Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps - The Album

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Songs (Time)

All songs written by David Bowie, except Kingdom Come by Tom Verlaine.

1. It's No Game (Part 1) (4:15)
2. Up The Hill Backwards (3:13)
3. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (5:10)
4. Ashes To Ashes (4:23)
5. Fashion (4:46)
6. Teenage Wildlife (6:51)
7. Scream Like A Baby (3:35)
8. Kingdom Come (3:42)
9. Because You're Young (4:51)
10. It's No Game (Part 2) (4:22)

    Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release

11. Space Oddity (4:57) Re-recorded single B-side 1979
12. Panic In Detroit (3:00) Re-recorded version, previously unreleased, 1979
13. Crystal Japan (3:08) Japanese single A-side 1979
14. Alabama Song (3:51) UK single A-side 1979

Release details

Original release by RCA 1980

Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1992 with bonus tracks

Producer

David Bowie and Tony Visconti

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals, keyboards

Dennis Davis: percussion

George Murray: bass

Carlos Alomar: guitars

Chuck Hammer: guitar on Ashes To Ashes and Teenage Wildlife

Robert Fripp: guitar on Fashion, It's No Game, Scary Monsters, Kingdom Come, Up The Hill Backwards and Teenage Wildlife

Roy Bittan: piano on Teenage Wildlife, Ashes To Ashes and Up The Hill Backwards

Andy Clark: synthesizer on Fashion, Scream Like A Baby, Ashes To Ashes and Because You're Young

Pete Townshend: guitar on Because You're Young

Tony Visconti: acoustic guitar on Scary Monsters Up The Hill Backwards

Lynn Maitland, Chris Porter, Tony Visconti, David Bowie: vocal backing

Michi Hirota: voice on It's No Game (Part 1)

Trivia

• The first Bowie album of the 80's. The video for Ashes To Ashes was hailed as ground-breaking.

• This Phillipine pressing (RCA Records AQL1-3647) 1980 declares 'Ashes To Ashes', 'Fashion' & 'It's No Game (Part1 & 2))" to be "Punk Rock Hit Singles". Contributed by Zig Dust

• Chart Performance:

  Country	Date	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	September 27, 1980	1	32
  US	?	12	27

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