Changesbowie
by David Bowie

Changesbowie by David Bowie
(Compilation album)
Year: 1990
Release date: 1990-03-20
Overall rank: 8,586th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 227 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1990 (115th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,365th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,586th)

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David Bowie bestography

Changesbowie is ranked 29th 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 40,461.

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Overall rank: 8,586th | 1990s rank: 1,365th | 1990 rank: 115th  Overall chart history
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83/100 (from 227 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.8/100, a mean average of 80.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.


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“102 DAVID BOWIE CHANGESBOWIE 1990-RYKO Various Producers 1. Space Oddity 2. John, I'm Only Dancing 3. Changes 4. Ziggy Stardust 5. Suffragette City 6. Jean Genie 7. Diamond Dogs 8. Rebel Rebel 9. Young Americans 10. Fame '90 Remix 11. Golden Years 12. Heroes 13. Ashes To Ashes 14. Fashion 15. Let's…”
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A good career retrospective to one of the all time greats. A quick way to learn what the Thin White Duke is all about. After listening, go check out Ziggy Stardust.
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Perfect introduction to Bowie for someone who were too young to enjoy it as it came out. Loaded with classic tunes.
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How can you rate a greatest hits package of one of the most important musicians of the last century? Sadly, not as high as the original Changesonebowie compilation! The original was clean, to the point, a perfect best of compilation, however this being a facsimile just doesn't work because the Fame remake is awful, and the inclusion of tracks from post Hero's album are in hindsight just weak in comparison to Bowie's best album tracks.
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Great collection, that really lives up to its name.
It should have been released on CD with the same track-listing as the LP/MC. If you take available (single) edit versions of "Diamond Dogs", "Young Americans", "Golden Years", "Ashes To Ashes" and "Fashion" all 21 tracks fit perfectly on one CD. At least, that's the way I've put it on MiniDisc - with "Fame '90" replaced by the 1975 original, of course ;)
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Great compilation especially for casual fans with a lot of Bowie’s most popular songs save for the deeper cut John I’m Only Dancing. The songs flow very well together which makes it more than a typical greatest hits album.
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