Talk:Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Trivia
How bout some trivia? I read somewhere that this was Trent Reznor's favorite Bowie album and perhaps his favorite album over all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.151.122 (talk • contribs)
 * No prob putting it in if you can substantiate it - just don't recall seeing that anywhere myself. Cheers, Ian Rose 04:47, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If you look at Trent Reznors page you will see that it mentiones "Low" but not this one.

I didn't know about the lyric supposedly pointed at Numan. Fascinating. Did this start a feud at the time or was it too vague a thing for Numan to get up in arms about? I know that Bowie praised Numan's music later in his career and without Bowie had a huge influence on Numan's otherworldly songwriting. Timbrocks 22:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * David Buckley quotes Numan as saying he was actually quite chuffed about it, like "Hey, I'm in a Bowie song!" - even if it wasn't complimentary. I'm in the process of updating the Bowie album articles I've largely written to throw in more direct quotes/citations so I might put the whole quote in when I get to this one. Cheers, Ian Rose 23:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Guitar synth
The article says, about Ashes to Ashes, that it was "built around an ear-catching guitar synth theme by Chuck Hammer". However the main riff is clearly a piano going through a rotary speaker or flanger or something similar; the article about Ashes to Ashes says that Hammer provided guitar textures, and the song certainly has a lot of guitar in the background, but there's no "guitar synth theme". -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 19:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh, I wrote most of this article yonks ago but another editor added all the guitar synth stuff, so I'm not too fussed about it! How about "featuring distinctive guitar synth textures by Chuck Hammer" or something like that? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 19:47, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Title
Isn't the album title simply Scary Monsters whereas the track on the album is called Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)? 203.39.12.130 (talk) 02:39, 17 October 2009 (UTC)Patrick Bateman
 * I know a lot of websites and some of the CD reissues just say Scary Monsters, but the title of the album is Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).  This is evident when you look at the back cover of the original LP, shown in the article (the front cover has "Scary Monsters", the rear "and Super Creeps").  Also key reference works like Carr & Murray's Bowie: An Illustrated Record and Buckley's Strange Fascination use the full title. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:26, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * But the album labels on the original UK vinyl release (BOW LP 2) just say Scary Monsters...as do other 1980 vinyl releases and the spine on my copy of the 1999 UK remastered CD.  Two Hearted River  ( paddle /  fish ) 16:20, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
 * All I can advise is to re-read what I said above -- I'd have thought that was pretty definitive/convincing... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:04, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Title is just Scary Monsters. The rest doesn't appear anywhere on the label and is just an element of the cover art. --VoicesInMyAnkle (talk) 18:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The title is neither "Scary Monsters" nor "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)". It is "Scary Monsters...and Super Creeps". This is clearly written on the album cover, with "Scary Monsters..." on the front and "...and Super Creeps" on the back. When unfolded (it was a gatefold cover) the title is clearly laid out. There are no brackets. This article should be renamed.83.206.139.99 (talk) 12:25, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Can't deny how it appears on the back cover, OTOH the article cites fairly authoritative sources, such as Carr & Murray and Buckley, who each employ parentheses in the title... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:31, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Alomar/Murray/Davis
I think it's worth putting in the article that this is the last Bowie album with Dennis Davis & George Murray (and the Alomar/Murray/Davis rhythm section).--Design (talk) 14:38, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree, we just want to be able to cite it -- will check my copy of Buckley for an explicit mention. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Done -- Buckley doesn't make a big thing about it being the last for Davis and Murray but does explicitly mention the trio being the rhythm section from Station to Station until Scary Monsters, so I worded it accordingly. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:05, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 24 November 2017

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 04:09, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) → Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) – MOS:CAPS, WP:NCCAPS, MOS:TM, MOS:TITLES. The "(and Super Creeps)" part is not a subtitle, but a dependent clause that happens to be in parentheses. We do not mimic overcapitalization on single and album covers and other marketing materials, which tend to capitalize every single word. This song title is no different in any way from an article or book title like "The Life (and Death?) of the Black Hole". — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  02:55, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Support move -- makes sense to me. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:27, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Support -- I saw the move request and was worried someone wanted to pull the parenthetical section completely, but fixing the unnecessary capitalization? I like it. 87Fan (talk) 16:13, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Support per detailed nomination. This should be uncontroversial. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 00:24, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it be, but for two temporary issues: A) Lots of fanbois have a tendency to try to manufacture a bogus anti-MOS:CAPS and anti-WP:NCCAPS "controversy" about the lowercasing of anything in any song or other pop-culture title, so I tend to use full RM to build more and more precedent against this nonsense. B) The MoS advice on titles was scattered all over the place and in parts self-contradictory (as well as contradictory to major MoS pages like MOS:CAPS); I've been merging and normalizing this WP:POLICYFORKed material to MOS:TITLES slowly and carefully. But there actually was formerly some material in there that would have permitted this overcapitalization simply because parentheses were present; it mistakenly suggested a 1:1 relationship between "subtitle" and "in parentheses". That was wrong in both directions, e.g. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has a subtitle and no parens, while a journal article title like "Cryopreservation of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis ) embryogenic suspension cells and subsequent plant regeneration by vitrification" contains parens but no subtitle.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  07:34, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


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Post move comment
,, did you notice this reverses a previous move ''07:37, 26 July 2015‎ SilkTork (talk | contribs | block)‎. . (63 bytes) (+63)‎. . (SilkTork moved page Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) to Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) over redirect: MOS:CT)'' by an experienced admin and RM regular? The RM was an excellent idea for that reason alone. I comment also because of course that history is now overwritten. Andrewa (talk) 04:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Reporting inconsistency - "Despite the flop of 'Ashes to Ashes'"
The phrase "Despite the flop of "Ashes to Ashes"" is incongruent with the rest of the article and not backed up on the link page for the track Ashes to Ashes. Commercially, the track was very successful in the UK and other non-US markets, and one of the most recognisable tracks from the album and the artist. To call it a flop, just because of its reception in the United States is myopic and ethnocentric. Andmark (talk) 00:47, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the edit, I wholeheartedly agree. When I was writing that my mind was on the fact that the single underperformed in the US, even though like you said it was a major success everywhere else; and when you read the phrase without knowing the rest of the sentence it does come off as incorrect. I went ahead and removed that phrase as the sentence works just fine without it. Thanks again. – zmbro (talk) 23:28, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

"Antagonised"
Hi, don't have my copy of Buckley handy but I don't think we're using "antagonised" the right way in Numan, a huge fan of Bowie's, was antagonised by Bowie's fanbase as a mere copycat. It'd be correct (grammatically and in fact) to say Numan, a huge fan of Bowie's, antagonised Bowie's fanbase, who considered Numan a mere copycat. Another option is Numan, a huge fan of Bowie's, was disparaged by Bowie's fanbase as a mere copycat. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:56, 23 January 2023 (UTC)