Tin Machine -- "Prisoner of Love"
"Like a sermon on blues guitar / Love walked into town."
Maybe not the best lyric ever, but it was the late 80s, and there wasn't much else going on. And a somewhat trite(*) lyric can be forgiven in context, the more specific context here being the bold direction David Bowie took in his experimental work with Tin Machine. All told, the minor-key arrangement of "Prisoner of Love" nicely complements the desperate tone of the lyrics.
As it's name suggests, Tin Machine made a lot of noise, with more than a little help from Reeves Gabrels' sleek Steinberger guitar (with its very effective whammy bar). The Steinberger guitar could have come from no other decade but the 1980s, and I don't think I've ever heard it put to better use than on this track. Most of the other songs on Tin Machine's first album are pretty forgettable, but this one is a Bowie classic that compares favorably with anything else he did in the 1980s.
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* Not to mention nonsensical: sermons do not typically walk.
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