David Bowie (1974) Sweet Thing - LOST 70s GEMS

From his last Glam album, Diamond Dogs, released just before his Plastic Soul venture later that year Bowie is a lot more all of over the place and strung out what is meant to be an Orwellian theatrical concept album that miss fires on virtually every track except for the classic Rebel Rebel and Sweet Thing. Starting with reverse echo into a beautifully dystopian distorted guitar riff over a melancholic piano beat. Bowie's singin is up and down, best when the song picks up and he goes didactic.

His character filled vocals manage to work with the call and response with the backing vocals and the crystal clear upper register piano runs as well as that acid guitar solo. It's still a bit of a mixed up track that actually segues into an early disco song called Candidate, not even half as good as this one; summing up the whole album brief moments of interesting music broken up by a lot of overdone, gurning vocals and schizophrenic shifts in tone and playing to leave a rather indistinct impression.