The Buddha Of Suburbia
by David Bowie
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The Buddha Of Suburbia is ranked 38th best out of 96 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 40,823.
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The Buddha Of Suburbia track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 06/20/2026 20:46 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,468 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2026 02:08 |  AAL2014 | 4,202 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2026 09:24 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 02:38 | BurndenAce | 1,297 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/16/2025 21:36 | Ilor | 263 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.1/100, a mean average of 65.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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lleon79 09/24/2022 15:35 | #289935
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.
It's an ok album and it's not Tin Machine (Edited)
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.
Grzywa 01/12/2016 20:40 | #156391
A surprisingly good and varied album. To a large extent it sounds like a regular one rather than just a soundtrack.
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. (Edited)
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. (Edited)
Totally underrated Bowie album. His best album since Lets Dance. (Edited)
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