Lodger is a really boring album.

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I was really, really into Bowie when I got it, and it almost single handedly stopped my Bowie phase in it's tracks. It's so... devoid of anything that made the other two "Berlin Albums" so bloody spectacular.The only songs I'd say are up to par are the beautiful "Fantastic Voyage" and "African Night Flight." Maybe it's the production./. but something about it just sounds very off. And what is up with "Red Money" taking the exact same music as "Sister Midgnight?" Running out of idead Thin White Duke? Have to resort to stealing from yourself? Tsk Tsk.

Luckily, I got Station to Station about 3 weeks ago and I'm really loving it.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Is THE LODGER David Bowie's best record? (137 matching messages)

TS: David Bowie's Lodger v. any Talking Heads album (20 matching messages)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Well, I've only listened to it a few times. Perhaps it will grow on me.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

haha dada u beat me to it!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

The mix/production is horrible, but it has some of his best songs.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

"African Night Flight" is one of your two favourite tracks on the album? You peculiar fellow you.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I like it's off-kilter rhythms and vocal melody. Really odd track, I like odd-ness.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Other threads please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

what's supposed to be wrong with the mix? i just read visconti saying that as well. sounds pretty great to me.

― j., Wednesday, 13 January 2016 01:52 (nine years ago)

otm... you, not Visconti... or Alfred.

― Narayan Superman (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 02:01 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Wtf?? Fantastic voyage ftw

― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:43 (seven years ago)

This op is about as wtf as It gets. Red money??

― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:45 (seven years ago)

For about a month, this was my favourite Bowie album. Still is in my Top 3.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:45 (seven years ago)

It’s disjointness makes it so good

― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:46 (seven years ago)

Disjointedness

― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:46 (seven years ago)

the inferior thread about the lodger

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:00 (seven years ago)

^ Ha, yeah!

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:01 (seven years ago)

They can't all be good.

― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:06 (seven years ago)

I literally can't make it through 'Fantastic Voyage' these days. In a good, 'I am feeling this entirely too much' kind of way.

― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:08 (seven years ago)

Yeah, it's definitely a lyric that's relevant to now - which is a shame.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:10 (seven years ago)

I can feel ugly, wracking sobs bubbling up every time the song comes around on shuffle. It just plain fucks me up.

― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:15 (seven years ago)

As I was reminded by Bowiesongs on Twitter the other day, "Fantastic Voyage" was one of the songs that he played at his last ever public concert appearance in 2006:

& "Fantastic Voyage," which in retrospect was a beautiful closing statement: https://t.co/nYwkyFlq2s
— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) May 1, 2018

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:20 (seven years ago)

we'll get by, I suppose

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:22 (seven years ago)

Turrican otm

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:29 (seven years ago)

Alfred great post man

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:32 (seven years ago)

I fell out with my ex cuz she said “another one bites the ziggy stardust” after Bowie died. Took that shit personally. His death rocked me

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:33 (seven years ago)

For about a month, this was my favourite Bowie album. Still is in my Top 3.

^^^ this. Earlier this year I went through about a month of 'Lodger' being the only Bowie album I was listening to, and at some points in that month just about the only music I was listening to.

― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

it's a moving world

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

I fell out with my ex cuz she said “another one bites the ziggy stardust” after Bowie died. Took that shit personally. His death rocked me

― That’s All Folks... (Ross),

if a partner of mine did that, then i genuinely would have called it quits.
i am not sure i could ever have a relationship with someone who was not a bowie fan.
the simple honest fact is, the death of bowie hit me a lot harder than the death of my own dad that happened a few months after.

― mark e, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:09 (seven years ago)

What a crazy thread title. Even if it's not your favorite Bowie record, it's definitely not anywhere his most boring. Or boring at all.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:13 (seven years ago)

Mark unequivocally otm

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:41 (seven years ago)

I wanted to laugh but then I thought fuck yer indifference

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:42 (seven years ago)

“Style is knowing who you are and being it like hell “ - Bryan Ferry. Bowie taught me to love the alien

― That’s All Folks... (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:43 (seven years ago)

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