I'd like to see you try and stop me

"Diamond Dogs" – So, it's like - the mutant gang from dark knight returns?  That's diamond dogs.  They're what a harmless british man considers a futuristic danger.  Cowbell and effete howling.  This honky-tonk element is really confusing honestly.  Plus it reaffirms all of my suspicions about rock & roll saxaphone.  Nobody calls them the diamond dogs David.  No one.    Why is this one so long when the raving about gutterdeath blood problems was less than a minute?

"Sweet Thing" – I mean, you wouldn't go wild about it, but you can tell why this dude got famous about singing songs.  He does real good.  I think of heavy-on-the-vodka drinks in a dark bar after its closed.  Indiffernt bouncers sweeping while they bartender keeps you going, out of mournful respect.  

"Candidate" – Saxaphone...  I thought the preceding song was wearing out its welocome but no - this is an interlude about a politician - so the politician is in the town that the diamond dogs live in?  And is a type of way.  I feel like 1974 wasn't ready to satirize politics with me.

"Sweet Thing (Reprise)" – A little more of this but its not the same.  It's fine - you now how you smoke a cigarette almost to the filter?  Just that far and no farther.  That's a feeling - the end.

"Rebel Rebel" – Sure, I know the big famous hit, we all do, here we go enjoying it.  I feel like it's probably the biggest hit here because it has the least amount of saxaphone.  But okay - he's got all kinda voices.  Is this a specific voice for a character?  In he diamond dog universe?  Look, I didn't really care about this that much.  It's a fine song - you throw your fist up but dance?  maybe a little?  Just a little - it's too chill for the rocker anthem.  It's just pretty good - but then its like the Tommy of diamond dogs?  Do you tear my dress?  Tommy do you love me so?  Weird.  I probably chose this record 100% because of the Venture Brothers.

"Rock 'n' Roll with Me"  – Fwew  Well I definitely felt like he was saying this just to me alone & I felt the type of way where I failed ot pay attention correctly & stared at my phone.  Some scammer got me in a big group text that went all sideways & that I hijacked to yell at strangers about spain.  But yeah, I bet someone danced to this at their wedding.  I mean - I bet someone I know did.  I'm sure a million people danced to this at their weddings.  Nerds.

"We Are the Dead" – Yeah, I get this one.  Blood on your knuckles and the snow is falling.  Goth energy without the parts of that that eventually came to be big signifiers.  No elfman pep or 4/4 march.  But yeah yer boi can sing real good he's got voices.  Is this the candidate voice again?  Or a different characer about vampires.  We are the dead chant & like almost patter overtop then let's all moan together about being the dead.  It's good.  Sure.  That's the type of the thing for a type of night.  I get this one. 
"1984" – Haha, so all this disco about the future?  This is a 1974 song about the future that has all the weird rollerderby disco affects that you'd expect from an episode of Buck Rogers.  It's got 70's cop show energy & the first time I was like, what?  No.  Second time I was way over it.  Third time - I liked it.  CHPs guitar and all.

"Big Brother" – I wonder if he liked singing as this character.  I bet it was something he thought about & had to prepare to do but then kind of just let it be for the song & was never happy with it, but felt like it needed to be here.  There's too much brass & saxaphone.  But not in the parts where its intentionaly overdone.  Those parts are good.  The more tepid passages - that's where it just feels like its filling a void that would have been cooler as a weird hollow nothing underneath this dull call to adventure.

"Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" – WHAT!  Nobody ever told me about this and you've all failed me - collective human species.  This fukkin rulez.  This is the goddammed soundtrack to nitrous oxide.  This is the song that I want to hear.