It's No POLL: "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" Poll

Side 1: one of the best things Bowie ever did
Side 2: just OK

The 50s-style choral vocals on "Up the Hill Backwards" were like a test run for the backing vocals on Let's Dance. In 1980 the singing sounded depersonalized and "in quotation marks", but the style returns with a much sunnier feel three years later.

Side 1: one of the best things Bowie ever did
Side 2: just OK

― Zelda Zonk

I've come around to the experiments on Side Two. It's as if the New Romantics scared him into wearing more colorful vocal plumage.

Any side containing “Teenage Wildlife” by definition cannot be just ok

SHUT UP

Teenage Wildlife is the best of side 2, I'll give you that! But the rest is nothing that's ever going to be in anyone's top 20 Bowie tracks...

I love how weary and resigned “It’s No Game Pt 2” is, tho. And the record is WEIRD, probably weirder than anything since Hunky Dory’s side 2.

To be insulted by these fascists, it's so degrading

I'm okay
you're so-so

Shiruetto ya kage ga kakumei o miteiru
Mo tengoku no jiyuu no kaidan wa nai

And no one will have seen and no one will confess
The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test

Fashion totally robbed here