Diamond Dogs is David Bowie's attempt to translate George Orwell's 1984 to music.  Mr. Bowie sometimes misses along the way with the translation, but he gets an A for the ambitious effort.  Gone are the glam-rock stylings of Ziggy Stardust & Aladdin Sane as they are replaced by futuristic sounds and landscapes.  The album has a doomed sound to it that expresses the somber mood of the book.  The title track & "Rebel Rebel" are deserved FM radio classics, but songs like "Sweet Thing", "We Are The Dead" & "Big Brother" show Mr. Bowie's to shake things up. He had always had a willingness to breakaway from one style and try another.  Diamond Dogs is not as complete an album as some of his other releases, but it is another essential piece of his musical puzzle.