DAVID BOWIE Lodger 1979 UK RCA 1st PRESS with INSERT Near MINT. Free P & P.
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1979 UK RCA (BOW LP 1) FIRST PRESSING
THE THRID LP IN THE BERLIN TRILOGY RECORDED WITH BRAIN ENO
BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL COPY WHICH LOOKS UNPLAYED AND SOUNDS LIKE NEW
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE RCA MATT ORANGE LABELS
MATRIX Side 1: BOW LP- 1 (PL-13254) - A-2 STERLING NO SENSE IS BETTER…
MATRIX Side 2: BOW LP- 1 (PL-13254) - B-2 STERLING ...THAN NONE AT ALL
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DEEPLY GLOSSY OUTER LAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL THIN PAPER PICTURE/LYRIC INSERT
On the surface, Lodger is the most accessible of the three Berlin-era records David Bowie made with Brian Eno, simply because there are a handful of concise pop songs.
Nevertheless, Lodger is still gnarled and twisted avant pop; what makes it different is how it incorporates such experimental tendencies into genuine songs, something that Low and Heroes purposely avoided.
"D.J.," "Look Back in Anger," and "Boys Keep Swinging" have strong melodic hooks that are subverted and strengthened by the layered, dissonant productions, while the remainder of the record is divided between similarly effective avant pop and ambient instrumentals.
Lodger has an edgier, more minimalistic bent than its two predecessors, which makes it more accessible, as well as giving it a more immediate, emotional impact.
It might not stretch the boundaries of rock like Low and Heroes, but it arguably utilizes those ideas in a more effective fashion.
Originally to be titled either Planned Accidents or Despite Straight Lines, Lodger was largely recorded between legs of Bowie's 1978 world tour and featured the same musicians as the first two parts of "The Berlin Trilogy" , along with Brian Eno, but lead guitar was played not by Robert Fripp, as on "Heroes", but by Fripp's future King Crimson bandmate, Adrian Bewley.
Much of Bewley'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. Other experiments on the album included using old tunes played backwards, employing identical chord sequences for different songs, and having the musicians play unfamiliar instruments.
Eno felt that the trilogy had "petered out" by Lodger, and Bewley also observed Eno's and Bowie's working relationship closing down: "They didn't quarrel or anything uncivilized 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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