David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans
Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine | Black Tie White Noise | The Buddha of Suburbia | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | Heathen | Reality | 'hours...'
The Next Day | ★ | Changesonebowie
- Better Export for You: The US CD release by RCA Records features improved equalization over the label's UK CD, which had an unusually high amount of bass-boosting compared to earlier and later worldwide releases. Tellingly, the 2016 remaster by Parlophone Records used the US RCA CD as its reference point.
- Black Sheep Hit: "Rebel Rebel", which was released as a single preceding Diamond Dogs, is very different than the rest of the album, as it is much more upbeat than the other songs.
- Missing Episode: Thanks to RCA Records' poor archiving, the master tape for the original UK single mix of "Rebel Rebel" was thought to be lost for decades. Compilation albums exclusively used the album mix, and when the 2016 Boxed Set Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976) finally included the UK single version on Re:Call 2, the audio had to be sourced from a needle drop of a pristine 7" copy. Fortunately, the master tape was recovered a few years later, allowing for a higher-quality digital release of the UK single mix in 2019 to commemorate this album's 45th anniversary.
- Referenced by...:
- The anthropomorphic mutts who kidnap Rarity to exploit her gem-finding abilities in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Dog and Pony Show" are called the Diamond Dogs.
- Ving Rhames' character in Con Air is nicknamed "Diamond Dog".
- Venom Snake's nationless army is named after the album.
- EarthBound (1994) features a boss named Diamond Dog; like the album and song title, Diamond Dog's Japanese name is a katakana rendering of the English phrase.
- Ted Lasso has Ted nickname the male leadership of AFC Richmond (himself, Beard, Nate and Higgins) "the Diamond Dogs", which also serves as the title of the eighth episode. Roy becomes a member in the second season.
- Tina Turner released a Cover Version of "1984" on Private Dancer, which, appropriately, was released in the actual year 1984.
- Throw It In!: The final track on the album, "Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family", abruptly cuts into a repetitive loop of a voice shouting "bruh" before fading out. This was actually due to a technical gaffe; the master tape got stuck during recording and picked up a single syllable from the chorus of "Big Brother" (specifically the "bro-") over and over again. Bowie ended up keeping the mistake in because he liked the effect.
- What Could Have Been:
- The album was originally devised as a musical adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but was turned into a Serial Numbers Filed Off version after Bowie was denied permission from George Orwell's estate.
- Guy Peelaert's proposed art for the interior gatefold was a painting of Bowie restraining a snarling dog, with a copy of Walter Ross' The Immortal at his feet. This idea was rejected in favor of a landscape illustration of Hunger City, but it would eventually be incorporated in Rykodisc and Parlophone Records' CD reissues of the album.
- "Candidate" was originally written as a completely different song, with its earlier incarnation being a jaunty blues rock tune whose lyrics share only a few sparse phrases with the final version. This early version would eventually be released as a bonus track on both the 1990 remaster and the 30th anniversary edition.
