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The song Heroes is meant to be ironic. The two lovers in the song are going through a failing relationship but are hopelessly chasing a lost cause. That's why there's quotation marks with the title "Heroes"

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I might be alone on this, but I will defend my theory that there is no such thing as a Berlin Trilogy: Theres a krautrock-electronic-ambient _diptych_ with Low and "Heroes" AND a post punk-new wave diptych with Lodger and Scary Monsters

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 RUclips 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.ruclips.net/p/PLthmP8evztq1ikfU-juoZuIrH7rgdlgC0

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

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.

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.

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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.

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?

Heroes is ‘tainted’ because it’s based on an affair? Grow the eff up you puritanical child

Lodger is the best of the three

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

Lodger is my favorite Bowie album. 🤷

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.

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.

Low, Heroes and Lodgers are the albums!!! Then his hit up with Scary Monsters

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.

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

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. 🙂

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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.

Thx, well-done! Appreciate your hi-fi rambling too❤

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.

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

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I'd say the use of the Heroes Cover in Next Day is the definition of irony actually.

I absolutely love Sons of the silent age on the heroes album.

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.

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

"Heroes" is such a great album, half amazing art rock songs and half incredible ambient music

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

The second side of Heroes sounds like a clogged drain

Heroes is simply brilliant

I still do not play either

My crowd did not care for the second side of either LOW or Heroes

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

I love this content of your man!

1. Low 2. Lodger 3. Heroes P.S. I don’t have favorite tracks

I think that the worst album from the berlin trilogy is heroes

good work. spot on analysis

warszawa is based on a hungarian folk tune he heard while wandering through the streets of warsaw

"now for the big boy of the album" blackouts not that soon ""Heroes"" Oh yeah

Smart marketing to call it a trilogy.

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

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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🚥🚥🔥🚥🚥

The songs of Low were recorded at the château d'Hérouville, France, and were mixed and produced in Berlin.