Album Review: DAVID BOWIE - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- MMM 23
Murdock talks more Bowie. This time his essential album that closed an era for Bowie and rang in the 80s.
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Strong contender for my favourite Bowie album. I think this album was also a strong influence on the underground-driven rise of 80s Gothic, although strangely not in sound or theme - but probably in this strange, almost nihilistic sense of melancholy and attire. But I remember in the early years of Goth and New Wave this album was owned by almost everyone who was "underground" and yet wanted to listen to a popular album. I think it's also part of Bowie's mystique, that he was commercial as hell, and yet had this acceptance by people that usually only roamed in the world of underground music.
I only have 4 Bowie records (plus a compilation): Hunky Dory, Ziggy, Low, and this one. And all of those were purchased in the 2010s. I don’t ever see myself being a Bowie completionist, as the albums I have already don’t get played often. But this is the one I’ve played the most.
I'm really not a completist either. There are a few Bowie albums I really like as whole albums, and this is certainly one of them 🙂
Are you related to Louis Theroux ?
Lol. No, sorry. 😄
Strong contender for my favourite Bowie album. I think this album was also a strong influence on the underground-driven rise of 80s Gothic, although strangely not in sound or theme - but probably in this strange, almost nihilistic sense of melancholy and attire. But I remember in the early years of Goth and New Wave this album was owned by almost everyone who was "underground" and yet wanted to listen to a popular album. I think it's also part of Bowie's mystique, that he was commercial as hell, and yet had this acceptance by people that usually only roamed in the world of underground music.
Very well said! A strangely artsy, yet commercially appealing album on the threshold of various genres.