David Bowie returned to relatively conventional rock & roll with Scary Monsters, an album that effectively acts as an encapsulation of all his '70s experiments.
Reworking glam rock themes with avant-garde synth flourishes, and reversing the process as well, Bowie creates dense but accessible music throughout Scary Monsters.
Though it doesn't have the vision of his other classic records, it wasn't designed to break new ground -- it was created as the culmination of Bowie's experimental genre-shifting of the '70s.
As a result, Scary Monsters is Bowie's last great album.
While the music isn't far removed from the post-punk of the early '80s, it does sound fresh, hip, and contemporary, which is something Bowie lost over the course of the '80s.
[Rykodisc's 1992 reissue includes re-recorded versions of "Space Oddity" and "Panic in Detroit," the Japanese single "Crystal Japan," and the British single "Alabama Song."].
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up the Hill BackwardsDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 03:15 | 0 MB | 22 MB |
| 2 | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)David Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 05:12 | 0 MB | 38 MB |
| 3 | Ashes to AshesDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 04:25 | 0 MB | 31 MB |
| 4 | FashionDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 04:49 | 0 MB | 33 MB |
| 5 | Teenage WildlifeDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 06:56 | 0 MB | 48 MB |
| 6 | Scream Like a BabyDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 03:35 | 0 MB | 25 MB |
| 7 | It's No Game (Part 1) | David Bowie | Play | 04:20 | 0 MB | 31 MB |
| 8 | It's No Game (Part 2) | David Bowie | Play | 04:22 | 0 MB | 30 MB |
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| 36 mins | 263 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larry Alexander | Assistant, Assistant Engineer |
| 2 | Carlos Alomar | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 3 | Edward Bell | Artwork, Cover Art, Illustrations |
| 4 | Roy Bittan | Guest Artist, Keyboards, Piano |
| 5 | David Bowie | Artwork, Composer, Cover Art Concept, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Primary Artist, Producer, Saxophone, Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| 6 | Kevin Cann | Design, Package Design |
| 7 | Andrew Clark | Synthesizer |
| 8 | Andy Clark | Synthesizer |
| 9 | Dennis Davis | Percussion |
| 10 | Brian Duffy | Cover Art Concept, Photography |
| 11 | Robert Fripp | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 12 | Greg Gorman | Photography |
| 13 | Chuck Hammer | Guitar |
| 14 | Jeff Hendrickson | Assistant, Assistant Engineer |
| 15 | Michi Hirota | Vocals, Voices |
| 16 | Lynn Maitland | Vocals (Background) |
| 17 | Lynn Maltland | Vocals (Background) |
| 18 | Peter Mew | Digital Remastering, Remastering |
| 19 | Hisahi Miura | Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Translation |
| 20 | George Murray | Bass |
| 21 | Chris Porter | Vocals (Background) |
| 22 | Nigel Reeve | Project Coordinator, Remastering |
| 23 | Richard Sharah | Make-Up |
| 24 | Pete Townshend | Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals |
| 25 | Tom Verlaine | Composer |
| 26 | Tony Visconti | Engineer, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Producer, Vocals (Background) |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |