David Bowie ????? ? ??? - Lodger ??? (RVP6390) [??? LP] RARE
  £   18
  $   24

 


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Sep 16, 2017 Sold Date
Sep 9, 2017 Start Date
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I have never agreed with the criticism aimed at Lodger. Yes, I would agree the mixing could have been better. Take 'Move On', the fact that the rhythm section is 'All The Young Dudes' played backwards (direct from vinyl) drowns the mix, the piano playing is the best bit and this should have been at the front! That said there is plenty to find deep in this album an Bowie's vocal are both tortured and alone...

Originally to be titled either Planned Accidents or Despite Straight Lines, Lodger was largely recorded between legs of David Bowie's 1978 world tour and featured the same musicians, along with Brian Eno. The recording sessions saw Bowie and Eno utilize techniques from Eno's Oblique Strategies cards. Experiments on the album included using old tunes played backwards, employing identical chord sequences for different songs and having the musicians play unfamiliar instruments (as on "Boys Keep Swinging"). Lead guitar was played not by Robert Fripp, as on "Heroes", but by Fripp's future King Crimson band member, Adrian Belew, whom Bowie had "poached" while the guitarist was touring with Frank Zappa. Much of Belew's work on the album was composited from multiple takes played against backing tracks of which he had no prior knowledge, not even the key.

Eno felt that the trilogy had "petered out" by Lodger, and Belew also observed Eno's and Bowie's working relationship closing down: "They didn't quarrel or anything uncivilised like that; they just didn't seem to have the spark that I imagine they might have had during the "Heroes" album." An early plan to continue the basic pattern of the previous records with one side of songs and the other instrumentals was dropped, Bowie instead adding lyrics that foreshadowed the more worldly concerns of his next album, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).


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