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

The David Bowie songs 'Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)' with some pictures of him through the years. Possibly the best song on the Diamond Dogs album, If not one of his best ever, and very beautiful...

One thing : If you don't like the slideshow I'm dreadfully sorry but it's the best I've got, and I'm not going to take it down and change it because that would be stupid.

I don't own David Bowie or any of his music, exept copies of his CDs, because that would be silly. If you do own the music and want me to take it down, go ahead.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• David
• Bowie
• Diamond
• Dogs
• Sweet
• Thing
• Candidate
• Reprise
• 1974

[navroful]

This song always fucks-up my theory of 'Low' being his best album.

[sazerac1]

It is songs like this that made Bowie rock royalty. Every songwriter wishes they could do this.

[weirdogilly]

@navroful lol couldn't agree more

[mpomo14]

Happy Birthday, unlikely recluse!

[Kobashimark1]

@navroful you cant say what his best album was is - too impossible

[TheSanealaddin]

@arabiansanchez Sweet Thing is nothing to do with Orwell's world, on the old vinyl album it was on side one, part of the Diamond dogs urban apocalyse section, the Orwell section does not begin until 'We are the dead'. Yes he's telling stories again; nevertheless the emotional power, and brilliant though hardly politically correct lyrics, were something that didn't fit with the official pop star image he adopted from the early 80s onwards, once the classic albums had dried up.

[arabiansanchez]

@S8OR In a way, I can see it. I suppose so.

[arabiansanchez]

@TheSanealaddin Bowie never really did causes; I've heard him in an interview saying he doesn't want to be anybody's spokesperson. I see this as just a song of Orwell's world, as that's what the record originally was: a musical. I tend to just treat Bowie's songs as stories: not particularly based on actual events.

[linclinc5]

theatrical, but sung like Sinatra - Bowie at his greatest, his best album of all. It's that great that even Rebel Rebel, insisted on being included by the record company because it's an obvious hit single, could be left off.

It's a good song but just doesn't fit the rest, kind of stuck on the end like a bonus track.

Anyway that's being negative, this is superb music

[TheSanealaddin]

Have to agree: 'Possibly the best song on the Diamond Dogs album, If not one of his best ever' well said. The song is such an emotionally charged mixture of celebration and disgust, of the politically correct and incorrect, I think Bowie has shrank from highlighting it particularly after his ''74 Glory days.

[spell71166]

Pure genius.

[chrisjohnfan]

@S8OR too bad he cant write stuff like this!