Young Americans (studio album) by David Bowie
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Young Americans is ranked 13th best out of 92 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 47,509.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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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 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Underrated Bowie album, a bit more poppy than all of his previous albums. I'd have this above Diamond Dogs, Heroes, Low, even Aladdin Sane. Favourite tracks are Fame, Young Americans, Fascination and Right. I'm not a huge fan of the Across The Universe cover though.
Didn’t like it. Can’t stand the Across The Universe cover. The bookends tracks though are some of his best. Probably better pair than Changes and Life On Mars?
This album tends to get a lot of stick from Bowie fans, I agree it isn't up there with his best work and Fame, Win and Young Americans are the highlights. However, this album and this Bowie period influenced a lot of the New Romantic movement, as did Roxy music with a number of key albums. I enjoy listening to the album and don't have such an issue with it as a whole. The fact that Bowie albums sound so different is what got me hooked in the first place. This album and Station to Station are when Bowie was entrenched in his Cocaine addiction. Considering the two albums are only a year apart, it is remarkable they both sound so good and so different.
Solid record but not my favorite from Bowie
This is such a rollercoaster ride of an album with it having some extremely high highs and some really low lows. The bookends of this record is where it shines with Bowie at his best on Young Americans and Fame. Both songs are simply sensational and they open and close the record perfectly. Instrumentally they are phenomenal and Bowie's vocal performance on both tracks is brilliant. Everything in between these two songs is a bit of mess. You can see the style that they are trying to go for but it just sounds so watered down and falls flat for me. Everything just seems to be inconsistent in the middle of this record. Even the vocal performance can be a bit shaky on tracks such as Across The Universe but then you get greatness scattered amongst them such as the sax work on Can You Hear Me which gives a much needed vibrant edge to an all round dull and boring song. Overall, this is such a confused and messy record that is saved from being a poor album by those random flourishes of greatness and by the starting and closing track being phenomenal.
The cover of Across the Universe is bad, but the rest is ok. Title track and Fame are catchy
Not the greatest Bowie album at some places really bad, the cover of "Across The Universe" is terrible. However "Fame" is great track and "Fascination" is really good. Title track mediocre for me.
I really don't like it. squeaky sax methodical pacing rock
Another great Bowie 70s record. "Fascination" is GOAT
The three stars are for Fame (written with Lennon). The rest is awful. Young Americans sounds like what it is fake white soul music. And then there's Across the Universe! Never has a Beatles' song of such greatness been reduced to such terrible treatment. Guess the coke was skewering Bowie's judgement.
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