David Bowie - Sweet Thing - Candidate - Sweet thing (Reprise)

[sirmarmalade]

'Wrangle' is a great word. Much underused... Good work David.

[freshborn66]

fuck!! this is brilliant!!

[freshborn66]

wow, bowie is my childhood, my teenage, and my adulthood, hes always with you, in good and bad, hes beside you in all, singing these songs cheering you on, knowing, we love him with such a passion, that we will remain till the death, hes our insperation, hope and our glory, bowie we love you xx

[ArnarValgeir]

the 2 dickholes who disliked this... well i just feel sorry for you

[Johnnywhamo]

Happy Birthday David, I've been a 40 year fan and have never waivered (ok a little in the early 80's china girl, let's dance et all) having said that I never tire of your music even after all these years, I can't say the same for all my musical favorites.

[frednbarn]

David Live album! Say no more....

[TheSanealaddin]

@frednbarn Well said totally underrated album, it might be a bit shabby, but it's a recording of the greatest tour ever

[goldenchild254]

This song reminds me of my father,who was a black man, who was on pcp. He was a hippy an I can remember him drunk an high dancing off this song when I was young. I am 41 now. I am crying right now. I miss him so much. What a sweet thing huh?

[charlieismydarling]

@goldenchild254 That's the best comment I've read on youtube. Made me cry.  (I had just been missing my mom for some reason, listening to this)

For some reason youtube wouldn't let like it

[MrRp25]

@goldenchild254 Shivers !!  reading your comment and listening to an old song ..Shivers ..

[freshborn66]

@goldenchild254 wow, thats so intermingiling with us all, but im so glad youre emotional, i get like that a lot!! im glad its to bowie

[13tigertim]

@TakimaladettoLupe....sorry mate...guess you're just not a genius!

[schulman0]

1 person is not a sweet thing

[TaciMaladettoLupo]

Am I the only one who holds his breath between the end of a track and the beginning of the other?

[mrjellyman59]

@TaciMaladettoLupo

I did 37 years ago aged 14, still do

[gajaga789]

I love early Bowie, but this is just one I've never been able to get into. Don't mean anything negative by it, and I've really tried to get into it since the record came out, but its never clicked for me.

[rudendedude9]

@gajaga789 Gasp! bite yer tongue! Be careful, the 'dogs' don't find out..."..Diamond Dogs are poachers and they hide behind tress, push u to the ground-they will- mannequins with kill appeal.." Dogs is my fave bowie album.

[TheSanealaddin]

One of his greatest songs, giving it some real urban landscape, I mean I'm not against Lady GaGa etc.. it's just they can't compete in song writing terms, for those of us that were back there in the day, sure we're supporting our youth, but in objective terms the songwriting was just better.

[IslamisWar]

Nothing like this song - on earth.

TheAngel . com

[seanodor]

I have just listened to 9 mins of pure heaven. Still listen to it on original vinyl that i bought in 74 . This LP just sends me into my own world.

[dejahthoris]

@seanodor you and me girl- i am doing vinyl and loving bowie

[joellyshooshoo]

sacred.

[femaleBowie]

Just pure genius.

[TheBoris077]

Haven't been able to get this out of my head, not that I would want to, since it was first recorded.

[avery71862]

Hes beautiful,,, isnt he??  sigh!!

[freshborn66]

what a fukin brilliant song!! oscar xx

[baracatjr]

My favorite Bowie album; my favorite sequence in the album! Thanks.

[24435155]

@baracatjr First Bowie album i bought,never stopped buying since---Bowie is a living legend

[ScudoBR]

AWESOME, MR BOWIE !

[sarabower1]

boys boys get it here

[Censored4TRUTH]

I play this song over...and over...and over.  I realize God loved David Bowie in ways one can touch, smell and see. How much he loves others is less obvious.

AtheChrist . com

[freshborn66]

king xx

eats you up. and spits you out and i love him sooo much xx

[daviniaosgood]

Bowie is just one of the greatest lyricists ever! <3

[weirdogilly]

unbeatable



[weirdogilly]

@weirdogilly with u 100%

[ColonelTomWhatsWrong]

Favourite Bowie song ever!!!

[quietearthtube]

Creamin' in my jeans over the last, lush minute of slippery guitar heaven on this track. Freekum lickin' luscious rhythm to boot.

[quietearthtube]

Great lyrics. Bowie is so often overlooked in this regard. Truly great lyrics. Freekin' Leonard Cohen's got nuthin' on this sheeeeite.

[CityAmongJudgement]

My favourite collection of bowie songs

[RobArt2011]

You don't listen to Bowie. You live in it.

[weirdogilly]

@RobArt2011 I'm with u all the way my friend bin living there since about 1970, I wanna start a church of David Bowie, where we all meet up n sing his songs lol

Sundays would be great

[MrEntelechy1]

@weirdogilly We could all join together in 'The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family' !' How cool would that be ? ha ha.

[Johnnywhamo]

@MrEntelechy1 ...Brother!...Ooh-ooh...Shake it up, shake it up....Move it up, move it up



[snicks70]

@RobArt2011 How true this is

[freshborn66]

sweet thing  if you want it get it here thing!! love david hes a genis

[MrEntelechy1]

I'll make you a deal like any other candidate. We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your futures at stake. My set is amazing it even smells like a street. There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend. Someone scrawled on the wall I smell the blood of les tricoteuses. Who wrote up scandals in other bars. I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up. Some make you sing, some make you scream, One makes you wish you'd.......

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 I love you, dearest sailor! Understand!

[MrEntelechy1]

@TheBikerCheese Ha ha ! cool man, does this mean we're engaged ?

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 Yes!

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 Oh yeah sailor!

[MrEntelechy1]

@TheBikerCheese So you're still devoted to me ! lol That's cool man, no problem ha ha !

"On the street where you live I could not hold up my head. For I put all I had in another bed. On another floor in the back of a car. In a cellar like a church with the door ajar. Well I guess we must be lookin' for a different time, but we can't stop tryin' till we break up our minds......We'll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in the river holding hands ! Was that good for you Biker cheese ? RSVP lol

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 It's safe in the city, to love in a doorway... Yes honey, just bring some lettuce and envelopes and we will make it really good and hopefully not go eat feces today!

[lensinilas]

UNREAL!

[MrEntelechy1]

this is the only way I can reply to biker cheese because You Tube keeps denying my replies. In American English it is spelt feces but in English it's faeces. The lyrics to candidate, try metro lyrics.com and you will see I'm right. He says "Fall to pieces" not "Go eat faeces" or "Feces" for that matter

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 Dearest, sweetest sailor,

Your reply makes my heart beat faster. I'm sure we can take this moment further, maybe make it infinite? For further clues related to my standpoint regarding the matter, read my channel name. I assure you that any inconvenience is highly unintended and if existing, something because of which I owe you my deepest apologies.

Yours sincerly

TheBikerCheese

[ziggy95]

Don't know how old all you are,but at the time this was a let down for his fans after Ziggy & Sane. As good as it sounds now, and it is good don't get me wrong, it wasn't a patch on what had gone before.

[ziggy95]

@ziggy95 And it wasn't long after this that his voice went ti s**t for various illegal reasons.

I've been a real fan since 1972, so was a teenager during the whole Ziggy era was happening, it was unbelievable, but now I look back on Hunky Dory as his best album. Listen to the Bewley Bothers to see what I mean

[gannonsamuel]

@ziggy95 i dont think his voice went to shit... i mean listen to earthling,  '97 and he's still got the pipes... even on reality it's only really just starting to age

[harveydents]

wow...thanks for posting the full thing....this man is the GREATEST MUSICIAN EVER TO WALK THE EARTH! the beatles maybe the greatest group to ever walk the eart....but bowie is the best SINGLE musician!

[jlitt]

Easily the greatest 9 minutes of Bowie's career. All of his creativity is on full display in this song. When people say they are bowie fans, this is the first song i bring up. If they are head over heels for this song then i know they are not posers. If they say whats that im all about some ZS then i believe they are missing out on bowie's best work. This and Low take the cake

[4165mc]

bowie started out writing a musical for 1984 but Orwell's estate wouldnt allow it and DD was the result. it wouldve been a brilliant musical. this track is beyond incredible in its power. everything starts and ends with DB.

[ABOYINSANE]

i went potato pickin as a kid to buy this album,,,,,after hearing it played on john peels friday night radio show. he played the whole album.....i couldnt pick them tatties quick enough,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,­,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[MsThebeMoon]

I forgot about this album when I was thinking of my favorite bowie lps. My top two are still Station To Station and Man Who Sold The World. This one also stands the test of time .. especially with Big Brother and We are the Dead.

[TheBikerCheese]

"When it's good it's really good and when it's bad I go eat feces". Beautiful.

[MrEntelechy1]

@TheBikerCheese "When it's bad I go to pieces" Oh yeah, and you spelt faeces wrong too !

[TheBikerCheese]

@MrEntelechy1 No I did not. You did. And I'm sure I heard it right in the song. Stop lying! Why are you lying? Why? Birdhouse today oh no!

[Censored4TRUTH]

Dear God, I'm slightly tipsy again and playing this song, over...and over...and over.

I can't have animal sex like the pagans...so this song must do. And it does. And I wait for the reversal of all things.

Jesus...which planets will be mine? Can I have Britain? Will you please let David Bowie and Christopher Hitchens be my menservants? But the youtube atheists, not nearly so clever, can they be my lampshades and soap?

Love,

TheDevil . com

[BANISLAMPEEPS]

Dear God, please save Bowie from Hell reserved for

AtheistScum . com

[pjmurph100]

david bowie's diamond dogs is his best work ever and is the first glimps into gothic type of sound and a darker side of bowie, i love this album

[kinderfeld1]

My favourite David Bowie album by far

[freshborn66]

this song is the end of the world!!! explosive emotional and fantastic

[Ch3rrySaxTones]

WTF happened to the soundtrack? There aren't 2 pauses in this.

[Timwgtn]

my puter still doesn't cope with the fabulous transition saxophone at 4.00 - the beginning of the Candidate...

[KeswickPinhead]

@Timwgtn I guess it's because they put a pause in between tracks on the cd. I agree, it's much better when the whole thing flows...like it did on the record.

[wpollock1]

@Timwgtn bowie was playing sax, piano, guitar, wrote it and sang it. Now that is multitalent!

[MrEntelechy1]

@wpollock1 He was also doing industrial amounts of Cocaine during the 'Diamond Dog's' sessions. Now that is multi-talent !!!

[MultiFinlayson]

Sublime vocals

[Timwgtn]

The songs are best paid at a loud volume...erm i mean there song are best played loud

[Timwgtn]

The songs are best paid at a loud volume

[Timwgtn]

at the time this effort was panned - so much for many of the critics

[Horushu]

Maybe the best album of supergenius David Bowie!

[thunkawoo]

someone say Scott Walker?

[sethianbeemer]

Brings back great memories of when sex was cheap, drugs were cheap and generally less dangerous, and rock'n roll always playing on someone else's nickel on the juke box. 

[House38500]

@sethianbeemer Please don't be a poser dude.

[crewzaa]

As a young guy,this album was truly amazing.the Vocals by Bowie, and musical arrangements and backing vocals to Bi-sexuality is great.

[userjoe1020]

I've never heard anyone with vocal range like that. Just stunning.

[dejahthoris]

@userjoe1020 Isnt it neat

[OGJRebeL]

@dejahthoris isnt it me he says :P



[cattotti]

FANTASTIC, THNKS FOR PUTTING ON ALL 3. HAVN'T HEARD IT IN A WHILE BUT KNOW WHY I WAS SO OBSESSED ALL THOSE LONG YEARS AGO.

[rotolo]

another tele beauty..

[Nyax727]

we'll do some drugs and watch a band then jump in the river holding hands.

[dublen]

'I'm glad that you're older than me, it makes me feel important and free.' One of my favourite songs -Sweet Thing. The artists who open their heart....

[dublen]

'I'm glad that you're older than me, it makes me feel important and free.' One of my favourite songs -Sweet Thing.

[dublen]

'I'm glad that you're older than me, it makes me feel important and free.'

[shinelikethunder100]

Bloody amazing! What a corking track.:):):)

[ShotUrGoldFish]

these songs.. theyre just... my god.. im so speechless.. UGH ITS BRILLIANT!!!!

[billblue58]

this whole album is a masterpiece.

[kel666]

best song tryptic evah

[manmanguy]

I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate. We'll pretend you're walking home cause your futures at stake. My scent is amazing, even feels like a street. There's a bar at the end, where we can meet you and your friend. Someone scrawled on the walls

[Mucky1little2me3]

@manmanguy

my set is amazing

[alexandermorison]

@manmanguy Burroghs m8. Writing technique.

[manmanguy]

Boys , boys, it's a sweet thing. If you want it, boys, get it here thing.

[vnesofsc]

this is one of my fav bowie tracks of all time

[atheathorium]

My all-time favorite Bowie record...

[halloweenjack1974]

I would imagine this album was controversial in 1974, THIS ROCKS !

[babyzach2012]

lol I still have the album..

[Flunder]

pure joy to find this.pure joy. thanks . but it reminds me of all that speed I tooted.:(

[meandi10000]

Bowie has made a lot a shit to but its songs like this (among many others) that makes him a master. This is impressief whitout any doubt.

[Bowielistener]

7:56 Possibly reminiscent of Changes, the music sounds similar.

[jayne00b]

Total adoration! - for 30 yrs now i have loved this. Bowie is my Rock God!

[alexandermorison]

@jayne00b Absolutely mate!

[Annaedification]

Great lyrics.

Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash

Will you see that I’m scared and I’m lonely?

So I’ll break up my room, and yawn and I

Run to the centre of things

Where the knowing one says....

Brilliance.

[alexandermorison]

@Annaedification Burroughs mate but with a real Bowie twist. Absolutely brilliant!

[TijucaWeirdo]

Its a landmark in Rock. For me it's Bowies most imaginative work. This album continues to blow my mind, and stretch my imagination. File under Masterpiece.

[Timwgtn]

I remember having this album when it came out and I also remember the music snobs  not liking it - listening to it now....I can say - NEVER listen to snobs' - fantastic track (s) - from NZ

[WoodRatGirl]

@Timwgtn

Hello fellow NZer, my Father still has this on Vinyl and I agree that you should NEVER listen to the music snobs, since snobs are always full of crap anyway.

[sallyfieldrequired]

so underated

[KimbosBeard]

Ah, music.

[MarqueeMoon95]

When he says "That I'm scared..." with that yelp on the end it never fails to give me shivers. Same with the "let it be..." part at the end. So beautiful.

[GeorgieVale]

@MarqueeMoon95 The same happens to me, everytime.

[Mr1973ian]

Great record,but why the gaps? Pax to all from 'SoulBoy'Smith.Xxx.

[precinkt]

@Mr1973ian Probably because of the utterly stupid way the CD was arranged.

[JJackAL52]

One of the Greatest Songs of all time on one of the Greatest Albums of all time...

Give me This and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and I'll be content on my desert island.

[Lizette54321]

does Bowie have a song similar to lady grinning soul. the tune is so peaceful.:)

[tokaicarl]

@Lizette54321  my fav bowie song ..and ronson's guitar

[wpollock1]

@tokaicarl Ronson had a fight with Bowie prior to this album. The guitar, piano and sax on this album is Bowie.

[tokaicarl]

@wpollock1 commented on the wrong vid ! meant lady grinning soul..... cheers for tha i nfo anyway, didnt know that, thought it was bowie though you can tell his guitar

[wpollock1]

@tokaicarl Yes, you can tell the guitar is not quite as good as Mick. Although, somehow that basic gutiar work is effective on this album. Less polished, like the subject matter......

[wpollock1]

@Lizette54321 Life On Mars.....

[WoodRatGirl]

I could listen to this over and over and over again, without getting tired of it.

But then again I am biased, since I adore Mr. Bowie :-P

[kiloelo]

Is this the album he started using his deep voice?

[MrSpongg]

@kiloelo - I laughed so much - thanks. (He is great BTW, for the easily riled. I love the guy.)

[77roadhog]

totally some self flaggelation, but the triptych from Diamond Dogs really makes me feel like getting punched out in a fight, then returning to the bar. Issues? Perhaps. But at least the worst you'll get it chaffed knuckles.

[kazen2]

I really don't understand why this piece doesn't appear in 'Greatest Hits' collections of his. In my opinion, these three pieces are some of the most stirring work he's ever produced.

[pinopinazza]

in assoluto il migliore arrangiamento-testo di bowie

[phydeauxddog]

Personnel

David Bowie – vocals, guitars, saxes, Moog synthesizer, Mellotron, producer, mixing engineer

Mike Garson – keyboards

Herbie Flowers – bass

Tony Newman – drums

Aynsley Dunbar – drums

Alan Parker – guitar on "1984"

Tony Visconti – strings, mixing engineer

Keith Harwood – engineer, mixing engineer

Bowie did a lot more than sing

[TheRedo92]

@phydeauxddog His best album, the moodiest, the darkest, some of his best songs, and he did most of the work, his Sergent Pepper.

[doctorw2]

oh this music is pure ambrosia!

[titan57nl]

The echo of the echo.

[andymouse123]

dont't think it's homo erotic me thinkks it's a statement about sex the cheap thing is a give away

[friloupi]

woaw, probably one of his best vocal performance! Amazing, espacially when he sings: "Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely" and "I'll make you deal, like any other candidate" my favorites "rock sentences" for sure! BOWIE=GOD

[tokaicarl]

@friloupi yeah def agree

[LectricSlap]

I love this song! So heavy, so sexual. Great vocal work. One of my favorite albums. Really gets me turned on.

[BigglesworthIV]

if you don't believe me look him up on google images, the resemblance is uncanny.

[winkerwatson57]

I love this album. I was 17. The soundtrack to a whole lotta stuff. I luckily got to record in Visconti's home studio (where much of this was mixed) and it felt amazing. Love on ya, IPG xxx

[Alexm799]

@BigglesworthIV is it really THAT bad? xD

[StevenTheVirgin38]

I AM A VIRGIN

[tubesteakbooky]

a masterpiece.

[ivankaramasov]

This (or these) used to be my favourite Bowie song(s). Not so anymore, but still great. Fabolous vocal performance by Bowie and nice piano work by Garson combined with very nice tune and interesting arrangement. And great lyrics, despite being very homo erotic:-)

[kew4612]

When its good its really good and when its bad I go to pieces, I aint going to pieces listening to this track, the whole album is well observed and is well loved in this household and has been since I first bought it in 74.

[Thbenjaminsson]

'Diamond Dogs' was no doubts what so ever absolutely one of David Bowie's MOST remarkable, most progressive & at that time, truly most artistically futuristic Albums - ever! Several of the lyrics was directly inspired of George Orwell's novell Nineteen-eightyfour. - Tobbe in Sweden -

[elgrovez13]

@Thbenjaminsson The album was supposed to be entirely based on 1984, but Orwell's widow wouldn't allow him the rights. So he made it Diamond Dogs instead. Of course then later the Eurythmics were allowed to put out their dreadful album.

[Thbenjaminsson]

@elgrovez13 - Hey, THANKs for so accurately & kindly clarifying out the backround story behind the Album's rather "odd" name to me; it makes sense - as I recall the Eurythmics' Album, that came ten years after David Bowie's Masterpiece - it was sort of released as a "Soundtrack" record to the English film based on the Novell 1984 - Eurythimcs' interpretation was so highly influenced by that time's Disco-Techno style while Bowie's Album is so unique & amazingly TIMELESS! - Tobbe in Sweden -

[DANTECHPFN]

bowie is a big god, his career is so great

[dinkeedee]

so much great music since this album but I keep coming back to tis one. It's great!

[laubowiebass]

What a song; what an album. Thank you, Bowie!

[edhubble]

This is probably the best album of all time

[edhubble]

@edhubble Considering the "LP" as a format in the 20th century, considering what else was out there, considering the songwriting, the arrangements, the playing, the vocals, the production, the concept. Nothing beats this as an example of the pinnacle of art/pop/rock. Genius. Thank you, David.

[BERTRAMCAT]

i am glad

[kjsh987]

the live version in la is much better

[ziggy95]

At this statge Bowie had let me down,I cant' remember now, if this album or Pinups came first but there was no more Ziggy, and my loss was unbelievable.

If you loved Ziggy this was your last chance of anything near to him.

[LOW1711]

they didnt stop there either , the male dog was quickly airbrushed into a bitch thus RCA fearing the backlash yet again. But I agree with you when you say the music belongs to a certain stage in the studios , the latter version of waiting for the man has the same guitar sound as aladdinvain, thus my recording estimate is late72.

[LOW1711]

Aladdinvain not vein .. was the original title for what is now aladdinsane.. RCA were worried that the term aladdin ( an american  nickname for crack or heorin ) and the word vain .. which could easily be vein .. was a forefront to projecting drug use as fashionable,

[WoodRatGirl]

Thank you also for the interesting info about the song and album.

[MrSpongg]

Vocal beauty.

[skok65]

Great post.

[lmy6545]

my favorite on thia album