Best track on David Bowie's LODGER album

good to know! must check.

[didn’t work for Raw Power though? not sure as I didn’t spend time with the other mix(es)]

RE: the Visconti remix from a couple of years ago, it's a super fun listen, all sorts of minute details brought to the fore (the mandolins on Fantastic Voyage! The drums on Look Back in Anger!), etc etc. But it sounds super artificial in spots, there's lots of incongruous-sounding modern delay effects and such, and he utterly ruined "Move On" and "Red Sails" imho... I'll stick with the muddy, imperfect charm of the original most of the time and listen to the remix when the mood strikes.

The Raw Power tapes were fucked from the get-go.

Per Bowie: "...the most absurd situation I encountered when I was recording was the first time I worked with Iggy Pop. He wanted me to mix Raw Power, so he brought the 24-track tape in, and he put it up. He had the band on one track, lead guitar on another and him on a third. Out of 24 tracks there were just three tracks that were used. He said 'see what you can do with this'. I said, 'Jim, there's nothing to mix'. So we just pushed the vocal up and down a lot. On at least four or five songs that was the situation, including "Search and Destroy." That's got such a peculiar sound because all we did was occasionally bring the lead guitar up and take it out."

The Lodger tracks were done very well according to Visconti, it was the mixing and mastering stages that didn't go so well.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

that's a lot of votes, good work all

Didn't Bowie once pick out Repetition (0) as his favourite from this album?

I should really have tossed it a vote seeing as "Red Sails" didn't really need it. It would have been my second choice.

I think today I realised “Fantastic Voyage” may be my favourite Bowie song. Just insane and so compelling.

Lyrics confused me a little, so checked out what Pushing Ahead Of The Dame said about it, learned that it's the last song he performed live.

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/fantastic-voyage/

A while ago I was thinking how, when I've seen writers try and tie the threads between Nite Flights and Berlin Bowie, sometimes the suggestion that African Night Flight takes it name from NF crops up. But what about the sound of the thing? Fat Mama Kick!

The vocal on "Look Back in Anger" sounds like he's doing the Walker Brothers - verse anyway.

i thought we'd agreed that for ilm purposes this album is called 'the lodger'