Earthling (studio album)
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
Earthling is ranked 19th best out of 93 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 7 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 44,565.
(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Earthling track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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55/100  | 10/12/2025 19:40 |  Superunknown | | 70/100 |
75/100 | 10/03/2025 14:34 |  Bach | | 75/100 |
85/100 | 09/21/2025 11:43 |  videoheadcleaner | | 85/100 |
35/100 | 09/12/2025 04:25 | Proto | | 34/100 |
75/100 | 09/01/2025 23:16 | BurndenAce | | 77/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 70.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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Bach 10/03/2025 14:41
Best tracks: I'm Afraid of Americans, Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking.
Be it because I'm afraid of Americans too, it is a grat album, one of my favourites. I particularly like the sound: I feel it synthetic with shades of metal. I miss this artist, he was full of surprises
lleon79 09/29/2022 02:29
This is AT LEAST a 9.
This Album ahs his highs and downs but very interesting piece of art and industrial rock from the GOAT
I too am afraid of Americans. Solid record, basically it's if David Bowie sung over NIN instrumentals.
Not my favorite Bowie' album, but definitely a very interesting one with highlights such as "Little Wwonder" and "Dea Man Walking". The combination of electronic elements with hard rocking guitars makes this an innovative album
This to me is proof of the man's genius. Its by no means a great album, but for a 50 year old man to not only record a drum'n'bass album, but actually do a decent job shows how remarkable he was.
Interesting experiment.
A 50 year old David introduces some drum & bass elements, prompting a predictable ageist & crass negative response from many "open-minded" music followers and critics.
JulianR 03/11/2018 01:01
This is actualy a kinda interesting album, it should definitely be I little higher in his discog
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