David Bowie – Lodger
Tracklist
| A1 | Fantastic Voyage | 2:55 | |
| A2 | African Night Flight | 2:54 | |
| A3 | Move On | 3:16 | |
| A4 | Yassassin (Turkish For: Long Live) | 4:10 | |
| A5 | Red Sails | 3:43 | |
| B1 | D. J. | 3:59 | |
| B2 | Look Back In Anger | 3:08 | |
| B3 | Boys Keep Swinging | 3:17 | |
| B4 | Repetition | 2:59 | |
| B5 | Red Money | 4:17 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – RVC Corporation
- Record Company – RVC Corporation
Credits
- Backing Vocals – Tony Visconti (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3, B5)
- Bass – George Murray (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B5)
- Drums – Dennis Davis (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B4, B5)
- Guitar – Carlos Alomar (tracks: A4 to B2, B4, B5)
- Liner Notes – 相倉久人
- Lyrics By – Bowie*
- Mastered By [Engineer] – Gregg Calbi*
- Mixed By [Assistant Engineer] – Gregg Caruso
- Mixed By [Engineer] – Tony Visconti
- Music By – Bowie*
- Percussion – Dennis Davis (tracks: A2, A3, B2)
- Piano – Sean Mayes (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B2)
- Producer – Tony Visconti
- Recorded By [Engineer - Assistant] – Eugene Chaplin
- Recorded By [Engineer] – Tony Visconti
- Violin – Simon House (tracks: A4, A5, B3, B4)
Notes
Recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland.
Mixed at Record Plant Studios, New York City.
Gatefold sleeve. Includes inner sleeve with printed lyrics.
Mixed at Record Plant Studios, New York City.
Gatefold sleeve. Includes inner sleeve with printed lyrics.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A): RVP 6390AⓈ 111✣E
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B): RVP 6390BⓈ 112
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Lodger (LP, Album, Gatefold) | RCA Victor | BOW LP 1, PL 13254 | UK | 1979 | ||
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Lodger (LP, Album, Blue & white pics) | RCA Victor | APL1 3254, APLI 3254 | New Zealand | 1979 | ||
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Lodger (LP, Album) | RCA Victor | PL 13254 | 1979 | |||
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Lodger (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | RCA Victor | PL-13254 | Netherlands | 1979 | ||
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Lodger (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | RCA Victor | PL 13254 | Italy | 1979 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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This is my go-to version of Lodger. I’ve got the first UK pressing, this, the RCA CD, the Ryko CD, and the 2017 release (plus the Visconti remix).
The UK pressing is ok. From what I’ve read,if anyone has issues with Lodger it’s usually around the mix. The original vinyl sounds a bit mushy, but it’s certainly not unlistenable! Put it this way, I’ve heard a lot worse.
This Japanese pressing is pretty much the same as the UK release but with a marginally cleaner sound. It sounds a tad brighter to my ears, although not brighter in a detrimental way. I’m more than happy with it. Plus, it looks so nice with the OBI strip, and the tough card sleeve.
The best version overall is the RCA CD. I’m a big fan of that one. It sounds chunky and almost 3D.
I don’t see me playing the 2017s again, although I don’t dislike the remix.
Anyway, great album. Took me the best part of 40 years to ‘get it’. Back then it felt like a random collection of songs that Bowie had just thrown together. How wrong I was. This is Bowie doing ‘New Wave ‘ and doing it really well. Ten songs that have been beaten about with Bowie & Eno’s pretension stick yet they come out the other end sounding slightly bonkers, edgy, twisted and funny, as well as catchy and classy. Repetition is sinister and wired. Fantastic Voyage - gentle and paranoid. Red Sails, a hybrid that steals from the Orient via Neu! : African Night Flight - it has the cricket menace, so automatically that’s a great track, 2 fantastic singles : Boys Keep Swinging with its creepy video, and insane guitar solo; and DJ, which twists and scurries around the grooves, half Thin White Duke, half David Byrne.
What a time to be alive ! I am what I play. -
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