1974's 'Diamond Dogs' isn't exactly like either of Bowie's previous albums,and obviously he never intended it to be. Most of the music itself was originally intended as a conceptual suite for a musical based on George Orwell's '1984'.But when Bowie couldn't get the rights to the story he wrote a song by that name,a funk vamp with a similarly future shocked lyric. It's one of his classics,so is the driving rock n' roll of the title cut and the spikey "Rebel Rebel",all big hits for him. Oddly enough with tracks like "Candidate","Rock N' Roll With Me","We Are The Dead" abd "Big Brother" Bowie pursues a very unstructed and loose psychedelic rock sound complete with backwards tape loops and sound effects-very late 60's sounding in parts,but also on the avante garde.'Diamond Dogs' is a dark album,filled with songs about death and vice and aptly exploring those themes with the arrangements and instrumentation.