"Heroes"
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
"Heroes" is ranked 6th 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 40,517.
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"Heroes" track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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"Heroes" rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 23 Music Albums of 1977 | 14/23 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1977 | 38/73 | - |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 20 Music Albums of the 1970s | 16/20 | 5 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of all time (201 - 300) by Acclaimed Music | 69/100 | - |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 51/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 31 Music Albums of 1977 | 9/31 | 4 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 60 Music Albums of 1977 | 30/60 | 3 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 51 Music Albums of 1977 | 22/51 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 887 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 5,818 | |||
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"Heroes" ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 08:37 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 00:12 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/08/2026 22:11 | luukvdschepop | 794 | 75/100 |
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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 82.6/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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"Heroes" forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5468): By bjorndedrijView latest topic →
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1977 what a year, co-writing and producing Iggy's classics, Lust For Life, & The Idiot, & also blessing the world with Low, he then followed that lot up with Heroes, it must be hard being David Bowie, in a word, GENIUS!
For the first time in the decade, Bowie feels like he’s lapsed into a formula, returning to Berlin with Visconti and Eno, and recording an album with an instrumental side and a song-based side. While Heroes follows the Low template, where Low felt both groundbreaking and natural, Heroes feels more contrived, and the instrumentals are less accessible than before.
HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/27/2017 06:27 | #189902 | TOP COMMENT
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I'm not a Bowie person, but it's albums like this, Station to Station, and Ziggy Stardust that give me reasons to admire the hell out of the guy.
bigeyedfish 03/12/2014 23:45 | #106114 | TOP COMMENT
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One of my favorites. SIde one fuses genuinely great and rather unconventional songs with dense, experimental arrangements for an effect which is both triumphant and somehow oppressive. Side two works in a thrilling rock instrumental, a 3-part semi-ambient suite and an uplifting closer. When listened to straight through, "Heroes" feels like overcoming great adversity and bursting passionately forth in joy, even if the troubles aren't gone for good. The title track captures this idea in a single song and is a true classic, the very best.
Electrifying. The very intense songs on the first half of this record are some of Bowie's most inventive, while the instrumentals offer new levels of experimentation.
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