Scary Monsters is a Self Help Album. ING #1 is before therapy, ING #2 is after therapy. The songs in between are the therapy. Maybe the greatest album ever. Certainly, the most unique.
I remember listening to No. 1 when I was 18 in my room and Mum coming in asking if I'd lost my mind. I said "Yes, I have, in music and he's helping me" It's been lost ever since. RIP David.
Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low, I leaned back on my radio, some cat was laying down some rock and roll' let me say he said. Young Americans, Fascination, Starman, This ain't rock and roll, this is
He influenced my singing voice and still does except my mother asked in an annoyed voice "who is that woman whos singing "? i said it was Geddy lee of rush , haha . Got to love your mum .
Someone with his voice and talent, using it to convey madness in such a way. And then that second part, all weary and broken. He wasn't just ahead of his time, he still is.
Agreed... We forget it's Thanks to David whobrokethe rules and introduced amulti talented /Variety of music ...thats played even now....David spoke ofhis life and all the shithe had togo thruand other artists too....life wasn't rosy...he had the balls to kick doors down...make way for other artists
+Gabriela Amari I think you may be mistaken Gabriela. Scary Monsters, from which these tracks were taken, was released only 16 months after the equally, in my humble opinion, Lodger. The gap you may be referring to is the one between Scary Monsters and Let's Dance (3 years) when he had left RCA for a massively lucrative deal with EMI. Also Let's Dance saw a return to touring after an even longer gap (5 years). You are of course 100% correct on your other point! RIP David.
+CONSIDERABLYMORE1 If I remember correctly, it was described as something of a comeback at the time. Ashes to Ashes was his biggest hit in years worldwide, though not as much in the US. The video got a lot of play on MTV, though. The album got better reviews than Lodger and it didn't have the instrumentals that Low and Heroes did, so it was considered a comeback in that way.
+BlackMonk66 how can it be a comeback? I have followed Bowie since 1979 and it certainly wasn't regarded as a comeback. Comeback's normally imply an unusually lengthy hiatus. So as I said before his 1983 tour was a "comeback" tour following a five year gap in live shows. The period 1977-1980 was his most prolific in terms of output, releasing six LP's (two with Iggy Pop). Scary Monster's was definitely not a comeback. It was as you say more commercially successful than Lodger, but released only 16 months after Lodger.
+CONSIDERABLYMORE1 I was following him then, too, and Scary Monsters was considered a comeback in reviews at the time. The word has a wider meaning than you suggest and there are both commercial and artistic comebacks as well. If a baseball team is described as having a comeback in the ninth inning of a game, it means they had been losing for the first eight innings, not that they weren't playing for those innings. It was a comeback commercially, probably more successful than anything after Young Americans, and since Lodger got middling reviews and the albums before it were filled with esoteric instrumentals, it was an artistic comeback for anyone who wanted a Bowie album that was just filled with good songs, like he did in the early 70s. Then there's that it's generally described as his first record after the Berlin trilogy, so it was a return in that way. You have a valid perspective. If you're not looking at it from a commercial perspective and you don't see Scary Monsters as an artistic change of direction, it's reasonable not to consider it a comeback album. My only point is that there are equally valid perspectives that consider it a comeback.
+Gabriela Amari I'm with considerablymore1....Bowie was making albums non stop around this time.....not really a comeback....and as far as a hit he had had one 3 years prior, with Heroes
Part 1: Hard to make a song about white hot anger but he managed to pull it off. It helps to have the best talent working with you, in this case the Japanese woman and Fripp. Part 1 is my second favorite Bowie song (first is 'Be My Wife' - Bowie was an earth-shattering artist at both extremes).
Thank you Todd fab work putting this vid together. xxx Bowie is missed by all generations...R.I.P.Genius...you gave your all....and more....what other artistswould gothe extra miles to compledte master pieces...yourMusicLegacycieslive on in the hearts of Bowies old andnew...
WWhTever type of comeback it was, not everyone was as aware of his more obscure work. In terms of commercial music, yes, this was a comeback. The songs that were danced to in clubs. And I still cry now when I listen to certain Bowie songs. He was a large part of my life soundtrack.
Alex sto he's one of the main reasons this is in my top 4 Bowie records. And Bowie's delivery on part 1 gives zero fucks, a perfect thing to put on when completely smashed. The sad clown truly is a character the drunk/addict can laugh at with full knowledge of the joke.
My favourite album will probably always be diamond dogs (not counting the live albums), but recently this entire album has just been the vibe and I've really started to appreciate this album more than I ever have. I've always known his work and love the glam stuff, the Berlin Era and even his pop stuff but really only knew ashes to ashes and fashion off this record. Can never get enough bowie. My favourite track is probably teenage wildlife or because you're young.
Yes, Our Starman had to keep trying to explain to us how this life on this planet effects us(him) & we have all felt a part of his songs, Changes, Love you all💝💖💞
This is outstanding music, i`ve listened since I had the first album Funky dory. I´ve maid a playing list with about 40 songs and it never bores me out. I like listening to the background music and the accords, that are really made with originality. It should be played at high volume, especially It´s no game no1, it shakes you up and awakes you.
2020, it's a national anthem. To me, SM was the last of the great EP's before he retired from the world.He said all there really was to say, - the rest are just reminders and reinforcement. Black Star stands out as a pre meditated good bye.
@@markferguson3745 Yeah that's a good way to look at it, I like the song slow burn off heathen but aside from that I hold the same view. It's insane the catalogue of work he released in the span of about 12 years... Top to bottom classic after classic album and even had time for a covers album.
@Blue Bee I'm saying that Blackstar had it's moments after years of some poor efforts.He said what he had to say, and then just worked to maintain a Pop fan base and stable income.
@@ivankaramasov yea I know. Its just that let's dance and a couple of albums forward ruined it a bit for me. He just feels like a different artists 83- and forward. I just haven't had room in my little brain to try to soak it up
@@ivankaramasov I kinda did😢I had my own little cocktail of music that I loved like Pink floyd, Led Zeppelin, Velvet underground and Bowie 69-80 fitted perfectly in that. And Bowie was pretty much the first artist I discovered. It's very hard to explain. I love everything he's done. It's just that... Idk, just didn't have more room in my little brain to try to soak it all up
John De Herrera If we gathered together all of us who cannot get over Ziggy being gone, that number would definitely be in the millions! I try to listen to his brilliant gifts he blessed us with every day. #RIPStarman
When I heard the Japanese girl talking (I think it was Japanese) I thought wait David Bowie didn’t sing it then I heard him sing and I was like ohhhhhhhhh
Ahh, those clips that I think are from "Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo/Christiane F." In retrospect, that movie may well have saved my life as I was on the verge of doing some really stupid shit.
Where's 1,2 1,2,2? Maybe it got deleted in the 2017 remaster. I'll find out in a day or 2 when my remaster arrives. I bought the album in 1980 and it is worn out.
YA è superbo un'altra prova semmai ce ne fosse bisogno della genialità di bowie delle sue immense doti creative e vocali. Riascoltalo e cerca l'outtake It's gonna be me
Attilio Campagnoli.....I saw that movie when it came out solely as I was huge Bowie fan and until that date I had never seen Bowie move. I had been listening to him since I was 8 in 72 and read I'd tons of books and articles on him but again I had never seen him actually move in "real life" The was a great but one hell of dreary movie.
Johnnywhamo wow what a movie to see based on a somewhat minor bit player in said movie! Right up there with Requiem for a Dream, but at least the main character gets a bittersweet "happy" ending
I honestly don't feel like it was a comeback, per se, because station to station, low, heroes, and lodger are amazing fucking albums. However scary monsters was perhaps his most commercially successful album at this time, till lets dance, which ironically I feel is a lesser album then those stated, in quality.
Scary Monsters is a Self Help Album.
ING #1 is before therapy, ING #2 is after therapy. The songs in between are the therapy. Maybe the greatest album ever. Certainly, the most unique.
It'sone of Davids best works
I just love the album
I remember listening to No. 1 when I was 18 in my room and Mum coming in asking if I'd lost my mind. I said "Yes, I have, in music and he's helping me" It's been lost ever since. RIP David.
+MissBooful The same here except that I was 14. More than 35 years after a title still relevant ! Simply a genius
I got the SAME thing, and she was hip...how nutso/inventive this was...
You and millions and millions were inspired to no end by Starman, the best artist of the 20th & 21st century. Hands down!
Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low, I leaned back on my radio, some cat was laying down some rock and roll' let me say he said. Young Americans, Fascination, Starman, This ain't rock and roll, this is
He influenced my singing voice and still does except my mother asked in an annoyed voice "who is that woman whos singing "? i said it was Geddy lee of rush , haha . Got to love your mum .
This (these) are possibly my favorite Bowie songs. It feels like a piece of me is dead.
+Nadeem Khan That's pretty much it. A piece of me is dead.
+Nadeem Khan I'm still in denial.
+Nadeem Khan I agree - I loved Scary Monsters so so so so much!! The Guitar playing on this is just phenomenal and It's No Game!!!
Robert Fripp
Nadeem Khan Tired Of My Life was a very good song. It was a prototype of It's No Game. Tired Of My Life was from 1970 by David Bowie.
The brilliance of the start and finish of the first album which Bowie made sober.
Someone with his voice and talent, using it to convey madness in such a way. And then that second part, all weary and broken. He wasn't just ahead of his time, he still is.
Yes I agree mean while we will be stuck in the yr 1984.....but not Bowie
Agreed... We forget it's Thanks to David whobrokethe rules and introduced amulti talented /Variety of music ...thats played even now....David spoke ofhis life and all the shithe had togo thruand other artists too....life wasn't rosy...he had the balls to kick doors down...make way for other artists
We miss the genius of Bowie.
David, everyone loves you
A giant at the peak of his powers. Genius. Brilliant. The Messi of rock.
Freakin Yeah "To Be Insulted By These Facists Is So Degrading"
do you have your fingers broken?
Draw the blinds on yesterday, and it's all so much scarier
A Superb and timeless line …
FRIPP+BOWIE=MAGIC
After 37 or so years still amazing. Part 1 just unglued. Part 2 resigned but amazingly danceable.
This album was his great comeback onto the scene after years. I Love David Bowie. I always will. He will be Sorely Missed.
+Gabriela Amari I think you may be mistaken Gabriela. Scary Monsters, from which these tracks were taken, was released only 16 months after the equally, in my humble opinion, Lodger. The gap you may be referring to is the one between Scary Monsters and Let's Dance (3 years) when he had left RCA for a massively lucrative deal with EMI. Also Let's Dance saw a return to touring after an even longer gap (5 years).
You are of course 100% correct on your other point! RIP David.
+CONSIDERABLYMORE1 If I remember correctly, it was described as something of a comeback at the time. Ashes to Ashes was his biggest hit in years worldwide, though not as much in the US. The video got a lot of play on MTV, though. The album got better reviews than Lodger and it didn't have the instrumentals that Low and Heroes did, so it was considered a comeback in that way.
+BlackMonk66 how can it be a comeback? I have followed Bowie since 1979 and it certainly wasn't regarded as a comeback. Comeback's normally imply an unusually lengthy hiatus. So as I said before his 1983 tour was a "comeback" tour following a five year gap in live shows. The period 1977-1980 was his most prolific in terms of output, releasing six LP's (two with Iggy Pop). Scary Monster's was definitely not a comeback. It was as you say more commercially successful than Lodger, but released only 16 months after Lodger.
+CONSIDERABLYMORE1 I was following him then, too, and Scary Monsters was considered a comeback in reviews at the time. The word has a wider meaning than you suggest and there are both commercial and artistic comebacks as well. If a baseball team is described as having a comeback in the ninth inning of a game, it means they had been losing for the first eight innings, not that they weren't playing for those innings. It was a comeback commercially, probably more successful than anything after Young Americans, and since Lodger got middling reviews and the albums before it were filled with esoteric instrumentals, it was an artistic comeback for anyone who wanted a Bowie album that was just filled with good songs, like he did in the early 70s. Then there's that it's generally described as his first record after the Berlin trilogy, so it was a return in that way.
You have a valid perspective. If you're not looking at it from a commercial perspective and you don't see Scary Monsters as an artistic change of direction, it's reasonable not to consider it a comeback album. My only point is that there are equally valid perspectives that consider it a comeback.
+Gabriela Amari I'm with considerablymore1....Bowie was making albums non stop around this time.....not really a comeback....and as far as a hit he had had one 3 years prior, with Heroes
Part 1: Hard to make a song about white hot anger but he managed to pull it off. It helps to have the best talent working with you, in this case the Japanese woman and Fripp. Part 1 is my second favorite Bowie song (first is 'Be My Wife' - Bowie was an earth-shattering artist at both extremes).
Thank you Todd fab work putting this vid together. xxx Bowie is missed by all generations...R.I.P.Genius...you gave your all....and more....what other artistswould gothe extra miles to compledte master pieces...yourMusicLegacycieslive on in the hearts of Bowies old andnew...
WWhTever type of comeback it was, not everyone was as aware of his more obscure work. In terms of commercial music, yes, this was a comeback. The songs that were danced to in clubs. And I still cry now when I listen to certain Bowie songs. He was a large part of my life soundtrack.
My favourite Bowie album is Scary monsters& I was 15 when it was released 😊
I was newborn 😎
I was 9. And my first Bowie album 😊
at that same age I listened to that album and that man came in and has never left my life
Mr Bowie will always be my god
an outstanding creepy outa-this-world guitar playing !!! robert "scary creep" fripp !! 2 beasts (robert guitar and david vocals) are screaming along !
Alex sto he's one of the main reasons this is in my top 4 Bowie records. And Bowie's delivery on part 1 gives zero fucks, a perfect thing to put on when completely smashed. The sad clown truly is a character the drunk/addict can laugh at with full knowledge of the joke.
indeed...same time period as RFs Lesgue of Gentlemen!!
L'album Scary Monsters fait partie de mes favoris. Un best de best de best... Quelle musique !! Géant 😛🥰
🖕🖕🖕❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
first time I heard this, album just came out. We bought it, 15 years old, took acid, THIS came on and we thought "What the actual fuck!"
My favourite album will probably always be diamond dogs (not counting the live albums), but recently this entire album has just been the vibe and I've really started to appreciate this album more than I ever have. I've always known his work and love the glam stuff, the Berlin Era and even his pop stuff but really only knew ashes to ashes and fashion off this record. Can never get enough bowie.
My favourite track is probably teenage wildlife or because you're young.
cmon brother listen to BBC sessions ziggy songs rock better than the studio versions
Tfrom the best album of Bowie ❤
TROPPO BRAVO, ineguagliabile , ma anche lei comunque con la sua voce , " una delizia sublime " , anche se trattano un tema SCOTTANTE ; 10+
I remember as a kid buying a plastic sleeve to protect this album cover,which was a big deal to me. Scary Monsters was so special.
I don't know if I've ever heard this before. Thanks for posting. Bowie being crazy
Theres a very fine line between insanity and genius :)
I've never even known of it!
Part 1 rocks out funk is to funky twist and shout literally. Good money is this Bowie album, a greatest hits collection.
that reoccurring close up of Bowie's eyes is kinda creepy
You mean super creepy.
@@davidcopson5800 You mean Scary Monsters and Super Creepy
Love this back to back.
Super clip bonne idée d avoir associé les deux ! Merci !
Yes, Our Starman had to keep trying to explain to us how this life on this planet effects us(him) & we have all felt a part of his songs, Changes, Love you all💝💖💞
so cool ! Thanks
The footage was from the ITV welcome to 1980 - yeah, the Eyes can be creepy, but Bowie was Handsome at the time.
Lady Lakshmi He always was, really. And what always amazes me, his intelligence shines through his facial expressions.
This is outstanding music, i`ve listened since I had the first album Funky dory. I´ve maid a playing list with about 40 songs and it never bores me out. I like listening to the background music and the accords, that are really made with originality. It should be played at high volume, especially It´s no game no1, it shakes you up and awakes you.
2020, it's a national anthem.
To me, SM was the last of the great EP's before he retired from the world.He said all there really was to say, - the rest are just reminders and reinforcement.
Black Star stands out as a pre meditated good bye.
Ashes to Ashes makes for a beautiful coda. Space Oddity to Ashes to Ashes, all wrapped up.
@@koomo801 Agreed.
@@markferguson3745 Yeah that's a good way to look at it, I like the song slow burn off heathen but aside from that I hold the same view. It's insane the catalogue of work he released in the span of about 12 years... Top to bottom classic after classic album and even had time for a covers album.
@Blue Bee I'm saying that Blackstar had it's moments after years of some poor efforts.He said what he had to say, and then just worked to maintain a Pop fan base and stable income.
The next day was a great album. Took a few listens but it really grew on me.
My almost daily earworm, version 2
Yes brother. It's no game any more. It never was.
gratitude mr jones.
From Bowie's best Album.
miss you so much
Great Track(s)! Blur's Girls and Boys sounds a bit like this.
Guess Blur knew their classics.
when it´s now game , then it has to be true, but i have no proof !!!
And when i don´t have that, i do what i want
very sinister take on DBs Tired of my Life song from early 1970s
Back to Back, incredible...
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For me... This was Bowies last album. Have a strange fascinaton for everything Bowie did between Diamond Dogs and Scary Monsters 💎
I don't think that fascination is strange, but you really miss put on a lot of great stuff.
@@ivankaramasov yea I know. Its just that let's dance and a couple of albums forward ruined it a bit for me. He just feels like a different artists 83- and forward. I just haven't had room in my little brain to try to soak it up
@@heavymeddle28 I remember feeling the same in the mid 80s. I was extremely disappointed by Bowie at the time. But I am glad I didn't abandon him.
@@ivankaramasov I kinda did😢I had my own little cocktail of music that I loved like Pink floyd, Led Zeppelin, Velvet underground and Bowie 69-80 fitted perfectly in that. And Bowie was pretty much the first artist I discovered. It's very hard to explain. I love everything he's done. It's just that... Idk, just didn't have more room in my little brain to try to soak it all up
Best thing ever.
I'm still in denial.
+John De Herrera Yep. Still can't get used to him in past tense. Not a day is passing where I don't think of him.
John De Herrera If we gathered together all of us who cannot get over Ziggy being gone, that number would definitely be in the millions! I try to listen to his brilliant gifts he blessed us with every day. #RIPStarman
@@yolondambrowm9803 Ziggy died in 1973, if you know what I mean..
Shit. I just went thru chemo. It's no game.
I love this song!
so incredible - from my main man BOWIE
When I heard the Japanese girl talking (I think it was Japanese) I thought wait David Bowie didn’t sing it then I heard him sing and I was like ohhhhhhhhh
just wow these are great
'Adamant'. No escape from it, really.
Ahh, those clips that I think are from "Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo/Christiane F." In retrospect, that movie may well have saved my life as I was on the verge of doing some really stupid shit.
It's...No...Game!
The ONLY one to stand the test of time ,,,to the end ....
Amazing
C'est mes préférées de db.. snif snif
Great job 👍
Superb song … about as hard as Bowie gets …
Bowie x
Some song great
Total genius...
Så deep å wonderbar, med mollaccord
Where's 1,2
1,2,2?
Maybe it got deleted in the 2017 remaster. I'll find out in a day or 2 when my remaster arrives.
I bought the album in 1980 and it is worn out.
LOVE
genio!!!!😚
One of my favorite songs....even if children round the world put camel shit on the walls..
+Azrael Astrum Some say it's worth them putting shit on the walls if it results in this song.
the brief RF frippertronix at the end of
Pt 1 is underrated...tbh
Its no game.
Bowie.........!!!!!!!!!!
the mean and nice versions
another chip off my hart
This song is very similar to his "I'm Tired of my Life" from 1971 except this has electric guitar.
I heard he snipped it into shape and used it for this album after all this years
il mio bowie quello per cui andavo e vado pazzo e' quello fino a scary monsters album sottovalutato ma bellissimo tranne l album young americans
YA è superbo un'altra prova semmai ce ne fosse bisogno della genialità di bowie delle sue immense doti creative e vocali. Riascoltalo e cerca l'outtake It's gonna be me
Think I've seen.....Christiane F. ...in the Clip......................?
Attilio Campagnoli.....I saw that movie when it came out solely as I was huge Bowie fan and until that date I had never seen Bowie move. I had been listening to him since I was 8 in 72 and read I'd tons of books and articles on him but again I had never seen him actually move in "real life" The was a great but one hell of dreary movie.
Johnnywhamo wow what a movie to see based on a somewhat minor bit player in said movie! Right up there with Requiem for a Dream, but at least the main character gets a bittersweet "happy" ending
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I think Marilyn M. got some ideas from Bowie.
Duh.
@@J8T369 cough cough,Mechanical animals
This version is hot❤❤❤❤
Me too
👁👁💖
In black and white, Bowie looks like a young Willem Dafoe.
WoW ( amazing ))
barred, as in banned, not bored, from the event, yes?
I honestly don't feel like it was a comeback, per se, because station to station, low, heroes, and lodger are amazing fucking albums. However scary monsters was perhaps his most commercially successful album at this time, till lets dance, which ironically I feel is a lesser album then those stated, in quality.
I played these tracks in the wrong ? order and thats fun too ...
Sorry, I forgot to mention. I am 63
Todd ✓green heart
Ooh
Metro go
What's the message of the song I am confused.
That many get carried away in the fantasy of idealism and forget what life was meant to be about.
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Nancy Chandler this how you sing to men and women for romance
TT...
Ort one
So where's the moral
When people have their fingers broken
To be insulted by these fascists
It's so degrading
And it's no game…
DB was referring to Zionist Apartheid Israel's evil criminal behaviour in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Bowie foresaw Trump in "It's no game"
It completely the opposite. Listen and open your eyes from you own bias.
shit sound quality
keith bickerdike - mp3's usually don't sound good on a Walkman ;)
thank you for this. XLNT.