DAVID BOWIE SCARY MONSTERS OZ &NZ RCA VICTOR RARE TAN LABEL VARIANT MX195971/2

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DAVID BOWIE  -  " SCARY MONSTERS ....... AND SUPER CREEPS "  

RARE ORIGINAL AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND 1980 RELEASE  VINYL LP & LYRIC INSERT  IN ORIGINAL  PICTURE COVER, INNER PLASTIC LINER, ALL INSIDE ORIGINAL OUTER PLASTIC SLEEVE - AS PURCHASED NEW

LYRIC INSERT IS A SINGLE SHEET, PRINTED BOTH SIDES

THIS IS AN EVEN RARER RECORD THAN OTHER SIMILAR VERSIONS : 

- IT WAS MANUFACTURED IN AUSTRALIA FOR/BY & DISTRIBUTED BY RCA LIMITED, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA AND AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND   

- IT WAS MADE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN BOTH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WITH SEPARATE COUNTRY CODES ON THE BACK COVER A980F FOR AUSTRALIA & NZ980 FOR NEW ZEALAND. THIS RECORD HAS THE AUSSIE CODE 

-  IT HAS THE NORMAL TAN LABELS. HOWEVER IT IS A RARE VARIATION BECAUSE IT HAS THE MX CATALOGUE No. (MX195971/2) ON THE LABELS, ALONGSIDE THE USUAL CAT. No. (APL1-3647) . (SEE PICS. # 6&7)

THIS IS THE ONLY VERSION OF THIS RELEASE WORLDWIDE TO HAVE THIS MX CAT. No. ON THE LABELS.

THIS MEANS THAT IT MAY HAVE BEEN MASTERED IN AUSTRALIA.

FOR MORE INFO. ON THIS MX VARIATION SEE :

http://www.illustrated-db-discography.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1508&sid=4a33add8f077bad6bea92b83267917bd 

- IT WAS PURCHASED NEW & NEVER PLAYED

- IT HAS THE SINGLE SHEET LYRIC INSERT, PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES, AS PER MOST OVERSEAS ORIGINAL RELEASES.

- IT HAS BEEN STORED INSIDE AN OUTER PLASTIC SLEEVE, INNER PLASTIC SLEEVE & ORIGINAL COVER SINCE NEW (COVER OPENING IN)

- IT IS NOT LISTED ON THE DISCOGS WEBSITE

- IT HAS DIFFERENT (TO OTHER AUSTRALIAN RELEASES) MATRIX Nos. STAMPED ON THE DEAD WAX (SEE BELOW)

TRACK LISTING:

SIDE 1

1

It's No Game (Part 1)   Translated By [Japanese] Hisahi Miura, Voice – Michi Hirota

2

Up The Hill Backwards   Acoustic Guitar – Tony Visconti

3

Scary Monsters (And Super-Creeps)   Acoustic Guitar – Tony Visconti

Ashes To Ashes   Guitar – Chuck Hammer

SIDE 2

1

Teenage Wildlife   Guitar – Chuck Hammer

Because You're Young   Guitar – Pete Townshend

PERSONNEL                                

Backing Vocals – Chris Porter, David Bowie, Lynn Maitland, Tony Visconti          

Bass – George Murray          

Cover – Edward Bell          

Design Concept [Cover] – Duffy, Bowie           

Guitar – Carlos Alomar, Robert Fripp (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B3, B5)

Music By, Lyrics By – Bowie (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B5), Tom Verlaine (tracks: B3)           

Percussion – Dennis Davis          

Piano – Roy Bittan (tracks: A2, A4, B1)           

Synthesizer – Andy Clark (tracks: A4, A5, B2, B4)           

Vocals, Keyboards – David Bowie

Album Notes

" Fresh off his Berlin trilogy (LOW, HEROES, LODGER), David Bowie released SCARY MONSTERS, an album that continued the cool, detached, electronic-flavored sound he'd been experimenting with on the aforementioned records.

Robert Fripp's distinctively angular guitar style contributes greatly to the resulting Kraftwerk-flavored funk of "Fashion" and the jittery paranoia of the title track.

Elsewhere, Bowie updates the saga of Major Tom with "Ashes to Ashes" and turns to Tom Verlaine for the new wave nihilism of "Kingdom Come" which also features Fripp on guitar.

Robert Fripp was far from the only great guest invited to play on SCARY MONSTERS.

Pete Townshend's swirling guitar on "Because You're Young" made it an underrated classic in Bowie's canon.

SCARY MONSTERS proved to be David Bowie's last musical effort for a while as he spent the next three years pursuing a career in acting before returning to the studio in 1983 to record LET'S DANCE. "

MATRIXES                

· Runout  (side 1 [MACHINE STAMPED]):      ?    MX195971        APL3647-1

· Runout  (side 2 [MACHINE STAMPED]):      ?    MX195972        APL3647-2

CONDITION (SEE SCANS)

RECORD IN NEAR MINT CONDITION,  LIKE NEW

INSERT  NEAR MINT

SLEEVE  NEAR MINT,  EXTREMELY MINOR EDGE WEAR TO SPINE

SUPERB 1980's AUSTRALIA / NZ PRESSING  /  ART ROCK / GLAM ROCK / ELECTRONIC / NEW WAVE  /  DAVID BOWIE  /  ROBERT FRIPP  /  PETE TOWNSHEND  /  CARLOS ALOMAR  /  TONY VISCONTI  /  CHUCK HAMMER  /    RCA VICTOR  /  TAN LABEL VARIATION MX195971/2  /  AUSTRALIAN MASTERED   /  VINYL / LP  /  COLLECTABLE  IN  EXTREMELY NICE SHAPE AFTER 36 / THIRTY SIX  YEARS

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