Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture
by David Bowie

Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture by David Bowie
(Live album)
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 6,229th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 138 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1983 (92nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (911th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,229th)

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David Bowie bestography

Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture is ranked 23rd best out of 95 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 8 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 42,379.

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Overall rank: 6,229th | 1980s rank: 911th | 1983 rank: 92nd

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 138 votes)
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02/10/2026 02:03 edguyerrison  Ratings distribution  26573/100
 
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01/12/2026 11:56 Leginlists  Ratings distribution  2,86283/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.4/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.

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From 05/28/2022 19:09 | #285781
Mick Ronson really makes these live performances rock, him and Bowie's songs entwined together were an all too brief period of pure creative magic.
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From 07/20/2017 02:57 | #194639
An excellent live album like a greatest hits of Bowie's career at that time.
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From 07/13/2017 15:29 | #194205
I hesitate to include this album in my all-time charts because on one hand it's a live album and on the other hand it can be considered a compilation. But i think this stage interpretation of Bowie works is unique enough as its own complete statement that it belongs in the ears of everyone who likes Bowie and is familiar with his early 70s albums. He & Ronson bring some healthy rock to his spacey psychedelia and it works.
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80/100
From 01/31/2016 18:05 | #158314
A great live album. A complete show full of great songs. Mick Ronson's solos are amazing. To be noticed the acoustic solo performance of My Death, simply wonderful.
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90/100
From 01/23/2016 15:59 | #157419
Highlight of the album: Mick Ronson's guitar solo at the end of Moonage Daydream. It's amazing, and you can't find it anywhere else, not even the original Ziggy Stardust album.
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From 07/19/2014 17:30 | #117103
I rate this work in one way, the songs, because the song and the quality are incredible, just the songs, and coming from Bowie, there will be masterpieces here, I think so
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