David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

[ilkovsky]

This song sounds so much like Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals album. So this is where he got it from!

[rushnerd]

I wish I could still pop/rock/whatever this is with this kind of depth these days. Doesn't hurt that Fripp is a god.

[kevfullo]

scary

[DrWhoManiac666]

I love but also hate how his music is always something different sounding. Its great cause its unique but kills me cause if you like one song, you can't find another like it :) Bowie is brilliant though

[sallyfieldrequired]

@DrWhoManiac666 but that's the beauty, so much gold to wallow in and you never get bored because no two songs are the same.

[CovenantOfLove]

Back again...for like the 100th time... your taste is impeccable!

[nanakistrife]

@SurrenderFriday take them both!

[SurrenderFriday]

I can't decide if I want to buried with THIS album or with Lodger. It's one or the other.

[kevfullo]

@SurrenderFriday , take both

[MrFigurehead9]

In my eyes, bowie was always good at recognizing talent, and using them for his own needs. He probably was very manipulative. That said, he was a great song writer on his own, and he knew what he wanted to sound like, which is why he recruited guys like Fripp. What is bowie without Fripp? What is Fripp without bowie? None of them are scarry monsters without each other, that's for damn sure. I'm just glad, that this masterpiece was made =).

[dettigs]

@MrFigurehead9 yeah after listening to the same stuff for years i decided to dive a little deeper into artists that i had only heard their stuff that received airplay. i've become obsessed with bowie. and to find he wrote almost everything and reading about his addiction and the berlin trilogy etc. is quite amazing. definitely a musical genius!

[kennyRumbles]

maths o grades n cuppa soup....this album killed my fears...

[RockSpiritTV]

Thank you for posting this. XXX HOT

[TheRockingtam]

What would Fripp & Ray be without the royalties from Bowie? Ill tell you = Fucken Skint. I will say that I think that this was the last REAL album Bowie made, but with the likes of LOW, HUNKY DORY, ZIGGY in your back catalogue then he can be forgiven for lesser works. I never thought I'd be sticking up for Bowie but there it is.

[FrankGarrettLives]

@TheRockingtam

I agree, and I love SRV but he sounded way better without Bowie singing the China Girl bullshit.

Bowie gave us Ziggy, Aladdin, Station to Station, Heroes, Low, and then this album is just a masterpiece. I can let him go for everything after Scary Monsters for giving me the thin white duke alone.

[kevfullo]

@TheRockingtam , and eno and god knows how many others, doesn't mean they are shite though. bowie is a one man industry

[adacom1000]

wazzzzzzzzzza!

[MrStu1966]

philosoFical..that's a joke, right? right?

[FinnMove]

What would be Bowie without Robert Fripp. OK Chinagirl is alright.

[jimsimac]

@FinnMove What would David Bowie be without Fripp or Stevie Ray... Oh wait, Tin Machine, I forgot.

[sergiosozi]

Great modern song, a ''Picassian'' form of art. Anyway, to make a synthesis on Bowie' acting on music, the Bowie's cultural massage is still not philosofically and metaphysically clear. But some kind of artistic creation is like so. So I enjoy and quit discussing on this...

[rgaleny]

@sergiosozi It has to be a next step in the discussion. It's like John Lennon was shot. then they revisited his message there way.

[m1kewithaone]

@sergiosozi well just let me say this about that. i don't care about no cultural message from bowie, except his philosofical ideas he put forth on the "diamond dogs" album. and if i remember correctly, with a little purple microdot, it was quite metephysical for me, and quite a cultural time to be had for all!! if you get me meaning.... :)

[Kubrickfan1]

1980 folks, beats the piss outta today

[edzashed100]

only 4k+ hits wow cant believe it ..... awesome

[Jam2morrow]

This was cutting edge production at that time, courtesy of Brian Eno, and the Robert Fripp guiter on this entire album still blows me away.

[boogiepop14mc]

@Jam2morrow Brian Eno had absolutely nothing to do with this album.

[Jam2morrow]

@boogiepop14mc : I stand corrected.

[gideonblackman]

yeah Eno produced Low, Heroes and Lodger by this time though he was helping produce the Talking Heads Classic Speaking in Tongues.

[precinkt]

@gideonblackman TONY VISCONTI produced Low, Heroes and Lodger

[populvuh02]

@precinkt absolutely correct. so many people seem to overlook that bit. eno only collaborated on a couple tracks

[swlabr413]

@gideonblackman Bowie and Visconti are the only producers on those three albums, but Eno and Bowie were cowriting songs and performing together. oh and Eno actually had nothing to do with Speaking in Tongues either, this was when Remain in Light was being made.

[gideonblackman]

@swlabr413

sorry meant remain in light

[sb1irishlad]

kicking song

[strangebeauty1980]

I love this kooky song!