David Bowie – Scary Monsters
Tracklist
| 1 | It's No Game (Part 1) | 4:15 | |
| 2 | Up The Hill Backwards | 3:13 | |
| 3 | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | 5:10 | |
| 4 | Ashes To Ashes | 4:23 | |
| 5 | Fashion | 4:46 | |
| 6 | Teenage Wildlife | 6:51 | |
| 7 | Scream Like A Baby | 3:35 | |
| 8 | Kingdom Come | 3:42 | |
| 9 | Because You're Young | 4:51 | |
| 10 | It's No Game (Part 2) | 4:22 | |
| Bonus Tracks | |||
| 11 | Space Oddity (Re-Recorded Single B-Side, 1979) | 4:57 | |
| 12 | Panic In Detroit (Re-Recorded, Previously Unreleased, 1979) | 3:00 | |
| 13 | Crystal Japan (Japanese Single A-Side, 1979) | 3:08 | |
| 14 | Alabama Song (UK Single A-Side, 1979) | 3:51 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Tintoretto Music
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mainman S.A.
- Licensed To – Rykodisc
- Manufactured By – Rykodisc
- Marketed By – Rykodisc
- Copyright © – Tintoretto Music
- Copyright © – Mainman S.A.
- Copyright © – Fleur Music
- Copyright © – Chrysalis Songs
- Copyright © – Kurt Weill Foundation For Music
- Published By – Tintoretto Music
- Published By – Screen Gems-EMI Music Publishing
- Published By – Point Music America Inc.
- Published By – Tro-Essex Music International, Inc.
- Published By – Chrysalis Music Group
- Published By – WB Music Corp.
- Published By – Fleur Music
- Published By – Chrysalis Songs
- Recorded At – Power Station
- Made By – PDO, USA
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar – Tony Visconti (tracks: 2, 3)
- Backing Vocals [Vocal Backing] – Tony Visconti (tracks: 1)
- Bass Guitar [Bass] – George Murray
- Design – Reiner Design Consultants, Inc.
- Design Concept [Cover Concept] – Bowie*
- Engineer [Assistant] – Larry Alexander
- Guitar – Robert Fripp (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
- Guitar [Guitars] – Carlos Alomar
- Illustration – Edward Bell
- Other [Clown Costume] – Natasha Kornilof
- Other [Make-up] – Richard Sharah
- Percussion – Dennis Davis
- Photography By [Photo 1] – Brian Duffy (3)
- Photography By [Photo 2] – Greg Gorman
- Photography By [Photo 3 & 4] – David Fanthorpe
- Piano – Roy Bittan (tracks: 2, 4, 6)
- Producer, Recorded By – Tony Visconti
- Synthesizer – Andy Clark (tracks: 4, 5, 7, 9)
- Translated By [Japanese Translation] – Hisahi Miura
- Vocals, Keyboards – David Bowie
- Voice – Michi Hirota (tracks: 1)
Notes
1992 re-issue of 1980 album with 4 bonus tracks.
Track 11: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in UK as B-Side of "Alabama Song."
Track 13: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in Japan as A-Side of "クリスタル・ジャパン = Crystal Japan."
Track 14: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in UK as A-Side of "クリスタル・ジャパン = Crystal Japan."
Only released in green transparent jewel case.
[On Back page and Back cover]
Printed in the USA.
[On CD]
Manufactured in the USA.
The proper name of this album is Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps, though nowhere in this release is it listed that way other than the cover art.
Track 11: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in UK as B-Side of "Alabama Song."
Track 13: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in Japan as A-Side of "クリスタル・ジャパン = Crystal Japan."
Track 14: Recorded 1979, released 1980 in UK as A-Side of "クリスタル・ジャパン = Crystal Japan."
Only released in green transparent jewel case.
[On Back page and Back cover]
Printed in the USA.
[On CD]
Manufactured in the USA.
The proper name of this album is Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps, though nowhere in this release is it listed that way other than the cover art.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 14431 01472 7
- Barcode (Scanned): 014431014727
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): RCD 20147 01% A
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): RCD 20147 01% B
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): RCD 20147 02@
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): RCD 20147 01% C
- Other (Bottom, on inner hub): MADE IN USA
Other Versions (5 of 182)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Scary Monsters (LP, Album) | RCA | RCA PL 13647 | Denmark | 1980 | |||
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Scary Monsters (LP, Album) | RCA Victor | APL1 3647, APLI 3647 | New Zealand | 1980 | ||
| Scary Monsters (LP, Album, Stereo) | RCA | BOW LP 2 | UK | 1980 | |||
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Scary Monsters (LP, Album, Stereo) | RCA Victor | AQL1-3647 | Canada | 1980 | ||
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Scary Monsters (LP, Album) | RCA | RCA PL 13647, PL 13647, BOW LP2 | Belgium | 1980 |
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Reviews
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Great album! As I just got into Bowie this is the one I have spun the most in my car, it has best of both Bowie worlds with electronic and rocky sounds. Great listen, great pressing. -
Scary Monsters marks the end of the 70's aera Bowie. In many ways this is him reflecting on his past and is perhaps one of his most personal albums lyrically.
The (only electronic) track 'Ashes to Ashes' is a cynical ode to the song that started his career 'Space Oddity' in 1969, which has haunted him eversince. The innocent 'Major Tom' theme is mixed here with Bowie's own coke/heroin addiction in the mid seventies.
The other themes on this album are fascism (It's no game, Scream like a baby, Fashion and the title track), his own stardom (Teenage Wildlife), youth (Because you're young). It also includes a cover version of Television's 'Kingdom Come'.
The remainder of the album is hardly relevant for fans of electronic music, as it is more rock oriented than the legendary Berlin trilogy, but it is still considered one of his best.
'Crystal Japan' is an instrumental piece used in a commercial in Japan also "starring" Mr. Bowie.
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