Tonight
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
Tonight is ranked 26th best out of 96 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 40,468.
(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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Tonight track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 70 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Tonight rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1984 | 38/50 | 1 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 63 Music Albums of 1984 | 56/63 | 1 |
| 2026 | Andras | Top 36 Music Albums of the 1980s | 31/36 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 54/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1984 | 31/71 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Worst Albums I’ve Listened To | 30/59 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 57 Music Albums of 1984 | 57/57 | 0 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 26 Music Albums of 1984 | 24/26 | 1 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 10 Music Albums of 1984 | 10/10 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 118 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 179 | |||
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Tonight ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/11/2026 15:18 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 11:58 | Adhura | 1,731 | 77/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 04:41 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,692 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 60.1/100, a mean average of 59.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 59.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.
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Tonight forum mentions
pedro1976 01/11/2024 14:10 in What album are you listening to right now?
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Compared to his '70's output it really is hard to believe its the same artist, Blue Jean was a good lead off single, & Loving The Alien is vintage Bowie, but the rest is not worthy of his name.
After all the genius of the seventies and early eighties, David Bowie finally manages to release a poor album. When i say poor, i mean that only a third of the record is any good. Loving the alien, blue Jean, and, don't look down, are all good. Neighborhood threat, is okay, but the title track is weak, Leiber-Stoller's, I keep forgettin', is bad, and even Bowie isn't going to do justice to The Beach boys classic, God only knows. Bowie did the same thing on, young Americans, covering a classic song, that time, across the universe, and it did'nt work then, and final track, dancing with the big boys, is nothing more than a tuneless noise. No one knew it at this time, but sadly, Bowie would never be great again.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/14/2016 03:36 | #156494 | TOP COMMENT
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Were the 80s good to Dylan, Neil Young or the Stones? It seems all the great veterans had duds in this decade.
Truly awful. An insipid blend of dull, forgettable songs mixed with dreadful lyrics. How could Bowie ever have fallen so low after his brilliant 70s catalogue?
'Loving The Alien', and 'Blue Jean' best here , a very poor 'God Only Knows', not one of his best albums. (Edited)
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