David Bowie "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" RCA ?BOW LP 2 UK 1st press A3/B3
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David Bowie ? "Scary Monsters" RCA ? BOW LP 2 Vinyl LP released in 1980.
The vinyl appears to have been very lightly played and is in great condition. Sleeve shows minimal signs of wear. A rather enigmatic "50012" has been written on the front of the sleeve.There are no marks to the rear. The spine is intact and completely legible. The printed lyric inner is intact and in good condition, with no writing or tears.
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"Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)", also known simply as "Scary Monsters", is David Bowie's fourteenth studio album, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was his final studio album for the label and his first following the so-called Berlin Trilogy of Low, "Heroes" and Lodger (1977–79). Though considered very significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proved less successful commercially. With "Scary Monsters", however, Bowie achieved what biographer David Buckley called "the perfect balance"; as well as earning critical acclaim, the album peaked at No. 1 in the UK and restored 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.
The cover artwork of "Scary Monsters" features Bowie in the Pierrot costume worn in the "Ashes to Ashes" music video, rendered in a combination of Brian Duffy's photographs and a painting by Edward Bell. The original vinyl album's rear sleeve referred to four earlier albums, namely the immediately preceding 'Berlin Trilogy' and 1973's "Aladdin Sane", the latter also having been designed and photographed by Duffy. The cover images from "Low", "Heroes", and "Lodger"—the last showing Bowie's torso superimposed on the figure from Aladdin Sane's inside gatefold picture—were portrayed in small frames to the left of the track listing. Their whitewashed look was reportedly designed "to symbolise the discarding of Bowie's old personae".
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".
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