David Bowie - Scary Monsters
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- It's No Game, Pt. 1
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Teenage Wildlife
- Scream Like a Baby
- Kingdom Come - David Bowie, Verlaine, Tom
- Because You're Young
- It's No Game, Pt. 2
Music reviews of Scary Monsters
Music Review: From a 40 year career one of the half-dozen best
Rating: 5 Stars
There are so many reviews of this album already I don't want to be redundant but as someone who has every album that Bowie ever released and then some, I want to chime in and encourage you to check this out. When reviewers mince about whether the latest Bowie offering compares to his classics, "Scary Monsters" is typically namechecked as the latter bookend formalizing the classic years of Bowie's peak.
I don't agree with that; Bowie's albums may have slumped in the 80s but powerful CDs from the 90s like 1.Outside and Earthling, not to mention Buddha of Suburbia and Black Tie White Noise, measured on a par with Bowie's classics. That said...
Scary Monsters is indeed one of Bowie's finest. Once you get past some of Bowie's very best songs, "Ashes to Ashes", "Fashion" and the title track, you delve into Bowie's most harrowing work with stellar moments like both versions of "It's No Game" and the cover of Tom Verlaine's "Kingdom Come". But it's not like the other third of the album is filler, not at all. It merely had the misfortune of sharing disc space with classics like those already mentioned. Oh, I suppose I could do without "Teenage Wildlife" but 9 out of 10 is par for the course for so many Bowie albums.
This belongs in the shortlist of Bowie's finest, next to Station to Station, Diamond Dogs, Aladdin Sane, Low, Earthling, and 1.Outside, and just a titch better than 'Heroes', Young Americans or Hunky Dory. The best thing about getting this album as opposed to a 'best of' is that you get the full length versions of some of Bowie's finest moments rather than hatcheted edit versions. Did I mention this album was strongly recommended?
Description of Scary Monsters
Some would argue that this is the last great Bowie album, and certainly his only great album of the '80s. While it lacked the bite of its punk brethren at the time, it appealed to some fans of that genre and to middle-of-the-road rockers as well. Muscular playing met with no-frills production, and the product as a whole was infused with a gloriously arty style. "It's No Game (Part I)" opens the album, and is sung in Japanese, and "It's No Game (Part II)" closes, in English. New York punker Tom Verlaine even contributed a track ("Kingdom Come"), and "Scream Like a Baby" tells a dark and violent story with a howl. The drug-oriented "Ashes to Ashes" confesses that Major Tom was a junky while sounding all sleek and alluring, and the dance floor hit "Fashion" took aim at its very subject. The crowning jewel is the title track, with Robert Fripp's guitar ripping the place up at a relentless pace. It's been a long time since Bowie sounded this inspired. --Lorry FlemingGeneral CDs
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