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Lodger by David Bowie
Lodger is an album by David Bowie, released in 1979. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 34 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “D.J.”, on 17 lists with a best position of #40.
Lodger, David Bowie's 1979 album on RCA, closed out the Berlin Trilogy that began with Low and "Heroes", and it's the restless one of the three. Tony Visconti produced it with Brian Eno riding shotgun, the sessions split between Switzerland in September 1978 and New York in March 1979, and Adrian Belew joined the familiar crew on guitar. Eno's Oblique Strategies cards ran the room: players swapping instruments, old songs turned backwards.
The ambient instrumentals of the earlier two are gone; in their place come tighter songs that wander through avant-pop, new wave and sounds from well beyond Europe. Side one is about travel, side two takes aim at Western civilisation, and "Boys Keep Swinging" and "D.J." bring the wry, jittery hooks. Critics called it the weakest of the trilogy at first, but its standing has only grown.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Lodger on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.J. | 17 | #40 | – | 1999–2022 | |
| 2 | Boys Keep Swinging | 15 | #484 | – | 1999–2022 | |
| 3 | Look Back In Anger | 2 | #693 | – | 2007–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.