TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of David Bowie
David Bowie
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2387
David Bowie Album Rankings
1
Changesbowieis a CD greatest-hits collection that revamps the originalChangesonebowieby adding selections from David Bowie's late-'70s and early-'80s albums.
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Borrowing heavily fromMarc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock ofA Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock ofThe Man Who Sold the WorldforThe Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and
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Following through with the avant-garde inclinations ofStation to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie's past,Lowis a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting ed
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After the freakish hard rock ofThe Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie returned to singer/songwriter territory onHunky Dory.
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Repeating the formula ofLow's half-vocal/half-instrumental structure,Heroesdevelops and strengthens the sonic innovations David Bowie andBrian Enoexplored on their first collaboration.
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6
Coming off the heels of the successful Ziggy Stardust phase, David Bowie chose to reinvent and challenge himself yet again, which resulted in the strongest album of his career, 1973'sAladdin Sane.
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"It's not the side effects of the cocaine / I'm thinking that it must be love," David Bowie croons on the opening title track, and you wonder if love songs have taken an interesting
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8
David Bowie returned to relatively conventional rock & roll withScary Monsters, an album that effectively acts as an encapsulation of all his '70s experiments.
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9
On the surface,Lodgeris the most accessible of the three Berlin-era records David Bowie made withBrian Eno, simply because there are no instrumentals and there are a handful of concise pop songs.
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10
Buried inside a new coffee-table book documenting the work of Überpaparazzo Ron Galella is a fascinating time-capsule photo of old-school rock elite.
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11
Bowie's best album for 20 years
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12
David Bowie has always been one of pop's most frustrating performers, as capable of creating original, barrier-breaking work as he is of pushing lazy, unfocused material.
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13
In the past, it really seems that I've been hard on poor David Bowie.
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14
The Rolling Stones. Breaking America. Needing to break America and adopting a sound-mixing strategy from The Rolling Stones in order to try to to do this.
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15
Garson is retained for piano duties. The entire 'spiders from mars' are not retained, so Bowie himself plays all the guitar on this album. Herbie Flowers and Ansyley Dunbar are the rhythm section.
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16
Even though it contained no hits,The Man Who Sold the World, for most intents and purposes, is the beginning of David Bowie's classic period.
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17
John Lennon co-writes and plays on one song on this album. That fact alone endeared the previously un-endeareable, cos he was camp, David Bowie to America.
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18
Why this album was never officially released until now remains one of the great mysteries of major-label decision making.
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19
If there was any doubt which artist made the biggest impression on the David Bowie/Nine Inch Nails tour, Bowie's new album offers a clue.
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20
Track listing: 1) Leon Takes Us Outside; 2) Outside ; 3) The Hearts Filthy Lesson; 4) A Small Plot Of Land; 5) Segue: Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette); 6) Hallo Spaceboy ; 7) The Motel; 8) I Have Not Be
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Most people seem to think that David Robert Jones' (obscure alias: David Bowie) career began with the 1969Space Oddityalbum, but that just ain't so, says Major Tom! Turns out that not only did he rele
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22
Track listing: 1) Uncle Arthur; 2) Sell Me A Coat; 3) Rubber Band; 4) Love You Till Tuesday ; 5) There Is A Happy Land; 6) We Are Hungry Men; 7) When I Live My Dream; 8) Little Bombardier; 9) Silly Bo
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23
Track listing: 1) Width Of A Circle ; 2) All The Madmen ; 3) Black Country Rock; 4) After All ; 5) Running Gun Blues; 6) Savior Machine; 7) She Shook Me Cold; 8) The Man Who Sold The World ; 9) The Su
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24
It was a charming conceit: David Bowie, demigod, hanging with Soupy Sales's kids in Tin Machine, the not-so-young dude masquerading as one of the boys.
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25
Track listing: 1) Hang On To Yourself; 2) Ziggy Stardust; 3) Five Years; 4) Soul Love; 5) Star; 6) Station To Station; 7) Fame; 8) TVC 15; 9) Warszawa; 10) Speed Of Life; 11) Art Decade; 12) Sense Of
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Track listing: 1) Rosalyn; 2) Here Comes The Night ; 3) I Wish You Would; 4) See Emily Play ; 5) Everything's Alright; 6) I Can't Explain; 7) Friday On My Mind ; 8) Sorrow; 9) Don't Bring Me Down; 10)
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27
Bowie was growing at a rate of knots. Leaving behind his early generic material, he crafts some genuinely ambitious songs here. 'Cygnet Committee' runs for nine and a half minutes for example.
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28
Track listing: 1) Loving The Alien ; 2) Don't Look Down; 3) God Only Knows; 4) Tonight ; 5) Neighborhood Threat; 6) Blue Jean; 7) Tumble And Twirl ; 8) I Keep Forgetting; 9) Dancing With The Big Boys
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29
Questions have been asked as to the relevance of ''mature'' artists such as Bowie in this day and age.
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30
Track listing: 1) Day-in Day-out; 2) Time Will Crawl; 3) Beat Of Your Drum; 4) Never Let Me Down; 5) Zeroes; 6) Glass Spider; 7) Shining Star (Makin' My Love) ; 8) New York's In Love ; 9) '87 And Cry;
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31
Back in 1974, David Bowie was having a banner year. His albumDiamond Dogshad become his highest charting album in America, peaking at number five.
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32
"The Man Who Sold the World" hasn't aged a day, "Dancing in the Streets" with Mick Jagger remains an ill-conceived lark, and Tin Machine's "Under the God" rocks way more than anyone ever gave it credi
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52
It's remake/remodel time for everyone's favorite stardust monster, and, boy, is this a helluva funky slab of good stuff.
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54
David Bowie needn't have recruited Trent Reznor to pilot this one-song remix project. His stamp is all over I'm Afraid of Americans' source album, Earthling.
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