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| Track Listing 1. It's No Game (part 1) 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)
Album Notes This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.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.Digitally remastered by Peter Mew and Nigel Reeve (1999, Abbey Road Studios, London, England).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. Editorial Reviews Musician (09/01/1992) Q (06/01/2000) Q (11/01/1999) Q (06/01/2000) | |||||||||||||
Reviews  A twisted, tortured and magnetic albumReview created: 23/05/07 by:  Twenty seven years on, and this is still a regular visitor to my stereo. Bookended by two versions of It's No Game (1 & 2), it begins angry, screaming, and slowly winds into despair. Wonderful guitar that echoes the agony in Bowie's voice. The vocals are often split into two parts, one calm one wailing - Something to do with Bowie's long obsession with his family's history of mental illness? To me, this is Bowie trying to shrug off his demons. Looking back in anger, some regret - but not yet sure what the way forward might be. Apart from that, the album is full of great music! Scream Like A Baby, Teenage Wildlife are full of bile, and Because You're Young shows a melancholy man shaking his head at the folly of youth. And of course there are the two massive hits this album spawned, Ashes to Ashes and Fashion. The former was the chameleon stripped bare, shedding personas, admitting being just human and flawed. Bowie shaped modern music with many of his albums, and this is no exception. Review ID: 10000000003622674 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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