Candidate (song)
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| "Candidate" | ||||
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| Song by David Bowie from the album Diamond Dogs | ||||
| Released | April 24, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | Olympic and Island Studios, London Ludolf Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands October 1973 - February 1974 |
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| Genre | Glam rock | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Writer | David Bowie | |||
| Producer | David Bowie | |||
| Diamond Dogs track listing | ||||
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"Candidate" is a song written by David Bowie in 1973 and intended for his never-completed musical version of Nineteen Eighty-Four. A radically different version, with completely different lyrics and music, was released on the album Diamond Dogs in 1974 as part of a medley that split the song "Sweet Thing" in two. The only lyric shared in the two different versions are the key phrases "I'll make you a deal" and "pretend I'm walking home".
[edit] Other releases
- The 1973 version (called "demo version") was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Diamond Dogs in 1990. It also appeared on the bonus disc of the album's 30th Anniversary Reissue as an "alternate version". On this same bonus disc another remix called "Intimacy remix" was released. This remix is taken from the soundtrack of the film Intimacy released in 2001.
[edit] Live versions
- A live version of "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)" from the 1974 tour was released on David Live. Another live recording from the 1974 tour was released on the semi-legal album A Portrait in Flesh.
[edit] Notable covers
- United States based alternative rock band Dramarama released a version as the sixth track on the first side of their 1985 album Cinéma Vérité.
- Morel, on the album The Death of the Paperboy (2008) (on Disc-0 of the two-disc set), performed Candidate as part of his cover of the complete trilogy of Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise), as it appears on Diamond Dogs and David Live.
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