Stage
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
Stage is ranked 28th best out of 97 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 40,484.
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Stage track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Stage rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Best of The 70s Pt.2 (101-200) | 36/100 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the '70's (201 - 300) | 49/100 | - |
| 2026 | willtoshower | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 54/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 89 Music Albums of 1978 | 40/89 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 67 Music Albums of 1978 | 21/67 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | MadhattanJack | Favorite Live Albums | 32/60 | - |
| 2025 | SD100852 | Top 14 Music Albums of 1978 | 14/14 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1978 | 54/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 59 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 166 | |||
Stage collection
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Stage ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/23/2026 05:28 | MadhattanJack | 6,068 | 66/100 |
| ! | 03/21/2026 13:42 | dredwards | 20 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2026 10:31 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,716 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
Stage favourites
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Stage forum mentions
Romanelli 04/19/2024 16:01 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today MadhattanJack 08/17/2023 20:23 in What album are you listening to right now?Stage comments
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Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/10/2016 14:09 | #156208 | TOP COMMENT
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Bowie's best live album captured during the Berlin era. Contains a better version of Breaking Glass than the original on Low, most of the tracks stay true to the originals. Also contains 5 tracks from Ziggy Stardust and a great version of Alabama Song. The remastered version on 2 C.D.'s puts the tracks in the order they were played during the tour, with Warszawa being the first track followed by the tracks from Low and Heroes the second Disc has the 5 tracks from Ziggy and the tracks from Station and also Alabama Song. (Edited)
Competent if not riveting live album from Bowie. The, Low, tracks are the most interesting, hearing them delivered in a more conventional 'band' sense than the more produced versions of the studio recordings. All in all, a bit pointless and underwhelming but certainly not a bad album at all. For Bowie completists only. (Edited)
Grzywa 01/13/2016 12:55 | #156428 | TOP COMMENT
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Interesting versions of Low material plus a run through the most famous Hunky/Ziggy-era songs. Grear quality. Much recommended. (Edited)
A great live album of Mr. Bowie during one of his most creative an experimental periods. Highly recommended. (Edited)
I like how are all smarty arty stuff is put in with the rest of the music at the rock show. It sounds like it went down quite well. I liked this little show by David Bowie. Even The Doors cover sounded fab!
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