Diamond Dogs
by David Bowie
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Diamond Dogs is ranked 10th best out of 97 albums by David Bowie on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by David Bowie is The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars which is ranked number 6 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 40,397.
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Diamond Dogs track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Diamond Dogs rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  hoyquarlow | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 85/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  djrodo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 72/100 | 6 |
| 2026 |  Superunknown | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 85/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 16 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/16 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cobbo95 | Top 92 Greatest Music Albums | 41/92 | 55 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 41 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/41 | 4 |
| 2026 | Andras | Top 51 Music Albums of the 1970s | 37/51 | 6 |
| 2026 | Fritz | Top 16 Music Albums of 1974 | 16/16 | 0 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 32 Music Albums of 1974 | 17/32 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 544 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,678 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 07:31 | Siromynian | 1,773 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2026 14:09 | mids | 937 | 80/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2026 21:51 |  CharlieBarley | 3,271 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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I have always rated this album very highly in Bowie's canon, though there've been plenty of demurrals. It was meant to be a straight musical of 1984, but the Orwell estate wouldn't give him the rights to the material - presumably because they predicted Eurythmics ten years hence in the very year depicted. So Bowie reinvented it as a dystopian fantasy of his own, gave an elegant two-fingered salute to literary snobbery and produced a musically exciting, lyrically disturbing world in which NOT ONE element is misplaced or extraneous, and which features the last outing on a Bowie album of stellar pianist Mike Garson at his effervescent, effortless best. So there!
Underrated in the Bowie discography for some reason, it does have some tough competition against the likes of Ziggy and Hunky Dory. It possesses the great single in Rebel Rebel, really one of Bowie's best for me, it also has some great album tracks like We Are The Dead, which is again, an overlooked brilliant track with some great lyrics. Sweet Thing is another track that never seems to get a mention.
'We'll buy some drugs and watch a band,
Then jump in the river holding hands.'
When I first heard this album I wasn't that keen on it. But after further listens, I now think it is an absolute masterpiece.Such a strange album.
Sweet Thing,Candidate,Sweet Thing (Reprise) and We Are The Dead are my favorite tracks.
Possibly Bowie's most underrated album.
Best song(s): Diamond Dogs; Sweet Thing; Candidate; Rebel Rebel; We Are the Dead; 1984 (Edited)
Diamond dogs, was originally meant to be a musical version of 1984, but due to publishing rights not being available to him Bowie had to knock it on the head. In it's place is, diamond dogs. Is it a musical concept? I have no idea. It makes no sense to me. Still, it's a good record, although personally, I think it's his weakest original material release of the seventies. The title track is a good Rolling Stones pastiche, and, rebel,rebel, is one of the great Bowie singles, and really the last of his glam rock numbers. Elsewhere, there's the nice, rock and roll with me, and the sweet thing/candidate, is good, but as a concept, if that's what it is, it simply doesn't work. Still, it is seventies Bowie, so it's still essential.
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