"Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (song) ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"" is the title track from David Bowie's 1980 album ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"". It was also issued as the third single from that album in January 1981. Coming as it did in the wake of two earlier singles from ""Scary Monsters"", ""Ashes to Ashes"" in August 1980 and ""Fashion"" in October the same year, ""NME"" critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray labelled its release another instance ""in the fine old tradition of milking albums for as much as they could possibly be worth"". Musically the track was"
"Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), also known simply as Scary Monsters, is the 14th studio album by David Bowie, released on 12 September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album on the label and his first following the Berlin Trilogy of ""Low"", """"Heroes"""" and ""Lodger"" (1977–1979). Though considered very significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proven less successful commercially. With ""Scary Monsters"", Bowie achieved what biographer David Buckley called ""the perfect balance"" of creativity and mainstream success; as well as earning critical acclaim, the album peaked at No. 1 and went"
"The album was rereleased in 2003 by EMI as a Super Audio CD. In 2017, the album was remastered for the ""A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)"" box set released by Parlophone. It was released in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, as part of this compilation and then separately the following year. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), also known simply as Scary Monsters, is the 14th studio album by David Bowie, released on 12 September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album on the label and his first following the"
"7"" vinyl, it was issued in Compact Cassette format. It has since been performed on a number of Bowie tours. The French release of the single had ""Up the Hill Backwards"" as the B-side. Pegg, Nicholas, ""The Complete David Bowie"", Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (song) ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"" is the title track from David Bowie's 1980 album ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"". It was also issued as the third single from that album in January 1981. Coming as it did in the wake of two earlier singles from ""Scary Monsters"", ""Ashes to"
"commercial; and a new version of ""Aladdin Sane""'s ""Panic in Detroit"". RCA released ""Scary Monsters"" in September 1980 with the promo line ""Often Copied, Never Equalled"", seen as a direct reference to the New Wave acts Bowie had inspired over the years. It was highly praised by critics, ""Record Mirror"" giving it a rating of seven stars out of five, while ""Melody Maker"" called it ""an eerily impressive stride into the '80s"" and ""Billboard"" reported that it ""should be the most accessible and commercially successful Bowie LP in years"". The album's No. 1 placing in the UK charts was Bowie's"
"Bowie his first No. 1 single in the UK Singles Chart in November that year. It spent two weeks at the top of that chart. Bowie recorded a stripped-down, acoustic version of the song in late 1979, which was issued in February 1980 as the B-side of ""Alabama Song"". The 1979 recording was released, in a remixed form, in 1992 on the Rykodisc reissue of Bowie's ""Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"" album, and it was rereleased on ""Re:Call 3"", part of the ""A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)"" compilation, in 2017. On 20 July 2009, the single was"
"first since ""Diamond Dogs"" in 1974, while its US peak of No. 12 was his highest stateside showing since ""Low"" almost four years earlier. Despite the worldwide megastardom and commercial success that Bowie would achieve in coming years, most notably with his next studio album ""Let's Dance"" in 1983, many commentators consider ""Scary Monsters"" to be ""his last great album"", the ""benchmark"" for each new release. Well-regarded later efforts such as ""Outside"", ""Earthling"", ""Heathen"" and ""Reality"" were cited as ""the best album since ""Scary Monsters""."" In the latest edition of his musical biography of the singer, ""Strange Fascination"", David Buckley"
"which ""Aladdin Sane"" (1973), ""Pin Ups"" (1973), ""Diamond Dogs"" (1974) and ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"" (1980) reached the number one position. He then released three solo studio albums with EMI – ""Let's Dance"" (1983), whose title track became his first single to reach number one in both the United Kingdom and the United States, ""Tonight"" (1984) and ""Never Let Me Down"" (1987). ""Let's Dance"" and ""Tonight"" reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, while ""Never Let Me Down"" reached number six. The success of ""Let's Dance"" revitalized Bowie's back catalogue: throughout the summer of 1983, he had multiple"
"of Bowie’s 1971 single ""Holy Holy"", re-recorded during the ""Ziggy Stardust"" sessions the same year. Diamond Dogs (song) ""Diamond Dogs"" is a 1974 single by David Bowie, the title track of the album of the same name. The lyric introduces the listener to Bowie’s latest persona and his environment; Halloween Jack dwells on top of an abandoned skyscraper (""Manhattan Chase"", a.k.a. One Chase Manhattan Plaza) in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan. The guitar sound is heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones, and signalled Bowie moving away from glam rock and closer to a proto-punk Stooges-influenced sound. The track was considered by many"
"Platinum in the UK, successfully restoring Bowie's commercial standing in the US. Although the album is commonly referred to as ""Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"", in keeping with the song title, and the album title as written on the front and back covers of the LP is ""Scary Monsters . . . . . and Super Creeps"", the album is identified simply as ""Scary Monsters"" on the LP spine and disc label. According to co-producer Tony Visconti, David Bowie's method on ""Scary Monsters"" was somewhat less experimental and more concerned with achieving a commercially viable sound than had been the"
"Diamond Dogs (song) ""Diamond Dogs"" is a 1974 single by David Bowie, the title track of the album of the same name. The lyric introduces the listener to Bowie’s latest persona and his environment; Halloween Jack dwells on top of an abandoned skyscraper (""Manhattan Chase"", a.k.a. One Chase Manhattan Plaza) in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan. The guitar sound is heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones, and signalled Bowie moving away from glam rock and closer to a proto-punk Stooges-influenced sound. The track was considered by many commentators to be an unconventional single, and it only reached number 21 in the United"
"suggested that ""Bowie should pre-emptively sticker up his next album 'Best Since ""Scary Monsters""' and have done with it"". In 2000 ""Q"" magazine ranked ""Scary Monsters"" at No. 30 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2002 Pitchfork Media placed it No. 93 in its Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. In 2012, ""Slant Magazine"" listed the album at No. 27 on its list of ""Best Albums of the 1980s"" saying ""Bowie bridles the experimentation of his Berlin trilogy and channels those synth flourishes and off-kilter guitar licks into one of the decade's quirkiest pop albums."""
"of whom had been strongly influenced by Reed's work with the Velvet Underground. Bowie had obliquely referenced the Velvet Underground in the cover notes for his album ""Hunky Dory"" and regularly performed both ""White Light/White Heat"" and ""I'm Waiting for the Man"" in concerts and on the BBC during 1971–1973. He even began recording ""White Light/White Heat"" for inclusion on ""Pin Ups"", but it was never completed; Ronson ended up using the backing track for his solo album ""Play Don't Worry"" in 1974. Mick Ronson (who was at the time the lead guitarist with Bowie's band, the Spiders from Mars)"
"Cherry album ""People from Bad Homes""; ""I Am a Laser"" was one of the tracks. Bowie intended to play the song during his 1987 Glass Spider Tour, but dropped the song from the set list before the tour started. Scream Like a Baby ""Scream Like a Baby"" is a song written by David Bowie that appears on the 1980 album ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"". The song focusses on a protagonist called Sam who is evidently being held, along with the track's narrator, in a political prison. Though set in the future, the story is related in the past tense,"
"""China Girl"", ""Loving the Alien"" and ""Day-In Day-Out"" are the censored versions of the original videos. Initially peaking at number 11 on the UK Albums Chart upon release in October 2002, the album entered the top 10 for the first time in January 2016, following Bowie's death, and reached a new peak of number 1, marking Bowie's eleventh UK number-one album. It also became the first album to reach number 1 in the UK due to streaming. ""Best of Bowie"" has been certified 4× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of over 1,200,000. Initially peaking at number 11"
"Mars From Aladdin Sane From Diamond Dogs From Young Americans From Station to Station From Low From ""Heroes"" From Lodger From Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) From Let's Dance From Tonight From Outside From Earthling From Heathen From Reality Other songs: A Reality Tour A Reality Tour was a worldwide concert tour by David Bowie in support of the ""Reality"" album. The tour commenced on 7 October 2003 at the Forum Copenhagen, Denmark, continuing through Europe, North America, Asia, including a return to New Zealand and Australia for the first time since the 1987 Glass Spider Tour. This also proved"
"the Laughing Gnome, but ""in considerably more sinister guise"". Some of these hinted interpretations showed up in the analysis of a ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's ""Readers' Poll: The 10 Best David Bowie Deep Cuts"", in which ""Bewlay Brothers"" came in at #8 (after such hits as ""Panic in Detroit"", ""Station to Station"", and ""Teenage Wildlife""). Compiler Andy Greene said, Virtually no entry in the David Bowie songbook has confused the hardcores quite like ""The Bewlay Brothers."" It was the final track recorded for ""Hunky Dory"" and Bowie said at the time the lyrics were nonsense, but in later years he hinted"
"but at Bowie's request was used for the album instead. Album Single Pin Ups Pin Ups (also referred to as PinUps) is the seventh studio album by David Bowie, containing cover versions of songs, released in 1973 on RCA Records. ""Pin Ups"" entered the UK chart on 3 November 1973 (coincidentally the same day as Bryan Ferry's covers album ""These Foolish Things"") and stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 1. It re-entered the chart on 30 April 1983, this time for fifteen weeks, peaking at No. 57. In July 1990, it again entered the chart, for one week,"
"Bowie's commercial breakthrough ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"". Despite it being radically different from his material at the time, the single made No. 6 in the UK charts. A re-recorded version of ""Love You till Tuesday"" b/w ""Did You Ever Have a Dream"" was released as a single in July 1967. ""David Bowie"" was released in the UK, in both mono and stereo, on 1 June 1967. It was issued in the US in August 1967, minus ""We Are Hungry Men"" and ""Maid of Bond Street"". The album - only reaching 125 in"
"Pin Ups Pin Ups (also referred to as PinUps) is the seventh studio album by David Bowie, containing cover versions of songs, released in 1973 on RCA Records. ""Pin Ups"" entered the UK chart on 3 November 1973 (coincidentally the same day as Bryan Ferry's covers album ""These Foolish Things"") and stayed there for 21 weeks, peaking at No. 1. It re-entered the chart on 30 April 1983, this time for fifteen weeks, peaking at No. 57. In July 1990, it again entered the chart, for one week, at No. 52. A version of The Velvet Underground's ""White Light/White Heat"""
"I'm Afraid of Americans ""I'm Afraid of Americans"" is a single by David Bowie from the 1997 album ""Earthling"". The song, co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno, was originally written during Bowie's studio sessions for the 1995 album ""Outside"" but was not released until a rough mix appeared on the soundtrack to the film ""Showgirls"", and was subsequently remade for ""Earthling"". A top 20 hit in Canada, the rework also peaked at number 66 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and spent 16 weeks on that chart. This was the theme song of the TV drama show ""Berlin Station"" and the"
"critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album – ""Little Wonder"" and ""Dead Man Walking"" – became UK Top 40 hits. Bowie's song ""I'm Afraid of Americans"" from the Paul Verhoeven film ""Showgirls"" was re-recorded for the album, and remixed by Trent Reznor for a single release. The heavy rotation of the accompanying video, also featuring Trent Reznor, contributed to the song's 16-week stay in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Bowie received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 12 February 1997. The Earthling Tour took in Europe and North"
"unmoved by a harem of beautiful women while singing the song to camera, as well as scenes of him in a jester's outfit, playing with mirrors, dressed as a mime, and even returning briefly to his fashion style as the Thin White Duke from 1976. ""Miracle Goodnight"" had the usual plethora of remixes his recent multi-format singles had featured and reached No. 40 in the UK Singles Chart. All tracks by Bowie Producers Remix producer Musicians Miracle Goodnight ""Miracle Goodnight"" is a song from David Bowie's album ""Black Tie White Noise"", and was released as the third single from the"
"for an album that rose above its immediate predecessors. ""Entertainment Weekly"" found the album mostly ""listless"" and ""tired"" with two exceptions: the ""dreamy"" ""Miracle Goodnight"" and the ""witty"" ""I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday"". Robert Christgau, writing in ""The Village Voice"", said that the music was Bowie's ""most arresting"" because of its dance beats and electronic textures, but reacted negatively towards Bowie's lyrics, e.g. about race relations in the title track. The album reached the number one spot on the UK Albums Chart, supported by the singles ""Jump They Say"" and ""Miracle Goodnight"". However, until re-releases later in the 1990s,"
"Hours (David Bowie album) Hours (stylised as 'hours...' ) is the 21st studio album by English singer David Bowie. It was released on 4 October 1999 on Virgin Records. This was Bowie's final album for the EMI sub-label. It was the first complete album by a major artist available to download over the Internet, preceding the physical release by two weeks. ""Hours"" was the first Bowie studio album to miss the US top 40 since his 1972 album ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"" and peaked at number 47. Bowie and Reeves Gabrels wrote"
"topped the album charts in 24 different countries, including France, Germany and Italy, while it also made the top 5 in a further six different countries, including Japan and South Korea. In the United States, Bowie's combined album and song sales rose to 682,000 following his death, which was a rise of more than 5,000%. Another nine of his albums re-entered in the ""Billboard"" 200, including ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"", ""Hunky Dory"", ""Let's Dance"", ""Aladdin Sane"", ""Low"", and ""The Next Day"". On the ""Billboard"" Hot Rock Songs chart, Bowie broke the record"
"Let's Dance (David Bowie album) Let's Dance is the 15th studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released in April 1983, three years after his previous album, ""Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"". Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album contains three of his most successful singles; the title track, ""Let's Dance"", which reached No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries, as well as ""Modern Love"" and ""China Girl"", which both reached No. 2 in the UK. ""China Girl"" was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter's 1977"
"The Laughing Gnome ""The Laughing Gnome"" is a song by English singer David Bowie, released as a single on 14 April 1967. A pastiche of songs by one of Bowie's early influences, Anthony Newley, it was originally released as a novelty single on Deram Records in 1967. The track consists of Bowie meeting and conversing with a gnome, whose sped-up voice (created by Bowie and studio engineer Gus Dudgeon) delivers several puns on the word ""gnome"". At the time, ""The Laughing Gnome"" failed to provide Bowie with a chart placing, but on its re-release in 1973 it reached number six"
"Bowie, except where noted. Five Years (1969–1973) Five Years (1969–1973) is a box set by David Bowie, released in September 2015. The period of Bowie's career from 1969 to 1973 is summarised over twelve discs and thirteen LPs. Exclusive to the box sets is ""Re:Call 1"", a new compilation of non-album singles, single versions and B-sides. It includes the albums ""David Bowie"" (more commonly known as ""Space Oddity""), ""The Man Who Sold the World"", ""Hunky Dory"", ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"", ""Aladdin Sane"" and the last Spiders album with Bowie ""Pin Ups"". The"
"cuts on ""Ziggy"" and contains the usual craftsmanship of Mick Ronson's Les Paul signature guitar licks. In a radio interview in 1972 (prior to it being dropped from the album) Bowie said he felt ""Velvet Goldmine"" was a ""lovely thing"" and ""very David Bowie"". ""Velvet Goldmine"" was eventually released as the B-side (along with ""Changes"") of the UK re-release of ""Space Oddity"" in 1975 which went to Number 1 in the UK singles charts and gave Bowie his first UK chart topper. Bowie, who had moved to LA at the time of the release said later of the song's inclusion"
"David Bowie (1969 album) David Bowie is the second studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released under that title by Philips in the UK, and as Man of Words/Man of Music by Mercury in the US, on 14 November 1969. It was reissued in 1972 by RCA Records as Space Oddity (the title of the opening track, which had reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart). ""Space Oddity"" was the name used for CD releases of the album in 1984, 1990 and 1999, but it reverted to the original, eponymous title for 2009 and 2015 reissues. Regarding"
"in October 2002 on the UK Albums Chart, the album entered the top 10 for the first time in January 2016, following Bowie's death. On 5 February, after his final album ""Blackstar"" had spent three weeks at the top, ""Best of Bowie"" reached a new peak of number 1, marking Bowie's eleventh UK number-one album and making him the first artist to replace themselves at number 1 with a different album since Michael Jackson did it after his own death in 2009. It also became the first album to reach number 1 in the UK due to streaming. All tracks"
"died in 2016. ""As the World Falls Down"" was considered for a Christmas 1986 single release, but was canceled. ""Magic Dance"" was released as the second single from the soundtrack to limited countries in January 1987. All tracks by Bowie All other Instrumental versions are slightly longer, backing-tracks only except on the back of the promo 12-inch single. Underground (David Bowie song) ""Underground"" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie for the soundtrack of the film ""Labyrinth"". It reached No. 21 in the UK Singles Chart. Bowie and producer Arif Martin recorded ""Underground"" at Atlantic Studios in New"