Lodger - David Bowie Reviews

The third and final instalment to the so called Berlin Trilogy is musically very mixed bag, with only a handful of tracks at the back end of the album saving it - quite hard to imagine that some of the rubbish earlier on has anything to do with Mr Bowie! Take for example African Night Flights which is lyrically oddball and just pain ...  Read the complete review

After his retirement from Ziggy and his dalliance with the States and blue eyed soul music, Bowie returned with the European ballad and dance of Stationtostation before re-emerging, repackaged and re-engineered with Brian Eno with his cycle of Berlin albums. Low and Heroes were supreme works of a master ...  Read the complete review

Made after the twin glories of Low and Heroes, Lodger has a tendency to get lost in Bowie?s back catalogue. I?ll admit I bought it at the time because it was cheap and I was a little broke, instead of going the whole hog and buying Heroes. I got home, expecting great things (I?d only recently bought Outside and so was on a real high; if it was ...  Read the complete review

1979 was a rather predictable year for music; the sixties were far out of people’s memories, Glam Rock became laughable, and Punk had become far so commercial that the only punk value that still remained was not to wash your hair (as long as your manager told you to do so), and the New Romantics were all meeting at student wine parties in ...  Read the complete review

Ah Mr. Eno I presume. He really does bring some interesting things out of our David. Leaving behind hippy, glam rock, apocalyptic, alien, thin white duke, industrial music we slip neatly into this. I have no idea how to define this, except to say it is jolly good. Again we have the experimental sounds, instruments and lyrics which all fit together ...  Read the complete review