Video essays and discussion of media that I wish I could talk about more often IRL.
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@thekeywitness
2 ай бұрын
Lodger is underrated. For a long time, I liked the album but felt there was something off about it. I finally came to the conclusion that the material is great, but the flow isn't right. I've since re-configured it on KZitem Music to my liking. What was Side 2 is now Side 1, frontloading the hits "DJ", "Look Back in Anger" and "Boys Keep Swinging". For the new Side 2, I've reconfigured the original Side 1 to create a journey that flows more naturally (IMO), starting with the high-energy "Red Sails", visiting a couple of exotic locations, and ending with the lovely and thoughtful "Fantastic Voyage". If you're on YT Music, I invite you to listen and let me know what you think. Search David Bowie - Lodger (Reconfigured) music.kzitem.info/door/PLthmP8evztq1ikfU-juoZuIrH7rgdlgC0
@iwanmorris293
2 ай бұрын
This was a fantastic video, it’s a shame it’s the only one you’ve posted and 3 years ago now, would love to see some more Bowie deep dives if you ever come back
@nazfrde
3 ай бұрын
You can't really discuss these albums without talking about Iggy's The Idiot and Lust For Life, both of which Bowie produced, wrote all the music for, and played and sang on, and were recorded/released before Low and between Low and "Heroes". Fail. Also, your analysis seems to mainly be "This is the next song, and I like this one, too," over and over. And for the record, Busta Rhymes was 7 years old when this came out. The "D.J." that the song is about is clearly a radio DJ, not a club DJ. You also totally missed the chance to discuss A) Adrian Belew's amazing guitar stuff and B) the use on Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies on several tracks.
@encoreunefois1X
3 ай бұрын
If the implied affair taints your enjoyment of Heroes, just imagine the debauchery, which has inspired and runs through countless other rock and pop songs. I would argue that a lodger is not an outcast, but someone who has been welcomed in and accepted.
@TomEarley
3 ай бұрын
Can you do more?
@TheRyanos
4 ай бұрын
Breaking glass, Always crashing in the same car, and Subterraneans are my favourite tracks from the Low album! Blackout and Heroes are those of the Heroes album. Haven't listened enough to Lodger though.
@josjanssen6733
4 ай бұрын
What got me to a point where i could not get Low out of my head was Dennis Davis' drumming. So elemental, with a "pathological" quality. The unforgettable snare drum banging. That's what underpins the concept of the album. I also have a dream. Wouldn't it be magical to have had Frippertonics on the B-side?
@polyestermammoth740
5 ай бұрын
Heroes is ‘tainted’ because it’s based on an affair? Grow the eff up you puritanical child
@cindy68780
5 ай бұрын
Lodger is the best of the three
@QUINT34577
5 ай бұрын
I shall have to check out this guy if he is anywhere near as good as Ed Sheeran then I'll be on to something
@ziggystardust360
5 ай бұрын
Lodger is my favorite Bowie album. 🤷
@littlemouse7066
6 ай бұрын
there are some inaccuracies. Bowie didn't blow up in America with Ziggy Stardust he was successful in Britain and some european countries but he was never big in America before Young Americans and especially Let's Dance. The movie title is The man who fell to earth (not from earth) and it's from the Walter Tevis 60s book with the same title and he played the protagonist who was an alien who fell/came to earth to save his dying planet. The album Low should have come out in 1976 but RCA (his record label at the time) delayed it because they didn't like it and they wanted him to make something more commercial. Most of the record was recorded in France not in Berlin in fact only Heroes was recorded in Berlin and Lodger was recorded in Switzerland. Pop songs on Low? Really? They were very strange pop songs lol. The trilogy has very innovative sounds and it wasn't pop at all and in fact those records sold very little.
@internetrambo4928
6 ай бұрын
He was living in Edgar Froese's Home first when he came to Berlin. Did a cold turkey there. He called Froeses Album "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" the soundtrack of his Life in Berlin. I think thats someting to mention cause we talk about 2 Music Legends here.
@Auntkekebaby
7 ай бұрын
Low, Heroes and Lodgers are the albums!!! Then his hit up with Scary Monsters
@chadczternastek
9 ай бұрын
Anyone thinking of these as a trilogy needs to add Iggy Pop's The Idiot. Knowing the whole story between Bowie and Iggy is touching and friendship. They fed off each other, and they used their madness to go inward and to get sober. You can feel it in the music.
@notoriousblt1038
9 ай бұрын
I believe the lyrics in Breaking Glass are a reference to the fact that during his LA years he regularly drew giant pentagrams on the floor, which is probably one of the tamer things he did there in all honesty
@daveka2011
9 ай бұрын
I never got how LODGER was connected to LOW and HEROES so I never considered the "trilogy" a trilogy. With that said, LOW, HEROES, and LODGER are my personal favs. 🙂
@barbelwalter8314
10 ай бұрын
😊❤❤❤
@TheMusicolophile
10 ай бұрын
I find it personally interesting that my three favorite Bowie albums were made while we were both living in West Berlin. Him, in his thirties I believe and me, born and up until five years old.
@rainereece5640
11 ай бұрын
Thx, well-done! Appreciate your hi-fi rambling too❤
@Forkbot79
11 ай бұрын
You really should have mentioned the D.A.M. trio who play on each album as well as Station to Station and Scary Monsters. They were Bowie's secret weapon imo.
@cdb8
11 ай бұрын
Great overview among many others. I heard Bowie first time really with Lodger album as 15 year old and got caught by Look Back in Anger and thought whoah
@fdfac
Жыл бұрын
Moron this
@nathandorsey9145
Жыл бұрын
I'd say the use of the Heroes Cover in Next Day is the definition of irony actually.
@danw1374
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love Sons of the silent age on the heroes album.
@chaosme1ster
Жыл бұрын
Yay, thumbs up...
@deeveedee9405
9 ай бұрын
Sorry I didn't talk about it more!
@joewesterland5697
Жыл бұрын
Breaking glass like most songs in the Berlin trilogy is about someone with a mental health disorder. A person with two sides, one charming and pleasant and one jealous and abusive writing on carpets and breaking glass in the protagonists room. "Such a wonderful person, but you' got problems". Perhaps a bit psycopathic.
@helenapacek
Жыл бұрын
actually a fun fact if you listen closely "African night flight" and "running gun blues" from the man who sold the world 1970 have the same sample! or at least something very similar they were inspired by, I'm not really sure
@jakehudson7118
Жыл бұрын
"Heroes" is such a great album, half amazing art rock songs and half incredible ambient music
@rotekanale8124
10 ай бұрын
Which side is better? Side b of Heroes or side b of Low."
@jakehudson7118
10 ай бұрын
@@rotekanale8124 heroes for me
@JamesLamm-jt7vg
Жыл бұрын
Lodger never made it past the first play. Bowie is still one of my heroes so don’t think I am not a huge fan
@JamesLamm-jt7vg
Жыл бұрын
The second side of Heroes sounds like a clogged drain
@danw1374
Жыл бұрын
As bowie once put it he was trying to create a "New musical language" conveyed by sound as opposed to lyrics, with disjointed verses that were not arranged in a linear train of thought.
@JamesLamm-jt7vg
Жыл бұрын
Heroes is simply brilliant
@JamesLamm-jt7vg
Жыл бұрын
I still do not play either
@JamesLamm-jt7vg
Жыл бұрын
My crowd did not care for the second side of either LOW or Heroes
@HJ-ju4ui
Жыл бұрын
I fucking love the B-Side of Low ❤😭 It was also my first Bowie album but by accident i was googling something else and stumbled upon ''speed of light'' and i was hooked
@dwightraymingway9203
Жыл бұрын
I love this content of your man!
@kristianrodriguez4676
Жыл бұрын
Yes this video is great. Too bad it seems this is the only video this guy has ever made.
@Soslanman1
Жыл бұрын
1. Low 2. Lodger 3. Heroes P.S. I don’t have favorite tracks
@Soslanman1
Жыл бұрын
I think that the worst album from the berlin trilogy is heroes
@douglasrobertson6112
Жыл бұрын
good work. spot on analysis
@douglasrobertson6112
Жыл бұрын
warszawa is based on a hungarian folk tune he heard while wandering through the streets of warsaw
@myautobiographyafanfic1413
Жыл бұрын
"now for the big boy of the album" blackouts not that soon ""Heroes"" Oh yeah
@rgwebb5165
Жыл бұрын
Smart marketing to call it a trilogy.
@arthurpug
Жыл бұрын
Utter bollocks. Lodger is the masterpiece, but they are all uniquely interesting. Grouping them geographically as a 'Berlin trilogy' is part of your clichéd silliness, Station transforned into Low like Lodger transitions into Monsters
@MrAladdino
Жыл бұрын
Sense of doubt - the way of Christiane F
@stephenletch9964
Жыл бұрын
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@timebot000
Жыл бұрын
Your docs are so new and really Great!🌞 I may be the only one who just favors his music Before Ziggy. ..back to "when I live my dream" and all the acoustic stuff, then up to hunky dory, etc.. I was in 13 in '70, a full fan all along, but no matter how great he always was, I liked his beginning albums the best🚥🚥🔥🚥🚥
@dedurocortorum365
Жыл бұрын
The songs of Low were recorded at the château d'Hérouville, France, and were mixed and produced in Berlin.
@sideshowtink
Жыл бұрын
Berlin Trilogy. Remarkable period in Bowie's life. Incredible!
@joethelion6016
Жыл бұрын
Lovely thumbnail 😚
@risboturbide9396
Жыл бұрын
Great video, man! 🍻🍻Lodger all the way
@bunnymud1972
Жыл бұрын
"I never listened to this guys stuff before, but..." Why should I keep watching?
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