Sweet Thing (David Bowie song)

"Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)"
Song by David Bowie
from the album Diamond Dogs
Released24 May 1974[1]
RecordedJanuary 1974
StudioOlympic, London
Genre
Length8:50
"Sweet Thing" – 3:38
"Candidate" – 2:39
"Sweet Thing" (Reprise) – 2:31
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)David Bowie
Producer(s)David Bowie

"Sweet Thing" or "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)" is a suite of songs written by David Bowie for the album Diamond Dogs. Recorded in January 1974, the piece comprises the songs "Sweet Thing" and "Candidate" and a one-verse reprise of "Sweet Thing."

In the opening line, "Sweet Thing" contains the lowest note Bowie had recorded in a studio album (C2) until "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft" for the album Heathen (2002), where he growled the word "Well" (G1) towards the end of the song.[4]

Bowie recorded a track with the same title, "Candidate" – but no musical similarity to the Diamond Dogs song "Candidate" and only a few words of lyrics in common – during the first several days of January 1974.[5] It was unavailable until 1990 when it was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Diamond Dogs; it also appeared on the bonus disc of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Diamond Dogs in 2004.

  1. ^ "Diamond Dogs album is forty today". Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  2. ^ Petridis, Alexis (19 March 2020). "David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  3. ^ "10 Essential Dystopian Albums". Treble. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  4. ^ Kristobak, Ryan (20 May 2014). "Comparing The Top Artists, Past And Present, By Vocal Range". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  5. ^ Cann 2010, p. 318.