Recommendations of the Editorial team
The Most Underrated Albums of All Time: David Bowie – “Lodger”
The producer Tony Visconti was the only collaborator who – only after David Bowie’s death! – committed a sacrilege: He described part 3 of the “Berlin Trilogy” as the best, better than the shrines “Low” and “Heroes” (both 1977).
Of course he isn’t. Not even in Visconti’s magnificent mix from 2017. In contrast to its predecessors, “Lodger” was not a success. But: “Lodger” is David Bowie’s most feverish work, the strong conclusion to his strongest decade.
David Bowie and the masculine will to power
David Bowie ridicules male striving for world dominance (“Boys Keep Swinging”) and parodies the messianic status of the coming generation of turntable pop stars: “I am the DJ and I got believers.” Then he sings about a safari trip as fearfully as if he were witnessing the apocalypse (“African Night Flight”).
The strange cover pose? A cultural asset. “They should lie around like Bowie in this photo,” demanded the director William Friedkin while filming his thriller “Cruising”. He meant the film corpses whose limbs were twisted in all directions.
The most underrated albums of all time
Without concerts and festivals, we suddenly found ourselves looking back at our record collections in the evenings and realized: Often it’s not the canonized classics that people particularly enjoy playing.
are much better than their reputation and deserve a re-evaluation.
Instead, they are albums in the catalog of a beloved artist that you seem to have all to yourself because the rest of the world has spurned them or even forgotten them – misunderstood strokes of genius, overlooked masterpieces, neglected key works and records that…
