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Artist: David Bowie

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Scary Monsters [Blister]
1 
 It's No Game (Part 1) - (Japanese)
2 
 Up the Hill Backwards
3 
 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
4 
 Ashes to Ashes
5 
 Fashion
6 
 Teenage Wildlife
7 
 Scream Like a Baby
8 
 Kingdom Come
9 
 Because You're Young
10 
 It's No Game (Part 2)



Performer Notes
  • Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, keyboards); Tony Visconti (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Pete Townshend, Robert Fripp, Carlos Alomar, Chuck Hammer (guitar); Roy Bittan (piano); Andy Clark (synthesizer); George Murray (bass); Dennis Davis (percussion); Lynn Maitland, Chris Porter, Michi Hirota (background vocals).
  • Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York.
  • Fresh off his Berlin trilogy (LOW, HEROES, LODGER), David Bowie released SCARY MONSTERS, an album that continued the cool, detached, electronic-flavored sound he'd been experimenting with on the aforementioned records. Robert Fripp's distinctively angular guitar style contributes greatly to the resulting Kraftwerk-flavored funk of "Fashion" and the jittery paranoia of the title track. Elsewhere, Bowie updates the saga of Major Tom with "Ashes to Ashes" and turns to Tom Verlaine for the new wave nihilism of "Kingdom Come" which also features Fripp on guitar.
  • Robert Fripp was far from the only great guest invited to play on SCARY MONSTERS. Pete Townshend's swirling guitar on "Because You're Young" made it an underrated classic in Bowie's canon. SCARY MONSTERS proved to be David Bowie's last musical effort for a while as he spent the next three years pursuing a career in acting before returning to the studio in 1983 to record LET'S DANCE.

Professional Reviews
Q (6/00, p.74) - Ranked #30 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...The last truly great Bowie LP....finding Bowie in a post-modernist mood, rehashing his past and feeling old and washed up....poetically, he slayed the new romantics..."

Q (11/99, pp.140-1) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...a fitting end to the ['70s] decade....wrapping up his career thus far..."

Musician (9/92, p.110) - "...applied elements from Bowie's previous three records to a terrific set of songs...a loud, tough sound...It's the urban nightmare he's been trying to recapture ever since..."

Producer:David Bowie; Tony Visconti
Format:CD
Country:USA
UPC:0724352189502
Studio/Live: Studio
Release Date:21 September, 1999
Guest Artist: Pete Townshend; Robert Fripp; Carlos Alomar; Roy Bittan


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4.0 out of 5 based on 1 reviews. 4 of 5 Stars! – Customer review on 15/11/2007

In my opinion, Scary Monsters is a generally underrated album, and superior to Bowie's previous album, Lodger.

The first side is superior to the second, and contains most of the well-known tracks: Scary Monsters, Ashes to Ashes, and Fashion. The album starts frenetically, with "It's No Game (Part One)", a great opener, with its Japanese vocal. The song ends with Bowie shouting "Shut up, Shut up", and then runs into the next song, the catchy "Up the Hill Backwards". This song is superficially appealing, but it was the first track I grew weary of after repeated listenings. The title track, with Bowie lapsing into his native cockney, is one of the best songs on the album, and one of Bowie's finest, as is "Ashes to Ashes". I used to like "Fashion", but it's one of those songs that doesn't bear up to too many repeated listenings.

I remember playing the first side to death when I first got this album, and having got sick of it, playing the second side almost exclusively for some time. The second side is weaker, but opens with the best song on the album, and also, in my opinion, Bowie's finest song, "Teenage Wildlife". The next three songs, "Scream Like a Baby", "Because You're Young" and "Kingdom Come", are the weakest, but they're still quite enjoyable. "Scream Like a Baby" is probably the pick of the three. The side ends with a more sedate version of the opening track, "It's No Game (Part Two)".

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