The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979 (compilation album)
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979 is ranked 51st 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 43,370.
(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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The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979 rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  Tamthebam | Top 82 Music Albums of 1998 | 31/82 | 3 |
| 2024 | lwarner | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 78/99 | 4 |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2022 | LosWochos | Top 94 Music Albums of 1998 | 60/94 | 2 |
| 2021 | saacsquatch | Top 14 Music Albums of 1998 | 8/14 | 3 |
| 2019 | zowie | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 64/100 | 7 |
| 2019 | zowie | Top 16 Music Albums of 1998 | 12/16 | 2 |
| 2015 | Johnnyo | The Voices In My Head | 89/99 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 10/28/2025 06:39 | Tamthebam | 22,933 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/21/2024 14:15 |  Ulysses60 | 1,295 | 78/100 |
| ! | 09/17/2023 05:04 | Brigand99 | 423 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2022 22:58 | MickLord | 3,967 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2022 12:49 |  Arthurknight | 9,595 | 72/100 |
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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 80.0/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.
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Second part of the Platinum collection. Some great songs with a few just OK (by Bowie standards).
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