Word: lodgers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lodger is striking not just because Bowie assumes many characters on it, but because he draws on the different musical styles of his past to find the right sound for each. The album has straight rock and roll, some R&B-influenced pop, some ballads and anthems, and a lot of the electronically treated avant-garde rock a la Low. Eno's role in the preparation of Lodgeris considerably narrower than on the previous albums; Bowie apparently called the shots here, with Eno simply finding the perfect sound to match Bowie's ideas...
What Bowie has learned from his extended association with Eno is how to manipulate the texture of each song. In the first song on Lodger, a saccharine ballad decrying the possibility of nuclear war called "Fantastic Voyage," the sound is gloppy and sweet--Eno is responsible for providing "ambient drone," the record jacket tells us. For the next track, a weird patter-song called "African Night Flight," his contribution is "prepared cricket menace." Elsewhere on the album he offers work on the Eroica horn or the horse trumpet...
...hung in, though, barnstorming through the Midwest. In 1974 he came up with a ballad called Beautiful Loser that sounded bold and bitter and pretty personal: "He's always willing to be second best/ A perfect lodger, a perfect guest/ Beautiful loser, read it on the wall/ And realize, you just don't need...
...five years ago. Just revisit Performance to bring it all back. If you've ever sensed that Mick Jagger should have thrown n the towel years ago, this film will show you why. The jig has long been up on Jagger's androgonous lewdness. Yet like the seemingly straight lodger who gets sucked into this singer's hallucinogenic world, you may still revel in the decadence. If you think you might still dig it, as the saying went, go freak yourself...
...door of his fashionably appointed den proves to be revolving. Through it stream people whose untidy problems and messy personalities make Simon seem almost a genteel charmer, though his witty ripostes are fashioned from barbed wire. His upstairs lodger, a sociology student, enters to cadge money and denounce Wagner as a fascist. Simon's elder brother, an academic mole, mewls and pules about the disadvantages of not having an Oxford degree...