
If You liked the Enigma's "The Screen Behind The Mirror", then this single will be like the Bonus trak to this album. Very good song (I meant radio edit), because remixes aren't something special, but 5 stars for this short radio edit!

Precious Little Rare Single.......2000-09-06

While Andru Donalds may not be a household name, he will be if they (European music market) release his Snowin' Under My Skin c.d. in the U.S. Donald's vocal style fluctuates somewhere in between Simply Red's Mick Hucknall to Maxi Priest's (with a lighter vocal feel). Also, Donald is currently featured on Enigma's Screen Behind the Mirror album on a few tracks as both background and foreground vocals.

Which brings up another point. This single, along with the album it originated from, is a Michael Cretu and Jens Gad produced, and co-produced product. Precious Little Diamond is comparable to a track on Enigma's Screen Behind the Mirror entitled Silence Must Be Heard. Precious sounds like a bonus track off of Screen. Sandra Cretu's French whispering sultry vocals are used for backup as well as the Cretu/Gad synthesizer and percussion traits. The original single is mid-tempo (it's not a slow ballad nor is it a techno tune).

There's another single on the disc titled Lovelight In Your Eyes, which to me is somewhat of a disappointment. Why ? The title Lovelight In Your Eyes is also used for a Sandra Cretu track on her 1990 import album Paintings In Yellow. The lyrics and style of music was also written and produced by her husband Cretu. However Sandra's was a dance tune.Donald's version is not.Both lyrics and style are completely different and the tempo is more of a slow love ballad.It has great acoustical and percussion work,though ! For any die-hard Enigma/Sandra fans this Lovelight is not the same as hers. I thought it would at least be a re-make of her version...

The two remaining ATB re-mixes of Precious Little Diamond are techno-club numbers. Nothing memorable or significant unless you are a d.j. or a dance club devotee.

While some collectors of imported or obscure music may question whether or not they should purchase such a single is a very tough call. The reason is the single or actual album it comes from may never be released internationally or to the the U.S. market. Is it worth your U.S. dollars since you cannot sample or hear these imports before you buy them ? Even if you are able to order the actual import album it may only be printed and sold for a very limited time as an import. Donald's current European release c.d. Snowin' Under My Skin was once offered as an import through a few reliable music retailers both on and off line; Now, the c.d. is nowhere to be listed... So, in the end a collector takes a chance on letting that rare single slip away. Don't let the credible collaboration between Donald's and Cretu on Precious Little Diamond slip from your fingers!

Diamond Virgin
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Diamond Virgin
Janne Da Arc
Manufacturer: Avex Trax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00083G37I
Release Date: 2005-05-30