Scary Monsters … And Super Creeps

Side One

1 It’s No Game (#1), 4:15

2 Up The Hill Backwards, 3:15

3 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), 5:10

4 Ashes To Ashes, 4:23

5 Fashion, 4:46

Side Two

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 (#2), 4:22

Bonus Tracks

(on RYKO/EMI re-release 1992, EMI CDP 79 9331 2 - CD)

11 Space Oddity (1979 Version), 4:57

12 Panic In Detroit (Re-recorded Version, Previously Unreleased 1979), 3:00

13 Crystal Japan (Japanese Single A Side), 3:08

14 Alabama Song (Japanese Single A Side 1979), 3:51

Recorded: Power Station Studios, New York

Good Earth Studios, London

(15 February 1980 – April 1980)

Musicians: David Bowie, vocals, keyboards

Carlos Alomar, guitar

George Murray, bass

Dennis Davis, percussion

Robert Fripp, guitar

Chuck Hammer, guitar

Roy Bittan, piano

Pete Townshend, guitar

Tony Visconti, backing vocals, acoustic guitar

Lynn Maitland, backing vocals

Chris Porter, backing vocals

Michi Hirota, voice

Producers: David Bowie, Tony Visconti

Released: 11 September 1980

Label: RCA BOW LP 2

Though the LP begins with a song in Japanese, this should be the most accessible and commercially successful Bowie LP in years; Bowie has synthesized and made his own recent musical developments while at the same time recalling his own early '70s man from outer space personna. Gone are the long dark electronic passages that have characterized recent Bowie LPs. They are replaced by short, comparitively uptempo tunes that are melodic though no less sophisticated. Helping out on guitars on many of the songs is Robert Flipp and Peter Townshend on "Because You're Young." Best cuts: "Ashes To Ashes," "Scary Monsters," "Scream Like A Baby," "Because You're Young," "It's No Game."

By Billboard

Originally reviewed for week ending 20 September 1980