baddiel is wrong abt everything ever and also the lodger is david bowie's best record
― mark s, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
so I pack a bagand move on
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Not sure how you'd even determine the consensus view.
It's true, ILM hasn't polled the album yet apparently.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 27 February 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
!!!
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 February 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
get in here, goons
Best track on David Bowie's LODGER album
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Jake Shears on Lodger in his (great) Baker's Dozen on the Quietus.
David Bowie - LodgerMy three favourite Bowie albums are Lodger, Scary Monsters and Let’s Dance, and they came out in that succession. I got Lodger on cassette when I was eight and just became completely obsessed with it and listened to over and over again - it’s a record that I never get sick of. You can find some weird writing about Lodger where people can be dismissive of it - I don’t understand that at all. It opens with ‘Fantastic Voyage’ which is probably in my top three favourite David Bowie songs, ‘African Night Flight’ is so hectic and strange, and ‘DJ’ was the big single from this and ‘Look Back In Anger’ too, and ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ was the first – other than hearing Frankie Goes To Hollywood in the back of my mom’s car radio – thing that felt queer to me. ‘Relax’ had a queer energy but ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ felt almost more explicit to me, with that line “other boys check you out” and “you’ll get your share when you’re a boy’”
― willem, Friday, 12 June 2020 08:18 (three years ago) link
jake shears otm
― mark s, Friday, 12 June 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
It's not my favorite Bowie album, but the people whose favorite Bowie album it is are my favorite people
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 June 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
'Fantastic Voyage' and 'Boys Keep Swinging' famously have the same chord sequences... and perhaps inevitably, someone has put the vocals of one to the backing track of the other and vice versa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7skUaqnu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGic7nE6Kc
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 19 May 2023 04:36 (ten months ago) link
Didn't expect much of these, and the first one just sounds like a plodding version of Boys - nothing unexpected really happens as a result of the switch - but the second one is great, principally because of the way the bassline rubs up against the lyrics.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 19 May 2023 09:45 (ten months ago) link
Actually I kind of love them both. Interesting!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 19 May 2023 11:28 (ten months ago) link
The laid back feel given to the vocals for 'Boys Keep Swinging' makes the lies of the lyrics more obvious - Bowie as laconic con-man selling you a heteronormative male fantasy. Kind of like Vendice Partners in a booth at the back of a cocktail bar. Maybe nearby there's Neil Tennant's character from 'Opportunities'?The sped up vocals for 'Fantastic Voyage' are interesting, lending a more urgent feel to the lyrics. Doesn't mesh quite as well with the backing track though. It almost sounds like a punk song.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 19 May 2023 18:09 (ten months ago) link
Blur's "M.O.R." uses the same chord progression (and had to give credit to Bowie and Eno), would be interesting to hear those vocals over these backing tracks.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 May 2023 01:03 (ten months ago) link
ok now where's one with both vocal tracks at the same time
― ufo, Sunday, 21 May 2023 04:49 (ten months ago) link
Just play the original backing track song simultaneously with the remix!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 May 2023 13:25 (ten months ago) link
Duh
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 May 2023 13:30 (ten months ago) link