The Buddha Of Suburbia (studio album) by David Bowie

The Buddha Of Suburbia by David Bowie
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 17,199th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 103 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1993 (287th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (2,928th)
Award Best albums of all time (17,199th)
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David Bowie bestography

The Buddha Of Suburbia is ranked 37th best out of 90 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 9 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 55,126.

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The Buddha Of Suburbia track list

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Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 103 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.2/100, a mean average of 65.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.

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70/100
From 09/24/2022 15:35
Had stayed away from this because of the very poor reception and because it doesn't frequently appear in his bios or whatever, but I actually liked it a lot. I'm also listening to the albums I'd postponed from Bowie because of the amazing Moonage Daydream documentary.
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From 05/16/2022 21:05
It's an ok album and it's not Tin Machine
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From 11/20/2016 13:48
It starts of decently enough, but by the midway point it's already running out of steam. Maybe I need to listen to it a bit more, for it to grow on me, but at the moment it all feels a bit underwhelming.
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From 01/12/2016 20:40
A surprisingly good and varied album. To a large extent it sounds like a regular one rather than just a soundtrack.
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From 04/11/2015 13:15
This for me was where Bowie started to recover after his disappointing albums from Tonight-Black Tie White Noise.
Outside the album that followed was much better though.
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From 11/28/2014 20:18
Laid back day in the garden! Buddha of Suburbia, The Mysteries, Strangers When We Meet and Dead Against It are the highlights. It's definitely music content with what it is... if music could make decisions that is. It's a kind to ears album.
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From 12/03/2010 08:16
Totally underrated Bowie album. His best album since Lets Dance.
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