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

I always thought Diamond Dogs was a far better album then 1984 was a book. Brave New World was a lot more of a future forecast and seems to be the less popular but more artfully portrayed book. Amazing song

brilliant voice sounds so good

Definitely my favourite Bowie track ever, track on the album runs into rebel rebel - brilliant. Bowie at his best. Glam, metal, jazz pop and a bit of folk all in one. I have this on LP and CD but still have to listen to it on youtube as well!! Thanks for the pics as well!

My favourite version of this, is on David Live (at the Tower, Philadelphia), which was the live album from the Diamond Dogs tour. Incredible double-cd set!
Of course, I listened to it, on vinyl, in 1974.
This is sheer, bloody genius.
So was the Diamond Dogs album, particularly if one has actually read George Orwell's 1984.

This is off of Diamond Dogs, I consider it his best and most creative album.

It started off as a concept album about George Orwell's 1984, hence the songs 1984, We Are the Dead and Big Brother.

But he scrapped it and just kept those songs and added others.

Bowie was on fire in the 70s and his lyrics, especially in the earlier half of the decade were incredibly odd and complex. The 80s were a little more mainstream for him, and the songs held less depth. It's too bad more people know him for Let's Dance than for, say, something like this.

....Bowie's best song and best record....I don't believe that he didn't clean up the lyrics after cutting them up though.....It always reminds me of the last scene in1984, when Julia and Winston meet up in a park and are strangers to each other...but, I guess "We are the Dead" does that as well....G'luck....

4:18 ....just when you think it couldn't get better...he's on creative fire 74-77 (and before and after, but that period is just off the scale)

heard this the other night for the first time in an age and....sigh. Epic in the very best sense of the word.

same here... I'm always thinking about Bowie and Laura Nyro. People don't make people like before.