Scary Monsters Super Creeps 2017

Bowie’s brilliant epic masterpiece on his 14th 1980 Studio album “Scary monsters and Super Creeps “absolutely amazing epic gold playlists of more alternative catchy commercial songs , if you’re a Bowie fan this album will not disappoint along with his great backup list of great musicians King Crimson’s Robert Fripp ,Carlos Alomar ,George Murray ,Dennis Davis Tony Visconti ,Roy Bittam , Andy Clark ,Pete Townshend ,Dennis Davis ,Chuck Hammer.Lynn Maitland Chris Porter.

It's Bowie. Enough said.

Just as David Bowie successfully entered the 1980's in dazzling force, he hadreleased another blockbuster album in 1980 that found him returning to the conv-entional rock and roll medium while maintaining the electronica edge of his Berlindays as he took yet another striking momentum in his trend-setting music career.Scary Monsters is a spellbinding landmark masterpiece that highly showcases anencapsulation of his artistic experimentations from the 1970's that reworks glam-rock themes with avant-garde synthesizers that are backed by uplifting flourishesand reversing the processes to create dense, highly accessible music by creatinga stylish caliber phase for his music. Beginning with the compelling instrumentalopening track It's No Game, the high voltage track set proceed with other classicsongs including Up To The Hill Backwards, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps),Ashes To Ashes, Fashion, Kingdom Come, and Because They're Young. Hailedby many as his masterpiece, Scary Monsters is headed by world class musician-ship, first rate excellence and complex melodies, as it introduced him to The NewWave Movement and the Euro-dance circuit in the early-1980's. There are evenseveral guest appearances that include arranger Chuck Hammer who add to themultiple layers he gives to the guitar-synth background, while Robert Fripp makehis return to the band and The Who's Pete Townsend also gives his guitar-drivencameo role on Because You're Young. While the music is not quite far removedfrom the post-Punk Rock of the early-1980's, it highly showcases a sound that isfresh, hip, fascinating and contemporary that he did to near-perfection, which willalways remain as visually timeless as ever.

If 'Ziggy Stardust' was Bowie's scale for measuring his 70's work then this album does the same for his work up to today.At it's most basic 'Scary Monsters' is David Bowie's hardest rocking album of the decade.Both parts of "It's No Game",the title cut and "Teenage Wildlife" all feature Robert Fripp's slashing guitar riffs strung into wild,disonant patterns.So if songs such as "Up The Hill Backwards","Kingdom Come" and "Because Your Young" all carry on the warped and disonant guitar rock sound,they also carry an equally mutated wall of sound-like production and (yes) very catchy writing.Of course this album will be remembered commercially for two reasons-the tongue in cheek dance-rock of "Fasion",with it's great rhythmic backup and the jerky "Ashes To Ashes",the twisted follow up to 'Space Oddity' where Bowie implies 'Major Tom was a junkie'.So is there a good reason to say that any Bowie album today is and I quaote 'his best since 'Scary Monsters'?Well there is-this album ushered Bowie into the era of the music video (Fasion and Ashes To Ashes both have their own clips-worth searching for) and everything on this album has a particularly timeless quality.Because of his clout Bowie knew he'd succeed no matter what so he committed himself to his own artistic vision rather then to being ultra trendy.In fact as is the case here he went out of his way to mock those trends when he could.By far his most consistant album of this decade.

You've bought this so you're likely a Bowie fan, so I don't have to sell you on how exceptional an artist he was.I have been going through my album collection and acquiring CDs I did not already have, and somehow I had not updated my CD collection to include Bowie in the same manner I had so many other artists. My bad.Scary Monsters is an exceptional release, and we all know that. This remaster is a fine one as well. It was done before the loudness war began with more modern releases/remasters, and so what we get is a remaster done for the age of digital (as opposed to vinyl/cassette), which does this release justice.If you are a Bowie fan there is no reason to not own this.