Toy (studio album)
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
Toy is ranked 54th best out of 94 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 43,323.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Toy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Toy rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | arnellarsen | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | Johnnyo | Top 69 Music Albums of 2021 | 69/69 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Tamthebam | TOP 40 David Bowie Albums | 27/40 | - |
| 2025 | Tamthebam | Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 | 20/88 | 4 |
| 2024 |  neilgee | Top 28 Music Albums of 2021 | 6/28 | 4 |
| 2023 | davidhuret | Ranking: David Bowie's studio albums | 24/29 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 36/100 | 9 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | BubblingUnder100Greatest101-200 | 100/100 | - |
| 2022 | Brandonjtg | Top 63 Music Albums of 2021 | 30/63 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 20 | |||
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Toy ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 47 hours ago | dhbarrett | 8,229 | 65/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2025 13:59 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2025 17:08 | platus | 5,838 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2023 12:56 | tomr37 | 351 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2023 11:31 | Johnnyo | 9,639 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 8.6.
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Criminal that EMI didn’t allow this a release when it was recorded. However I think this meant that Heathen was then so brilliant.
I first heard this long buried album in 2011, some 10 years after its initial intended release, when it leaked online and was the stuff of legends. I loved it on first listen - familiar with some of the old Decca / Deram singles that are more early genius than mere juvenilia. They have been made better by Bowie's aged voice and wisdom, the band are tight and all the songs - which span several years from the late 60s / early 70s flow to make a cohesive album, not too dissimilar to 2002's excellent Heathen.
The tracklist is different here, the newer or unheard songs Hole in the Ground and Your Turn to Drive are here, but missing is alternative Heathen cuts (the better versions of Slip Away: "Uncle Floyd", and Afraid) and perhaps unforgivably, the ever divine In The Heat of the Morning, the sort of song other artists would kill for, somewhat buried in Bowie's back catalogue of BBC Sessions, to be given new life in the Toy Sessions, it does resurface in the "Toy:Box" expanded set.
If this album should fall under "2022" given its official breakout release, then it gets top billing on my chart. But it feels like a 2001, or more personally, a 2011 release. I'll see how I feel about its placing as genuine new releases steadily come out this year.
95/100
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