"Lodger," the third and final installment in what Bowie fans call the "Berlin Trilogy," is a marvelous album in and of itself.  As part of the trilogy, it is slightly weaker.  The singles released from this album, "DJ" and "Fashion," are solid pop songs.  However, my favorite cuts are "Boys Keep Swinging" and "Look Back in Anger."  The latter has a fascinating video (Bowie was a video pioneer) showing Bowie as a painter in reverse "Dorian Gray" scenario -- whatever happens to the painting happens to Bowie.  Two rarely mentioned tracks, "Red Sails" and "Yassasin" (Turkish for "long life") are superior in many ways to "Fashion."  The most depressing track on this album is definitely "Repetition," which is about spousal abuse.  Bowie has a lot of interesting things to say on this album ... and it sets the stage for better works yet to come.