His seventh studio album and third created together with David Bowie, released four years after his latest LP - "Zombie Birdhouse" - and nine years after his last Bowie collaboaration - "Lust For Life". As the story goes Bowie didn't participate by singing or playing, but so responsible for the final result in producing and arranging Iggy at a point more or less denied the record, calling it "a Bowie album in all but name". And after listening to it for a while now I have to agree. "Scary Monsters" was unique, not only for the music scene at large but also for Bowie himself. I was pretty upset back then when he didn't continue on that path and came up another masterpiece in the same style. But luckily with this I'm getting pretty close. In my world these albums sounds related - maybe not siblingwise, but at least as loving cousins. I get the same kind of more or less regular songs carried by a complex layer on layer technique with various mean guitars and synth effects as partly hidden support. There's also varispeed vocals and much of his singing comes with a Bowie-ish idiom. So what I most of all hear here is a continuation of "Scary Mosters", just with another very special vocalist. And a great album it is with many fantastic tracks - especially "Winners & Losers", "Shades", "Isolation" and "Blah-Blah-Blah". I'm in love. Issued and reissued on vinyl, cassette and CD all over the world through the years. Premiere US on A&M (SP 5145), UK on A&M (AMA 5145). Most CD version came with the flip side "Little Miss Emperor" as bonus track. First German had label as shown here in a thin fully laminated cover with lyric/credit inner. (GÖXÄ*) (ÅGGÅ*)
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